Timeline for Should the "Korea" tag redirect to "South Korea"?
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| Dec 20, 2011 at 9:16 | comment | added | Ankur Banerjee Mod | I do apologise for the fact that a decision was reverted, this does look like bad form. The moderators should have taken more time to think / talk this through. For that, I also apologise to @MarkMayo for not weighing in earlier. I'll make efforts on my part to ensure such goof-ups don't happen due to miscommunication. I do believe however that the decision take is in the best interests and the most consistent way of implementing tagging. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 9:12 | comment | added | Ankur Banerjee Mod | Please don't try to have a conversation in comments. You can carry this on in the chatroom as well as look at yesterday's chat history. My primary reason for reverting was consistency: if we don't allow the Korea tag, then I don't see how we can allow a China tag by similar reasoning either. Have you even seen what suggestions are made when someone types in 'Korea'? The two options are 'South Korea' and 'North Korea'. Like with most tag synonyms we have, we go for most common logical and usage mappings. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 9:01 | comment | added | victoriah | reasonably experienced travelers, who, as you said yourself, will be aware of the distinction, and those who are not are more likely to be confused by a generic "korea" tag than helped by it. And all of this is by ITSELF irrelevant because apparently your mod tools mean that the rest of us need not bother with discussion. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 8:59 | comment | added | victoriah | I didn't say anything about dictionary definitions. I was specifically asking why you went against the agreement of the community on this. I don't find the reference to China to be particularly helpful; everybody refers to Taiwan as Taiwan, but it is vastly more common for people to distinguish between North & South Korea. And that by itself is not even relevant - the question is not "what are people most likely to call the Koreas", but "what is the most useful way of categorising them". Most people who ask questions here will probably be (cont.) | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 8:56 | comment | added | Ankur Banerjee Mod | See this in the context of the China question: going by similar logic, when you say 'China' do you mean 'People's Republic of China' or 'Republic of China'? And thus we shouldn't have a 'China' tag? This goes against user expectations: what would a typical user think if the 'China' tag was blacklisted because of this? I think we should go by most common English language usage. While I do appreciate the community sentiment, this is not about dictionary definitions. As in Mark's answer, when people drop the prefix what they usually mean S. Korea. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 1:14 | comment | added | victoriah | And in case it's not clear, I think this is a very poor use of moderating tools. A consensus had clearly been reached and if you disagree it's up to you to discuss it, not override everyone else and make discussion of it moot. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 1:13 | comment | added | victoriah | I deleted my previous comment because I thought it might appear as unecessarily hostile. But my question still remains - What makes you think your argument is superior to the one that got 8 upvotes above? | |
| Dec 19, 2011 at 23:06 | history | edited | Ankur BanerjeeMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2011 at 22:29 | history | edited | Ankur BanerjeeMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2011 at 22:17 | history | answered | Ankur BanerjeeMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |