Tag shenanigans: "datatable" vs "datatables" [closed]

Question

There's a jQuery plugin named DataTables. There's a .NET class named DataTable.

There are SO tags named datatables and datatable, both of which describe the jQuery DataTables plugin.

A number of posts (here, here, and here are good examples) are tagged datatable and use the .NET DataTable, yet there's the occasional question (like this one which is tagged datatable and actually refer to the jQuery DataTables.

Similarly, there are .NET DataTable questions that are tagged datatables (like this one).

To throw more confusion into the loop there's also a Yahoo UI plugin named DataTable, which is seen in this question.

It's all so convoluted.

How's this for a solution: jQuery DataTables questions go under datatables, .NET DataTable questions go under datatable, and YUI DataTable questions go under... uh, I dunno, yui-datatable?

Whatever happens, datatables and datatable should not be synonyms, even if their info pages seem to suggest they are (and I think I'm going to go edit the datatable info page after this).

Answer 1

I would suggest jquery-datatables for the jQuery plugin. It fits the convention that seems to be used for jQuery plugin tags such as: jquery-isotope, jquery-masonry, jquery-cycle, etc.

The -plugin suffix only really gets used in a couple of instances:

• struts2-jquery-plugin (which apparently coexists with struts2-jquery and should probably be made a synonym)
• jquery-forms-plugin which is just the literal name of jQuery Forms Plugin

Answer 2

As already mentioned on this question, I think the optimal solution, or at least the starting point to end all the confusion, is to make the jquery datatables plugin tag be:

jquery-datatables-plugin

Allowing this jquery plugin to be synonymous with "datatables" or even "datatables.net" means the ambiguity will be permanent.

Answer 3

The word "datatable" is widely used in IT, so, in my opinion, the best option is to leave the tag datatable and use it for general questions about datatable-like structures.

Questions about jQuery plugin should land to jquery-datatable or jquery-datatable-plugin.

Questions about .NET class should land to datatable.net.

Any questions about specific datatable implementation should have specific tag. For example, for PrimeFaces p:dataTable it should be primefaces-datatable.

The datatable tag wiki should be edited as well, to point out, that this tag is for general questions, and implementation-specific questions have own tags.