A few words about tagging rules.

[Olesniczanin]

I think that we have to lay down some tagging rules since tags are getting a bit messy.

1) In my opinion there is no point in tagging 'human' the picture that is already tagged 'person'. Isn't the same? I think 'person' is enought. We don't need 'human' 'homo sapiens' human being' and so on .
2) The same goes with 'woman' - 'female' and 'man' - 'male'. 'Woman' or 'man' will do.
3) Almost every picture tagged 'writing' is also tagged 'message'. I don't think every writing is a message. Look:

this is a writing and a message both
but

that's just a writing.

What you think about it? Do you have some other suggestions about tagging?

[GO GO]

i think it is absolutely ok if a snap is tagged " female" "woman" at the same time because it just gives more keyword choices to search for.

Dont forget to take the perspective as searcher

more tags better it is ,unless of course it totally wayofff and misleading

[PanterA]

Your right GO GO..

[Olesniczanin]

If I were a searcher and there would be no snapshots tagged 'female', I would surely try 'woman'. But ok, let it be the way you wish.

Another thing comes to my mind. We should decide whether to tag reproducions with the last name of the artist or with the first and the last name or else.

Now we have snaps tagged 'dali' and 'salvator dali', 'davinci'(<- as a one word, strange), 'van gogh', 'andy warhol', 'munch' and 'edvard munch', 'mattise', 'toulouse lautrec' (with no hyphen) and so on. No consistency at all. The problem applies especially to French names.

[GO GO]

[PanterA]

I agree 100% with GO GO.
again...

[Tame Swallow]

and lets also have the option of male and man, along with woman and female etc

[Olesniczanin]

You misunderstood me this time. My point is that we need more consistency. One snapshot is tagged 'van gogh' and other 'vincent van gogh'. This doestn't help the searcher to find all the reproduction of van Gogh works.

[GO GO]

well ok lets hope people will "actually read" tag rule book and if some doesnt then again some alert user will be there to moderate those
for me tagging is still about more is better

[Brrr-FrostNZ]

I have to admit tagging infuriates me...

Two in question…
‘eka pada viparita dandasana’ & ‘one foot inverted staff pose’

There has to be some intelligence at work when adding tags to snapshots considering that the person searching has got to type in ‘Exactly’ what has been added as a tag. (There is no soundex or part match available here…?)

This is where tags like the above just seem ridiculous….with no offence intended guys….but come on…think about it

Thank god there is moderation available and hopefully some intelligence at work…

[MorningStar]

Let's not make a science out of this. We're all human, right? So let's use what we as humans deem appropriate at the time. We're not librarians and nobody's going to reprimand us if we get tags wrong.

So davinci or Da Vinci - honestly, I don't care. We're not a search engine. At the moment, there's nobody there to search either. Let's focus on that first - get people that actually search and then we might focus on finding ways to get the taggers and searchers on the same page.

Until then - everything's fair in love and war.