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I'm jsut researching on hootoo for a new Entry, seeing what we have. So I used the search engine to find stuff about 'tabletop' games, and the only one I could find was Blood Bowl ( A619445 )
I was surprised because I knew we had more, so I found out that 'table-top' brings much more (and also many unwanted) additional results.
Like:
Warhammer Fantasy A1112194
Gorkamorka A295391
Necromunda A295409

I can't spot Forgeworld ( A765623 ) at all when searching for tabletop or table-top.


I think all these Entries and probably more that I didn't spot should be searchable with the word 'tabletop'. This also seems to be the usual spelling, so I don't se why these Entries all shouldn't show up. Maybe 'tabletop' could be sneaked into them so they include this keyword.

It's the OED's listed spelling (but having said that, most of their references for the word used in this sense spell it 'table-top'). I'd suggest we standardise on 'tabletop'.

I'm unable to access the homepage of Games Workshop at the moment but all other sources I checked said 'tabletop', like Lexicanum (Warhammer wiki-type page http://www.lexicanum.com/ ) and shops and others, so yes, I think we should standardise to 'tabletop' generally although it would probably be good that someone wo still types 'table-top' can also find it.

The standard gamer format is 'tabletop', and to be honest gamers are the demographic...

I've changed the spelling in these to "tabletop":

Warhammer Fantasy A1112194
Gorkamorka A295391
Necromunda A295409

I don't know enough about the game Forgeworld to reword the entry to include "tabletop". Someone who knows the subject should suggest a sentence or two and where to put them.

I don't know how to include words for searchability without putting them in the text. Does anybody know?

The Entry about Forgeworld is in fact very misleading. Forgeworld produces special miniatures for the Warhammer tabletop games. If these miniatures have no rules in the Warhammer rulebooks Forgeworld also offers special rulebooks for them. It's not a separate game at all.

Oh, and I don't think you can add any keywords if you don't put them into the text.

I thought it might be possible using metatags, but I don't know if metatags put into GuideML will be copiedinto the HTML code or just ignored.

Feel free to update the Forgeworld entry, Tav.

I plan to do that and also to update the Warhammer Fantasy Entry, because I think the writer didn't really manage to explain it well for people who have never heard of it, I think.
But first I have to write about Warhammer 40k.

I've done some experimenting. You can add keywords in a meta tag so that the h2g2 search will find the keyword even though it doesn't appear in the text. But I'm not sure that the search engines such as Google will pay any attention, and most of our readers come to the page through Google, not through h2g2's own search.

More experimentation needed.

That's interesting. I think we should also ask Pastey about it.