Should [private-collection] be made a synonym of [home-libraries|home-library]? (Or vice-versa or . . . ?)

Currently, the private-collection tag has exactly 1 usage, in the meaning of "home library," and is on the only question currently tagged home-libraries. At the moment, these are clearly intended to mean the same thing, and both are in usage, so one or the other is a candidate for being made into a synonym. The "-libraries" option would match other items in a standard taxonomy of library types that we're essentially implementing here, but private-collection might be slightly less ambiguous.

1. Alan Thomas II

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Answer by M. Alan Thomas II

The slight ambiguity of home-libraries—private collections in the home vs. "your local (i.e., home) library"—can be easily overcome both by reference to the growing taxonomy (public-libraries, school-libraries, &c.) and more importantly by reference to the tag wiki (which I'm working on).

For this reason, and for those given in the questionelf, I think that private-collection should be synonym'd to home-libraries.

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• 1. Alan Thomas II: No-one else seems to be using "private collection" and we don't have a quorum of up-votes as far as I'm concerned, so I'm checking this off as the correct answer and just deleting the private-collection tag. This proposal can be revisited if the problem reoccurs.

Answer by Joe Atzberger

Perhaps only because I deal in antique data now, I think that "private collection" is a very different thing than any kind of library, including home library. However, this usage would be rather rare here.

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• 1. Alan Thomas II: Well, yes, I realize that there's a potential different meaning, but I don't think it's what people would usually think of in this community. If it becomes necessary, we can always reverse the process. :)