Topic: Tag Alias: Sports -> Sport

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

It is and isn't. BrE tends to use both sport and sports ("I used to play a lot of sport" or "I used to play a lot of sports") whereas the latter is much more common in AmE. However "Baseball is a sports" is considered incorrect for both.

However, for our purposes singular makes more sense. Approved

Thoughts on this?

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parasprite said:
It is and isn't. BrE tends to use both sport and sports ("I used to play a lot of sport" or "I used to play a lot of sports") whereas the latter is much more common in AmE. However "Baseball is a sports" is considered incorrect for both.

However, for our purposes singular makes more sense. Approved

Thoughts on this?

I was about to suggest this as well before the doorbell rang but yeah the sport tag should be a lot bigger.so +1

Updated by anonymous

Here are the ones I have found so far by trying to tag the sports in sport (still got about 90 to go)

not sure about this one

I also have problem with baseball being aliased to baseball_(ball) since it has lead to baseball_(ball) being littered with images that have no baseball balls in them
so I suggest

I also tried to clean up football by tagging them all with either american_football, australian_rules_football or soccer but might as well since it is used a lot.

and lastly for now,

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RandomArcticFox said:

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Thanks for laying that out for us RandomArcticFox, that's extremely helpful. :)

I just have a couple comments (in no particular order):

  • fitness -> sport seems a bit too broad for me to say one way or the other (e.g., weightlifting is fitness but isn't usually considered to be a sport).
  • -1 to yoga and track (which has other meanings that might get tagged, such as a racetrack)
  • football -> football_(disambiguation)? It gets mixed up a lot and it would make the cleanup a little easier to remember (as well as make it more obvious to the original tagger).

Other than these it looks pretty solid. +1 to the baseball change and a definite +1 to all of the sports with a ball of some sort (those are easy). There's a couple I'm unsure of, but are probably okay (I just haven't looked at what's being tagged yet).

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