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While browsing thisthis question, I noticed that it included both the [headers] and [footers] tags. This seems to me to be unnecessary duplication - in the context of word processing and documents, headers and footers work nearly identically and it is very difficult to imagine a question that would require just one of these tags.

I know that there are other types of headers, such as email headers and function headers, but it seems to me that these should probably be different tags as they are not really related to the header of a document (or each other).

So, my proposal is, merge the existing [headers] and [footers] tag into a [headers/footers] tag or similar, and if it is deemed necessary that email headers and function headers have their own tags, they should be created separately.

While browsing this question, I noticed that it included both the [headers] and [footers] tags. This seems to me to be unnecessary duplication - in the context of word processing and documents, headers and footers work nearly identically and it is very difficult to imagine a question that would require just one of these tags.

I know that there are other types of headers, such as email headers and function headers, but it seems to me that these should probably be different tags as they are not really related to the header of a document (or each other).

So, my proposal is, merge the existing [headers] and [footers] tag into a [headers/footers] tag or similar, and if it is deemed necessary that email headers and function headers have their own tags, they should be created separately.

While browsing this question, I noticed that it included both the [headers] and [footers] tags. This seems to me to be unnecessary duplication - in the context of word processing and documents, headers and footers work nearly identically and it is very difficult to imagine a question that would require just one of these tags.

I know that there are other types of headers, such as email headers and function headers, but it seems to me that these should probably be different tags as they are not really related to the header of a document (or each other).

So, my proposal is, merge the existing [headers] and [footers] tag into a [headers/footers] tag or similar, and if it is deemed necessary that email headers and function headers have their own tags, they should be created separately.

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Should the [headers] and [footers] tags be merged?

While browsing this question, I noticed that it included both the [headers] and [footers] tags. This seems to me to be unnecessary duplication - in the context of word processing and documents, headers and footers work nearly identically and it is very difficult to imagine a question that would require just one of these tags.

I know that there are other types of headers, such as email headers and function headers, but it seems to me that these should probably be different tags as they are not really related to the header of a document (or each other).

So, my proposal is, merge the existing [headers] and [footers] tag into a [headers/footers] tag or similar, and if it is deemed necessary that email headers and function headers have their own tags, they should be created separately.