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| May 5, 2017 at 23:49 | history | edited | PolyGeoMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 4, 2017 at 16:58 | comment | added | user104 | @HarryVervet It was a joke (other than the agreement about using historic counties!) | |
| May 4, 2017 at 15:41 | comment | added | Harry V. Mod | @Cole At this point I think it would be useful to break out discussions about our major countries into their own questions, since points about one country may not apply to others. I fear if we start posting answers about individual countries here the key points about geography tagging are going to get buried in the minutia. | |
| May 4, 2017 at 15:26 | comment | added | user104 | @HarryVervet That might be worth elevating to an answer -- I agree that historic UK counties make most sense. However :) Caernarfonshire versus Caernarvonshire versus Sir Gaernarfon? Worse, Brecknockshire, Sir Frycheiniog, County of Brecknock, Breconshire, or the County of Brecon. I feel some synonyms coming on. | |
| May 4, 2017 at 15:17 | comment | added | Harry V. Mod | @ColeValleyGirl Pre-1974 Cumbria was Cumberland and Westmoreland. This raises the question then of whether we should have tags for all historic and modern counties - e.g. Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, Avon, Hereford & Worcester, Cleveland, East and West Suffolk, etc. As a genealogy site, I think these modern counties are minimal use in categorizing questions since given our 100 year rule the vast majority should be covered by the historic counties. For the sake of our sanity I suggest we stick with historic counties until a real need arises for these other modern county tags. | |
| May 4, 2017 at 11:51 | comment | added | user104 | I'd similarly expect to see a Rhone tag the soon after a question was asked that needed specific knowledge of records in the Rhone department, so I think we're in agreement. | |
| May 4, 2017 at 9:58 | comment | added | PolyGeo Mod | Cumbria is a county so I too would create a tag the first time it seems relevant to a question because, as an English county, with many of our users asking questions about English ancestry, I think it is inevitable that more will follow. If there were a slight lag to its creation, then I could live with that too. | |
| May 4, 2017 at 5:35 | comment | added | user104 | I agree about when we create them, but (using an English example) would hope to see a Cumbria tag as soon as we saw the first question about records specific to Cumbria. | |
| May 3, 2017 at 20:26 | comment | added | PolyGeo Mod | @ColeValleyGirl I think volume is always a background consideration but far from the only one. I am not hearing anyone say that we need thousands of tags with only a question or two each. I think we only need to create new tags as the community becomes more interested in the topic that they define. | |
| May 3, 2017 at 18:05 | comment | added | user104 | Out of interest, why do you see volume as a (the only?) determining factor for State/Province/County? Is it because we don't have a lot of questions about/experts on (e.g.) French departments and so don't know if the records vary between them. Or is there something more intrisinc about volume that makes it a good determining factoor? | |
| May 3, 2017 at 11:38 | history | answered | PolyGeoMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |