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Might I suggest adding it to the list then in addition to this comment? You seem to know more than just "it exists" since you cite use cases and advantages. Be
by tsujp 4y ago
Might I suggest adding it to the list then in addition to this comment? You seem to know more than just "it exists" since you cite use cases and advantages.
Be the change you want to see.
- exmadscientist 4y agoI believe that list is of sufficiently low quality that it cannot be improved incrementally. But instead of saying that, I offered the most interesting tape I know. Additionally, I categorically refuse to edit Wikipedia any longer. Its culture is toxic and I will not trade my precious sanity to further entrench it.
- rahimiali 4y agoThe problem isn't that the list is incomplete. It's that the endeavor is poorly conceived. You can names tapes by their intended use, or by their adhesive properties, or by the material of the substrate, etc. Depending on what naming scheme you use, you get different lists. Look at 3M's list of tapes [0], for example. Their tape names don't match those on the wikipedia page, because they're named after intended use. The wiki page uses all strategies simultaneously. For example, they have a category called "foil tapes", which includes the wiki page's "aluminum tape" as a subcategory. The wiki page has "scotch tape", ironically a brand owned by 3M, which doesn't even appear on the 3M page (presumably they fall under that page's "office tapes" category). I'm not just nit-picking about naming. I'm saying the list is arbitrary because it resolve hash collisions arbitrarily. [0] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/c/tapes/ https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/c/tapes/
- imglorp 4y agoAnother collision is "magnetic tape", one being adhesive and the other storing data. They indicate the former but the photo is of the latter.