Proposing new tags

[Phill Whiteside]

One vote for, one against :) Has anyone else got a view?

I do think Tom's suggestion of "This page may need updating" in a nice
amber, yellow, orange or tan?" has merit.

Regards,

Phill.

On 15 February 2013 13:56, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> Obviously we want to avoid creating new tags if there is an existing one
> that is "good enough" already but sometimes it is unavoidable.
>
> I think it might be best to keep the tag as generic as possible so i think
> that instead of stating that the content is definitely out-of-date it might
> be better to say the content "may" be out-of-date.  Then it's easier to use
> it without having to look to closely and leave it to page editors and users
> to decide if the tag is really justified or not, or just fix any trivial
> issues that may have prompted the use of the tag on a largely fine page.
> It also means people can just dump the tag on pages without it being such a
> big deal and users wont panic so much when they see it.
>
> So, perhaps "This page may need updating" in a nice amber, yellow, orange
> or tan?  Enough to make people a little wary and make editors jump up and
> edit out of sheer pride in their page?
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Chris Druif <chrisdruif at ubuntu.com>
> *To:* Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com>
> *Cc:* Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, 15 February 2013, 9:11
> *Subject:* Re: Proposing new tags
>
> Hello Phill and others,
> I think one of the better solutions to your problem would be to just add a
> fourth line at [1] saying something along the lines of content being out of
> date. I think the you should read to "rules" fairly loose as it states
> content clean up and specifies a few examples when content cleanup is
> required.
> With metta, Chris
> [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tag#Content_cleanup_required
> On 15 Feb 2013 05:57, "Phill Whiteside" <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been helping some one with an issue and as a part of it I referred
> them to a page[1]. The details on there, specifically:
>
> sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins "pulseaudio-*" paman padevchooser paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter
>
> this reports back an error. I am not competent to edit that command line,
> nor do I expect the doc team to be. But, there is no tag[2] that I can
> apply to that page stating that it needs 'factually' updating. I have
> posted a comment on the ubuntu forum area [3] asklng that one of the team
> from there has a check and update it.
>
> Whilst not an 'editor' task, I think we do need a new tag to state that
> 'this page needs up dating" so that we can let the various teams know that
> some stuff needs updating.... your thoughts, please.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
> 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio
> 2. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tag
>  3. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12510595
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