Timeline for Have Stack Overflow's tag wiki excerpts veered away from their purpose?
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 23, 2013 at 20:50 | comment | added | Martin F | If tag wiki excerpts have "veered away from their purpose" then their (original) purpose needs to be tampered. I've never thought that any explanations on "what questions should use this tag" have any benefit beyond mere filler. Definitions of the tag topic are far more useful! | |
| Dec 23, 2013 at 20:41 | comment | added | Martin F | @JeffAtwood -- It depends on the domain context: Most IT sites may not need a [database] tag, but many non-IT sites may well need to know the difference between a file and a database... | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 16:48 | comment | added | Flimzy | @JeffAtwood: Although I'm curious if you prefer the proposed alternative, which in my estimation, is simply a re-statement of SO's purpose. Or do you propose something else entirely? | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 6:48 | comment | added | Pops | If you need definitions of the tags on page one, the tags page of [whichever SE site] probably isn't the right place for you to be in the first place. | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 5:08 | comment | added | Flimzy | @JeffAtwood: If English isn't your first language, you may need some of those terms explained. But that's probably even a stretch for the specific ones you mentioned. | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 5:01 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | I think it depends somewhat on the tag. Do you really need to be told what a database is? I think you'd probably rather hear which questions should have that tag. Ditto for C#, Java, JavaScript -- if you're a programmer and don't know what that stuff is, hang it up because you're utterly incompetent. But for more deeply specialized things, even within the programming field, I can see having some description of what the thing is. Still, that's not the focus. | |
| Jun 14, 2012 at 21:30 | history | answered | Flimzy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |