Tagging

[oyceter]

Or: in which I actually start making good on my word to my fellow co-mods and take a stab at organizing tags

First, how do you guys use the tags? Do you use the tags?

1. deepad posted a while ago asking how people tagged authors of color on LibraryThing, Shelfari, and GoodReads. I'd also love any brainstorming here for tags for the community, and I'll create a poll out of the options people generate later. Some options: authors of color, authors: poc, a: poc, poc author, a: chromatic, etc. I'll follow the same schema for editors and illustrators as well. There's further discussion here as well.


2. I noticed that the comm has many race tags and then "[race] writers" tags. Is it helpful for people to have both? I figured having both means you can pick up a book about Japanese and Native American people and know that the author is Japanese. If it is helpful, I'd like to follow whatever schema we decide for the first question (ex. authors of color: black, authors: black, a: black, black author, etc.). Also, how granular would people like this to be? Ex. just author: asian or author: asian + author: japanese?


3. I'm going to get rid of hyphenated races and go with unhyphenated (ex. black british instead of black-british) unless people have reasons not to. I'll also be using the "@" symbol for words that switch according to gender (ex. Latin@ instead of Latina/Latino).


4. Does anyone have opinions on "Asian Pacific Islanders" vs. separating them out? I do not want to exclude Pacific Islanders, but I also want people specifically looking for Pacific Islanders to be able to find them...

Let me know if any of these schemas are problematic! I want the community to be as useful to its members as possible and would love any suggestions or comments.