Q on my Washington tag

Question

I added the Washington tag to my profile in order to follow those who were or are connected to Washington State, but I'm mostly if not exclusively getting individuals with the surname of Washington.  Are there different tags?  Is there a way to follow the former but not the latter?

Comments

Unfortunately, the tag "washington" has been embraced by three groups: people interested in the surname, people interested in the state, and people interested in the city of Washington, DC). Because surnames are the default purpose of tags, that usage is something that isn't going to change.

If people engaged with the places could agree on new G2G tags to use for the places (maybe washington_state and washington_dc) and would agree to publicize the decision to other WikiTreers, I expect that those of us in the Moderators Project could help with retagging of older posts.

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Sounds like a good, common-sense suggestion to me.

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Dennis, I follow Washington State using this tag: washington_state

I do not get any notices for the surname Washington then.

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There are 25 members following washington_state and 9 members following washington_dc, so we have a good start toward getting those tags adopted for the places.

The Washington State project encourages use of the tag washington_state

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I went through the collection of G2G posts that were tagged "washington" and retagged the posts about the state as "washington_state" and the posts about the city of Washington, DC, as "washington_dc".

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Thank you, Ellen!!