Questions tagged [tags]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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How hard would it be to implement auto-complete for tags when *searching*?
When entering a question, tags to add are auto-completed/suggested for completion.
However when I search using tags (i.e. enter "[something") tags are not auto-completed/suggested.
I think ...
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Make gold language badge privileges apply to [language-agnostic]
The assumption is that someone with a gold badge in java or c++ is able to recognize duplicates based on their experience with a language.
To my understanding, this is why they are able to single-...
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Are Kubernetes Helm questions on topic?
From time to time I stumble across questions about Helm charts.
Tag information of kubernetes-helm doesn't contain a clause about what's on- or off-topic.
Based an on excerpt from kubernetes I think ...
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Add the [codemagic] tag to the CI/CD Collective
I'd like to suggest a new tag codemagic to be added to the CI/CD category
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Confusing tag completion
When searching for the right tag while asking a question, I realized a strange thing, making me think it's a bug:
I had asked a question related to HTTP status codes, so I entered "http" to ...
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Disambiguation of [gp]
Tag info for gp
Microsoft Dynamics GP is a mid-market business accounting software or ERP Software package.
is very similar to that of dynamics-gp
Microsoft Dynamics GP is one of several ERP (...
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Situation around [dbi] and [r-dbi]
We have tag dbi. Its excerpt clearly states not to use it for questions about the R package:
DBI is a database access module for the Perl programming language. It defines a set of methods, variables, ...
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Collectives icon is slightly shifted to the top
Collectives icons on questions list in the tag section are slightly shifted to the top:
More closer look:
Reproduced on iPadOS 16.6, Chrome 115.0.5790.130
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Rename ambiguous [sf] and [sp]
I've encountered two tags used for R libraries: sf and sp.
Both has tag info and a significant number of questions and watchers.
But both had questions erroneously using these tags. Most likely due to ...
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Tag [cfg] was created again
Tag cfg was created again. This time it was used on the questions of four categories:
ones that should be tagged with context-free-grammar instead. I re-tagged them accordingly.
Ones that should be ...
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Merge [admin] and [administrator]
We currently have two separate tags admin and administrator. Neither tag seems particularly useful, but we definitely don't need both.
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Merge [llm] and [large-language-model]
Tag llm has no description, and being three letter acronym most likely will have problems with ambiguity.
On the other hand, large-language-model is clear and has a tag info.
At the moment, there are ...
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Should [ll] and [lr] be renamed?
Should tags lr and ll be renamed to lr-grammar ll-grammar respectively?
For the general public, these two letters might mean anything:
ll : LinkedList, Low Level API, roman two(?),
lr : Learning rate,...
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Merge [alertmanager] into [prometheus-alertmanager]
Tags prometheus-alertmanager and alertmanager refer to the same application: Prometheus' Alertmanager.
Former has 747 questions and tag information.
Latter - 82 question, no tag information, and all ...
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This tag needs some re-[cnf]iguration
I stumbled upon the cnf tag today while looking for new tags to watch or questions to answer. It really was not what I was expecting which is why I'm here.
The tag excerpt reads the following:
Common ...
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[Face] it: this tag needs some work
I'm not convinced we should burninate it, so I'll bypass that criteria for now (so don't go burninating the tag).
We have a face tag. It is... somewhat of a mess. Here's the tag wiki:
A face is an ...
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Should we [bypass] this tag (again!)?
The bypass tag was already removed five years ago. Unfortunately, it's here again. I propose that we burninate it a second time. Arguably, we should block it too.
Criteria:
Does it describe the ...
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Proxy: [es6-] or [javascript-]?
As far as I know, both es6-proxy and javascript-proxy are about the built-in Proxy constructor. The former is much more popular (239 vs. 35 questions) and informative (wiki created in 2015 vs. never).
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Deprecation clause in small tag description
I have a question about this proposed edit for tag react-mui.
Basically it introduces a "deprecation" clause into tag.
While I believe this might be a valid approach for tags that are saved ...
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numeraljs vs. numeral.js: Dot or no dot?
Unless I'm sleepy enough, numeraljs and numeral.js seem to be about the same subject: A JavaScript library for formatting and working with numbers.
Dotted numeral.js was created in 2015 whereas the ...
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Rename [android-pay] tag to [google-wallet]
Currently, the android-pay tag has the synonym google-wallet, but now Google has officially changed the name from Android Pay to Google Wallet. You can see here that the new name is Google Wallet.
Can ...
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Should questions about specific algorithms include the algorithm tag?
Of the 1,188 questions with the a-star tag (search results), 465 have the algorithm tag (search results).
Should these all have the algorithm tag since they are all about algorithms, in the same way a ...
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Unify [sts], [spring-tool-suite] and maybe [spring-tools-4]
Spring Tools/Spring Tool Suite provides Spring tooling in IDEs, like Eclipse or Visual Studio Code.
The tag sts is essentially used for [spring-tool-suite].
I propose to create a new tag, spring-tools ...
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Tag "dynamic": Is the description complete nonsense?
I just came across the tag dynamic whose description reads:
Dynamic refers to programs which act during run-time rather than at compile time.
which makes me wonder:
Which programs act during ...
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Burn the books! Burninate [kernighan-and-ritchie]!
My attention was recently drawn to the existence of the kernighan-and-ritchie tag.
This tag has been discussed 5 years ago, and deemed valid, but I think it no longer passes the criteria required to ...
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Why are my edits which add the "kernighan-and-ritchie" tag to relevant questions being rejected?
