Timeline for How do I correctly tag my questions?
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| Aug 1 at 21:55 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | @testing-for-ya Okay, that makes sense. In the end, I moved it out of the bullets but kept it in there as a "related note", and added a link to that FAQ. | |
| Aug 1 at 21:55 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Move to the outside as it's not specifically related to tagging, and add a link to the relevant FAQ.
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| Jul 24 at 12:12 | comment | added | user1502910 | @SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Given how well the average user reads, and how often I see that specific thing happen, I don’t think there’s much harm in a little repetition. | |
| Jul 23 at 17:50 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | @JoelCoehoorn I'm inclined to roll back your added bullet on putting tags in titles - while it is true, I don't feel it's relevant here since the question here is about how to correctly tag questions (i.e., use the tags feature), rather than how to correctly title questions. Also, there's already an entirely separate FAQ on not using tags in titles, so having it here is redundant. | |
| Jul 23 at 14:32 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @ErikForbes well, the tag for Jon Skeet was removed. Now only jeff-atwood and joel-spolsky remains. :-) | |
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| S Oct 18, 2017 at 2:22 | history | edited | Adam LearStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
SO -> SE; remove language that encourages users to tag more profusely with meta tags
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SO -> SE; remove language that encourages users to tag more profusely with meta tags
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| Sep 7, 2017 at 20:40 | history | edited | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fix grammar - "i.e." means "that is," NOT "for example"
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| Oct 16, 2014 at 12:46 | comment | added | ruffin |
Can we discuss "tangential-as-best" tags? See, eg, this question, which is essentially a Jenkins CI to TeamCity setup question with a drive-by reference (turned tag) to JSLint. Nothing about using Crockford's tool here. It's completely about an unnamed wrapper for JSLint that's used in some build processes. Is the drive-by legit? (The OP link & you are generally better off trying to use all 5 of them from this answer seem to encourage stocking up, but as a JSLint tag-sitter in this case, the linked question is spam to me.)
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| Jul 16, 2014 at 16:10 | history | edited | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 23, 2011 at 2:58 | comment | added | Andrew Grimm | Why does it say "use lower-case"? You're forced to do so! | |
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| Jun 10, 2010 at 13:18 | history | edited | user136672 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Dec 6, 2009 at 15:11 | vote | accept | Joel Coehoorn | ||
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| Mar 10, 2009 at 13:30 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | Yes. But I don't think it does as good a job keeping up with all the tag "synonyms" as it could. | |
| Mar 10, 2009 at 13:28 | comment | added | George Stocker | Does the community User still re-tag? | |
| Feb 25, 2009 at 20:15 | comment | added | Erik Forbes | "Don't use your username for a tag." - Unless you're Jon Skeet. | |
| Oct 31, 2008 at 20:20 | comment | added | Dave DuPlantis | With some questions, it seems like the 3rd point outweighs the 2nd; people will tag with two-words, two, and words so they can use five tags, particularly if "two" and "words" are standalone tags as well. | |
| Oct 31, 2008 at 15:09 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | I think that falls under the 2nd bullet point. Perhaps it could be worded more clearly? | |
| Oct 28, 2008 at 18:11 | comment | added | Dave DuPlantis | Here's another tip suggestion: use the most frequently-used version (or the standardized version) of a tag. In other words, if you tag your question as "continuous-integration", don't also tag it as "continuousintegration", "continuous-integration-question", and "ci". | |
| Oct 26, 2008 at 0:35 | comment | added | Bobby Jack | @Joel: thanks for the explanation. I understand the value-add, and this is my very point: having such a small number of tags per question AND having such a simple tag model discourages comprehensive classification. | |
| Oct 24, 2008 at 17:29 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | @Bobby Jack & why I know all this: I've spent WAY too much time lurking here and at uservoice, so I hear things. Also: using both the sqlserver and the sqlserver2008 tags in the same question adds value, because someone may subscribe to a feed for one tag and not the other. | |
| Oct 24, 2008 at 17:26 | comment | added | Dave DuPlantis | cool. I think it will be easier to find those as management-studio. | |
| Oct 24, 2008 at 17:15 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | An actual lookup shows 9 Q's tagged 'management-studio' and 12 tagged 'ssms'. There are also some other tags that have no questions attached. I'm gonna go retag the 12 ssms to use the guideline-following 'management-studio' version. | |
| Oct 24, 2008 at 17:13 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | I think if I had it do over, I'd use 'management-studio'. After all, Eneterprise Manager's full product name could also be "Microsoft SQL Enterprise Manager" or "SQL Server Enterprise Manager", depending on whether you trust the title bar or the about box. | |
