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Instructions for Editors

Keywords

Last modified: 2007-10-28 by rob raeside
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• ADJECTIVES
        Where a keyword is modified by an adjective, put the adjective after the noun if the noun is more significant.
        If the adjective + noun are a commonly used pair, then it goes as two-word keyword (indian ocean, old glory).
• BIRDS
        bird (colour)
        bird: <name>
        bird: <stance>
        bird: of paradise
• BRITISH/AMERICAN SPELLING
        If you have no favourite, check the existing keywords and pick the most used.
• CANTON
        Refers to a piece of the flag.
• CONTINENTS
        Don't use continents as keywords, except possibly on the main page of the country.
• COUNTRY NAMES
        Use country names only on the front page, index page, and any major page about that country.  Remember if you include the country name in all 1000 municipal flag pages, this will list all 1000 pages together on the keywords.  As a rule of thumb, try to restrict the use of country names (or even state, province, department, canton names) to a maximum of 25 uses.  Any long list of subdivisions if better handled as an indexed list on the webpage, not the keyword page.
• CRESCENTS
        Crescents come in many varieties.
            crescent: points up
            crescent: points to fly
            crescent: points to hoist
  
            crescents: 45 (az-muss1.gif, Musavat Party)
• CROSSES
        Crosses are treated somewhat akin to stars. If nothing is indicated, the cross reaches all four sides, and the arms intersect in the centre of the field.
        Crosses generally don't have a default colour.
  
        cross: saint george <- default colour is red
        cross: formy
        cross: santiago
        cross: saltire
        cross: scandinavian
  
        If a flag has more than one cross, the number can be specified in a separate keyword:
  
        crosses: 50
   
• DIACRITICALS
        Try to avoid accents and diacritics in the keywords - they mess up the alphabetization.
        At all times, keep the first four characters free of diacritics.
        Don't put the same keyword in twice (with and without diacritics) - it looks messy in the keyword pages.
• DIFFERENCING KEYWORDS
        If there are more than 25 entries with a given keyword, look out for a potential sub-keyword.
        If there are less than 10 entries with a given potential sub-keyword, stay with the main keyword.
• FIREARMS
       firearm: <type> (rifle, machine gun, etc.)
• FLAG
       For flags with flags.
       We also have quite a number of keywords containing 'flag'. Several of these would be better without 'flag' in them.
       Many keywords with '<adjective> flag' would be better as '<adjective>'.  An exception to this is 'unidentified flag', *with* flag.
       A number of '<noun> flag' could similarly be improved to '<noun>' (or sometimes <adjective formed from noun>).
• FLEUR-DE-LIS
       With hyphens and 'i'.
• HOUSEFLAGS
        Use keyword 'house flag'.
• LENGTH OF KEYWORDS
        You have a maximum of 200 characters for keywords, so keep each keyword short - but don't abbreviate.
• MAP
        For flags with maps.
• MAPLE LEAVES
        Maple leaves seem to be red by default.
        So the keywords seem to be:
        maple leaf (<colour>) if <colour> is non-red, and
        maple leaf if it is red or unknown.
• MULTICOLOURED OBJECTS
        object: multicoloured
         unless it is
            object: fimbriated
• NAMES OF ORGANISATIONS
       Be as precise as possible - but beware of diacritics (and remember that everything is converted to lower case).
• NO KEYWORD
        There must be at least one keyword on every page.
        For pages that should have no keyword, think about why, and put the reason why as keyword.
        Obsolete pages could have the keyword '@'
• NUMERALS
        Non-leading numerals should be entered as numbers - that should sort nicer.
        Leading numerals should be avoided. If that's impossible, they should be spelled out.
         For numbers greater than 9, use:
       number: ###
• PAN-isms
        Use a hyphen:
        pan-african
        pan-arab
        pan-american
        pan-slavic
        pan-turkish
        etc.
• PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BECOME INDEPENDENT
        independentist
• PERSONAL NAMES
        Family name only
        or
        Family name (first name)
        or
        Name, number (of country) for royals and such
  
        Some personal names appear within company names. They should be left as they are - same probably goes for cultures without family names, e.g. Iceland.
   
• PROPOSALS
        proposal
         and remember to give the page a fitting title
• QUINAS
         The 'quinas', the small blue shields with white dots on, are usually found in fives in Portuguese heraldry.  For the time being, the presence of quinas can be detailed by the keyword 'quinas'.
  If and when we get many of these, we should probably divide between 'quinas' and 'quinas: <number>', where number is different from 5.
• RAINBOWS
        If there is a rainbow arc, use the keyword 'rainbow'
        If it is a multi-stripe/multi-colour flag, use the keyword 'rainbow flag'
• RIFLE
        firearm: rifle
• SAINTS
        saint <this-or-that>
         except:
          -some toponyms ('santa catarina')
          -some French names (often hyphenated)
          -cross types, use 'cross: saint <this-or-that>'
   
• SEVERAL ELEMENTS
        If there are several elements of a kind, e.g. 50 stars, use:
        stars: 50
  
        If the arrangement of the elements is special, you can use:
        stars: ring
   
• SINGULAR/PLURAL
        Use singular. See SEVERAL ELEMENTS for exceptions.
   
• STARS
        Stars are 5-pointed if nothing else is mentioned.
  
        star: 4 points (white)
        star (green)  <--- 5 points assumed
        star: 6 points (yellow)
        star: 6 points (yellow)
  
        If a flag has more than one star, the number can be specified in a separate keyword:
  
        stars: 50
   
• UPPER/LOWER
        Keywords with 'upper ...' get sorted by 'upper', but the script deletes 'upper'.
        Use '... (upper)' instead.
        Similar case with 'lower'
   
• YACHT
        yacht
         for flags showing a yacht
        yacht club
         for flags of such a club
        ensign: yacht
         for a variant national ensign used on yachts

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