[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[Jason Cunningham]

Well its clear I've democratically been beaten down on this topic!

The best way to resolve this is to see what happens in the future.

Jason

On 29 June 2010 16:59, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 June 2010 01:51, Richard Mann
> <richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > In Great Britain it's soccer 950, football 600, association_football nil
> >
> > By all means add association_football as an additional option (as a
> > synonym for soccer for those that prefer it), but there's no need to
> > try to deprecate soccer.
>
> I have to agree with Martin here that this seems so silly an issue
> that it needs 2 tags that mean the same thing, just because someone
> has a bee in their bonnet about it, all they need to do is have a
> preset file localised to the UK and they'll never see the word soccer
> anywhere, unless they want to view the raw data.
>
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