Linked Questions
50 questions linked to/from Tag management 2015
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Tag management 2016 [duplicate]
Since it is a new year and the old Tag Management question has already over 70 answers, it is time for a new Tag Management thread.
Rules of the game are basically the same:
Post your suggestion as ...
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52answers
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Tag cleanup 2014 [duplicate]
Tags need a regular cleanup.
There was a number of questions on particular tags recently — but (while proposals for some really major changes should, perhaps, be posted as separate questions) maybe a ...
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1answer
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“(subgroups)” tag, not “(sub-groups)” [duplicate]
I am noticing that the sub-groups tag is created. But it should be spelled subgroups, without a hyphen. I attempted to modify and create a tag with the correct spelling; however I received this notice:...
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70answers
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Tag merging and synonyms [closed]
Moderator's Note: I am (at least) temporarily closing this thread. New suggestions should be made in the current Winter tag cleanup meta-thread.
This is half a question, half an announcement. I ...
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35answers
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Tag management 2017 [duplicate]
New year, new tag management thread.
Rules of the game are basically the same:
Post your suggestion as an answer here if you see
A particularly bad tag (a rule of thumb: «if I can't imagine a ...
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6answers
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Let's blacklist the [graph] tag
The graph tag is supposed to be for questions about the graphs of functions. But it is very commonly misapplied to questions that are about the graphs of graph theory. These questions are supposed ...
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11answers
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Tag management 2021
New year, new tag management thread.
Rules of the game are basically the same:
Post your suggestion as an answer here if you see
A particularly bad tag (a rule of thumb: “if I can't imagine a person ...
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3answers
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Do we need the (self-learning) tag?
The self-learning tag seems to be used to indicate that the question arose from the OP's own study rather than being assigned as homework.
In the past we had a homework tag, and I imagine self-...
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4answers
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The difference between [teaching] and [education]
Update: teaching is now a synonym of education.
While I think that teaching has a clear meaning, education could refer to teaching (doing the educating) or being/getting educated. I'd suggest that ...
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4answers
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Expanding abbreviated tag names
As the character limit for tag names was raised to 35, we can now replace some awkwardly abbreviated tag names (like geometric-invariant-theor) with their fully spelled out names.
I've already done ...
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2answers
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Should we have tags (maximal-ideals) and (prime-ideals)?
Currently the tags maximal-ideals and prime-ideals exist (161 and 221 questions respectively).
These tags have been discussed in the past here and here. I am not sure whether a consensus was reached....
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4answers
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Disambiguating the [congruences] tag
The tags congruences and modular-arithmetic seem to cover similar ground (judging from the questions which have them).
However, the former can also be misunderstood as talking about the general ...
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3answers
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highest-common-factor $\cong$ greatest-common-divisor
For the sake of our British users, I've introduced a highest-common-factor tag and I think it should be made a synonym of the greatest-common-divisor tag. Thoughts?
How do I go about making this ...
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4answers
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On the [gcd] tag
Some couple of days ago, some question was bumped and it had spawned (apparently in its original version) a tag named gcd.
I find this tag to be particularly uninteresting, and somewhat non-revealing ...
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3answers
290 views
What's the [problem-solving] tag for?
here are 358 questions tagged problem-solving.
Question: What's the problem-solving tag for?
The questions with this tag seem wildly varied. By the looks of things, it's mainly added to questions ...