Posted under Bugs & Features
Tags that are easy to confuse should have a suggestion for the other tags that they are confused with when searching/tagging. This would work alongside aliases and implications.
examples:
headpat vs petting
ahoge vs antenna_hair
glasses vs drinking_glass
basically anything in the wiki with the text "do not confuse with"
fffffgggg54 said:
Tags that are easy to confuse should have a suggestion for the other tags that they are confused with when searching/tagging. This would work alongside aliases and implications.
examples:
headpat vs petting
ahoge vs antenna_hair
glasses vs drinking_glass
basically anything in the wiki with the text "do not confuse with"
There’s the list of disambiguation pages for that purpose.
Benit149 said:
There’s the list of disambiguation pages for that purpose.
The disambiguation pages are only for obsolete tags whose definitions have been forked into 2 or more tags. There is nothing stopping someone from using one of the obsolete tags. I believe this is a separate issue.
What I'm referring to are 2 or more in-use tags that are easily confused and often mistagged. The disambiguation page list doesn't help with this. Users are also not obligated check the wiki to verify the accuracy of a tag and are given no indication that they may be confusing tags with similar meanings.
Talulah said:
How would this work, UX-wise?
When tagging, easy-to-confuse tags would appear in the tag box as a different color, perhaps blue. When hovering over one, a dropdown listing all easy-to-confuse tags related to it would appear. Clicking on one would replace the tag with the one that was clicked on.
fffffgggg54 said:
When tagging, easy-to-confuse tags would appear in the tag box as a different color, perhaps blue. When hovering over one, a dropdown listing all easy-to-confuse tags related to it would appear. Clicking on one would replace the tag with the one that was clicked on.
That doesn't sound like it would actually help users decide which tag is the correct one to use, it would just give them a bunch of similar options. They would still have to consult the wikis, which the majority wouldn't bother to do.
Talulah said:
How would this work, UX-wise?
Maybe clicking on a highlighted tag will display a list of alternate tags and hovering over the alternate tags will show the first paragraph from their wiki articles, clicking on one will replace it. That would require actually helpful wiki articles, though, but I guess there aren’t that many easily confused tags and having useful wikis at least for those should be doable.
kittey said:
Maybe clicking on a highlighted tag will display a list of alternate tags and hovering over the alternate tags will show the first paragraph from their wiki articles, clicking on one will replace it. That would require actually helpful wiki articles, though, but I guess there aren’t that many easily confused tags and having useful wikis at least for those should be doable.
that's exatly the issue, a lot of the time the reason a tag is so easily mistagged (other then completly not reading wikis) is because the wiki isn't anywhere near helpful therefore people use their own definition of the word.
If this is actually turning into a feature please consider: character sheet vs variations vs multiple persona vs character profile
Updated
Not really what you want but there's list of commonly misused tags.
