in reply to Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6

If we're going to standardize (and I certainly believe it would be a good idea to do so), then I'd suggest [P6], for two reasons: (1) it's shorter than any alternative, and (2) it avoids any, ehrm, "discussions", about how right or wrong it is to have a space between "Perl" and "6" or not. :-)

I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.

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Re^2: Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6
by Discipulus (Canon) on Nov 23, 2016 at 22:26 UTC
    if the shortness of [P6] is a good thing i think that in this case clarity and avoiding any type of confusion for newcomers make imho [Perl6] a better choice.

    L*

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      I like [Perl6] as a differentiator in the topic line -- the square brackets highlight the name a little, and it's a little better than [P6], which, being shorter, has more potential for confusion. (My first thought was -- oh, the chip after the Pentium?)

      Alex / talexb / Toronto

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        Let's think it trough ...

        If you start an official policy - instead of a convention - to use [Perl6] so why not [vim] or [tk] or [*nix] or [LDAP] ... and so on?

        And is [BioInf] already specific enough or should it be sub-classified into [FASTA] and [Homework] ?

        On a side note ... the monastery has already a keyword nodelet nobody is using.

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        I'm in favour of tagging, just the implementation of an efficient rule seems unclear.

        Cheers Rolf
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        "Tags" should not use square brackets or any metacharacters at all

        [ ] should only be used in questions about syntax that uses [ ] like  @arrays[1] and  /[regexcharclass]/ ... not for "tagging"

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      I concur. It's not about the convenience of the original author, nor of the janitors who often add title-line tags. It's about searching. And people are far more likely to search for "perl6" than "p6".

      I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
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        while having the "tag" in the title (or a well-used keyword tagging) would help, personally I think the single-most useful search aide would be to have the default search bar do a title+body search, not just a title search. As a newcomer to the site earlier this year, one of my frustrations with the ui was the lack of a one-click body search. The search bar so rarely finds what I'm looking for that I've stopped using it.

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