'french_roots' tag showing as 'france'

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I was asking a question https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1556955/comments-on-claude-h-lagasse  and tagging it as 'french_roots' but the tag keeps morphing to 'france' when the question is posted...
in WikiTree Tech by Shirlea Smith G2G6 Pilot (312k points)
retagged by Shirlea Smith
it did it here too
I just tried it again:  Here's what was in the field before i saved it;

france bugs french_roots

That's ... interesting, Shirlea.

There are lots of posts tagged french_roots, but the most recent is from 5 June 2019:

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/tag/french_roots

Hmm, that’s odd, isn’t it!  I wonder if a segment of the tag list for ‘France’ has little to do with France itself except for the French roots aspect.

The official project tag changed from french_roots to france on 24 May 2019:

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Project:France&diff=next&oldid=85181414

Ah! So no more french_roots. Are other country_roots tags taking the same decision?

The people in my original question have probably lived away from France for 300 years. Maybe I should try a québécois tag, even though they are in Manitoba by the time of the event I’m asking about….

irish_roots, slavic_roots, and south_african_roots are all still official tags, according to Help:Projects.

The _roots tags have the advantage that they don't overlap with surnames. There are about 1558 people with surname France at the moment.

That's an excellent point, Jim.  My feed is overrun with surname posts for France and Germany.
I had a discussion with Brian at RootsTech about the project/surname issue with tags, and he said since the tags table is pretty small we could add an additional field to let people choose whether they wanted to just follow G2G, surnames, or both. I ~think~ that would solve the France surname/project issue.

I'm not sure when it will get done though.
Thank you, Jamie!

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