A short guide to tagging and categorising your articles.
- Choose region for story, and industrial sector if appropriate (i.e. if about a strike in a particular sector, or a person who worked almost exclusively in that sector and did lots of stuff related to it). You can use multiple choice with CTRL-clicks
- In library or history, select any individuals or groups the article is about in the Authors box.
- Enter tags for the story. Try to enter between 2 and 10 keyword tags. Enter then in lower case, unless they're proper nouns, and separate with commas. Important things to include are:
---- The country the story is in – try to match the tags already in which will show up as you type. America is "USA" for example. UK stories don't need the country, unless Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.
---- The city the story in, if it's a big city or US state
---- If it's about a big company, the name of the company, e.g. Asda-Walmart
---- If it's a history or library historical piece, enter the decade it's about if relevant, e.g. 1950s. Bere 1800 enter the century, e.g. 1600s, or else BC, or 1-1000AD if before that.
---- If it's about a union or mentions a union a lot, the acronym of the union. E.g. Unison or TGWU
---- The name of the sub-industry the story's about, e.g. rail, oil, coal, local government, call centres, supermarkets or whatever
---- If it's a strike add the tags strikes, if wildcat add wildcat strikes, if general general strikes
---- If it's an interview, add interviews, if a review add reviews
---- If the article is related to race or racism add race, women or feminism add women, fascism or anti-fascism add fascism.
---- Any other good keywords you can think of, like: riots, environment, climate change, police, etc. - make it things that will end up with quite a few articles on. And try to match to any tags already used.