Instructions for Editors

Keywords

Last modified: 2004-08-26 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 o