I have recently been adding some (half a dozen or more) kernighan-and-ritchie tags to questions about K&R (2e), that is: The C Programming Language (2nd ed; Kernighan & Ritchie). A lot of ...
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Can we have tags for Spring 6/Spring Boot 3?
With Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3, there came a lot of changes. Most notably, there is a minimum requirement on Java 17 and it uses Jakarta EE 9 coming with a namespace change. But there were also other ...
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What is a tagDone? [duplicate]
In Tag watching & ignoring, there is a link to "Add a tagDone". Seems a bit weird for a name.
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Should [sender] be burninated?
The tag sender has 328 questions and many of them seem to not follow the tag guidance.
The tag is:
ambiguous as sender could mean anything even in the context of events
not strictly programming ...
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Why was the [google-domains] tag removed?
In recent days, I have observed that hundreds of questions tagged google-domains were closed and deleted. Effectively, the tag is now gone. Why is that?
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Edit the [nuclio] tag wiki
I saw that nuclio tag wiki was empty and tried to update it (it was one month ago). Is this description fine and enough? How long does approval/reject usually take?
Nuclio is an open source ...
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What's up with the [regex] tag? It seems many on-topic [regex] tag were removed?
Recently I'm checking question that tagged regex, but most of the regex tags were removed shortly.
Is this tag still used? I checked the usage of the tag; it doesn't look like an abuse. Many ...
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Should we create a new tag for a NuGet package which is a port of another package from .NET Framework 4 to .NET Core?
I recently posted a question, and created the elmahcore tag. Elmah is a popular logging utility for .NET Framework 4 web applications. It appears to only work with the older version of the framework. ...
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Rename [sqlx] tag to [go-sqlx]
The sqlx (188) and the rapidly growing rust-sqlx (122) groups tend to often be confused - I had to re-tag about 15 of the mis-tagged ones from sqlx to rust-sqlx. Since the numbers are somewhat ...
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Should [discord.py] questions also be tagged [python] and [discord]? Can they be interlinked?
Many tags are related only to a particular programming language, and it might be of a library that has bindings in many languages. For example, many PyQT questions are tagged python and qt, though the ...
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Should requirements be specified solely via tags?
Related: What is the use of version tags?
I've recently noticed a few cases where the questioner has specific requirements that they've expressed solely by adding tags to the question. For example, ...
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Merge [powerbi-datasource] into [powerquery]
Background Details
Power BI is a self-service analytics tool. One of its defining features is the ability to extract data from just about any data source using a uniform language (PowerQuery M).
Stack ...
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Disambiguation of [loki] in favor of [grafana-loki]
The tag description of the loki tag reads:
Loki is a C++ library of designs, containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and idioms.
Loki was written by Andrei Alexandrescu. It ...
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Should we add an "entity-framework-core-7" tag?
There's a new (November 2022) release of EF Core — version 7, which has some major differences from previous versions (e.g. it doesn't support lazy loading, as for now).
Should there be a specific tag ...
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Misdelivery of [package] and [java-package] (disambiguation/deduplication needed)
There are two tags that deal with Java packages: package and java-package.
The java-package tag is clearly and specifically for questions relating to Java packages. The package tag, on the other hand,...
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Should we merge tag [fbconnect] into [facebook]?
Since facebook-connect is a synonym for facebook, I think it makes sense that fbconnect should also be a synonym since they refer to the same thing.
Guidance says:
fbconnect is an abbreviation for ...
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Why the [division] between this tag and [divide]?
Both tags seem to refer to the division of numbers by a denominator. divide has about 600 questions and division has about 200. divide also has a vague tag description:
Separate or be separated into ...
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Rename/change a tag - N1QL to SQL++
I work for Couchbase, and we'd like the tag n1ql to be renamed sql++, please. The "N1QL" brand name is being phased out in favor of the more meaningful/standard name of "SQL++".
It'...
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Merge the tag [sql-operations-studio] into [azure-data-studio]
The tag sql-operations-studio appears to have lingered. SQL Operations Studio was the initial name for Azure Data Studio, but on full release Microsoft changed the name (why it has Azure in the name ...
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Distinguish between [apache-velocity] and [velocity]
Currently, these two tags are both described as tags for Apache Velocity:
velocity
apache-velocity
Some questions in the velocity tag are not related to Apache Velocity.
A good solution would be:
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Rename Google Maps Advanced Marker View tag
The Google Maps Advanced Marker View has been renamed to Advanced Marker Element.
We have the corresponding tag: google-maps-advanced-marker-view
Could we rename this to reflect the new naming?
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Where art thou, tags? Or a request to make tag formatting guidance easier to discover
I've been fixing tag formatting on meta for tag-related requests for years. For those unaware, its syntax is [tag:name] for tags on the main site and [meta-tag:name] for those only present on the ...
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Should the Swift programming language be explicitly added to the description of the [init] tag?
Right now, the init tag's description reads, "May refer to Linux init, an abbreviation of initialization - giving variables a "starting" value, or Python's __init__ class initiation ...
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Proposal to rename the [catalyst] tag to [perl-catalyst]
Currently there are the following "catalyst" related tags:
catalyst
mac-catalyst
business-catalyst
catalyst-optimizer
flashcatalyst
enigma-catalyst
aws-codecatalyst
Since the catalyst tag is ...
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Requesting clarification - how did this tag wiki edit fall short according to the criteria in the "Reject" reason?
I recently submitted an edit to the tag-wiki excerpt for gcc-pedantic.
The original (and, since my edit was rejected, current) excerpt was:
The pedantic option to gcc to forces ANSI-compatibility of ...
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