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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Are the tagnames on Stack Overflow also licensed under CC-BY-SA? [duplicate]
I want to use the tagnames commercially. If attribution is to be provided how do I correctly attribute a tagname?
And if I want to use the tag excerpts and wiki's as well, how do I adhere to the ...
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Put tags under the title [duplicate]
Current situation
Tags should not into titles.
In an opened question, tags are shown at the very bottom of the question.
Problem
If a question was opened via a websearch site (which does not show ...
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Show tags in “Similar questions”
Actual situation
When searching on stackexchange you get a list of search results. Each topic also contains a list of its tags below it.
When adding a new question, after typing the title, a field "...
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Expand tag filter with additional options
Sometimes I want to search questions which are marked let's say with c# tag and either .net or .net-core and are not marked with entity-framework. But, currently it is not possible. It would be great ...
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What is 'Retag' for the organizer badge?
The question is NOT about the organizer badge, but about what retag means.
I was checking what the organizer badge is and noticed there is not a description of what 'retag' exactly means or how it's ...
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Burninate [15-characters]
status-completed
Currently there exists a special case of character-limit, namely 15-characters. The latter refers explicitly to the minimum length of comments. Seeing the relative low amount of ...
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Let's close the [awards] ceremony
The tag awards has 11 questions, no tag wiki, and is used for three different purposes:
Awarding bounties, e.g. Is it possible to avoid awarding a bounty on a low quality post?
Awarding badges, e.g. ...
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How can we improve the inconsistent tagging of the questions relating to the recent uproar and associated issues?
Question description
There are many questions (~250 in the last five weeks) relating to
Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?
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What does it mean when a question is grayed out? [duplicate]
I cannot correlate with closure, negative votes, no answers, or any common thread between questions that are grayed out, and those that are not. One can still open them, and answer or comment at will....
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Get the Most Number of Questions from Tags [closed]
I am new to this website and I am still learning how to post and get answers, so, please be patient on me.
I would like to know how do we get 3 tags at most the will give the most number of questions ...
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Is there a reason why calls for the MRRP post being [featured] are being ignored? [duplicate]
The post Feedback post: Moderator review and reinstatement processes affects the community as a whole. It is supposed to exist to collect feedback from users regarding the recent changes.
Surely it ...
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Suggestion to add tags to answer list in user account
I would like to see tags in the list of answers under the name of the question. At a minimum, I would find the answer I need much faster.
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Do tags in results pages work properly? [duplicate]
When I run a search (as this one https://stackexchange.com/search?q=wikipedia) and then I click on a tag, I have always Page Not Found.
Is it ok?
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Send users to the correct site's tagged questions from the SE search results
In the search results of stackexchange.com/search?q=*, allow people to click on a tag and go to that website with the tag page open.
For example, https://stackexchange.com/search?q=regex shows me ...
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How did I just receive a tag badge if there were no recent upvotes on that tag and no edits to add that tag to prior answers?
Yesterday (14 October) in Music: Practice and Theory I received the bronze modulation tag badge. Yet a look at my reputation shows that I haven't received any upvotes on answers for modulation-tagged ...
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Yet another feature request to prevent off-topic questions be marked as HNQ
Recently one questions on Web Applications (WA) reached the HNQ. This was tagged dns by the OP.
The WA's dns tag excerpt currently says (emphasis mine)
Domain Name System - Usually questons(sic) ...
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Why was the *pronoun* tag removed?
I recently asked a couple questions with the pronouns tag. A mega-high-rep user removed that tag. Now, the tag doesn't exist.
What gives? Why was the pronouns tag deleted?
Update: I don't know if ...
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Should we have a tag for significant points in time?
There are many discussions about the current incidence. For example:
Summing up the main issues (The Story So Far)
Disclose the discussion that started the current SE-moderators debate
An Update to ...
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The Exact Use Of Question Upvotes And A Suggestion On Question Downvotes
I was wondering why there is question upvotes. The obvious reason would be that the question is useful, clear, and has a positive impact towards the community. Also, the question asker has researched ...
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Meta tags are inconsistently writing “Stack Exchange” with or without a space in their names
On Meta, here are some tags:
stack-exchange
stack-exchange-button
stack-exchange-openid
stack-exchange-team
stackexchange-hq
stackexchange-filter
russian-stackexchange
stackexchange-tour
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Stack Overflow - Home - Interesting tab: Showing almost no yellow card (interesting) questions [duplicate]
I am a web developer who is used to navigating the Interesting tab in the Home page of Stack Overflow to find fresh new questions that use the tags that I configured in my profile (JS, HTML, CSS, ...
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There are [community-standards] here?
The community-standards (30 questions, no tag wiki) tag here on Meta Stack Exchange seems unclear. It seems to imply some sort of social standard or community consensus is happening or being requested,...
asked Sep 10 at 14:06
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What happens to tags from a question that was migrated to another site were the tags doesn't exist?
I post a question with the x tag on SO, the question get migrated to the site were the question does fit the most. The tag doesn't exist on that site were the question got migrated to. Will the tag ...
