Image via WikipediaAs you may have noticed, we have carried on working on the tagging system, putting lots of pretty tag clouds all over place. I hope you’re finding this useful - all feedback welcome as ever.

We don’t use these tags for news gathering any more, so there is no longer any need to type contorted and repetitive phrases to try and find news articles

Just a couple of other tips for question creators, so that we minimize duplicate tags:

• The best tags autocomplete when you start typing - we like these tags best because we know they already exist
• Tag the country in the world section (except in UK, where we already know it)
• Tag the league or competition in sport (unless there’s actually a subcat for it, eg. MLB). ‘English Premier League’, ‘Bundesliga’ and ‘Wimbledon’ are good tags. Also try to tag the team/teams (’toronto blue jays’, ‘fulham fc’, ‘ny mets’, ‘la galaxy’ are good examples)
• Don’t put in a tag that means the same as the category or subcategory (eg, there is no need for ‘us election 08′ or similar on a question when that is the subcategory. Same for ‘mlb’/'major league baseball’ etc.
• We prefer full names for people, eg Barack Obama rather than Obama, and Didier Drogba instead of Drogba. Dubya is ‘George W Bush’, and I don’t think anybody has ever mentioned his dad on the site anyway
• Avoid plurals ‘republican’ is better than ‘republicans’

Hope you enjoy anyway

Chris

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