Questions tagged [tags]
For questions about the behavior or usage of tags, which are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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"Interesting posts for you" - ARE NOT [closed]
On Stack Overflow, it says "Interesting posts for you" this is "Based on your viewing history and watched tags." Below is an image of the top posts picked for me today by Stack ...
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How to filter specific tags without including synonyms?
If I want to filter a specific tag that has a synonym, the behavior is that the synonym tag will also be filtered along with the initial tag.
On DIY, [electrical] (18k entries) is a synonym for [...
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On my network profile one of my questions in "Top Questions" has a tag that was never on the question
This question of mine on Law.se has the tags "enforcing-judgment" and "contempt-of-court".
But on my network profile it also has "multiple-jurisdiction".
The question ...
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Synonyms seem to behave differently when searching for them
Usually, if tag [a] is a synonym of [b] then searching for [a] will only return a search for [b]. Because, for all intents and purposes, they are the same tag and the synonym direction determines one ...
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The tags on the stackexchange.com/tour should not be clickable [duplicate]
Related: Tag popup is obscured on the Tour page
Go to Stack Exchange tour page.
Click the tags shown (the unicorn and the daisies tag) in the tour page.
Links to broken page.
The bug is simple, the ...
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How to add additional existing tag in answer of a question to find it in search result? [duplicate]
Sometime it is needed to add additional existing tags in an answer, other than what are specified by the OP in his/her/their question, when the answer includes additional data sections related to ...
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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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Why are we allowed to create a custom filter including a non-existent tag?
After reading this question, I noticed that it is not possible to create a tag while editing the Watched Tags box or the Ignored Tags box, for example:
which clearly shows that the not-a-tag tag does ...
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Tag that does not exist should lead to a "404 Tag Not Found" page
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We should add a proper 404 page for tags that don't exist.
When I search for a tag that doesn't exist on a Stack Exchange site, I get sent to an empty page. Here is an example on StackOverflow:
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Can tag edits no longer allow you to submit closed posts for review in the reopen queue?
Currently, when editing a closed question, you can check “Submit for review” which I think places it into the reopen queue. An edit solely changing tags can do this as well. But, questions aren’t ...
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Please add the “Create tag info” button for users who do not have the Trusted User privilege
Currently when you arrive at an empty tag wiki, there is a bunch of text stating what a tag wiki is and encouraging you to create one.
If you are a Trusted User, then you will find a button at the ...
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The watched tag icon does not appear on tags included in searches or on its own tag page [duplicate]
Let's assume that you are watching the bug tag. When viewing the questions page you should see something like the following (notice the watch icon in the "bug" tag):
The chat tag is not ...
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Some tag suggestions don't show up when entering their initial characters in the tag field
Some tag suggestions don't show up when entering their initial letters in the tags field when editing the tags field.
For example, on Arqade, the following is shown:
..even though the tag Android ...
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Add spaces to tag names [duplicate]
How do you like the idea of adding a space in the label name?
Only we need to make a verification system so that labels like " " are not allowed. But like this - "functional ...
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Is it possible to link to a tags search result?
At times, when writing a meta post, I find linking to a tags search result (i.e 'within' x.stackexchange.com/tags/) would exactly cover the tags I am talking about in the post (e.g. the results of the ...
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How can I search for tags with that include a specified string in their Usage Guidance?
I would like to search for all tags (on Stack Overflow) that include some specific string in the Usage Guidance portion of their Tag Wiki. How can I do that?
Specifically I would like to search for ...
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Questions tagged with a synonym of a tag and closed by a user with a gold badge for the master tag incorrectly show the synonym in the close notice
The situation is very likely related to Questions migrated to localized meta sites get the [discussion] tag in English even if it's synonymized to the localized tag equivalent
But in this case ...
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“Top users” and “Learn more ...” pages are empty
Clicking on “Top users” or “Learn more ...” in the question list for a tag displays an empty page.
This happens
on multiple sites (for example on Meta Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow, Mathematics ...
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Broken behavior for unmerged tag synonym when there's no questions with target tag
Here on MSE I found the tag that has a synonym but the there's no questions with target tag. That's how it look on tag synonyms page:
On mouse over you can see the tooltip "This tag does not ...
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Synonyms in related tags list
There's an old report Tag synonyms shouldn't be listed in Related Tags on the sidebar marked as completed more than 10 years ago.
Now we have faced with the same thing again for synonymized but ...
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What can/should we do about the homepage currently being flooded by 'housekeeping'?
Right now, staff members are performing a cleanup of various status-review and status-deferred tags for functionality which is no longer supported (think legacy Jobs, Winter Bash). While some ...
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This issue wasn’t resolved; there were some color issues for the moderator tags in “Network Profile”
I found that a staff marked my previous question (Some tags in “Top Questions” in “Network Profile” have different colors for their font as in Meta Stack Exchange) as status-completed 3 hours ago. The ...
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Upcoming sign-up experiments related to tags
Update August 29, 2024
We launched the recent tags experiment on Stack Overflow. A bug is currently causing it to show up network-wide. We are working to correct that, but if you find yourself ...
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Incorrect processing of "Enter" press on tag merge
In tag merge tool (available to site moderators) it's possible to select target tag from dropdown list, e.g.:
You can use either mouse or keyboard to confirm the choice. Unfortunately if you use a ...
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Tags disappeared after edit
I don't know how to repro, but I observed one case of tags that disappeared after an edit on this post. Refreshing the page fixed the issue, but that's still unexpected. I was using the latest ...
