On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:59 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 June 2010 01:51, Richard Mann > <[email protected]> wrote: >> In Great Britain it's soccer 950, football 600, association_football nil >> >> By all means add association_football as an additional option (as a >> synonym for soccer for those that prefer it), but there's no need to >> try to deprecate soccer. > > I have to agree with Martin here that this seems so silly an issue > that it needs 2 tags that mean the same thing, just because someone > has a bee in their bonnet about it, all they need to do is have a > preset file localised to the UK and they'll never see the word soccer > anywhere, unless they want to view the raw data. > Oh I'd agree. I wasn't volunteering to go and change every renderer and editor to pick up association_football as well as soccer. Just put it as a synonym in the wiki, note that "soccer" is much more widely used in as a tag, and let people do with it what they will. Tag what you like (as long as it isn't confusing).
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