[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[Richard Mann]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:59 PM, 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.
>
Oh I'd agree. I wasn't volunteering to go and change every renderer
and editor to pick up association_football as well as soccer. Just put
it as a synonym in the wiki, note that "soccer" is much more widely
used in as a tag, and let people do with it what they will. Tag what
you like (as long as it isn't confusing).

Richard