Last modified: 2012-08-22 11:32:03 UTC
The term "tag" to refer to maintenance templates, such as templates that request deletion, notability clarification or adding references is a jargon word that is used by some English Wikipedia editors. The word "tag" usually has a rather different meaning in other websites. Translators of this extension cannot be expected to be familiar with this jargon. They are likely to translate it using the word for "tag" in their language and thus confuse the extension's users. The word "tag" must be replaced in all message by words such as "maintenance template", "cleanup template", "article message template" etc. This will be clear to English Wikipedia editors and to everybody else.
I have to disagree here. "Template" is Wikipedia jargon. "Tag" is a straightforward term that anyone could understand even if they've never used Wikipedia (or even the internet) before.
"To tag" or "To label" are very normal words in the English language, as far as I know. You can "tag a page with a template". I agree it's a very brief and efficient description, but that doesn't make it wrong. If you think it's needed to improve message documentation, let's do so. Closing as WONTFIX, also per comment 1.
It may be difficult to distinguish [[Special:Tags]] and "Tags" in PageTriage sometimes?
Please code this up again. I don't (In reply to comment #3) > It may be difficult to distinguish [[Special:Tags]] and "Tags" in PageTriage > sometimes? I don't think we should make that an issue. If it would be, it would definitely be a separate issues than the reporter was talking about.
