Timeline for How can we tag questions on medical issues?
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| Jan 2, 2013 at 14:24 | comment | added | Zelda | I went and tagged our first one as I think it's relevant; should we set up any synonyms (see bethlakshmi's answer) | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 2:35 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Several people have talked about "accommodation" being understood in this way in the US, but what about elsewhere? | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 2:34 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @Rachel, while that's the more common use of "accommodation" in general, in a workplace context how likely are we to be talking about lodging? Sure, it could come up in talking about relocation, but I hope we have a "relocation" tag for that. Whatever we do, a decent tag wiki will be essential. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 13:02 | comment | added | Rachel | @jmort253 If "accomodations" is common terminology in the workplace, I'd use that, otherwise I'd use something like "health-accommodations" since it will come up in the dropdown anytime someone types "health" as a tag | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 1:26 | comment | added | jmort253 Mod | @Rachel, how about "workplace-accommodations" or "health-accommodations"? | |
| Dec 28, 2012 at 21:28 | comment | added | jcmeloni Mod | I would encourage anyone who hasn't been involved in management or HR or education to search "ADA accommodations" or "workplace accommodations" or "education accommodations" or, specifically, "HR request for reasonable accommodation" to see that the term is very commonly used in this manner. | |
| Dec 28, 2012 at 20:50 | comment | added | Rachel |
I've always considered "accommodations" to be a place to temporarily stay, like a hotel or someone else's house. Wikipedia defines it like this as well. I've never heard this word used in the way you're using it before - it seems strange to me. Perhaps we could think of a better word? I think Programmers.SE uses "health" :)
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| Dec 28, 2012 at 20:34 | comment | added | jcmeloni Mod | @enderland In the US at least, I would say that yes, "accommodation" is a very familiar term to anyone in management or HR or education, and to anyone having a diagnosed condition which would benefit from accommodation. | |
| Dec 28, 2012 at 20:23 | comment | added | jmort253 Mod | @enderland, my thought is we'd start by retagging, and if it becomes clear people are trying to use other related tags instead, then we can address that issue either by changing the name of the tag or creating a synonym. But for now, accomodations seems like the most widely applicable, IMHO. | |
| Dec 28, 2012 at 20:22 | comment | added | jmort253 Mod | I like it! :) Great suggestion. | |
| Dec 28, 2012 at 20:22 | comment | added | enderland |
Is accommodations universally known to be how to describe this though? I agree now, but, may not have initially thought of it (obviously I didn't or I would have added it to my question)? I guess we could always just retag questions?
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| Dec 28, 2012 at 19:49 | history | answered | jcmeloniMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |