[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #44675: Media Trash action verbiage inconsistent and causes confusion

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#44675: Media Trash action verbiage inconsistent and causes confusion
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 Reporter:  garrett-eclipse          |       Owner:  mikeschroder
     Type:  defect (bug)             |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  5.2
Component:  Media                    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-refresh  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by afercia):

 Noting the same argumentation applies also to "Spam".

 For some background, see #11258

 It's a long discussion about the order of the Row Actions links in the
 Comments page and it touches also the "Trash" and "Spam" verb / noun
 ambiguity.

 At some point it was considered to add "Move to" and "Mark as" to the
 Trash and Spam links. Then, decided against it because the links had the
 title attributes "tooltips" that clarified the context. See
 ticket:11258#comment:4 Not saying those title attributes were an effective
 solution.

 In fact, in the last years, WordPress has been actively
 [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?keywords=~title-attribute
 discouraging the use of title attributes] and those title attributes were
 removed. So the ambiguity persists but I'd be cautious in adding words to
 the Row Actions links. While it makes perfectly sense to expand "Trash" to
 "Move to trash" where there's enough space e.g.:

 [[Image(http://cldup.com/588vFmf_gq.png)]]

 instead, adding more words to the Row Actions links would add some
 cognitive load and make the links less readable overall.

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