[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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