Talk:Tag management

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Sources describing the issues related to user-generated folksonomies (i.e. pollution and number of tags) would be useful to introduce the need for tag management. I'll try and gather more data on this through my research. Gculpin (talk) 15:37, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Disambiguation?
This isn't what most people mean by "tag management". Tag management and tag management software/platforms refers to the management of analytics/tracking code (referred to as "tags") that's placed on web pages. This is an issue for large organizations since they often need to keep track of different tags from different third-party services, advertising partners, or different analytics campaigns across a large number of web pages and often different web properties. Examples of such software include Signal, Tagman, Tealium, Ensighten, Google Tag Manager, etc.

I personally don't think the current article's definition of "tag management" is noteworthy (at least not any more than "photo management"), but if it's to be kept, then it there needs to be a disambiguation page to distinguish the two usages. I mean, just google "tag management" and you'll see the Wikipedia article as the first result, but it has nothing at all to do with the "tag management" that all the other search results are referring to.--173.51.149.31 (talk) 11:49, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Tag management system
The two articles appear to be about the same topic but have different information. This proposal is to merge from the newer one to the older one. —Largo Plazo (talk) 15:11, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * The older article is about taxonomy tags, but the new one is talking about web beacons and suchlike. Hard to see how they could be merged. Dai Pritchard (talk) 15:23, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * My mistake, then. I'd thought they were different approaches to the same topic. But then, they're both still about managing tags, and either of them could be titled "tag management", with or without tacking on the notion of a system for performing that management. Isn't it sort of like having articles titled Earth and Planet Earth, with the former being about the Earth's geology and the latter about the Earth's life forms? I'm thinking the titles of the articles need to be more specific to differentiate their distinct topics. —Largo Plazo (talk) 15:35, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the input guys. I tried to be thorough and even-handed with the Tag management system article (I saw an article was deleted a few years ago for being commercial. However, I must admit I was at a loss as what to do with the existing "Tag management" article. There is a problem of "Namespace" with the term "Tag". Entirely different things. Perhaps an issue for disambiguation, perhaps the "taxonomy" one isn't all that noteworthy. But I don't feel I should judge having written the one pertaining to an enterprise software category. Andy20150111 (talk) 16:04, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Part of the problem is that "tag" is one of those words in computing that can mean umpteen separate things: metadata tags, e-marketing tags, HTML tags, VLAN tags, revision control tags. Ow, my brain. Dai Pritchard (talk) 18:51, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

These articles are definitely talking about different types of "tags". "Tag Management" [|Tag Management] uses the word "tag" in the generic context of describing a taxonomy. Wordpress uses the word "tag" in this context. "Tag Management System" [|Tag Management System], on the other hand, uses the word "tag" in the specific context of tagging users to be tracked by digital marketing systems. This capability is valuable to digital marketers. Dbmackey (talk) 18:53, 22 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbmackey (talk • contribs) 18:50, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * More Information: I just found out "web bug" is another term used to describe a digital marketing tag. The is wikipedia page which describes web bugs ... Web Bug . Dbmackey (talk) 03:24, 23 March 2015 (UTC)