Timeline for Titles should be stand-alone summaries of questions *without* depending on tags
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:45 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| Mar 14, 2014 at 14:40 | comment | added | scenia |
Don't forget that even if someone is not interested in the specifics of a language, seeing how it's done in other languages might actually help him find a solution on his own. For instance, if I want to access an element of an array in PHP and find a question about Java telling me it's done by using arrax[index], it's not hard to figure out (or at least test) the php way: $array[index]. So even if someone "accidentally" views his very question in the wrong context, it might still help. After all, we expect users to show effort and post what they've done to solve the problem.
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| May 13, 2013 at 20:33 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Also meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66152/… and meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10647/… | |
| May 13, 2013 at 20:26 | comment | added | Jaydles StaffMod | See other responses - a number of people seem to think that putting tag terms in titles should generally be avoided as redundant, and it happens regularly, as shown in a few examples above. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 20:05 | comment | added | slugster | @Rachel No matter the discussion about which is better grammar or more correct usage, the Python: at the start of your example sentence is a clear case of seeding the title with a tag. We don't need to see Python in the title - it's already in the tags. This will also be highlighted further to people who have python as a favorite tag. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:36 | comment | added | Grant Thomas | The latter Python example looks the most correct and clear way to me, particularly so when not browsing within specific tags. On SO, at least, we can talk about Heaps, Stacks, VMs, Pointers, Arrays, and all sorts of overlap in the title perhaps relating to any given language or framework, making it tempting to click into an irrelevant (to the individual) question. I think this question's recommendation is asking to introduce the same difficulties as censors cause. If SE want to stop explanatory, self-contained titles, then they should be thinking about solving the problem, not its symptoms. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:14 | comment | added | Rachel | Personally I don't mind the form of "Python: How can I access the first element of a dictionary", and that is actually preferred to "How can I access the first element of a dictionary", as it is much more useful when doing a search for how to access the first element of a dictionary in any language. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:14 | history | edited | ben is uǝq backwards | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 13, 2013 at 19:09 | history | answered | ben is uǝq backwards | CC BY-SA 3.0 |