Questions tagged [tagging]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions. If your post at meta is about suggesting new tags, choosing correct tags for some question, suggesting removal of some tag, this tag is appropriate for such question.
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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 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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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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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 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 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 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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Should the algebra tag be blacklisted?
I'll mention the history of the problems with algebra tag, although I think that most people who visit meta regularly know about this.
The problem with algebra was that it was used for different ...
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How liberally should we handle tag creation?
This is a meta meta question on the principles by which we should decide which tags to create. The motivation for the question stems from this meta discussion, in which a majority thought that there ...
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(homework) tag should be deprecated (Voting's over! You won't believe what won!)
Note. After over one month of discussion, and more than one week of voting, I think the community has decided.
Leave the tag alone: 43 upvotes (20.38%)
Consider the tag deprecated, but do ...
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Filtering by tag
I have seen on a similar site where you can filter by your favorite tags. It's one thing to have questions with your favorite tags highlighted, and it's another, and much better, to only see ...
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Should every new tag be discussed on meta before creation?
In several discussions here on meta, one user expressed the opinion, that every new tag (or at least most of them) should be discussed on meta before creating.
For example here
There is a saying ...
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Would a tag for “check-my-proof” questions be useful?
I am aware that it is probably better not to have too many meta-tags such as homework, soft-question, big-list or reference-request.
Despite of this I'd like to ask other MSE users, whether they would ...
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What can users do to improve their Math.SE experience?
Some of recent discussions on meta revolved around various ways to deal with the growing number of questions posted on the site. For example:
Is the interest in this community falling?
Feature ...
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The use of the [algebra] tag
edit (Oct 26): I think there are two separate (but entangled) issues here.
Does the algebra tag have a clear meaning or will/has it ended up on questions in two distinct areas?
If algebra does not ...
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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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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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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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New Tags: When?
When coming to post a question, one looks for the most fitting tags.
After a while, it may be apparent that a new tag is in order. Good examples are the elementay-number-theory and elementary-set-...
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Can you change the name of a tag?
Can you change the name of a tag? I recently came across the tag sage, which I think should be renamed to sagemath to be more clear.
Is it possible to change the name of a tag? If so, how?
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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 ...
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Proper use of the (homework) tag redux [closed]
When, if ever, is it appropriate to add the homework tag to a question that has not been acknowledged by the OP to be homework?
My position is that it is never appropriate, full stop. It’s fine to ...
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“Off-topic” tags
Some tags are about topics that are blatantly not on-topic here. Let me quote the FAQ (I realize this is not the be-all and end-all, but it's better than nothing):
Mathematics Stack Exchange is for ...
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Retagging causes bumping
The issue of questions bumping after retagging has come up here and on the main meta.
I have a specific suggestion: disable bumping for users with high enough reputation (10k, 15k or 20k), or at ...
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Tags [proof-strategy] and [proof-writing]
What are the tags proof-strategy and proof-writing used for?
They feel like meta tags to me.
Instead of adding answers here, please vote on the answers in the tagging thread here: proof-strategy, ...
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Sophistication level tags?
I very much appreciate that math.se is designed for users for all levels, and I think that I really gain something from interactions with users of higher and lower levels of mathematical ...
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How am I supposed to use tags?
I seem to have severe difficulty finding the right tags to add to a post, which is infuriating when I can't post unless I have added some.
For a simple brackets expansion problem I had, I can't use *...
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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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MO-MSE tag incompatibility
When a question is migrated from MO to MSE, the system attempts to retag it using MSE tags (taking into account synonyms on the MSE side only; synonyms are a one-way street). If no MSE tag can be ...
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What is the usefulness of having “proof-verification” and “solution-verification” as different tags?
I know there is a topic about the solution-verification tag (vs proof-writing), but now we have the proof-verification tag which has affiliated 2452 questions, while "solution-verification" has only ...
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Suggestion for “Hint-Only” Tag
For people who only want guidance in understanding how to approach the problem, as opposed to seeing a fully fleshed out solution.
Would this tag be useful?
Am new to this site, so don't want to ...
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What is the purpose of the [pattern-recognition] tag?
Pattern recognition is a topic in machine learning. Of the questions tagged pattern-recognition, only a handful are related to machine learning. The rest are of the form "What is the next item in this ...
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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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Should we require a tag that which specifies difficulty of a question?
It's usually hard for me to find questions to answer here because 99% of them are above my level (calculus 1). Should we make a set of tags specifying difficulty to go along with the question? For ...
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A Graph Map of Math.SE
I've just made a map of tags for Math.SE. (And to some degree - a greatly simplified map of mathematics.)
In short: tag size is related to tag popularity (caveat: see below) and edges are related to ...
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About extending the tag system to answers, too
Recently, I gave a solution to a complex analysis problem that avoided the standard complex analytic tools, but relied on a property of the modified Bessel function of the first kind.
I bet this ...
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Proper use of Homework Tag [closed]
I know from searching through the history here on meta that virtually every permutation of question regarding the [homework] tag has been discussed, but I could not find an answer to my question. ...
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Troublesome Physics tag
Most questions tagged physics are usually flagged as being more appropriate on Phys.S.E.
Is this right? (The reason I'm bringing this up is because I flagged a question a short while ago.)
Also, ...
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How to intersect users and tags?
I would like to see all the questions with a given tag that user xxx has asked or answered.
How do I do that?
Edit
I have received three fine explanations, more than completely answering my ...
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What is the use of tag “book-recommendation”?
I have seen people asking for book recommendations. But as it is opinion based it is removed. Then what is the use of the tag book-recommendation?.
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Limit for number of questions where tag can be added by tag-creator soon after the creation of tag
Occasionally we have seen a situation like this: A user creates a new tag. The tag is then discussed on meta and the consensus is that the tag is not suitable and should be completely removed. However,...
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[proof] tag (again)
In the past we had a couple of discussions, and it was decided -- I thought -- that the tag proof shouldn't be used. Now we have more than 50 questions with this tag again. Could we please get it ...
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Tag management 2019
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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How should we handle tags: [terminology] [notation] [definition]?
(Mod's Note: Since recently a tag-merge proposal came up for terminology and definition, I think we can revive this thread a bit and see if we can get some consensus.)
Currently, we have 172 ...
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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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Should we have a [functions] tag?
There are currently 7 questions that have the [functions] tag.
Is this a tag we want to keep? Would anyone ever want to highlight or ignore all questions tagged [functions], or subscribe to its RSS ...
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(tutoring) tag proposal [closed]
It was requested that I introduce a separate question/proposal so that members of the community could discuss the practicality of a tag such as (tutoring) . I propose a (tutoring) tag that would ...
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Is using subtags to identify book source appropriate for this site?
I want to suggest that there should be subtags named as a book of sources .
For example, assume we have a subtag named as "finite group theory by Martin Isaacs ".
By that way the questions asked ...
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An interactive graph of Math.SE tags
Some time I created
A Graph Map of Math.SE, which met with a warm response from this community. Encouraged by this, I created a new visualization, this time interactive and up-to-date (as long as the ...
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Suggestions of tags and title edits by user NormalHuman - How to do it?
Almost $90$% of the questions I have seen from the time I have joined Maths.SE, I have noticed that the user NormalHuman suggests title edits, tag edits and question modifications almost instantly ...
