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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Empty tags (with no questions) are not deleted
For example in this question, it was said that empty tags are deleted after 24 hours. This seems to not be the case for tags which have a synonym or an info. Examples: works-on-my-machine calculation
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Suggested tags are not displayed with their excerpts and other info when asking/editing a question on mobile
When asking or editing a question, one is offered tag suggestions while typing in the "Tags" section. On a desktop browser, each popup also displays the tag wiki excerpt (when available), ...
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Tag overview page cuts off beginning of some descriptions (not just common words)
This answer says that the descriptions on the tag overview page are meant to cut off common words such as "This tag" at the beginning of the tag description and although I find this weird, it seems to ...
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Do we still need the Retag privilege?
Ever since suggested edits were rolled out, the Retag privilege has been a bit... Weird. You can retag questions at any rep-level, even with no rep (or account) at all - you just need a few people to ...
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Confirm dialog when an interesting (or ignored) tag is to be deleted
In the SO main page you can add/remove your own 'Interesting Tags' and 'Ignored Tags'. Well, I navigate fairly often by the 'Interesting Tags' to find questions of interest. I've arranged the '...
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Available translation isn't used for tag merging error
Available translation isn't used for tag merging error:
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Should we burninate the [groups] tag?
I recently found out that Meta Stack Exchange has a groups tag. It has 9 questions and no tag wiki or excerpt, and really doesn't add any useful information to questions. On most (not all) questions, ...
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RSS feeds returning wrong tags
I have a couple of tag RSS feeds set up across multiple sites, and apparently starting on January 2nd, occasionally the feeds are fetching data for a completely different tag.
For example, on January ...
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Implement {duplicate}, {closed} etc. tags as UI elements, rather than appending text [duplicate]
At this point, I am very much used to closed/duplicate questions being marked with [closed] or [duplicate] text in their title:
But what exactly is stopping us from implementing it as an actual ...
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When should site-specific tags be included in site recommendation questions?
There are several site-recommendation questions, including site-specific tags; however, several questions recommend, i.e, Web Applications SE not having a tag for this site.
There are 6 questions, ...
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Is [spoonfeeding] a meta-tag? Is it really a relevant meta meme?
I added this spoonfeeding to a question I posted a few moments ago, before that question, it had four questions closed.
I looked at the FAQ about the Meta Memes, and spoonfeeding is not included.
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(At a minimum) questions custom filter seems to not be updating properly
Here's the top of my filter:
One of the questions in that top of the view: Entity Framework: Exclude audit properties from migration changes
Confirmed as submitted 4 minutes ago.
If I navigate to ...
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Do we have a canonical question about retagging based on answer?
I'm looking for a canonical question about retagging based on an answer.
I.E. in my question When should site-specific tags be included in site recommendation questions?, the comment by Nij
It never ...
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Retagging questions with the answer?
When the answer to a question can be summarized in one word, I've found myself wanting to retag questions with that answer as a tag. Is this good practice?
Example: If "lib-y" is a good answer to the ...
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TechGraph: The landscape of a tag/tech in Stack Overflow [closed]
I built a website https://graphofknowledge.appspot.com/ which can provide an overview/landscape of certain tech (tag) in Stack Overflow. (will be extended to all sites in Stack Exchange)
Given a tech ...
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Why don't we add a question with the same tag on multiple Stack Exchange sites?
At first I thought my question might be a duplicate of View questions with the same tag across multiple SE sites, but it's different. In fact it's the reverse.
Most of the time users encounter with ...
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Tagging [site-recommendation] questions asking to recommend sites to ask about stuff related to computers
There are more than 2k questions tagged site-recommendation. Most of these questions are related to stuff that one way or another, is related to computers in any of their form (personal, server, ...
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Display a hint that search used a tag that doesn't exist
When doing a search and using a tag in the search, there's nothing in the UI that hints that the tag used does not exist. After doing the search, the suggestions don't mention checking the tag(s) used....
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I just featured a question on meta...and I'm not a moderator [duplicate]
In a strange twist of events, I got this error that said that my edits couldn't be submitted because I needed the moderator tag featured. I'm not a moderator, so I just decided to humor the system.
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Parasite addition to tags during revision redaction
During the redaction of post revision (link for staff) I'm faced with that a weird tag rendering:
As you can see there are two vertical red lines on the right hand side of each tag. Possible culprits ...
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Tag popup is obscured on the Tour page
On the Tour page the popup for tags on demo questions is partially obscured by the frame border:
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Do we need a [hardware] reset on this tag?
The hardware tag (here on MSE) is a bit of a mess. Here's the wiki:
This tag is for questions about the hardware the Stack Exchange software uses to either build or run their software. Do not use ...
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What should we do with the [alias] tag?
Since we've been seeing some meta-tag discussion these past few days, here's another:
What should we do with the six-question wiki-less alias tag?
It seems to have been used as a synonym of tag-...
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Should we clean up our AI-related tags?
We have the following tags:
chatgpt
ai-tools
generative-ai (synonym of gen-ai) (this is different from prompt-design-site)
overflowai
artificial-intelligence1
robots (despite the tag wiki, this is ...
