What is the difference between resource-request and resource-information? In theory, any answer to a resource-request question would include information about that resource, so why do we have two tags? If you know, please tell me, if not, I recommend we supercollide these tags and merge resource-information into resource-request because it's older.
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One option is to give resource-information some text implying that such questions ask for information about a specific resource (or a class of resources). So, the asker names a resource.
On the other hand, resource-request is for when the OP doesn't have a resource in mind and wants help in finding one given a description of the need.
So in some sense they can be inverses of each other
- find me info about resource mumble
- I need a resource that matches the following info.
Or, we could just drop one of them, but the questions with resource-information become a bit problematic.
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$\begingroup$ I agree that they are basically inverses, and that we need both. $\endgroup$ – Ben I.♦ Sep 5 '17 at 15:34
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$\begingroup$ I see the distinction, but why does it matter in terms of searching for questions? I think that this distinction will be forgotten and ignored if we make it. $\endgroup$ – thesecretmaster♦ Sep 5 '17 at 16:31