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Serial removal of [flag-weight] tag in progress via suggested edits - should we do anything?
I see a large number of proposals in the Suggested Edits queue right here on Meta Stack Exchange where the same user is trying to serially edit out (bulk untag?) the flag-weight tag.
I understand ...
asked Aug 28 at 21:38
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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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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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How to use a search regex for tags in the Stack Exchange API
I want to simulate the question search using regex behaviour of Stack Overflow using the Stack Exchange API.
For example, using c++* for tags will give questions which have c++ as prefix in tag such ...
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How to reference other tag in usage guidance?
Security.SE has had a rather strange problem. There is a tag called content-security-policy, which is about a specific mechanism in modern browsers.
However, many users have used this tag for ...
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Can users without the required reputation suggest new tags? [duplicate]
On the Stack Exchange boardgames' domain I sadly was not able to submit my response, as the game I was posting about is not so popular (#). So I just went on and put any random tag on it. I am really ...
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Combinining all language related sites into one
There are a quite a few language learning related sites on the Stack Exchange network. I may have missed a few, but here they are:
https://english.stackexchange.com/
https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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Is there a way to search for a question (or an answer) that mentions a tag?
I see some questions (but mostly answers) that mention tags. For example I could mention the burrito tag here.
Is there a way I could search for posts that have mentioned a particular tag?
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Bug in the tag selection [duplicate]
The placeholder text is masked from the right end and the bracket is missing too:
Zoomed in:
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Which elements are recommended to enclose in <code> tag within the description in Stack Overflow? [closed]
Enclosing code/text elements in the code tag varies user to user. For example, one user put 'decimal' inside the code tag. Then another user edited the post and put it as simple text. Such types of ...
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Better advertising for the chat rooms
There are about three or four people regularly in the ASP.NET MVC chat room every weekday but few others seem to even know it exists. Can Stack Overflow advertise the chat rooms on specific tags?
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Show tag descriptions when asking a question?
I am a user of English Language SE, but I think this question might apply throughout the site.
Often new users (but not always new users) will add tags which aren't really relevant to the question. ...
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How do we make changes to a site's scope?
We are discussing this topic at Earth Science Stack Exchange, because our homepage has many questions asking to identify their rocks based on a picture.
Some of us want to no longer accept such ...
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Determine which user created a tag [duplicate]
What is the definitive way to determine which user created a tag on a SE site, along with exact date and time of creation?
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Is there a Stack Exchange WebSocket action for multiple tags?
I'm developing an app to show all new questions for any tags that user is watching in realtime. So instead of using the REST API, I want to use the WebSocket at: wss://qa.sockets.stackexchange.com.
I'...
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Search questions based on two tags [duplicate]
I want to propose a feature:
search for questions based on two tags.
Why is this needed?
There are a lot of tags that are about a topic which cannot be independent.
For example, let's assume I'm ...
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Cannot ask question because tag not working? [duplicate]
At this question just click tag blank or type something show option
But at Stack Overflow nothing appear, so I can't click Next.
What should I do?
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Allow bilingual tags
TL;DR:
On Esperanto SE:
tag names in Esperanto (optionally with synonyms in English) are sub-optimal for Esperanto SE users who don't (yet) know Esperanto well
tag names in English (optionally with ...
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Search tags across sites
I'm looking to subscribe to a few tags I'm interested in, but I don't know which sites in the network may use them.
I can go to http://stackexchange.com and use the Favourite tags filter, and see my ...
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OP Forgot to add tag for a post (which is one week old), how to add it and bring back the post active? [closed]
How to use Bootstrap JavaScript Components with ngx-bootstrap in Angular 7?
OP who has raised the above post seems to have forgotten to add an important tag due to which he might have lost good ...
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Should we have a tag for questions involving new users asking blatantly off-topic questions here on MSE?
We all know about the persistent problem of new users posting blatantly off-topic questions here on Meta Stack Exchange for many reasons. This problem dates back to at least 2013, and happens often ...
asked Jun 17 at 16:00
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How do I add a description to newly created tags? [duplicate]
I've created a new tag for a popular programming library called Nuklear. I would like to edit the description to provide some context when others are trying to use the tag. Is this possible?
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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, ...
asked Jun 15 at 16:58
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Search on all sites: tag links lead to the 404 link not found page [duplicate]
Searching on all sites, e.g., https://stackexchange.com/search?q=dokuwiki, gives me a list of questions with tag links.
Clicking one of the tag links, e.g., https://stackexchange.com/questions/...
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Cannot add tags via the Stack Exchange Android app [closed]
When I try to add a question on the "Android Enthusiasts" site via the Stack Exchange Android app, it doesn't allow me to add any tags. There is a text field within which to add tags on the "Ask ...
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Should certain sites specifically encourage askers to tag with location?
There's a few specific sites (Workplace, Academia, Law, IPS, Money, etc.) that commonly appear the Hot Network Questions list. On these sites, questions often greatly benefit from location tags yet ...