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"New posts" on admin panel incorrectly takes into account tag excerpt/description
On admin panel I see the "6" in the "New Posts" column for myself (per month):
* screenshot has been taken on Google-translated page from Russian to English
According the summary ...
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This tag encompasses a large [web] of topics
We have a web tag here on MSE. I think it should go. It was 21 questions (as of now) with no tag wiki or info. It includes the following topics:
The "web" version of SE (in contrast to the ...
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What is the current process/policy for auto-deletion of single question tags?
In the early days of SE, there was discussion about auto-deleting low-usage tags. The pro argument was that they didn't serve a useful tag function and diluting tag topics made tagging less effective. ...
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Remove "View tag" link from the tag tooltip
Since the old one related feature-request is not implemented yet, I would like to ask for an alternative.
The list of question with a tag can be obtained by clicking on the tag itself, so there's no ...
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Private tags - Can we enforce NDAs?
It has been explained (and I agree with this) that SEI has no obligation to enforce NDAs. However, enforcing NDAs may enable some of our community projects. For example, Gaming would like to have its ...
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Why is the first tag sometimes in the <title> tag of some questions?
I searched through both Gaming's Meta and here, and couldn't find an answer to this. I was reviewing my questions on gaming.stackexchange.com this morning and I noticed that in certain questions like ...
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Which tag is added to the page title?
Over at Why is the first tag sometimes in the <title> tag of some questions, Rebecca mentions
To this end, the tag listed first on a question (sorted by popularity of the tag)
So, what's the ...
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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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A real solution to ambiguous tags
Introduction
Even within a site's relatively focused range of topics (it's unlikely anybody on SO will think sun refers to the solar system's star), some tags are inherently ambiguous.
There are ...
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Add thousands separator to numbers in the Badges and Tags sections
Can we add a thousands separator for large numbers on the badges and tags pages?
The current format doesn't use the commas:
would say 16,196
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How can I find the tag wiki for a tag that has been synonymized with another?
The system allows to synonymize tags where the resulting tag does not have a wiki, but the source one had. How in that case I can find the wiki of the source tag without breaking the synonymized pair?
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Tags should be markable as obsolete, and opted out of being suggested for new questions
I don't know what algorithm is being used to come up with tag suggestions, but it probably wouldn't be too hard to add a simple filter that blocks it from suggesting "obsolete" tags.
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Invalid number of questions by tag after synonymizing
It's obviously a caching issue, but it is very weird and long-standing (more than 10 days).
After making the tag synonym on ruSO, I am faced with the interesting behavior related to the number of ...
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The use of [big] tag [closed]
There are 83 questions tagged big (latest one was asked 4 days back). Is there any use of big on Stack Overflow? I think it should be deleted.
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Why can't you suggest tag synonyms without 2,500 Rep?
I was working with a fairly little used tag recently and ran into something annoying. The tag, chromium embedded is referred to more often by its abbreviation CEF. However, CEF was not listed as a tag ...
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'Edit tags' loading indicator styling bug [duplicate]
When pressing the 'Edit tags' button, most of the times the loading indicators get some absurd styling:
Other question/GIF
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Could there be a one-page (or more) of alphabetical listing of tags to quickly scan to use on questions?
When seeking tags for a question, often there isn't any such tag, so a person has to erase and start over listing tags, only to be rejected again. If there were a single page listing, a quick scan ...
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How to read the "tag merge" log
Site moderators have a tool to merge tags. As a result of such a merge, a popup window with a log appears, e.g. here is a recent merging:
updating post history, 130 rows affected (pipe delimited)
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How can I see the average and median question scores for a given tag on a given SE site?
How can I see the average and median question scores for a given tag on a given SE site? E.g., what is the average and median score for the questions that have the tag bug on Meta.SE (I took this ...
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"Tag edit confirmed" notification seems to use relative or wrong URIs [duplicate]
While being at networkengineering.stackexchange.com I noticed that I had received a "tag edit confirmation" for "UNIX & Linux".
However when clicking on the notification I ...
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Why does "lang-bash" not highlight a list of commands and their output but adding the [bash] tag to a question does?
Why does <!-- language-all: lang-bash --> not highlight a list of commands and their output (like it used to) but adding the [bash] tag (instead) to a question does?
Example question: FQDN ...
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Incorrect number of questions in tag on question creation
Number of questions in tag shown when tag is selected on question creation might show incorrect value, if name of the tag is too long.
For example, when attempting to add tag prometheus-alertmanager ...
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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 can I get information of a tag with the Stack Exchange API?
The API documentation of usage of /tags/{tags}/info GET does not give us this information:
How can I get this text description?
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The [interesting-tags] tag should not be a default tag on Meta sites
The tag interesting-tags is one of the default tags which are automatically imported to a local meta when a new site is created. (And cannot be removed, even if they are not used in any questions.)
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Tag synonyms: show suggestions to people who can vote
I just found (by surfing other questions) the dsl tag (which seems to be used mainly for domain-specific languages, although there is no tag wiki yet), and saw that there also is the domain-specific-...
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