Questions tagged [tags]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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Accidentally created [sdl3] when [sdl-3] would be better
First time in Meta. It was pointed out in a comment on my question that I created a tag (sdl3) that doesn't match the existing convention for SDL version tags, which is sdl-{version} (e.g. sdl-2, sdl-...
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Gold tag badges don't apply to synonymized tags
(I want to preemptively say that I do not contribute to Stack Overflow for the reputation or the badges)
On Stack Overflow, I possess the selenium Gold badge, but the permissions don't seem to apply ...
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Something's fishy in [dolphindb]
Lately I've noticed a slew of low quality, mis-tagged questions all with one thing in common... the dolphindb tag.
They all seem to be posted in batches from a handful of user accounts and rarely ...
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What is the meaning of the number displayed next to "related tags" on same tag?
On https://stackoverflow.com/tags/blogger/topusers it shows this:
What is the meaning of the number × 3684? It is not questions tagged, because that shows above as 2,925.
I'm just using blogger as an ...
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Python 3.x is just "Python". Any way to get rid of [python-3.x] tag?
The tag python-3.x is pointless these days. The only supported versions of Python are Python 3.x, for many years now. Python 4 isn't happening ("probably there never will be a 4.0 and we'll just ...
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Should we always update the [java] version?
From time to time, there are suggested edits like this about the java tag wiki and I agree that these would be an improvement over the previous tag wiki when a new Java version comes out.
However, ...
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Where are the "hidden" questions in [how-to-guide] tag?
I was interested in the kind of questions that would have the how-to-guide tag — there are 268 questions with this tag currently — but when I search with this tag, no questions are returned currently:
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What should be done with the [generative] tag?
I don't really like the generative tag, and I feel it's overly broad and there are more specific tags that should be used instead. At the same time, it fails the burnination criteria:
Does it ...
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If my question is about building C++, should I tag it with c++?
I have a couple of questions that are about building C++ with Bazel. I tagged then with c++, but that tag was removed from both (by the same person fwiw). That doesn't make sense to me. Is there some ...
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Merge and rename Google Maps Marker Clusterer related tags
We have markerclusterer with 800+ questions.
This JavaScript library creates and manages per-zoom-level clusters for large amounts of markers on a Google Map. It was deprecated by @googlemaps/...
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Remove [idb] synonym from [indexeddb]
The idb library is one of the most popular libraries for the IndexedDB API (if not the most popular), but it is currently a tag synonym for the API itself.
Some people do just refer to IndexedDB as ...
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Proposed tag synonym filtering -> filter
Please don't vote on the tag right away. It is already at +2, at +4 the synonym gets approved and the tags get mixed, we won't be able to undo that action. So let's discuss here before an irreversible ...
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Synonymise [apache-echarts] with [echarts]
I just stumbled across apache-echarts, with 148 questions and no user guidance. There's also echarts with 1349 questions and the excerpt:
Apache ECharts is a free open-source charting and data ...
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Reconsider xla tag
Until 2017 almost all xla questions were to do with Excel/VBA, as described in the tag info. Since then, of the 35 questions with the tag, 28 instead refer to the machine learning compiler. There is ...
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Odd tag name in "How do I format my posts using Markdown or HTML?" help center page
I was reading "How do I format my posts using Markdown or HTML?" and saw a section on tags. It said:
To talk about a tag on this site, like-this, use
See the many questions tagged [tag:...
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