[Clipart] I need some advice RE: Cards (Hearts Spades Diamonds, Clubs)

[Nicu Buculei]

On 05/01/2009 03:25 AM, chovynz wrote:
> Hi all
>
> There are quite a number of Card game cards in OCAL.
> The proper word for these are Hearts, Clubs, Spades, Diamonds respectively.
> BUT, this breaks our policy on having singular tags.
> Should I change the "diamonds" to "diamond"?
> I does work but it might not be intuitive for someone searching for
> cards, or diamonds, for example.
>
> Compare
> Singular : http://openclipart.org/media/files/momoko/10975
> Plural: http://openclipart.org/media/files/momoko/10978
>
> The question arises because "Diamonds" to me means the card type
> (singular), or the full set of "Diamonds" (singular), or many 20carat
> diamonds (plural); whereas "diamond" to me means the shape, or a 20carat
> gem (singular).

I also can't think about a playing card when seeing the (singular) word 
"diamond". Don't think the singular (club, diamond, heart, spade) is a 
descriptive tag for a playing card image. This is what I didn't use the 
suits as tags for my own cards.

> In the same way "Cards" can mean a pack of playing cards (singular), or
> many playing cards (plural), or thick papers, Yet "card" can also
> include things that are NOT playing cards. (e.g. a get well card
> clipart, table placement card, referee penalty card, ticket, etc)

I am also unsure about this case, but I think the best way to solve it 
is to think what an user will search the website for, "playing card" or 
"playing cards"? (I think is the later).

> A similar issue arises for Hearts/heart, Spades/spade, Clubs/club. All
> of these terms have different meanings in singular or plural.
>
> What should I do with the tags of these types of things? (Hearts,
> Diamonds, Clubs, Spades, Card/Cards). Should I leave the playing card
> clipart tags as the plural? This doesn't really effect clipart that are
> named clearly in English, but it might affect clipart that are titled in
> other languages. e.g.
> http://openclipart.org/media/files/jean_victor_balin/3996. It also
> shouldn't effect the search very much, but it seems odd to me to search
> for diamond, when I mean diamonds.


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