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Proposal: Delete tag math-school.
This is a useless tag. It is only on two questions and is reminiscent of the old 'homework' tag.
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When is a question 'recreational'?
We cannot differentiate recreational mathematics on subject-matter, because recreational problems might make use of any kind of mathematical concept.
It is also different from being elementary, ...
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Should the tag "generalization" be blacklisted?
I'm in favor of blacklisting that tag. The word "generalization" is very vague. I would imagine it's a hassle to keep deleting the tag.
(I turned Accelerator's comment into an answer, in ...
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Don't close solution verification as dupe, instead remove questions with the tag of [solution-verification] appearing in search
Why many "solution-verification" questions are closed
As has been articulated many times in the past, the goal of Math SE is to create a library of questions and answers. A question should ...
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Tag management 2023
I propose the tag Fractional-differential-equations (FDE). They are increasingly becoming important. To give a flavor of its importance I'm including an article in which the Covid pandemic was studied ...
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Proposal: Either delete and blacklist the tag differential or make it a synonym of derivatives
It seems that the tag is used for (1) derivatives or (2) accidentally while trying to type a longer tag ...
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Should the tag "generalization" be blacklisted?
I am posting this answer in response to Catija's comment, which asks for an error message (to be displayed when an asker attempts to use the blacklisted tag). I am marking the answer "Community ...
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Proposal: Add tag witt-vectors.
There are quite a few existing questions about Witt vectors, and most of them are tagged with some combination of abstract-algebra, ...
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Proposal: Delete complex-spaces. I just created this tag but Elliot Yu pointed out rightly in a comment here that it is ambiguous. To solve this, I just created the better tag complex-analytic-spaces, ...
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When is a question 'recreational'?
To me, perusing a few papers , namely those of
Trigg,Charles W., What is recreational mathematics?, doi:10.2307/2689642i ,Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Jan. 1978), pp. 18-21
and
Bàrtlovà, ...
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What types of mathematical writing questions are suitable for Mathematics Stack Exchange?
Math.SE's strong suit is content involving reasoned mathematical arguments. Grammar as conventionally regulated does not fit comfortably into that mold.
Indeed math authors have special license in ...
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Tag management 2022
This question has the tag school-math and is the only question with this tag.
I think it should be removed. School maths covers a lot of areas which already have suitable tags.
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What about (lecture-notes) tag?
I'd say no.
Because the lecture-notes would fall inside the scope of reference-request tag:
This tag is for questions seeking ...
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Tag management 2023
Hoare logic is a well-defined topic in the study of computer program semantics.
31 posts match Hoare logic
13 posts match ...
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The tag solution-verification is quite misleading, and that's why we have seen a lot of questions end with "Is my solution correct?"
We have also seen this type of question come out to be an ...
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Proposal: Make a synonym linear-fractional-transformation $\to$ mobius-transformation.
Both tags are about the same topic, namely functions of the form $f(z)=\frac{az+b}{cz+d}$ with $a, b, c, d \in \...
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Proposal: Add tag dual-numbers.
Although the dual numbers are a well-known hypercomplex number system, there is no tag for the dual numbers in SE (e.g. for this ...
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Proposal: Make birthday a synonym of probability. All problems about this are sure to be about expected value or probability.
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Proposal: Make dice a synonym of probability. All problems about this are sure to be about expected value or probability.
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Add tag zonogon
Zonogons are polygons that have pairs of parallel sides with the same length. There are several examples where this might be used, like 2D different integer valued vertices coordinates ...
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Since the tag smooth-functions deals mainly with analytical ones, I would like to propose some tag or synonyms for grouping questions related to smooth bump functions which are non-analytical real-...
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Since searching for sinc yields nearly $1500$ results, I propose that the tag cardinal-sine be created for the cardinal sine function
$$ \operatorname{sinc} (x) := \...
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