[Tagging] is the wiki descriptive or prescriptive?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Nov 17, 2021, 17:49 by osm at imagico.de:

> A way to 
> mitigate that and to create more credibility for tagging documentation 
> could be to move away from the relatively anonymous presentation of 
> content on the wiki more towards a collection of clearly attributed 
> statements and analysis on tagging.  This way readers could weigh what 
> they read in the tagging documentation with the credibility and merit 
> of those who have written it.  I do not know how practically feasible 
> that is though.
>
It is partially done by providing sources.

Something like:

variant foobar=abc is used by some<ref>links, explanations</ref>
while barfoo is used by other<ref>again some extra info</ref>

This will be rendered as footnotes.

I feel that footnotes explaining situations and linking
relevant discussions should be used more widely.

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Main negatives of full scale "lets provide all variants" is

- there will be fight over what should be order of
listing views
- wiki would be even more confusing for reader
- gives much greater position for various fringe views
hold by single person
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