Keyword Questions

Cindy C. cindysphynx at comcast.net
Fri Oct 4 16:11:34 UTC 2002


Eileen:

I've changed Evil (as in characters being ever so) to ESE in the
> > database. And Evil (as in Evil and Good) is a separate keyword.
> 
> Sorry, didn't see your post, Cindy, but I still think that's a 
better
> way to go about it. 
> 

Given that we might (or might not) make this database available to 
people outside the group, I think Evil is probably a tad better than 
ESE.  Some people have never heard of ESE -- it's a fairly recent 
and somewhat TBAY-ish acronym, me thinks.

 
> "Morality" as a catch-all category doesn't appeal to me. People 
>want
> to know specifically about the trio's rule-breaking or JKR's 
>attitude
> to flat-out evil separately, methinks. 

I think we can all use our judgment there.  If Morality captures the 
post, go with that.  If Rule-breaking captures the post, go with 
that.  Or use both.  If the post is talking about evil in some 
general sense, go with whatever makes sense, including but not 
limited to Morality, I'd say.  Then the editor will have to use 
reasonable search/sort terms to grab the posts that touch on the 
subject.  

Cindy 





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