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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What's the difference between abstract algebra and group theory tag?
When should a question tagged with group theory (and is just on groups) be also tagged with abstract algebra?
The main reason I'm asking, is because I'm seeing a user make several edits to questions ...
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Why don't we have a Coordinate Geometry tag?
I recently came across [this] question and thought that it should be tagged "Coordinate-Geometry". However, to my astonishment, no such tag exists. Why is it so?
I finally created that tag. I do not ...
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Can we have tag icons?
Some tags on StackOverflow have icons, such as
and so on.
Question: Can we have tag icons here at maths.SE?
I mean "can" in the sense of "are we capable of having". I'm not saying we ...
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On the [gcd] tag
Some couple of days ago, some question was bumped and it had spawned (apparently in its original version) a tag named gcd.
I find this tag to be particularly uninteresting, and somewhat non-revealing ...
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How to overcome “You can't create this tag” if there is meta agreement?
So, in this post, I suggested to replace rootsystem with root-system. A user suggested root-systems instead, which is indeed better.
So having 7 upvotes and no downvotes, I decided to implement the ...
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Improving the tag system (categories)
was thinking there are so many tags around (around 27 pages)
How can we improve the tag system,
some suggestions:
can we not create categories that group tags together, so that instead of looking ...
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How to use `[tag:tag-name]` for tags of the meta site?
We have two tags with identical names on main and meta:
(main:computer-science)
and
(meta:computer-science)
For main tags one can use [tag:computer-science] , ...
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What determines which tags are listed for a user in the users tab?
When you look at a user in the users tab you can see their reputation, their location (if the user provided one), the number of badges of each class they have earned, and three tags. What determines ...
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Are $L^{p}$ spaces a part of Functional Analysis?
I recently tagged this question as functional analysis in addition to measure theory and $L^{p}$ spaces. However, I was not completely sure whether functional analysis is an appropriate tag for ...
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Is there an agreed upon procedure for translation requests?
This question was posted entirely in Chinese and was tagged with the translation-request tag, but got an extremely negative response and was put on hold. Whereas this one was posted entirely in ...
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beginners tags?
Is there not a need for one or more special tags for beginners questions?
To me it looks as some posters have no idea what an abstract algebra is and think that their problem has something to do with ...
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About a new [radicals] tag.
I recently noticed there were three questions with numbers and two with names. I removed the former (as we already blacklisted its singular form), and the latter and replaced it by terminology.
But ...
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Question lists build on favourite tag list [duplicate]
What I would like is to have lists of questions that only lists the questions that have one or more of my favourite tags attached, so that I can have a quick view of newest or featured questions in ...
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Flag comments about the blacklisted [graph] tag as obsolete?
I flagged the following comment (in this question) as obsolete:
since the graph tag has been blacklisted (see Let's blacklist the [graph] tag). This flag was declined.
It seems like a ...
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Do the tags being merged can be dis-merged?
Suppose the tag B is merged into the tag A, if we later on find that the tag A and the tag B should keep them separate, can we do the dis-merge process?
