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What's with these "sangaku" geometry problems?
I did this. Sorry if this was inapproriate. I know it's not a good idea to edit many questions in a short time span, but I thought 10 was acceptable.
With regard to the tag creation, however, I was ...
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Do we need separate tags for (betting) and (gambling)?
In the question I have mentioned several possible actions. To me the most reasonable seem to be creating a synonym betting $\to$ gambling. (I.e., with (gambling) as the master tag.)
In this way when ...
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Should there be distinction between the tags (inequation) and (inequality)?
No, obviously not. The term "inequation" is not commonly used in English and in my experience its usual meaning is for statements with a $\neq$ sign, rather than inequalities that are to be solved as ...
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Do we want tag warnings, and for which tags?
proof-theory
If your question is not about the area of mathematic logic called proof theory, do not use the proof-theory tag. Questions requesting proofs for a particular statement, or about how/...
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Discrimination against PDE questions?
I think that you suffer from a case of specialist's myopia. As I may have also been diagnosed with it let me elaborate.
The calculus (or elementary number theory, not to mention high school level ...
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Tag management 2020
Resolved. collatz renamed to collatz-conjecture.
Proposal: Rename collatz to collatz-conjecture.
Although Lothar Collatz is most known for the $3x+1$ problem (the Collatz Conjecture), I don’t think ...
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Tag management 2016
Resolved: The tag is now deleted
I think java-applet should be removed.
It has barely a relationship with math. Also, the tag is being abused for general questions about math and the Java ...
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Accepted
Large number of followers of a recently created tag
The tag real got deleted, and I now just recreated it (only to remove it again). It instantly had again the 22 followers. It appears that the guess that followers are preserved was spot on.
This is ...
quidMod
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Should we have tags (maximal-ideals) and (prime-ideals)?
If you think that the tags maximal-ideals and prime-ideals should be synonyms of ideals, upvote this answer.
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Non-experts closing questions
The first obvious issue (which I feel is what may have triggered this post, and has been identified by other users in the comments) is that experts can guess the context from a question, and ...
PedroMod
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Tag management 2016
Resolved: The synonym is approved.
double-factorial should be a synonym of factorial. Link to the suggestion.
The double factorial can easily be expressed in terms of factorials. In fact most ...
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Tag management 2019
Proposal to blacklist generalization
Reason: It's overly broad and there is no real mathematical content in it. Also, the tag has been created and removed several times.
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Accepted
What's with these "sangaku" geometry problems?
A user created the sangaku tag then edited ten questions to include that tag, all in a short span of time. The user then created descriptions for that tag.
As has been pointed out in the comments ...
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Accepted
Should there be distinction between the tags (inequation) and (inequality)?
To avoid inequation being recreated, I have made it a synonym for inequality.
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How shall we handle big numbers / computer searching problems?
We should keep these problems, because you never know when you have one.
Some days ago, user Nikita asked the question Is this contrived sequence eventually periodic?. Innocently enough, they ...
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Accepted
Why was my retag rejected?
The proposal was fine. By now a moderator changed the tag. Also note that there was one positive review too. (It was declined 2 vs 1.)
It's hard to know what exactly happened. Maybe the reviewers ...
quidMod
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Non-experts closing questions
No question in mathematics is unmotivated or intrinsically interesting. Despite the fact that I, myself, often use the phrase "this is a natural question," no question in mathematics is ...
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Non-experts closing questions
Here is a thought. If you, an expert in a topic, see a problem-statement-question that is interesting, and if you know this question is not a duplicate, and if you judge that adding some context would ...
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Accepted
What is (similarity) tag for?
Please, upvote this answer if you think that the similarity tag is not useful and should be removed.
Please, downvote this answer if you think that the similarity should stay. (So that the total ...
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What is the scope of the [utility] tag?
I have edited the description and the tag-wiki. They are now:
For all questions involving utility function as used in economics and
decision theory, including a study of their properties or how ...
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Tag management 2019
Resolved. All questions with cohomological-operations have been retagged to cohomology-operations (or neither tag, in a few cases where the tag was inappropriate) and cohomological-operations will be ...
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