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As the Arkham Horror tag wiki and Eldritch Horror tag wiki shows, there are two naming conventions that are currently being used for expansion tags*:

Early Arkham Horror expansions do not have a prefix

Later Arkham Horror expansions have an "ah-" prefix

Eldritch Horror expansions do not have a prefix

What should be the naming convention of these Arkham Horror expansions going forward? And when we reach a consensus, could a mod or high-rep user please migrate tag wikis?

* The Black Goat of the Woods and The Lurker at the Threshold do not currently have tags on this site.

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    ah-curse-dark-pharaoh we could always shorten it. It'll still come up as people type it so it shouldn't be too bad to find right?
    – Wolfkin
    Commented Jun 15, 2016 at 14:29

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They probably should have the ah- prefix, since as far as I can tell all other games that are an expansion for (or related to) another game have the games name (or abbreviation) as a prefix. Examples: , , and

I didn't find any other games that don't fit this pattern (but it is possible I missed something from a game I don't know much about)

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  • The proper names for the expansions you mentioned are Dominion: Seaside and Catan: Seafarers. I'll be honest, I was surprised to look up Dunwich Horror on BGG and find that that the full title is actually Arkham Horror: Dunwich Horror Expansion. So this would be a fair reason to prefix with ah-. Commented Jun 10, 2016 at 14:37
  • A counter-example are the Eldritch Horror expansion tags, such as forsaken-lore. I've gone ahead and added them to the question because they are a related situation for Arkham Horror. Commented Jun 10, 2016 at 14:44
  • Another counter-example: the Battlestar Galactica expansion tags. There was a meta discussion about how [battlestar-galactica-pegasus] was too long. We would have a problem with [ah-curse-of-the-dark-pharaoh] being too long too. Commented Jun 10, 2016 at 14:50
  • I suppose [ah-cotdp] could work.
    – tsuma534
    Commented Jun 23, 2016 at 11:32

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