Tagging of entries

[miss_s_b]

I reserved the right to make tags to mods only, but anyone can add tags. This means that tags remain fairly consistent, and every so often I am going back through the entries and adding tags and such. I am quite happy to do this, but it occurs to me that the erstwhile members of the comm might have some suggestions to make. Mostly this is because I was putting tags on one entry today and realised that Americans Have Different Words For Things.

Now, the point of tags is to make things easy to find, so if you are thinking ooooo what was that lovely recipe that X posted for Y thing?, but you call it Y thing and I call it Z thing, we're going to hit a problem.

The solution I came up with was to use the British and American term in the same tag, so if you look at the tag list you'll see one for courgette/zucchini, for example.

I have two questions:

1. Do you think this is a good way of doing it?
2. HHave I missed any or got any wrong?

Comments

[innerbrat]

Hello, I'm totally a member of this community now, and I have ingredients for this week's challenge.

It just occurred to me that I think DW, or at least some DW styles, support nested tags - and if it doesn't, the format is useful anyway. By which I mean:

challenge: 1, challenge: 2,
ingredient: apples, ingredient: baby corn,
cuisine: italian
dietary: vegetarian, dietary: vegan

It may or may not be a pain for you, but it can make things easy to navigate.

[miss_s_b]

That's a good plan, actually. It might take me a while to get around to doing it, though.

Have you got a big turnip in the country?

[innerbrat]

Yes, but I'm in the city. And t won't be big for much longer as I'm about to chop it up. :)

[miss_s_b]

Cooooooool

[miss_s_b]

It did, indeed, take me a while to get around to doing it.