Questions tagged [tag-management]
For questions concerning the management of tags on both the main site and meta. Common topics include the merging of tags, and making tags synonyms of one another.
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Tag management 2020
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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A tag “Circle” when the tag “Circles” exists [duplicate]
Need we retain duplicate Circle tag? ..as it shows nil usage. Tag Circles anyhow serves the purpose.
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Is the [orientation] tag useful?
According to the tag description, the orientation is:
For question[sic] regarding the notion of orientation both in topology and in global analysis.
There is no further information in the tag wiki....
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Description of partial-functions tag includes “history”
When randomly scrolling through tags on the tags page, this one partial-functions randomly caught my eye. I noticed its description is:
Questions on partial functions, history, usage, properties, ...
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What happened with the PDE tag?
When you click on the "PDE" tag, you're redirected to a new tag "PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS". And you find all the old questions that were tagged as "PDE". Except that when you open the page of ...
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Why is the PDE tag abbreviated but not ODE or SDE?
Why is pde abbreviated (with its full name being a synonym) while the reverse is true for ode and sde?
The closest discussion I can find is Expanding abbreviated tag names so apologies if this is a ...
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There are 5,931 questions tagged both elementary-number-theory and number-theory
(Prompted by this question)
As you can see here, there are (as of January 2020) 5,931 questions tagged elementary-number-theory and number-theory. (For the record, there are respectively 28,327 and ...
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Should there be a separate tag for Euler's number $e$?
At the moment, there are two tags which are related to the number $e$.
The e has been synonym of exponential function for a long time.1
A newer tag called eulers-number was created in January 2019.
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Create algebraic dynamics tag and make it a synonym for arithmetic dynamics?
Is it a good idea to create a tag called "algebraic-dynamics" and make it a tag synonym for arithmetic-dynamics?
Note that the current text (good for a quick impression, but probably needs expanding) ...
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Tag management 2019 [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 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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Is activity slowing down on MSE or only on “elementary set theory”?
It seems to me that there are not a lot of new questions on "elementary set theory"?
Have new tags been created? which would explain this apparent evaporation...
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Unable to add “span” tag to (linear algebra) question
I thought that "span" would be a good tag to add to this question on Mathematics Stack Exchange, but when I click on "Edit Tags", type "span", click on "span", and click on "Save Tag Edits", I don't ...
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The incorrect tag description of [pochhammer-symbol]
The tag description:
The Pochhammer symbol is the notation used for rising and falling factorials. The $q$-Pochhammer symbol is the $q$-analog.
To be a $q$-analog, the $q$-Pochhammer symbol must ...
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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 [tag:predicate-logic] a synonym for [tag:first-order-logic]?
What is the difference between the tags first-order-logic and predicate-logic?
This question has been raised several times (here, here and here), and several users proposed in their comments to ...
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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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editing algebraic topology tag description
Currently, the description is
Algebraic topology is a mathematical concept that uses algebraic tools to study topological spaces. In other words, it is the intrinsic qualitative aspects of ...
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Similar tag descriptions for (physics) and (mathematical-physics)
I understand t.b.'s reasoning on why we should keep both the physics and mathematical-physics tags, but I notice that their wikis, and more specifically their excerpts, are sufficiently similar that ...
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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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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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Möbius function tag ambiguity
The tag for mobius-function currently reads "questions on the Möbius function $μ(n)$, an arithmetic function used in number theory", which is true, but it's also a specific case of Möbius function in ...
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Why there is no tag for Causal Inference?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Responses to the study questions from Causal Inference in Statistics (by Judea Pearl).
At the moment of posting I found that there is no ...
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Do we want an [umvue] tag?
The umvue tag has one question on it. Do we want to keep it going or not?
For those of us who are not familiar with UMVUEs (uniformly minimum-variance unbiased estimators), the long story short is ...
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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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Optimizing the tags for maxima and mimima to an extremum
There is a slight strangeness in the current tagging system related to tags for maxima and minima. Martin and I discussed this at some point, we did not have quite the same view, and it concerns quite ...
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What's the difference between “moderators” and “moderation”?
What's the difference between these two tags - moderators and moderation? Should these two tags be merged?
