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Pushbutton alias

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nonamethanks said:

tbh "button (switch)" doesn't really make it any more obvious what this tag is for.

We should at least have "button (something)" as an alias. If you're trying to tag something like post #4758963 and the only name you know for those things is "buttons", it'll save you some grief.

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  • nonamethanks said:

    tbh "button (switch)" doesn't really make it any more obvious what this tag is for.

    Would something like "button_(mechanism)" or "button_(switch_mechanism)" make it clearer?

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  • nonamethanks said:

    tbh "button (switch)" doesn't really make it any more obvious what this tag is for.

    Perhaps, but the advantage it does have over pushbutton is that if you start typing "button", the proposed new version would be suggested. Of course, changing to "push-button" would satisfy that too, and I'd consider that moderately more clear than "button (switch)". Whatever gets used mostly needs to disambiguate from clothing buttons, and "push-button", despite being called antiquated here, does the job: it's the kind of button that gets pushed. If we have to go with a "_(something)" tag, then I agree with NWF Renim that "mechanism" would probably be clearer than "switch", even though the latter is still accurate and more specific.

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  • anon7631 said:

    Perhaps, but the advantage it does have over pushbutton is that if you start typing "button", the proposed new version would be suggested.

    Auro-complete was recently changed to find matches anywhere in the tag, not just the beginning, so "button" works regardless of whether the word "button" is at the beginning or not.

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  • The bulk update request #12446 has been approved by @evazion.

    create alias pushbutton -> push-button

    I'll go with push-button because that's what Wikipedia uses and because it works with autocomplete when searching "button". I don't like button (switch) or button (mechanism) because I hate it when I'm reading a tag list and I see tags with awkward qualifiers you wouldn't use in real life. Push-button may be uncommon but button (switch) is more uncommon.

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