| Oct 24, 2008 at 17:09 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | Good point: I think there's an ssms tag for that one, but that's pretty terse and hard to understand. | |
| Oct 24, 2008 at 12:43 | comment | added | Dave DuPlantis | To follow up on that ... what about products with long names? SQL Server Management Studio, for example. given a sql-server tag, what else? ssms? sql-server-management-studio? management-studio? | |
| Oct 24, 2008 at 9:42 | comment | added | Bobby Jack | Actually, scrap that last comment about "sql": it's not totally redundant, since there could be sqlserver questions that are not strictly about sql. It's not as extreme an example as the php one, but it still holds for the "sqlserver" + "sqlserver2008" combo. | |
| Oct 24, 2008 at 9:40 | comment | added | Bobby Jack | Joel, thanks for the info - how do you know all this? Would it be that inefficient to just run the synonym filter on initial submission? I guess my point about "sqlserver", etc. is that "sql" is redundant, but still useful, and a tag limit of 5 is very restrictive. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 15:30 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | One more note on why this post is important: by the time the backend process runs (average of 1/2 hour later) most questions will have already dropped off the front page, and no one will ever see them. If you tag them correctly upfront, then they'll get a lot more attention. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 15:26 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | sql and server are both valid tags in their own right, so in that case it's more difficult. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 15:25 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | There's already a process that runs every hour on the backend to identify and correct known synonyms. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 15:03 | comment | added | Bobby Jack | ... problem (I've already seen similar examples; take a look at the number of posts with "sql", "server", "sqlserver", "sqlserver2008", ... etc.) | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 15:02 | comment | added | Bobby Jack | At some point too, we're going to have to tackle the tricky issue of what to do with, for example, a question specific to php 5.2.5 which will then need to be tagged with "php", "php-5", "php-5.2", and "php-5.2.5" - great, 1 free tag! Unless more implicit info. is stored somewhere, this will be a .. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:59 | comment | added | Bobby Jack | ... 'synonymous' relationship between relevant tags and/or corrections for badly formatted tags. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:58 | comment | added | Bobby Jack | I guess one of the reasons I raised the issue was that /something/ needs to be done to resolve the issue of hundreds of tags for "foo-bar" and 1 or 2 tags for "foobar". I've found this happening many times, and clean them up from time to time, but that's not too scalable. I'd like to see a ... | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:41 | comment | added | Dave DuPlantis | unit-testing? Other than that and file-io, everything else looks long. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:38 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | How 'bout web-development or best-practices, as they're currently the first two dashed tags listed. I was hoping for something shorter and more technical, though. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:36 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | Let's find a different example (one that doesn't point to a real tag that was done incorrectly). | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:34 | comment | added | Dave DuPlantis | @Bobby, good point - so maybe it should say (if you must create a new tag) "Combine multiple words into a single word, replacing spaces with dashes, such as sql-server for SQL Server." | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:31 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | Sort of. It encourages you to create new good tags. Personally, I think it should be a gold badge, but disqualify all the tags created during the private beta period. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:26 | comment | added | insin | You could argue that the presence of the Taxonomist badge encourages people to create new tags: stackoverflow.com/badges/11/taxonomist | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:23 | comment | added | Bobby Jack | @Dave: I don't think we should let a tag be if it's 'wrong', however much it's in use. If it's too big a manual job, it would be a less-than-a-minute job for one of the site owners. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:22 | comment | added | Bobby Jack | Well, the guidelines say "Combine multiple words into single-words". I understand that it makes sense to ignore this for certain names (e.g. "mysql" is correct, not "my-sql"!) but "SQL Server"'s name clearly includes a space. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:16 | comment | added | Dave DuPlantis | Formatting of new tags, right? For example, sqlserver has over 1100 questions, probably too many to re-tag them as sql-server if that were desired. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:12 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | Fixed the wording there a little, Bobby Jack. Is there a strong enough concensus yet on what the format should look like? | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 14:09 | comment | added | Bobby Jack | "If you create a new tag, you are guaranteed to not show up ..." ... if that is the only tag you use. Can we include some guidelines here about format of tags? For example, "sqlserver" or "sql-server"? | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 13:52 | history | answered | Joel Coehoorn | CC BY-SA 2.5 |