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No margin between tags in the search results on stackexchange.com [closed]
If you search for anything on stackexchange.com, the results show tags that are way too close together. Surely a result of other recent changes to tag rendering.
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Some tags in “Top Questions” in “Network Profile” have different colors for their font
See my network profile for top questions:
See the bug, status-completed, and email tags. They have a weird blue color in their tags’ font and they don’t like the color of their tags’ font in Meta ...
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Markdown code for tags in older posts is rendered as text
We were able to add tags in a post using a special syntax, like this
[tag:example].
For older posts, they don't appear as tags anymore. Instead they are rendered as hypertext links. This bug is "...
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What happend with tags? [duplicate]
Is it new tag design?
The whole style of tags is changed: font, colors, filling ...
That's how it looked before, e.g. on ruSO.meta
And now it looks like that:
I didn't find any new related ...
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All tag labels suddenly appear in bold font
On all the sites, the tag names started appearing bold in the last 15 or so minutes. Looks rather garish. Is this some new un-announced feature release?
For example:
One of the worst affected pieces ...
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When a tag is removed, why isn't it removed from watchlists?
Recent activity in New Caledonia (and the closure of the airport) made me wonder if there were any recent questions in the air-calin tag on Travel. It's one of my watched tags, so I clicked it and -- ...
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Does "popular tags” need to be repeated in the “How to tag?” suggestions when editing a question?
My question is shown in the title. If someone does not understand my question, you can see it in the picture below:
There are two things that can be seen from the picture:
"favor using existing ...
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Data explorer query takes a lot of time and needs to be optimized
This is a Stack Exchange Data Explorer query which gets the top users on specific skill scores (example: JavaScript) based on a specific country (example: Egypt), and it took a lot of time until it ...
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Edited tags in tag edits don't show up in the edit history page if the tag has been deleted [duplicate]
Example: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/posts/142483/revisions
Edited tags in edits 2 and 3 aren't displayed (I added red arrows to point to their absence). I believe it is because the tag was ...
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Catch them if you can... but you can't. (aka can't click "Watch tag" and "Ignore tag" from tag popup) [duplicate]
While reading this possibly related bug, I decided to check other popup: the tag popup.
When hovering over a tag, the familiar popup does appear, however when going with the mouse away from the tag ...
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Should we repeat tags in question title? [duplicate]
In a comment to this question:
LilyPond - Put ALL noteheads to the left of stems, regardless of stem direction
a user asked OP to repeat the tag [lilypond] in the question title. This doesn't seem to ...
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For each Stack Exchange site, would it be good to have a pseudo-dictionary webpages for tag list? [closed]
For each Stack Exchange site, would it be good to have a pseudo-dictionary web page for tag list?
Essentially, it is a dictionary web page(s) containing a list of pages used by a particular Stack ...
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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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Tags column of Posts table changed delimiter format. Many historical queries broken. Special tag rendering also broken
To the best of my memory, and in reading my past queries- some of which I re-run on a regular basis- the format of the Tags column of the Posts table in SEDE used to be like <starball><is>&...
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Only add the "edited by" label for big changes, and not "Edit tags"
Editing tags is a minor change; "Edited by ..." should be added only for big edits/ improvements.
Personally, I find "Edited by ... Kilroy" distracting, not helpful.
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Enhancement Request: Indicate on the Tag listings when a tag is a synonym of another
I wanted to define some tags today (so many are left undefined when created) and chose to set the filter to "popular" and jump the the last page.
As it turns out, every single tag on the ...
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What should we do for the tag [meta-reputation]?
Today, I found a tag called meta-reputation. This tag doesn’t contain tag wiki and tag wiki excerpt and is only used by 2 questions only.
These 2 questions are all about the reputation for meta stack ...
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What should we write for the tag wiki excerpt for the tag [convert-to-answer]?
Yesterday, I suggested edits for both the tag wiki and tag wiki excerpt for the tag convert-to-answer, and my tag wiki edit was approved, but my tag wiki excerpt was rejected.
You can see here: https:/...
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Warn after the first tag that one needs 300 points to create new tags
Warn after entering the first new tag that one needs 300 points to create new tags. Don't wait until the user is through filling in the tags and presses Post, before informing him or her that all ...
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What’s the difference between the tags [convert-to-comment] and [answers-as-comments]? [duplicate]
I found it weird, there are two tags convert-to-comment and answers-as-comments.
I have looked the tag wiki given, I found that these two tags mean the same things, that is “For questions related to ...
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Why did the recent maintenance notices point to a search for [maintenance] or [maintenance]? [duplicate]
The second link in these notices that were up today:
point to
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/maintenance+or+maintenance?tab=Newest
Why the duplicate:
[maintenance] or [...
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Edit review page: looks like all tags gone
No big deal, but here with the side by side display, a quick look gives the false impression that all the tags were removed in the new version.
So perhaps it would be best to repeat them anyway, in ...
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What can we do with [culture]? It hasn't a tag wiki and most questions are old
The tag culture doesn't have a tag wiki.
Required tags: As of January 16th, 2024, there are 16 questions tagged discussion, three questions tagged feature-request, and one question tagged support. ...
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"Clear" button for tags field
I think the tags field would benefit by a "Clear" button.
I inadvertently pasted three sentences into the select tags field, thereby creating dozens of tags. Had to click the delete 'x' one ...
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Move tag info from source tag to the destination in case when destination tag exists, but doesn't have info yet
In tag merging process (available for moderators) when the resulting tag name doesn't exist yet the process will behave like a tag renaming. I.e. all tag info (short and detailed) will be "moved&...
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