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What should we do for the tag wiki of [pre] tag?
We have a pre tag on this site.
This tag was previously used in this question: What is a pre vote? , but a user deleted this tag and mentioned that this tag does lack a tag wiki. (see here)
I have ...
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New tag for the internal image hosting
Now that imgur will soon no longer host our images, the imgur tag would become obsolete.
However, I doubt the new upload process, that would host the images internally in Stack Exchange, would work ...
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Enable the announced 'Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are not allowed' banner on Meta.SE
This is a follow-up on Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content where I posted a now-deleted answer to comply with the guidelines. We frequently see ...
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There is a problem with the [problem-user] tag
We have the problem-user tag, with excerpt that reads:
This tag should be used in a question about a user who has been causing problems like spamming, unproductive answers, using abusive language and ...
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This tag has no [description]; should it be removed?
The description tag here on this site seems to have no clear use. It also has no tag wiki description, hence the title.
Looking through the current uses, I see that many of its uses are covered by the ...
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Help center page on what questions are on-topic here still says to ask Teams questions on Meta Stack Overflow
In response to the 2022 dissociation of Teams from the main Stack Overflow site, in February 2023, the community there moved to change the scope of their meta to no longer allow Teams questions. All ...
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Should the [registration] and [sign-up] tags be merged, and if so, what should be the canonical tag?
Here on this site, we have two tags registration and sign-up, which mean essentially the same thing: registering (signing up) for an account on any site on the network.
Looking at the uses for each ...
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Old account of new staff member is showing up as a moderator here on Meta
As another result of an account merge gone wrong, and similar to Who is Samuel Ordonez and why are they a moderator here?, the old account of new staff member @Emerson is showing up as a ♦ moderator ...
GlorfindelMod
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This tag is hurting my [workflow]
The workflow tag has no tag wiki or excerpt, 11 questions, and is used for various kinds of workflows: those of users on Stack Exchange for many different scenarios, and even those of staff members. ...
GlorfindelMod
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Should this site have a tag for "default tags"?
When a new Stack Exchange site is created, some tags are automatically created on its corresponding meta site. (I don't think there are any such tags on the main/regular Stack Exchange site itself.) ...
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Rename [deleted-recent-posts] to [deleted-posts-page]
The tag deleted-recent-posts was created for the pages that contained lists of a given user's deleted questions or answers, and which formerly constrained themselves to only those posts made in the ...
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White bar across the top of Meta's header
Meta's header has a weird white bar across the top:
It scrolls with the rest of the header, so I only see this when at the top of the page. On a spot-check, Puzzling and Literature seem unaffected.
I'...
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Should we rename this tag to [improve] its usage?
The improve tag (33 questions) has a clear excerpt explaining its intended usage:
For questions about the Improve Edit button that lets you perform further editing to a pending suggested edit. For ...
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Adding a link to Meta when the Stack Exchange network is under maintenance
The following banner has been being shown at present when Stack Network is under maintenance.
The site is currently in read-only mode; we'll return with full functionality soon. Follow @StackStatus ...
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Should we burn this [browser-enhancement]?
The browser-enhancement has 32 questions, no tag wiki or excerpt. A quarter of those are questions about Greasemonkey scripts that have been closed and should've been posted on StackApps. For those ...
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Should the [software] tag be uninstalled?
The tag software here on this site doesn't seem to serve much purpose in categorization.
The excerpt for the tag states the following:
Use this tag for questions about the software that powers the ...
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I'm having some [difficulty] discerning what we could use this tag for
The difficulty has 13 questions, no wiki or excerpt, and could be used for a lot of things: Having difficulty deleting crap posts, burning tags, making waffles, etc. etc. etc. There are a few posts ...
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Search on Meta is slow (sometimes)
During the last hour or so, searching on Meta Stack Exchange can be very slow; searching only on a tag still works as normal, probably because it automatically redirects to e.g.
https://meta....
GlorfindelMod
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Let's update our "only applicable to one specific site" close reason to utilize the five available close fields!
Current Proposal:
The currently accepted answer by Catija reflects the currently preferred proposal.
Journeyman Geek, seemingly speaking for the Meta Stack Exchange mod team at the time, brought ...
SpevacusMod
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Should we destroy the [websites]?
The websites tag has 27 questions, no excerpt or wiki (if it did, it might turn out to be "for questions about... well, websites"). At least 5 of those questions are "where should I ...
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Meta needs to be agnostic of the [language-agnostic] tag
(Note: this is not a duplicate of Why does the [language-agnostic] tag exist? or Is [language-agnostic] a meta tag? those pertain to the use of the tag on Stack Overflow)
The language-agnostic tag on ...
GlorfindelMod
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Should we be replacing the blacklist tag with blocklist to reflect current SE standards?
I came across the blacklist tag in a post, and SE's moved over to calling them "blocklists". In the interests of accuracy, I'd propose creating a blocklist tag, and synonymising or merging ...
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Merge and synonymize [bookmark] with [bookmarks]
The tag bookmark has no wiki or excerpt. It has 12 questions, and quite a few, if not all of those questions seem to be asking about the SE bookmarks - and there is already a much clearer, better tag ...
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Does this tag have the correct [syntax]?
The tag syntax here on this site seems to have no clear, specific purpose, and it's been used to refer to many different things on the 20 uses it has so far.
Most of its current uses are already well-...
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Is Meta Stack Exchange a Meta site or a Main site for the purposes of the Social Distancing hats?
There are two Social distancing hats; one for Main sites and one for Meta sites. I see that I earned both of them on Meta Stack Exchange:
Is Meta Stack Exchange actually both a Meta site and a Main ...
