[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Social media contact prefix

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 1 Apr 2022, at 15:02, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> youtube is only partially a means of making contact
> BTW: so are websites, to some extent also Facebook.


generally I prefer concise tags, in particular with an individual beginning, because they work best with autocompletion. In this regard there are already issues with the only other widely established key family, addresses, but at least these are only 4 letters plus a colon, while here they are 7. For address tagging the namespace has its place, because otherwise a tag like “street” or “city” would be ambiguous and lead to various problems. I don’t see these same issues for tags like twitter or facebook.

If you are not interested in autocompletion you are most likely using presets and forms and it shouldn’t matter to you anyway which tags are used under the hood.

It is also used as an argument for the “contact:” namespace that it will intuitively explain what a tag is about, even if you don’t know the key part after the prefix, but this is not true, because we now have also tags like contact:street that aren’t about a means of communication or a social network.