Talk:index term

RFV discussion: December 2022–January 2023

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index term

"A term that captures the essence of the topic of a document, used as keyword to retrieve documents in an information system, for instance a catalog or a search engine."

I created this from Wikipedia but I now suspect this is incorrect. I would ideally like to see authoritative sources for a definition even if that is contrary to the spirit of WT:ATTEST. In any case, let us not mislead the readers. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:32, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Cited and corrected. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 14:22, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

RFV-passed. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 04:41, 15 January 2023 (UTC)