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Rename obsolete tag from "obs" to disambiguate from "obsc" #64
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I'd be in favour of reviving the "rare" tag (six entries still have it, funnily enough) and using that instead of "obsc". It's impossible to confuse with "obs" and I prefer "rare" to "obscure" as an adjective for describing uncommon terms. It's also what Oxford uses. |
Sounds good to me, though if we go by intuitive meanings of the words "rare" would obviously apply to a whole lot more words than "obscure" does. Not necessarily a bad thing, though. |
I quite forget why "rare" was deprecated or fell into disuse. I'd hate to have to explain the precise difference as applied to entries. |
Now being handled in #68 |
Currently, the tag for an obsolete term is "obs", and for an obscure term, "obsc". I think the fact that "obs" could stand for either leads to unnecessary confusion.[0] A small change to lessen the potential for confusion would be to add an extra letter to "obs", e.g. "obsl".
[0]: A recent example, but I've also wondered in the past if an editor meant to apply the other tag.
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