[Tagging] Deprecacations
Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdreist at gmail.com
Sat Dec 26 23:48:57 UTC 2020
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> On 27. Dec 2020, at 00:02, Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> That seems reasonable for barely-used and undocumented tags with a clear alternative. Especially in the case of things like obvious mistakes or mispellings. But in the spirit of free tagging, I would not be in favor of automatically deprecating tagging that someone has deliberately documented, merely because it has low usage. At the least it should warrant a discussion and/or a reach-out to the original author. If something truly has "become commonly used" then it warrants a more substantial consideration and should not be deprecated without discussion.
+1
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> Local language translations of English tags is an interesting edge case that I hadn't considered. I'd be in favor of a general policy for deprecating those and would probably even support a mechanical edit to translate them to English tags, if this is a real thing that's happening on any meaningful scale and not just a hypothetical.
unfortunately there are words that don’t have a good equivalent in English, or worse, where you loose something if the translation is not done with care and tagging in mind (i.e. use a description/composition rather than a single word, although the dictionary might give you a single word). I am already seeing this with German and Italian, and I guess it will increase when you get farther away.
Cheers Martin
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