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The plug tag is currently used for electric plugs, controller plugs, headphone plugs, sci-fi plugs, bathroom plugs (sink and bathtub), butt_plugs, wooden plugs used to plug barrels and post #2764947.
Fixing this would certainly be a chore, but I cant really begin before I know what tags we want to use. Should we for an example have a tag for audio plugs (headphones and electric guitars)?
ion288 said:
Should we for an example have a tag for audio plugs (headphones and electric guitars)?
We already have jack_plug and rca_connector.
kittey said:
We already have jack_plug and rca_connector.
OK, thats useful. I can tag jirou kyouka with jack plug. Any suggestions on what to call the "keep liquid from leaking out" plugs?
ion288 said:
Any suggestions on what to call the "keep liquid from leaking out" plugs?
If it's necessary to have a tag for plugs in sinks and bathtubs like post #2047344 (Explicit), it should be something unambiguous like drain_plug.
For "plugs" in bottles and barrels, cork is perfectly adequate.
ion288 said:
Any suggestions on what to call the "keep liquid from leaking out" plugs?
They are also called "stoppers", we don't have a tag for that currently, but something like drain_stopper would work, and would be distinct from other "plug"s.
iridescent_slime said:
For "plugs" in bottles and barrels, cork is perfectly adequate.
Those are also unambiguously known as bungs, should we feel a real need to separate from bottle corks. Apparantly this is currently used for two posts of an artist who should probably be disambiguated from the common noun.
So I sorted out all the drain plugs, butt plugs, electrical plugs and jack plugs. This still leaves various sci-fi plugs like post #3589094, phone chargers, vga plugs and stuff to poorly detailed to distinguish. Should I leave the plug tag for that?
Speaking of jack_plug what do people think about aliasing that to audio_jack? To me at least the latter is a common expression, and the former something you'd never hear anyone ever say.
I would vote for trs_connector (tip/ring/sleeve) since that style of connector is used for quite a few more things than just audio.
Shinjidude said:
Speaking of jack_plug what do people think about aliasing that to audio_jack? To me at least the latter is a common expression, and the former something you'd never hear anyone ever say.
It's funny you say that, because even before @kittey wrote a wiki for jack_plug and dealt with the mess of tags we previously had for these, jack_plug was the best populated one by a wide margin.
Gollgagh said:
I would vote for trs_connector (tip/ring/sleeve) since that style of connector is used for quite a few more things than just audio.
I suspect that this term is even less well-known.
Using some tag with “audio” in it could be confusing because these plugs are also used for other stuff, such as power supplies and (old) telephones, and in some posts you can’t even see what they’re being used for. “trs connector” is only for the single-ring type but these plugs can have zero to three rings (ts to trrrs). jack plug is the most generic and application-neutral name for this kind of plug.
kittey said:
Using some tag with “audio” in it could be confusing because these plugs are also used for other stuff, such as power supplies and (old) telephones, and in some posts you can’t even see what they’re being used for. “trs connector” is only for the single-ring type but these plugs can have zero to three rings (ts to trrrs). jack plug is the most generic and application-neutral name for this kind of plug.
The original telephony purpose for these was still audio, and I'd argue that usage for power (which you do see) is pretty nonstandard, usually you see barrel connectors for low-voltage power purposes. That said, I don't have a real strong preference here, just saying I've never heard anyone say "jack plug". It's usually some sort of "jack" or some sort of "plug", but never both together (in my experience anyway).
TRS or TRRS is technically accurate, but also very technical. You don't see that description much outside of electronics suppliers.
My biggest contention is that a jack is the thing that gets plugged into, not the plug itself, and I'm not the only one with that contention.
Point being that I would go for audio_plug before jack_plug.
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