** Description changed:

  A new user thinks "I need to create a zip file", and doesn't know how to do 
it.
  If you don't know that a zip file is an "archive", which many new users do 
not,
  then it's very difficult to tell how to create one. "Create archive" on the
  Nautilus context menu, "Archive Manager" in the Applications menu, etc, are 
all
  meaningless. (This happened to me today when someone I know rang me for
  technical support to ask how to create a zip file, and when I explained how, 
he
  said "what's an archive?")
  
  Suggested fixes (to be taken with a very large pinch of salt and replaced with
  better suggestions):
  Change "Create archive" to "Create compressed file" on the context menu
  Change "Archive Manager" to "Compressed Files" on the Applications menu (with
  tooltip "Create and edit compressed files")
  
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300655:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300655
+ 
+ Then won't you get questions like: "What's a compressed file"?  Perhaps
+ some other wording may help such as: "Create a safe copy of a file".

** Tags added: archive manager

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"Archive Manager" doesn't mean anything if you don't know what an "archive" is
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/15495
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