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Meta What is the point of tagging a question with both a parent and a child tag?

An answer on a related Meta suggestion, Remove parent tags from a post where a child tag is present, provides a case where you might want to tag both. For example, if mammal is a parent of deer,...

posted 4y ago by Moshi‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Moshi‭ · 2020-11-06T20:05:59Z (about 4 years ago)
An answer on a related Meta suggestion, *[Remove parent tags from a post where a child tag is present](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277302)*, provides a case where you might want to tag both.

> For example, if mammal is a parent of deer, but a question is about how non-deer mammals in general and deer in particular get along with one another, you'd probably want both tags.

In general, however, there isn't any need to tag both. I don't see the harm in doing so though. And personally, I kind of like having the tag list "fully qualified" so to speak, though I understand why you think otherwise.