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The existence of these tags reduce my [efficiency] and [productivity]
The efficiency and productivity tags have no tag wiki, only 5 resp. 8 questions, and (especially the first one) are not used in a consistent way. I can see some point in focusing productivity on tips &...
GlorfindelMod
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The [tools] tag is too ambiguous. Let's burninate it
The tools tag has 27 questions, and while it does have a tag wiki, it doesn't cover all of the various questions tagged with it. Its most recently posted question was asked 7 years ago.
The questions ...
SpevacusMod
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[how-to] get rid of this tag?
The how-to tag has no tag wiki but 37 questions covering widely different topics. I'd be inclined to associate 'how to' questions with support ("How do I use Stack Exchange feature X") but ...
GlorfindelMod
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Let's disambiguate / burninate [filter]
The filter tag, used on 27 questions has no excerpt or wiki, and it's used in quite a few different situations, see below. I think we should get rid of it, but slowly, in order not to flood the ...
GlorfindelMod
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Was this question deleted? And if yes, why?
I just now was reading this question - "the-loop-has-arrived-what-does-the-community-think-about-it", then I refreshed the page and it was a 404. What happened to it? Was this question deleted? And if ...
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Increase the reputation gained from question upvotes on Meta Stack Exchange to 10
Yes, I'm aware of discussions, leaks, etc. that have gone on recently regarding potential plans from SE to implement this network-wide. However, for the sake of this post, let's ignore those, and ...
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List (both numbered and bulleted) CSS appears to be broken
The CSS for lists across the network appears to be broken. Specifically, the following used to exist, but no longer does:
ol {
list-style-type: decimal;
}
ul {
list-style-type: disc;
}
ul, ol ...
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Make viewing deleted posts and vote counts more widely available on Meta SE
Meta SE is where a lot of discussion about things that affect the entire network take place. While most privileges should be locked behind the usual rep progression, there are some that shouldn't be.
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New lock type: "Official Announcement Lock" [duplicate]
I have wanted to propose something along these lines, but a comment by rjzii stated it very well:
@GeorgeStocker In all fairness, an official SE post should just be locked from the beginning as a ...
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The plurals tag has lua syntax enabled
For some obscure reason - the plurals tag has lua syntax enabled.
This ought to be fixed, since it might get confusing if for some reason there's code in a question with such tag.
Could we remove ...
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Hiding downvoted questions silences important discussions on Meta
TL;DR: Please do not hide Meta Stack Exchange posts on the homepage based on the score because this site works differently than the other ~180 sites listed in https://stackexchange.com/sites.
I just ...
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The [featured-tab] tag should be renamed now that the "Featured" tab is now "Bountied"
As we all know, The "Featured" tab is now "Bountied".
However, on this site, we still have the featured-tab tag that refers to the old name of this tab.
This tag should be renamed ...
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The tags [about-page] and [stackexchange-tour] should merge
The tags about-page and stackexchange-tour mean exactly the same thing:
The about-page tag's description:
For questions relating to the Stack Exchange 'About' page, now also referred to as the '...
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Kotlin highlighting?
I motion to reopen Support Kotlin in code highlighting as there's a lot of evidence
It says
If Kotlin becomes more popular in the future, we will reconsider.
Evidence of maturity
There's a rejected ...
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Let's not be [argumentative]
The tag argumentative seems to be another tag with little use and no clear purpose. Some of the nine current uses are along with subjective where the question refers to the old "subjective and ...
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Site bar missing on Meta Stack Exchange
It seems a new design has been rolled out to Meta Stack Exchange. However, the only way I can see I'm on Meta is the browser's address bar and the placeholder in the search bar ...
I'd expect that ...
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This tag needs some [clarification]
The tag clarification seems to be useless.
When looking at the questions, I see two main use cases:
as a meta-tag for questions where the author wants to have something explained
similar to comments ...
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Can I learn what [learning] is?
The tag learning on this site seems to have no clear purpose, with questions ranging from "learning how to use the site" to "learning about topics". It seems to meet the definition of a too-broad tag.
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Broken bounty post notices
The post notices for bounties look broken on all 4 currently featured MSE questions (to me):
I can only see this on MSE, I put up a bounty to test stuff on IPS and it is looking good there:
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Exact phrase search with tag gets wrapped with additional set of quotes on Meta.SE
Only on Meta Stack Exchange, searching with an exact phrase in the search box will result in the entire query wrapped in an additional pair of quotes.
For example:
[feature-request] "There are no ...
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Make [answers-in-comments] a synonym of [answers-as-comments]
The tags answers-in-comments and answers-as-comments seem to refer to exactly the same thing: comments that should be answers. Because of that, answers-in-comments should be made a synonym of answers-...
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Can we merge [tag-watching] and [favorite-tags]?
It has been a while since favorite tags were renamed to Tag watching and some new features were added. When that happened, a new tag [tag-watching] is created. This was created as a master tag of ...
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Server error when attempting to see more linked questions here on MSE
I tried to check the linked questions of Build and strengthen the Stack Exchange community with "crossover questions" between sites by clicking on "more linked questions" on the right, which ...
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Incorrect logo in Meta SE newsletter banner
I don't know but this might be related to the new layout. On this meta site the newsletter form shows the Stack Overflow logo:
Browser: Firefox 61 on Windows 10, no relevant plugins. The problem ...
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Featured questions are not shown network wide
Currently, there are three questions tagged with featured here on Meta Stack Exchange. Usually, when there is a post with this tag, it is visible throughout the network on the Community bulletin or ...
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