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I happened to notice today on SO that the sas tag include instruction I've never noticed in other tags.

Excerpt: "For questions about code, please include your code and some data to reproduce your problem, either in datalines/cards statements or using a sashelp dataset like sashelp.class or sashelp.cars."

Is this appropriate within a tag excerpt?

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    It is a reminder that you really do need to provide an mcve if you are asking about code.
    – user213963
    Jun 8, 2015 at 19:36
  • @MichaelT Yeah, but all SO is that way, no? Jun 8, 2015 at 19:37
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    Yes, it's part of tag usage. Not like the thousands of plagiarised definitions that are useless
    – random
    Jun 8, 2015 at 19:38
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    One would hope so. Some go to meta posts. There are also tag tips for some especially problematic tags.
    – user213963
    Jun 8, 2015 at 19:39
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    Why wouldn't it be? You know these are collaboratively edited, right? You can't expect them to be consistent across thousands of tags.
    – user1228
    Jun 8, 2015 at 19:44
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    If SAS is still the datawarehouse tool it used to be I can imagine that questions without having the data the code should run on it becomes really impossible to answer. For other tags this might be less so...
    – rene
    Jun 8, 2015 at 19:48

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