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Should we synonymise a tag used more than the master tag?
Scrolling through the list on tag synonyms on MSE, I found that there were two tags that were suggested to be synonymised with their master tags which were used less than them. Note that both are ...
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Why can't you improve tag-wiki edits?
When reviewing post edits you have the option to Improve Edit as well as Reject and Edit.
These options are no longer available when a tag-wiki edit shows up in the queue (there have been quite a few ...
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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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Renaming the “gersgorin-sets” tag
I think this tag should be renamed "gershgorin-sets".
According to Wikipedia, the correct spelling can be Geršgorin, Gerschgorin, Gerszgorin, Gershgorin, הירשהאָרן, Hirshhorn or Hirschhorn (Гершгорин,...
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How should the “analysis” tag be used?
In my mind, ideally, there should be a fairly consistent "etiquette", if you will, for choosing tags wherein any two people asking the same question are likely to pick the same tags for that question. ...
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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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Could having (tag-removed) tag be useful?
Quite often we have situation that discussion about a specific tag results in consensus that the tag should be removed. And the removal process means that the questions having that tag are retagged ...
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Clarifying the extent of the philosophy tag
A recent spate of vague questions under the tag philosophy suggests that it may be worth clarifying the purpose of the tag by ruling out a certain type of questions explicitly. These are questions ...
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Change the Taxonomist badge to exclude self-edited questions
As we are increasing in size and in number of users, we start to see more often users which have enough reputation to create a tag, and without much oversight, they go on a spree to add that to 50+ ...
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Should the (block-design) tag be removed?
I noticed for the first time today that there is a (block-design) tag, with no description and 12 questions. It seems that this tag is completely redundant, as there is already a (combinatorial-...
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Tag badge glitch
How is this possible?
What I mean here is there's a bug, as the number of answers and the score shown on my reputation chart is different than of the number shown in "Select your next badge". I am ...
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Can we please have a “deprecated tag” feature?
In recent times we witnessed a couple of meta threads about old tags that are completely useless in today's landscape (e.g. this, or that).
In both cases, these are tag remnants from an older system ...
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How to discourage users from using the “functions” tag
The following is the tag info for the functions tags:
In mathematics, a function is a relation between a set of inputs and a set of permissible outputs with the property that each input is related ...
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What is the point of the “math review” tag
What is the point of math-review tag? The description says
For questions concerning troubles with a text one is reading. Typos and interpretation issues are also pertinent. Please be sure to ...
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Do we really need separate tags for morphisms between certain objects when there's a tag for the objects?
Currently we have tags for ring-theory, group-theory and semigroups and separate tags for ring-homomorphism, group-homomorphism and semigroup-homomorphism. (The latter tag is used a total of 11 times, ...
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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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The tag even-and-odd-extensions
So there's this tag even-and-odd-extensions.
There are 16 questions with this tag which consist of:
Even and odd functions
Even and odd integers
Even and odd digits of a number
Extending a function ...
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Are [tag:tiling] and [tag:tessellation] the same? [duplicate]
Do tiling and tessellation denote the same concept? If so, they should be merged.
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Almost surely tag
We have a almost-everywhere tag for measure-theory. Do we need "almost-sure" tag for probability space? The later is a particular case of the former, but the later concerns a vast variety of topics ...
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The birthday tag
Recently the birthday tag has emerged and it quickly has around 100 questions tagged (mainly by one user I suppose).
This is indeed not the first time we have this tag. The last time it was deleted ...
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Revisiting the “partitions” tag
Almost six years ago, Michael Hardy raised the issue of the "partitions" tag being used for some very different concepts, and subsequently edited its tag wiki excerpt to at least be clear about what ...
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Why does the tag “(solution-verification)” show as “(proof-verification)”?
So I want to clarify/verify a specific solution. This is my solution to a problem, so it is not like I want to verify a specific proof/theorem or clarify why and/or how it works. So, in my tags, I ...
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Is there a way to monitor for “bad” tag synonyms?
Users with at least 2500 rep and an answer score of 5 in a tag can suggest synonyms for that tag. (Details can be found, for example, in this meta question.) Hypothetically, it is possible that 5 ...
