@mwengren I was referring to removing the Modifier 'status_flag' from the examples in the modified proposal, not from the Conventions Document. To do that would be very much against my understanding of best practice. Deprecation, not deletion is the way to go to deliver transparency.
Your modified example includes 'QARTOD' is the flag Standard Name, which I thought had been dropped. I don't think it's a good idea to weave vocabulary updates into the Conventions Document text. I prefer the Standard Name labels as presented in the modified proposal. Using alphanumeric sorting of labels to establish semantic relationships is a technique I used in the 1990s until I saw the error of my ways. What happens if somebody in the future adds another batch of Standard Names beginning 'quality_flag' that go off at a tangent to yours? There could be a way to establish a linkage between your Standard Names and the Standard Name 'quality_flag' using mappings in the vocabulary servers. I can point you in the right direction once the names are in the system. I guess you could replace 'Result' at the start of the descriptions with 'A quality flag the reports the result' -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/216#issuecomment-563476544 This list forwards relevant notifications from Github. It is distinct from [email protected], although if you do nothing, a subscription to the UCAR list will result in a subscription to this list. To unsubscribe from this list only, send a message to [email protected].
