tagging: not always appropriate

Some pages on the Wiki suggest tagging as a work-around,
especially
where a microformat is thought to be "missing" a
property which would be
useful.

It should be remembered that some sites do not, or cannot,
use tagging,
and in some cases it would be inappropriate to do so.

For instance, if an obituary page like:

        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/obituaries/norris
.htm>

were to use an hCard, which has no "deceased" flag
or date-of-death
property, it would be disrespectful (not to say confusing to
a target
audience likely to be unfamiliar with blogging, tagging and
the like) to
have a link to a page third-party page listing other dead
people, and
especially one carrying commercial adverts related to death
(Technorati); which suggest that  "funny" is a
related tag (Technorati
for "dead"); or to a page with pictures of dead
and dying people
(Wikipedia); or simply any page treating death as a
technical matter.

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On Nov 24, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> For instance, if an obituary page like:
>
>         <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/obituaries/norris
.htm>
>
> were to use an hCard, which has no "deceased"
flag or date-of-death
> property, it would be disrespectful (not to say
confusing to a target
> audience likely to be unfamiliar with blogging, tagging
and the like) 
> to
> have a link to a page third-party page listing other
dead people, and
> especially one carrying commercial adverts related to
death
> (Technorati); which suggest that  "funny" is
a related tag (Technorati
> for "dead"); or to a page with pictures of
dead and dying people
> (Wikipedia); or simply any page treating death as a
technical matter.

This is why you can use an arbitrary tagspace to
disambiguate. You 
could create a  WMBC page for deceased members at

http:
//www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/tag/deceased

that linked to your obituaries page and use that.

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In message <6577a1b91b1c90c9fd367b1bf6b70685technorati.com>, Kevin
Marks <kmarkstechnorati.com> writes

>This is why you can use an arbitrary tagspace to
disambiguate. You
>could create a  WMBC page for deceased members at
>
>http:
//www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/tag/deceased

Indeed. But that would still not be appropriate.

>that linked to your obituaries page and use that.

Which obituaries page?

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