Questions tagged [tagging]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions. If your post at meta is about suggesting new tags, choosing correct tags for some question, suggesting removal of some tag, this tag is appropriate for such question.
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Question/suggestion about a tag (Kleinian groups)
I am a bit unsure if this should be posted here or in Mathematics, but I try it here.
I was surprised to see that there was no "Kleinian groups"-tag at Mathematics and Mathoverflow. I would ...
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Remove of the 'Sangaku' Tag
Today I came across a question that was tagged Sangaku. The description of this tag says "Sangaku are Japanese geometrical problems or theorems on wooden tablets which were placed as offerings at ...
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Tag color: blue or gray
Is there a change in the appearance of tags in MSE?? It used to be blue in color but now it is gray.
What is happening in Mathstackexchange?
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Is a separate tag (differential-calculus) needed?
The tag differential-calculus was created several times in the past - almost always removed relatively quickly.1
The most recent incarnation was created in April 2024. This one still exists.2
We ...
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Should the circle tag's description be modified to include disks?
I've asked a lot of questions about disks (example 1, example 2, example 3). There is no tag for disk, so I just choose the circle tag. But the circle tag's description is fairly clear about the scope ...
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Should we have a [monotonicity] tag? [duplicate]
I often encounter problems that require proving or finding the conditions for a function or sequence to be increasing, decreasing, or monotonic. For example, I recently asked this question about ...
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Guidelines for solution-verification and proof-explanation tags
Two posts I read today made me see what seems to me to be an inconsistency between the guidelines for the for the proof-explanation and solution-verification tags.
The post with the solution-...
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On [counting], [enumeration] and [enumerative-combinatorics] synonyms of [combinatorics]
Currently, the tags counting, enumeration and enumerative-combinatorics are synonyms of combinatorics. This reflects what combinatorics was considered to be maybe 100 years ago, but modern ...
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Remove the empty tag (geometric-cyclicity)
Typically, the tags with no questions are automatically removed by a script which runs once a day, this process is called tag pruning.
However, there is a known bug which causes that if both tags in a ...
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request for a new tag [duplicate]
After reading the recent catenary question I realized there is no tag for "catenaries", despite it being a specific math topic with a lot of questions on here. If someone with enough ...
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What types of mathematical writing questions are suitable for Mathematics Stack Exchange?
I find it quite strange that every time I discuss mathematical writing, some people suggest closing the topic.
For example:
Does 'hence' (thus, therefore) need a comma after it?
How to avoid ...
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Should the tag "generalization" be blacklisted?
The generalization tag contains no real mathematical content and does not help to organize the site in any meaningful way. Despite that, the tag has been recreated and deleted multiple times. It has ...
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The tags (minkowski-sums) and (sumset) - two separate tags or a synonym
The Minkowski sum and the sumset have basically the same definition:
$$A+B=\{a+b; a\in A, b\in B\}.$$
As far as I can tell, the first name is more often used when we're dealing with vectors (i.e., in ...
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Don't close solution verification as dupe, instead remove questions with the tag of [solution-verification] appearing in search
Unless the dupe target contains exact question with exact same proof (without further generality), I'd recommend not closing as dupe. I know, it can be frustrating when one sees the same question ...
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Why does this suggested edit not show any tag changes I made?
A couple of days ago, I suggested an edit which was rejected, the reason being
This edit introduces tags that do not help to define the topic of the question. Tags should help to describe what the ...
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