Tagging Guidelines

Tag Formatting

This outline of formatting is to help keep tags consistent across the site, please follow them as best as possible when using tags that don't already …

Required Tags

Some tags are required at upload depending on the exact content of the pattern or the pattern source. Not applying required tags will result in the lo…

Minimum Tagging

Tagging is the core of making Pattern Archive searchable and a great repository to use. The more precise our tagging is the better people can search t…

Detailed Tagging

While extra tagging is somewhat optional it's still desired to tag as much as possible on every pattern. Getting into the nitty-gritty details helps f…