Guidelines regarding thread names and tags

[Sam Baughn]

The 'creatures' tag seems to be redundant with the more popular 'monsters' tag. Would it be possible to delete it?

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Perfect Organism

The 'creatures' tag seems to be redundant with the more popular 'monsters' tag. Would it be possible to delete it?

Probably keep both, because not all creatures will be 'monsters'.

[Stormcrow]

I would find an alphabetized list of standard tags helpful. Rather than guess at which ones already exist, one could just look at the list and see that the one they're thinking of is already there.

[Sam Baughn]

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

I would find an alphabetized list of standard tags helpful. Rather than guess at which ones already exist, one could just look at the list and see that the one they're thinking of is already there.

At the moment the tag cloud probably has most of them in it. There are entries there which only point to a single thread.

EDIT: Actually, it seem that there aren't currently any one-thread entries in the tag cloud. A couple of days ago there were some.

[Stormcrow]

Oh! I didn't even realize there was a tag cloud. Found it.

[Sam Baughn]

The 'optional rules' tag doesn't seem to be being used correctly - the threads it is linked to are all discussing what I believe are called 'house rules'. In GURPS, optional rules generally means published rules which aren't used as standard (like Defensive Attacks, Extra Effort in Combat or multiple Rapid Strikes).

'Chargen' and 'character creation' are both tags about the same thing and point to exactly the same threads.

'Psi' seems to be redundant with the more popular 'psionics'.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Perfect Organism

The 'optional rules' tag doesn't seem to be being used correctly - the threads it is linked to are all discussing what I believe are called 'house rules'. In GURPS, optional rules generally means published rules which aren't used as standard (like Defensive Attacks, Extra Effort in Combat or multiple Rapid Strikes).

Indeed so.

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

Oh! I didn't even realize there was a tag cloud. Found it.

Note that it's a tag cloud for the entire SJGames Forums, not just this forum. (Selecting the tag "tags" from the cloud will pull up both this thread and its counterpart in the In Nomine forum, for example.)

[Ragitsu]

What is nomenclature?

[Sam Baughn]

Originally Posted by Ragitsu

What is nomenclature?

A system of words, especially names, which is intended to minimise confusion between subjects referred to by those words. For instance, biological nomenclature tries to lay out a system so that a single name is given to each species, while in natural languages one species may have several names and one name may refer to several species.