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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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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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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Searching for a tag that does not exist takes you to an empty page
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Why should add a proper 404 page for tags that don't exist.
When I search for a tag that doesn't exists on a Stack Exchange tag, I get sent to an empty page. Here is an example on StackOverflow:
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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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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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How can I find the best answered questions in a tag that were asked today?
I'd like to see all questions in, for example, c++ that were asked today, answered and sorted by score.
Is this possible? What search query can I use?
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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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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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What are tag synonyms and merged tags? How do they work?
What are tag synonyms?
How can tag synonyms be distinguished from "real" tags?
How are new tag synonyms created?
Who can create tag synonyms?
How can I delete/reverse/undo bad tag synonyms?
What are ...
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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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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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Chat / markdown do not parse links or tags with an asterisk in them
I use the tag php* as a favourite, to catch all of the badly (version specific) tagged PHP questions. When trying to link this tag in chat with [tag:php*] that tag is not parsed.
Also when pasting a ...
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Edit CV tag editor alignment issue [closed]
I see an alignment issue in the edit cv's tag editor section.
Screenshot for reference:
Some CSS class is overridden after the page load, GIF image for while refresh the page:
Google chrome ...
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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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Merging and synonymizing tags: how can we handle tag information?
This is the question about tools accessible to site moderators.
We have several tags that we want to synonymize/merge in some cases. Some tags have tag information, but others don't.
What's the ...
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How do I correctly tag my questions?
Here are some tips for tagging questions. These guidelines will help you more accurately tag your questions, which in turn will help them get more attention and lead to better answers faster.
For ...
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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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Tag synonyms and searching
In relation to an ongoing election, this post was mentioned: Include information about elections in the newsletter. One of the tags on that question is newsletter, which is a synonym of community-...
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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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Questions migrated to localized meta sites get the [discussion] tag in English even if it's synonymized to the localized tag equivalent
Questions that get migrated to localized meta sites have the discussion tag in English, instead of the localized equivalent of the tag.
E.g. on Stack Overflow in Russian: in question Где найти ...
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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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Is there a way (e.g. with SEDE) to find questions with an existing tag that's been synonymized (but not merged) into another tag?
Say Tag 1 has been added as a synonym of Tag 2, so that new questions attempting to use Tag 1 will be automatically pointed to Tag 2. However, the two tags haven't been merged (yet). Then, if you ...
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Seeking feedback on tag colors update
Update May 22, 2024
Back in November, we requested feedback on our tag design. Among the options we presented, it became clear that Options #3 and #4 were the most favored by the community. ...
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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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Please show tags in the list of suggested questions that may already have your answer
Over on Arqade we've had a meta discussion recently regarding the inclusion of game names in question titles due to an issue where the 'Questions that may already have your answer' suggestions when ...
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Missing tag descriptions if 981px <= browser size <= 1063px
Over at https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/388593/1709587, Cerbrus, James, and Zoe discovered a curiosity: if, at the moment that you load the /ask page, your browser window is 1000px wide, all tag ...
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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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Reviewing Posts - Retagging Bug
While trying to figure out this problem: Repeated "Save Tag Edits" Bug when reviewing?
I came across another (I believe it is) bug. This one however is a bit different.
When you go to ...
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Tag sets - intersection [duplicate]
How do tag sets work? I created one tag set containing "java" and "caching" and was expecting to get only question related to both of them. But it seems to return question related to any of them which ...
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It should be possible to search by more than one tag on Careers [closed]
Currently it is only possible to search by one tag.
So, for instance, I can search by the "Haskell" tag. I can also search by the "pair-programming" tag. I cannot however search for all listings that ...
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Retain chosen tags when navigating tag filter options
When i change to custom tags and enter some tags. then change to all and back to custom tags all input from the first time are removed.
I think it will be better if the changes will be saved and ...
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Please add a tag search functionality to Careers [duplicate]
First, if this is the wrong place then I have to say that someone needs to fix the links in the footer of Careers site (this is how I ended here).
Anyway, I was looking for "C" jobs, and found lots ...
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Enable the intrinsic sitename tag blacklist on older sites
I was going through the "blacklisted user input" page on Physics, and I noticed that the standard intrinsic tag blacklist that stops users from entering the site name as a tag (e.g. ^physics$) was ...
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"Years of experience" in careers should not be based solely on listed job history [closed]
I'm guessing that the years of experience in given tags is calculated based on the job history presented. For a variety of reasons, I haven't listed all the jobs I've had over the last few decades, ...
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What happens with the tagged questions when a tag-synonym is cancelled?
As far as I know, moderators can cancel tag synonyms and such things happen occasionally. (I've seen some threads about removal of tag synonyms here on meta.SE.)
How will the questions be tagged ...
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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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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 "...
CarrottStaff
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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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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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Tag creation in SO [closed]
In the past, users with more than 300 or so reputation points (I don't remember the exact number) had the ability to create new tags. Those tags made it easier to search for similar questions and to ...
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Position of tags when reading questions
It happens to me rather often that I look at a question such as "How to do whatever with Collections" and while that's what I'm looking for in Java, it's useless if the question refers to, for ...
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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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