[uf-discuss] Appropriate use of hcard

Dave Land dland at liveworld.com
Sat Jul 19 23:57:02 PDT 2008


On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Lisa Goodlin wrote:

> Thanks for the replies. They were very helpful.
>
> On 7/18/08 4:11 AM, "Brian Suda" <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As i read over the wiki page, the term "suboptimal" caught my
>> attention. These are people who are trying to add semantic mark-up,
>> and while not 100% valid we label them as "suboptimal". This is not
>> very inviting to new members. Can someone think of a better term,
>> possibly something like "incomplete" or "needs improvement" or
>> "missing properties". We should encourage improvement rather than
>> berating failure.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea of how to improve this term?
>>
>> -brian
>
> "Could use improvement" is a bit friendlier.

One thing to do would be to describe exactly how they are "suboptimal"
-- missing properties, not entirely human- and machine-readable, and
so forth, to give specific help to those who would "optimize" them.

Dave




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