# Merging tags - Tag Synonyms **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Tags:** completed, tags\ **Created:** [March 1, 2018, 9:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-tags-tag-synonyms/81869 "2018-03-01T09:58:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-tags-tag-synonyms/81869/22 "2020-01-16T17:48:21Z")
Incidentally (digging deep into my memory cells here) Drupal has a [synonyms module](https://www.drupal.org/project/synonyms) that you might look at for inspiration/ideas. As with many things Drupal it is too complex but the example screenshot is interesting - note how it makes it obvious at selection when the term you typed in is a synonym of another term. It might be jarring to folks to look for “pots” and come to a page of planters topics. Displaying the results as `Planters (pots)` might help address this. ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/8/688bb325336270639f59c16e21ab3897599fe55e.png) The drupal module also has the ability, it appears, to determine whether a synonym can be selected when adding terms to content. That might be interesting. I often run into issues where people create tags that are similar to other tags - I wouldn’t mind if those showed up in results and sent people to the right tags page, but I am not sure I want people to be choosing to use the similar but wrong tag. Another issue I run into frequently is with delimiting characters in tags, e.g. srilanka and sri-lanka and sri\_lanka. All three are the same but do I want people to be able to add sri-lanka when the preferred tag is always srilanka? Because both are possible, unfortunately, we are constantly gardening and renaming tags. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-tags-tag-synonyms/81869)._