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# Tags are not links, and there are no tag pages

Open · medium severity · failure · newsroom.sgit.ai

## What we saw

The lead article carries 12 tag pills; none links anywhere. Tags mix subjects, formats and product names ("article", "riskmandate"). 339 raw tags, 228 used once.

## Why it matters

The most precise way into the archive looks clickable and goes nowhere.

## The fix

A controlled vocabulary of about 40 tags owned by the Librarian, a page per tag, tags as links capped at five per article (339 → 42 in the lab; median 11 → 4).

## The record

| | |
| --- | --- |
| **Status** | Open |
| **Severity** | Medium |
| **Kind** | Failure: works against the reader |
| **Product** | [newsroom.sgit.ai](/findings/?product=newsroom.sgit.ai), site |
| **Where** | <https://newsroom.sgit.ai/articles/hope-or-enforcement.html> |
| **Problems** | [Dead end](/findings/?problem=dead-end) |
| **Visibility** | [Obvious](/findings/?visibility=obvious): every reader sees it, every time they reach that point |
| **Recommendation** | [Make it a link](/findings/?recommendation=make-it-a-link): give the view, filter or label an address, and make it go there |
| **Area** | [Findability](/findings/?area=findability) |
| **Breaks** | [No dead ends](/principles/index.md#no-dead-ends) |
| **Observed** | 2026-10-11, v0.6.4 |
| **Last checked** | 2026-10-11, v0.7.1 |
| **Source** | [Review: findability](/reviews/newsroom-2026-10-11.md#findability-and-information-architecture) |
| **Prototype** | [Findability](/lab/index.md#newsroom-proto-find), route `tags`, in three directions |

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