Linked Questions
51 questions linked to/from Tag management 2016
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Tag management 2015 [duplicate]
Tags need a regular cleanup. This is a customary thread for tag synonyms etc.
Rules of the game are basically the same:
post your suggestion as an answer here if you see
a particularly bad tag (a ...
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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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Should we remove the python tag? [duplicate]
Python is not related to math and might have been created accidentally. Currently only three questions are tagged python.
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Removal of the tag "analytic-functions" [duplicate]
I have just noticed that the tag analytic-functions is used by only 14 questions, while the tag analyticity is used by 549 questions. The former tag is also poorly maintained (empty tag wiki). ...
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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 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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Tag management 2020 [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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Do we want tag warnings, and for which tags?
(Inspired by this meta.academia.SE discussion)
A new feature has been introduced this summer, tag warnings.
These warnings are meant to provide users with just-in-time information to help them avoid ...
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Tag management 2018 [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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Questions about math jokes
I asked a question related to a math joke, and there are different reactions. Are math jokes strictly prohibited here?
From my comment:
I already knew the
answer, but there could be new
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Is sharing books ok?
I have some useful book collections (pdf, djvu ...etc), and I am wondering if it's ok to share them with Mathematics site users, as I also need some others from you. So is sharing download links ok ...
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Book recommendations
There are quite a few soft questions asking for book recommendations. Reading some of these threads one might notice that there are answers containing several books at once. As such this might not ...
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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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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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Book recommendation opinion based? [duplicate]
The question Recommendation for books on topology (light reads) was closed as opinion based.
What is the purpose of the book recommendation tag if not for exactly what it was used for here?
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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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Should we divide [tag:dimension-theory] into 2 tags, one for topology, and one for algebra?
A discussion in chatroom about tag hausdorff-dimension draw attention to tag dimension-theory again.
Here's some data about how tag dimension-theory is used questions about topology and algebra.
My ...
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Are questions about apparent errors in textbook answer keys appropriate here?
Is it appropriate to ask questions about apparent errors in textbook answer keys?
I understand that these are sometimes quite narrow, but as often as not it may be the case that there is no error, ...
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Is it appropriate to ask for references and book recommendations?
More specifically:
Occasionally I would like to read a proof of some major theorems, but, as I don't want to bother people by asking them to write it here -
I believe it is far better if I could ask ...
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Would a new tag for mistakes/typos/errata for books be useful/appropriate?
Maybe it could be called book-errata?
I cannot give many examples of discussions from math.SE offhand but at least one example from here
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/34641/find-limit-of-...
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The "meta-tags".
What are the tags reference-request, soft-question, big-list for? When are they used? When should they not be used?
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I have found an error in a book/paper, what do I do?
This is a continuation of the discussion Would a new tag for mistakes/typos/errata for books be useful/appropriate?, where it was suggested that the FAQ might contain guidelines concerning the ...
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Do we need a tag for Books?
I have found myself using Math.SE for finding books on various subjects.
The way I am doing this is writing the subject followed by the word
book, or by filtering the search results with the ...
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Can you tell who created a tag
I recently created a tag, will anywhere show that it was created by me? Same with other tags, can I see who created them?
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Should questions about book recommendations be CW?
The questions about recommendation of books/texts/lecture notes for some topic are to some extent subjective and they will often be left without accepting an answer (since among several good ...
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What is the (calculus-identities) tag intended for?
The tag calculus-identities has been created about a year ago in this question: Quotient rule/Quotient rule.
When I look at questions which have this tag now (31 questions at the moment) or which ...
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How do we tag questions on maximizing/minimizing functions?
I've noticed (when checking newly created tags), that a tag called max-min has been created.
It has the following tag-excerpt:
Questions related to maximizing or minimizing a expression or a function....
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Would tags such as "ultrafilters" or "Stone-Cech compactification" be too specific?
I've noticed that one question was recently tagged filter. (It is the only question having this tag at the moment.)
I was thinking about a few related tags, which might perhaps be useful; but I ...
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Can Matematics S.E. be used to report errors of a text book?
Books with errors are quite dangerous and would be very helpful find the errors of a book and report and discuss them in some place where everyone can check if the books he is reading has errors and ...