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Motivated by Stefan's prompt reaction to http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2084/rename-script-to-scripts, I went through the first five pages of tags looking for singular tags to pluralize, once again with the question http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/302/our-set-of-tags in mind:

The following kinds of tags are recommended:

• ...
• Specific topics, e.g.: macros, fonts, graphics, errors, floats, ... (Note: prefer plural nouns)

Whenever I wasn't sure if a tag could or should be pluralized, I tried to put it in a sentence: "This question is about {tag}" (without any articles!). If singular sounds sensible, it won't be included in my list here.

So I propose to rename the following singular tags to their respective plural form and make the singular tag a synonym of the plural tags. (Updated list in accordance with the discussion)

• documentclass to document-classes<!-- (like packages, even though one could argue that you only use one document class in a document, but usually several packages -- open to discussion)-->
• index to indexing
• url to urls
• external-file to external-files
• mathoperator to math-operators
• background to backgrounds
• path to paths, but that tag still needs some attention at any rate.
• graph to graphs

I'm not sure what our policy on creating synonyms is; if we only create synonyms when they become necessary, we can probably skip most of the synonyms (not renamings) proposed above. If we create synonyms preventively, then let's roll!

As tags can't be crossed out with <s>, I'll list the declined proposals down here so that we'll only have the "good" proposals above:

• color (further advantage: it'll be clearer that this tag is not only about the color package, but about any color-related questions)
• index to indices/indexes
• width and height (not sure)

paper-size is a tag that could be pluralized but I don't think it would be appropriate because it (usually) deals with paper size as an abstract property of a single document and not with e.g. comparing A4 to letter paper.

Motivated by Stefan's prompt reaction to Rename {script} to {scripts}, I went through the first five pages of tags looking for singular tags to pluralize, once again with the question Our set of tags in mind:

The following kinds of tags are recommended:

• ...
• Specific topics, e.g.: macros, fonts, graphics, errors, floats, ... (Note: prefer plural nouns)

Whenever I wasn't sure if a tag could or should be pluralized, I tried to put it in a sentence: "This question is about {tag}" (without any articles!). If singular sounds sensible, it won't be included in my list here.

So I propose to rename the following singular tags to their respective plural form and make the singular tag a synonym of the plural tags. (Updated list in accordance with the discussion)

• documentclass to document-classes<!-- (like packages, even though one could argue that you only use one document class in a document, but usually several packages -- open to discussion)-->
• index to indexing
• url to urls
• external-file to external-files
• mathoperator to math-operators
• background to backgrounds
• path to paths, but that tag still needs some attention at any rate.
• graph to graphs

I'm not sure what our policy on creating synonyms is; if we only create synonyms when they become necessary, we can probably skip most of the synonyms (not renamings) proposed above. If we create synonyms preventively, then let's roll!

As tags can't be crossed out with <s>, I'll list the declined proposals down here so that we'll only have the "good" proposals above:

• color (further advantage: it'll be clearer that this tag is not only about the color package, but about any color-related questions)
• index to indices/indexes
• width and height (not sure)

paper-size is a tag that could be pluralized but I don't think it would be appropriate because it (usually) deals with paper size as an abstract property of a single document and not with e.g. comparing A4 to letter paper.