Talk:Key:name:etymology

Choice of tags

This key doesn't appear to be used anywhere. etymology=* has been used a few times. If anyone knows a more common tagging scheme already in use, please mention it on this page. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 07:49, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

This tag is mostly used with wikidata or wikipedia IDs. I tried to explain this in the page now. --Jgpacker (talk) 11:39, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

I think name:etymology should be favored, since as OSM is a database of physical entities, none of them in and of themselves have etymologies, but many of them have names, which can indeed have etymologies. Arlo James Barnes (talk) 21:46, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Proposed?

"If a feature is planned to be renamed after somebody in the future, use proposed:name:etymology=*" - is it really a good idea? This kind of thing is extremely fluid, hard to verify and judge to distinguish serious/likely proposals from unlikely... Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 08:15, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

@Mateusz Konieczny: I left it in the article, supposing it's acceptable as long as proposed:name=* is acceptable. Using any proposed=*-prefixed key requires ongoing attention, but at least an ongoing proposal makes it easier to determine the name origin than a name that was applied decades or centuries ago. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 07:15, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Localized variants

Since September, this article has recommended that localized variants of this key follow the format name:*:etymology=*. As it happens, there are only 5 features tagged that way versus 16 features tagged in a different order, name:etymology:*=*. I think the currently documented format is better for consistency with User:Mueschel/OrderOfKeyParts#Key Parts and the more widely used name:pronunciation=* tagging scheme: 52 features are tagged name:*:pronunciation=*, while no feature is tagged name:pronunciation:*=*. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 00:14, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Source of etymology

I think it’s useful to indicate the source of the etymology to help with verifiability. Some people (roughly 100 uses on taginfo right now) have been using the usual source: prefix. Thus the tag would be source:name:etymology=*. Should we describe this at this page? — AlephNull (talk) 03:02, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Add name:etymology:description?

Is it worth adding that name:etymology:description=* could be used for "a full etymology tracing the evolution of that word, as one would find in a dictionary"? Current use of this tag is: