[Tagging] Pre-RFC: shop=stationery, shop=office_supplies
Philip Barnes
phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Tue Oct 21 12:03:05 UTC 2014
On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 23:24 -0500, Toby Murray wrote:
> I know I have used office_supply for Staples. When I looked it up in
> the wiki, the stationery page did not include the examples of the
> office superstores and my impression was that it was intended for
> smaller shops, including the Hallmark shops that John mentions. I
> considered Staples to be different enough to deserve a different tag.
> I am not convinced that I am right... just stating at how I arrived at
> my tagging decision.
I would normally tag staples as office_supplies, but would be wary of
changing those tagged as stationary without a survey. It is possible
that they could have smaller stationary shops in places such as
university campuses.
Phil (trigpoint)
>
>
> Toby
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:37 PM, John F. Eldredge
> <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> I haven't noticed one for several years, but there used to be
> stores that specialized in selling greeting cards and small
> ornamental gifts. Hallmark greeting cards had a retail chain.
>
>
>
> On October 20, 2014 7:34:19 PM CDT, Paul Johnson
> <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> When I think of a stationery shop, I think of
> something like a FedEx Office minus the copiers and
> shipping. When I think of an office supply store, I
> think of something like Office Depot, Office Max or
> Staples, which also sell office furniture, computers,
> adding machines, filing cabinets, etc.
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Matthijs Melissen
> <info at matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We have currently two tags with a closely
> related, if not identical,
> meaning: shop=stationery (8038 instances) and
> shop=office_supplies
> (177 instances).
>
> Is there a difference between these two tags,
> or should we deprecate
> shop=office_supplies in favour of
> shop=stationery?
>
> For example, Staples, a large multinational
> stationery/office supplies
> shop is tagged 380 times as shop=stationery
> and 48 times as
> shop=office_supplies.
>
> -- Matthijs
>
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