<div dir="ltr">As they are currently populated, they seem synonymous and so your suggestion is OK.<div><br></div><div>However, I think beer_packaging_style might be better populated with topics related to different labels on a beer_container. e.g. bottles of Budweiser have had different labels over the years (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=4851#Bottle">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=4851#Bottle</a>). Commemorative containers may also have seperate topics and would best be typed as beer_packaging_style.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also bottles of Grolsch can come in different sizes (450ml, 467ml, 250ml or 330ml depending on the market <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grolsch#Bottle_design">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grolsch#Bottle_design</a>).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm not personally aware of any topics which could be currently typed as beer_packaging_style as per the above description, and so it may still be justified to delete beer_packaging_style.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Iain (sprocketonline)</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Jeff Prucher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@metaweb.com">jeff@metaweb.com</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">It looks like beer_packaging_style could be deleted with no ill effects,<br>
since although there are a few instances of it, it doesn't have any incoming<br>
properties.<br>
<br>
Unless we're both missing something, of course.<br>
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> It seems to me that /food/beer_container and<br>
> /food/beer_packaging_style are basically synonymous with each<br>
> other. Should they be somehow merged, or one of them<br>
> (probably /beer_packaging_style, as /beer_container is<br>
> populated) be deprecated/deleted? (or am I missing something<br>
> more subtle here?)<br>
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