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Give the ability to only edit tags for a question without the editing post (Body)

Question edit problem when I am only editing tags Recently I tried to add a tag for a question, but it gave the error Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this ...
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There are [multiple] problems with this tag

The multiple tag has 11 questions about ... multiple ... different things: e.g. multiple accounts, multiple tags, multiple duplicates. It doesn't have an excerpt, and can probably never be used as the ...
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Show tag popup when hovering tags in Watched or Ignored sections

When I hover a tag in the Watched Tags section, it only shows a tooltip "show questions tagged '[tag name]'": However, it will be more useful to have the full tag popup appear there, same ...
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Too little space selecting long tags in custom question filter

This screenshot shows my first impression the new info button when creating a filter (on RPG SE): There are two problems here: The top tag shown here has 11 questions, not 1 The bottom tag makes the ...
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Who is the synonym, and who is the target?

Let's assume I found that tags A and B are synonyms. Now let's assume that tag A is much more popular. Therefore, I am still assuming, tag A should be maintained while tag B should be the synonym. For ...
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On which sites are suggested tags currently enabled?

There is a feature called suggested tags where the software suggests some additional tags depending on what is already written. Originally I thought that they are only enabled on Stack Overflow, SO ...
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We have no [knowledge] of this tag

The Meta Stack Exchange tag knowledge has ten questions about many different topics. It does not have a tag wiki or excerpt. Since about everything we do here is asking for or sharing knowledge, I ...
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Possibility of using booleans in the query parameter of /search/excerpts

We can use the symbols ; (respectively &) on the tagged parameter to represent an AND (respectively an OR) boolean operator on tags. For example, the API call /2.2/search/excerpts?order=desc&...
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The Empty tag is a meaningless void of meta

I just came across empty. It's a classic meta tag, bereft of meaning. I'd like to consign it to the void, and proper oblivion, but I wonder if anyone finds meaning in emptiness. So... any reasons to ...
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Synonyms suggestions should require moderator approval, not just 4 votes. The system should be overhauled in general

The synonym system needs an overhaul. Right now, there's a synonym request tag, just because of how useless the site's synonym system is, where on some SEs at least it is encouraged not to use it, as ...
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Hottest answers of all time on a specifc tag not right

When I looked at the hottest answers for the discussion tag, I realized that some answers were missing from the list, like this one. An even bigger example is the python tag on Stack Overflow, it ...
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Winter bash blog posts are not tagged correctly

There are many winter bash posts in The Overflow blog posts. Those can be searched by the wording winter bash. But we have tag option in The Overflow blog, but it was not linked properly to the post. ...
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Alignment of tags in posts

Today I saw a post in the review list. There were 5 tags and all were long tags. The last tag overlapped the link. I was about to take a screenshot of the post, but it got edited. So, I posted a ...
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Where can I propose an increase in the number of allowable tags on a Stack Overflow question?

I would like to propose an increase of number of tags allowed per question from 5 to 8. Where is the best place to post my proposal?
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Alignment issue in the taginfo page

There is an alignment issue in the Tag info page, the vote counts and post text are not aligned correctly. For example in the winter-bash hot/new questions page, we can see the alignment issue. ...
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Can we [table] this tag, and use [tables] instead?

I saw the table tag on this, now deleted, off-topic question. I figure, since tables are now supported in markdown, we should be able to merge table into tables, especially considering the latter has ...
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How are the number of questions answered for the last 30 days calculated?

Does anyone know how Stack Exchange calculates the last 30 day answers to certain tags, like the one circled in red: What are the numbers in the 1st and 2nd columns? BTW, does below screenshot show ...
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“Perhaps you'd like to select a different tab?” - shouldn't that be 'tag' instead of 'tab'?

I just removed a tag on Linguistics.SE from all questions and then reloaded the tagged questions page. It was empty, as expected, but the suggestion is to select a different tab. It think it should ...
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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 &...
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Expose moderator-only and required tags in SEDE

The API has two methods to get a list of required tags (the gray ones) and moderator-only tags (the red ones): required tags moderator only tags That means there must be an enumeration (or two ...
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Why is the page design for search results different than questions/tagged results?

For example, check out stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python as compared to stackoverflow.com/search Personally, I find the /search version much less visually pleasing. (I am curious if others ...
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Is it appropriate to link in a tag wiki to tag-specific discussion forums?

I am quite active on the [huggingface-transformers] tag on Stack Overflow, and quite a lot of questions are relatively implementation-specific (and thus frequently remain unanswered due to their sheer ...
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Burninate the “inappropriate-advertisements” tag

Because we now have the Report this ad feature, I'm requesting that this tag be removed. (That post is not yet marked status-completed, but this comment says it was released network-wide nearly a ...
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Can the editor for editing tag descriptions get updated to match the normal questions/answers editor?

The text editor that is shown when editing tag descriptions still uses the previous behaviour for inserting links and images. Also, the placeholder text for links is still http:// instead of https:// ...
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What's a disallowed tag called now?

Clearly there's a lot of work to do to fix it historically (and I will be quite miffed at people getting overenthusiastic about this) - but previously we had tag blacklists and tag blacklist requests. ...
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Completely block users without enough rep to create tags from using tags with zero uses

Today, we just had two cases on this site where a tag had been removed from all questions, but was used by a new user in the meantime while it hadn't been removed from the system yet. The tag confused-...
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Find questions where any of the tags are in the title or body?

