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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.

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Re^3: Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6
by talexb (Chancellor) on Nov 24, 2016 at 15:10 UTC

    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

    Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

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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.

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          If you start an official policy ..

        *Chortle* Official policy? Oh dear, I'm really not in charge of anything here. :) Except my own thoughts and opinions. However, your suggestion of [$topic] sounds excellent, and is probably one that has been used across forums (fora?) and mailing lists for decades.

        Since this is by default a [Perl] forum, then that tag is redundant. I think it's useful to highlight that a post might be somewhat off-topic by using a tag.

        Alex / talexb / Toronto

        Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

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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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Re^3: Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6
by jdporter (Paladin) on Nov 24, 2016 at 18:28 UTC

    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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        That's not a bad idea! It would be easy enough to add a checkbox to let the user choose whether to "search bodies also". We could also easily add a user setting to let the user choose a default state for that checkbox.

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