Remove miserably broken glossary of Drupal terms from help page

Agree entirely. The page is much tidier without it, and that's the sort of information that should live in the handbook (linked from admin/help anyway).

Hm. I would prefer fixing this to removing it altogether. And even though 'node' is not used in any user-facing text, it is used in the URLs of all posts, in the modules page, etc. and there are many contrib modules called node_something. It's reasonable someone would want to know what in the world it meant, and it's a very generic term, so it's not like people could easily Google for it to figure it out. Same with 'taxonomy'. I actually happen to believe that removing those terms from user-facing text was one of the most user-confusing things we ever did, but that's digressing. ;)

Also, moving to the documentation queue. Although help.module is technically correct, the actual bug is just about the text. It'll get more reviews/help from the docs team if it's in this queue. Maybe some of these definitions could be culled from the new getting started guide?

Some stuff like "comments and users aren't nodes" become inaccurate with node_comment or usernode modules (although if you use those you may not be worried about the glossary I guess). I'd prefer a link to the relevant sections of the getting started guide to having this hardcoded per release.

I'll take a crack at this later on today; assigning to myself until I get a patch in for it.

I would rather vote for removal. When I started with Drupal, I came across this Glossary, and it felt (besides of the inaccurate contents, which I didn't recognize back then) too short and incomplete to be really helpful. I never came back to that page, it's only just another page which overloads the localization with useless huge texts IMO. I would prefer a really helping link to a full page at drupal.org.

Copying over the relevant part of O Govinda's commentary at http://drupal.org/node/101090:

Glossary of Drupal terminology

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Block

NOW:
A small box containing information or content placed in the left-hand or right-hand sidebar of a web page.

REVISED:

A box of content that may be placed into a certain region of a web page--for example, into a sidebar.

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Moderation

NOW:
The activity of making sure a post to a Drupal site fits in with what is expected for that Drupal site.

Approved

A moderated post which has been accepted by the moderators for
publication (see published).

Waiting

A moderated post which is still being voted on to be accepted for
publication (see published).

REVISED:
Review of a post, before it is published, to make sure it fits your Drupal site.

Approved

Accepted for publication. (See published.)

Waiting

Still awaiting approval.

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Public

NOW:
See published.

REVISED:
Published. [If "public" = "published," drop "See."]

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Published

NOW:
A node that is viewable by everyone (see unpublished).

REVISED:
"Live." Viewable not only by administrators or moderators but by all intended viewers.

MY COMMENT: A node may be published but, because of access restrictions, not be viewable to everyone.

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Role

NOW:
A classification users are placed into for the purpose of setting users' permissions.

REVISED:
A status assigned to a user, granting certain permissions. (Examples of roles are "administrator" and "unauthenticated user.")

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Taxonomy

NOW:
A division of a collection of things into ordered, classified groups (see taxonomy help).

REVISED:
A system for ordering things into groups. (See taxonomy help.)

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Unpublished

NOW:
A node that is only viewable by administrators and moderators.

REVISED:
Viewable only by administrators and moderators.

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User

NOW:
A person who has an account at your Drupal site, and is logged in with that account.

REVISED:
A person who has an account on your site or who anonymously logs in.

MY COMMENT:
I'm assuming that an unauthenticated user is still a user.

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Visitor

NOW:
A person who does not have an account at your Drupal site or a person who has an account at your Drupal site but is not logged in with that account. Also termed "anonymous user".

REVISED:
A person who comes to your site without having an account or who has an account but is not logged in. Also termed "anonymous user".

MY COMMENT:
Is this definition too narrow? I wonder whether people loosely use "visitor" to include even authenticated users. (In other words, do they make no distinction between "visitor" and "user"?)

I didn't get anything accomplished on a patch for fixing this; every time I start, I find myself waffling between wanting to fix it and wanting to nuke it as originally suggested.

Un-assigning myself in case someone else wants to work on it....

Still applies. Everyone who's stepped up to fix it wants to nuke it, back to RTBC.

I'll let Gabor handle this. I don't mind removing it.