[Tagging] Adding leisure=sports_hall to leisure=sports_centre page

Steve Doerr doerr.stephen at gmail.com
Fri Sep 6 17:45:34 UTC 2019


My UK school had both a gym and a sports hall. And neither was used for 
the morning assembly: there was a main hall (with a stage) for that, 
which was also used for serving school dinners at lunchtime.

Steve


On 05/09/2019 16:21, Philip Barnes wrote:
> In terms of schools, we call them gyms in the UK too.
>
> Certainly not sports halls.
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
>
> On Thursday, 5 September 2019, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
>> What is a sports hall?
>>
>> Is it what we call a "gym" in America?
>>
>> The dictionary definition I found just said it was "a building used
>> for sports", and the wiki page only says it's a building or part of a
>> building "used as a sports hall", which doesn't do anything to clarify
>> the situation.
>>
>> I don't see how that is different than the definition of
>> sports_centre: "a distinct facility where sports take place within an
>> enclosed area" - which then specifically mentions "it can be a
>> building".
>>
>> I'll admit that we don't use the term "sports centre" in the USA
>> either, but at least the wiki definition is clearly vague: it's any
>> enclosed area (including buildings) where sports take place.
>>
>> On 9/5/19, Tom Pfeifer <t.pfeifer at computer.org> wrote:
>>> On 05.09.2019 15:48, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
>>>> Another user would like the proposed tag (used 329 times)
>>> 346 if you count all tags. Look at taghistory and see it has grown from 22
>>> in early 2018, thus about
>>> 15 times.
>>>
>>> It was a result of discussion in some communities that time.
>>>
>>>> leisure=sports_hall to be added to leisure=sports_centre.
>>> No. You cannot add the value to the same key.
>>>
>>> The intention of leisure=sports_hall is to describe facilities better that
>>> were incorrectly tagged
>>> leisure=sports_centre, an example are simple school sport halls, which
>>> certainly are not 'centres'.
>>>
>>>
>>>> However, I believe that rarely used, proposed tags should be approved
>>>> through the proposal process or should become commonly used
>>>> organically, before being added to the pages of common tags and keys.
>>> If you look at the history, it is being growing organically.
>>> A hint to consider a more suitable tag on the centre page tagging cannot
>>> hurt.
>>>
>>>> So, this can be a synonym for a sports_centre, or a tag for a building
>>>> found in a sports_centre?
>>> More precisely, leisure=sports_hall is for facilities that are not centres.
>>> Surely a centre can hold, among other facilities to form a centre, one or
>>> more halls.
>>>
>>>> Why not just use building=sports_hall and sports_centre for the whole
>>>> area?
>>> Because building=* describes the building typology, not the usage. leisure=*
>>> describes the usage.
>>> Thus, a purpose-built sports hall is
>>> leisure=sports_hall+building=sports_hall, while a converted
>>> church that is now used for sports is leisure=sports_hall+building=church.
>>>
>>> tom
>>>
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