Linked Questions
51 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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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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"(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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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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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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Tag management 2021 [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 person ...
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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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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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Tag management 2022
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Do we need more [stability]?
Stability of solutions is a pretty big topic in differential equations, both in ODE and PDE. And there are many such questions in differential-equations tag, but they are not easy to search for, ...
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Whether, when, and why to have a new reopen and undelete request thread
Over two years old and with 230 "answers" (some deleted) is the original Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes, etc. (volume 10/2012 - 12/2014).
Some were interested for several reasons in ...
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On (gcd) and (greatest-common-divisor) and other similar tags
Despite the fact that the gcd tag has already been discussed here and here, it seems that the discussion about this probably deserves a separate thread.
At the moment there is gcd, which was made ...
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Warning for new tags
I have a reasonable idea for a feature request.
When a user is creating a tag the system will recognize that and point out that the following tag is new, requiring the user to acknowledge the ...
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Blacklist the [completeness] tag
Completeness is an important notion in mathematics. Metric spaces can be complete, a theory can be complete, a logic can be complete, and set of propositional connectives can be complete, and many ...
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How can we create a new tag in a Stack Exchange site?
How can we create a new tag in a Stack Exchange site?
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Can we delete the [basis] tag?
The basis was recently created. But it's a horrible tag. There are different notions of basis in mathematics, and they are not entirely the same at all.
Hamel basis
Hilbert basis.
Schauder basis.
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"Contradiction" tag -- second passing
The contradiction tag has been discussed previously, here. It was also mentioned in the tag management thread.
On both accounts, it was reasonably favoured that something ought to be done about it. ...
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Expectation means average?
We have three ambiguous tags average, expectation and means. They are often used for probability and statistics problems. The tag expected-value has been synonymized with probability. The current ...
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Are the "teaching" and "learning", and "education" tags appropriate here given that there's a ME.SE?
The education tag seems almost as compromised as the self-learning tag, i.e. lots of questions that aren't about the education process are tagged so simply because some is [self-]educating by asking a ...
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Should the tag (fractions) be a synonym of (rational-numbers)?
I have noticed that in the list of suggested synonyms there is a suggestion to synonymize fractions and rational-numbers. See also here.
I am not sure this is a good idea. For example, I can imagine ...
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What to do with the (subspaces) tag?
There is a tag called subspaces. (It seems that it was created by this user.) Both tag-wiki and tag-excerpt are currently empty, so the usage is unclear.1 If we consider just the name of the tag, ...
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A warning to those who use only rare/new tags
There are discussions on giving warnings to those who creates new tags: 1, 2. It seems that this feature has not been carried out in Math SE. Does anyone know why? I would be very happy to see this ...
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Should there be a review queue for suggested tag synonyms?
A tag synonym that I proposed here:
suggestion to make (solution-verification) a synonym of (proof-verification)
has only received one vote since I proposed it on June 7. Even worse, there are ...
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