Linked Questions
32 questions linked to/from Tag management 2019
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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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Is the tag [hoffman-kunze] necessary?
The tag hoffman-kunze was recently added to a few questions:
Typos in Hoffman and Kunze
Why is $\pi_r(L)$ a linear transformation into $\Lambda^r(V)$
Proof of Theorem 7 (Chapter 5) in Hoffman and ...
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Misuse of tag "divergence": How to deal with questions with the wrong tag?
According to the tag info of divergence, it is used when questions are about vector calculus. However, it is often tagged with convergence, at questions about convergence/divergence of sequences, ...
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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 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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Should the tag "generalization" be blacklisted?
The generalization tag contains no real mathematical content and does not help to organize the site in any meaningful way. Despite that, the tag has been recreated and deleted multiple times. It has ...
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Tag management 2022 [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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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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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 there be distinction between the tags (inequation) and (inequality)?
You might have noticed that the tag inequation has been created recently. (See also a few comments and related links posted after the creation of the new tag in chat: https://chat.stackexchange.com/...
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Some ideas on tags about physical field theory
Update:
For (1), I have edited info of field-theory.
For (2), moderator Alexander Gruber♦ has created a synonym and contributor YuiTo Cheng improved info of tqft.
For (3), contributor YuiTo Cheng ...
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Why don't we have an elementary-geometry tag? Or why don't we use geometry to mean elementary geometry?
Notes/Observations/Opinions:
Related: Why is there an elementary-geometry tag?
The tag usage guidance for geometry goes
For questions about geometric shapes, congruences, similarities, ...
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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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Reversing a few tag synonyms to better match current search capabilities
As SE search has been improved to be not as "accent/decoration sensitive", it would seem to be currently be more appropriate to use, for example, "Godel" on the site than the more "technically ...
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Proposal to delete tag [tag:integer-relation] and [tag:invariant-measure]
integer-relation only has two uses, and neither usage seems to use the tag properly. I suggest we remove this tag (I don't know the protocol for this, please let me know if this is not how one should ...
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tqft or topological-quantum-field-theory? Which one to keep?
A fairly new member of our MSE community, namely the user Andrews, started to reshape our own physical questions fundamentally basically by retagging them in an appropriate manner. Another recently ...
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Tag management 2023-present
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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Why were all the "triangles" bronze tag badges "Awarded Mar 25 at 4:00"?
Sometimes I like to appreciate the smaller things in life. Like how the bronze tag badge for the triangles tag contains a triangle:
Nice!
But, what surprised me is that they're all awarded at the ...
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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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Tag triangle and triangles
Why do we have tags triangle and then again triangles ?
They both seems to have exactly same description. So maybe I am missing something.
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Why is the tag (triangle) listed among the new tags?
When I look at the list of the newly created tags on Mathematics Stack Exchange, the tag triangle is listed there.
This seems a bit unusual, because this tag is a synonym of the tag triangles and the ...
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Tag suggestion: (cyclic-symmetric-sums)
There are a lot of questions concerning cyclic sums, but I just noticed there is no tag for these sums, and it hasn't been suggested as far as I can tell.
There are a lot of questions involving ...
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Where did [gradient] go?
At the moment, Mathematics SE has tags hessian-matrix and jacobian. However, tag gradient is a synonym for tag vector-analysis. Why?
Motivation
Since tag gradient does not exist, tags gradient-...
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Deleting Tags after being created
Is it possible to delete a tag after it has been created. For example when I post a question under the tag, Analytic number theory sometimes, Analytic only appears in the Tag column and the Analytic ...
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Relating to create a new tag named "wronskian"
I have created a new tag named "wronskian" and given the full details about it and also I fit some questions relating this new tag.
I just want to know is it acceptable for this site?
If all goes ...
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Is "generalization" a good tag? [duplicate]
Recently I've come across the tag "generalization", see here. It's relatively new and there is only one question (Edit: now removed) under it. However, I don't think it's that useful, taking into ...
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Is the decision problems tag needed?
I recently created a new tag: decision-problems. I do believe that this tag is indeed needed because its lack does lead to a lot of somewhat erroneously or misleadingly tagged questions.
For example, ...
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Relating to create a new tag
I have created a tag named "significance" and gave the full details (all of them are approved by others after some time) and also I fit there 8 questions (different authors posted in different ...
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Is it OK to create a tag about exercises from one particular book?
Is it OK to create a tag about exercises from one particular book?
The book I have in mind is a book with many hard exercises and unproved theorems in it (the total is about 200 or 300 maybe more), ...
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Would tags for specific books be appropriate?
I'm wondering if tags for example Durret's Probability book would be allowed.
I think that when one is reading a book, it would be interesting what doubts other user had when reading the same book. ...
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