[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[Pieren]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:18 PM, pavithran <pavithran.s at gmail.com> wrote:

As usual, I don't expect any change like other controversial tags. It is
admitted here that "soccer" is unkown in many countries and many
contributors just stops on the first preset or tag visible with "football"
as they know what it means for them. The result is that we have thousands
tags 'football' and we are not sure about them.
The current proposal is now to deprecate football and replace it by
american_football.
Fine. I have another proposal : replace "soccer" which is unknown in many
parts of the world (not for Richard and John, that's clear) by
"association_football" and deprecate "football". Then we use the official
name. I could change the wiki : 30 sec., change the rendering rule in
osmarender : 1 mn, run a script renaming the tag "soccer" in the db and
adding a fixme in "football" : 5 mn to write it and tomorrow everything is
clear. That would make everyone happy excepted perhaps north americans. 6.5
mn is less time than I spent to follow this thread.

Pieren
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