I would like to find posts where any of the tags are present in the title or body of the question, e.g. Python and C# are the tags and title is Fix my Python Problem? SELECT TOP 10 Posts.Id, Posts....
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How can I list posts which have a particular tag, but didn't have it when originally asked?

I would like to gather some hard data on the use / misuse / non-use of some particular tags. I need a Data.SE query, customisable by tag, which can provide me with a list of all posts which: have had ...
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Let's not engage in [social-manipulation]

I just encountered the tag social-manipulation (currently three questions, no tag wiki). The tag is unclear and seems to portend a rant about what the poster sees as social issues on the site or ...
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Top users list of answerers that includes post count

I wanted a query like this that ranks by answer vote count for a given tag but that also includes a column with the number of answers. Essentially a replica of the topusers page list for all-time ...
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Confused about the use of [confused-users]

The confused-users tag has eleven questions and no tag wiki or excerpt. Since most support questions are asked by slightly, moderately or completely confused users, and otherwise they might be helped ...
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Lots of tags breaks mobile responsive layout [duplicate]

I really hope this is a duplicate. Here is a screenshot: When a post has lots of tags on the mobile responsive layout ('full site' in the footer), they don't wrap round and you end up with ...
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Special tags not recognized by tag suggestion box if they contain diacritics or non-Latin characters

When asking a question on Stack Overflow Meta en espaƱol or on Stack Overflow Š½Š° руссŠŗŠ¾Š¼ Meta, the tag suggestion box doesn't seem to recognize required tags with diacritics or non-Latin characters; ...
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Pirate's eye (Feature request to disable watched/ignored-tags with a single click)

The Pirate's eye The current design of all stack-exchange sites allow the users to Watch and Ignore tags. The purpose of this feature has been described in the following post: What do ā€œwatched tagsā€ ...
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Scroll to the sides in mobile when question has many tags [duplicate]

I've reproduced this behaviour in different communities, so it's very likely to be a general problem. I'm using Google Chrome in both Android and Windows 10. When the question has a big list of tags, ...
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Improving syntax highlighting language auto-detection

highlight.js's current auto-detection is arguably poor, due in large part to the large number of available languages it has to pick from when not given a language hint. I suggest that when the ...
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During a search some posts show their tags, some others don't

When I'm doing a search, some entries show their tags, and some others don't even if when you go into their details the poster have put some on them. Where do you declare bugs about Stack Overflow / ...
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The div containing tags for a question doesn't reflow, causing layout issues for questions with long/many tags

This appears to be a css bug which (I think) has recently been introduced. It's most visible when viewing questions on Stack Exchange sites using mobile devices (the full site with responsiveness, not ...
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Why do we have [deleted-questions] and [deleted-answers] tags when we have [deleted-posts]?

The tag info about deleted-posts is: For questions about questions or answers that are deleted. If this tag is for questions about both deleted answers and deleted questions, then why do we have ...
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List a deleted tag synonym creator's ID number instead of “anon” [duplicate]

Over at the Meta SE tag synonyms page, I saw the synonym "tag-merge --> retag-request": which was created by a deleted user - if their account wasn't deleted, it would have provided a ...
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How can I browse through tags that contain the character “+”?

I noticed that Stack Overflow en espaƱol has a tag named [php+codeigniter+mysql+jquery]: You can browse in https://es.stackoverflow.com/tags. However, if I click on the tag it sends me to https://es....
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Year Level/School Level Tags [duplicate]

Year Level/School Level Tags Context: So this question mainly applies to the more academically related sites - the ones that come immediately to mind are Math SE, English SE, Physics SE, etc. - ...
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Wrong number associated with specific Tag

When I check the number of my tags, can see I'm particularly interested in the bug count. It has 0 bug x5. When I check all my posts related with the tag bug, There's 6 results with a total of more ...
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Tag Autocompletion Not Working [duplicate]

I'm currently trying to post on serverfault. When I try to search for a tag, the dropdown is empty. I have verified in Chrome debug tools that the call is being made and results are being returned as ...
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Tag suggestions are empty

It apears to have been resolved by now. The issue still appears on SO The issue regressed here on MSE as well I recently got access to the 10K-tools, and the inline tag editor, which I observed to ...
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Make [glossary] a synonym of [terminology]

This was already discussed on What should we do with [glossary]?. There is only one answer which is proposing this, it has +15 / -0. glossary has 8 questions, no tag excerpt no tag wiki terminology ...
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What should we do with [glossary]?

glossary has eight questions (the last week I added it to three questions), no tag excerpt, and no wiki. The most prominent question having this tag is Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-...
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Change “View tag” to “View tag info” in tag tooltip

In the tooltip of any tag below the question you can see a link "View tag" in the end of text that refers to the list of questions that have that tag. In the same time you can just click on ...
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Should we have FAQ style questions for tag related terms coined by the community that are commonly used across SE sites?

I have being participating and reading discussions about tags. On some of these discussions the OP included a tag term that looks easy to understand like "hyphenated tag" (a tag having an ...
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Hide questions with ignored tags in Favorite Tags filter

My favourite page on Stack Exchange is /filters, which by default shows the "Favorite Tags" built-in filter. This filter is great, because it includes all favourite/"watched" tags ...

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