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Update guidance for "go to"

Open daobrien opened this issue 10 months ago • 6 comments

https://stylepedia.net/style/6.2/#n

Includes an entry for "navigate to".

This has been discussed more than once in the past and is now in direct conflict with IBM:

navigate verb Use only when a more direct verb, such as click, select, browse, or go to, is not applicable. Use only to provide direction to a location (for example, “Navigate to the directory that contains the files that you want to edit”).

"Go to" is much simpler language and "covers more bases" (sometimes there's no actual navigation involved) and is also suitable when directing readers to other web sites, etc. For everyday purposes, click, select, and browse are more restrictive. So far I haven't encountered a case where "go to" doesn't work, but many cases where one or more of the other options do not work.

https://github.com/RedHatTraining/vale-styles/issues/365 is in place to work on this.

daobrien avatar Mar 28 '24 09:03 daobrien