Questions tagged [tags]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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How to tell if a tag wiki article exists before clicking its link within the editor?
How can I tell if it will be worthwhile clicking this question mark you see in the black circle?
Note that this is the editor, not the main page for a question. Also note that there are tags with ...
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Remove synonym [compiler] from [compiler-construction] tag
About 10 years ago, the [compiler] tag was renamed to [compiler-construction] to avoid "tag misuse". That was a good idea.
However, since the tag compiler is still a synonym to the compiler-...
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Should [language-translation] be a synonym of [translation]? [duplicate]
Should the Tags be linked?
Both have very similar Tag Descriptions:
translation
Translation is the process of replacing strings in an application or website to make interfacing with the application or ...
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Should [translation] be a synonym of [language-translation] or vice versa?
Isn't any form of translation from one language to another, regardless if its a human language or a machines language? Also the language machines use is created by humans therefore you could argue it ...
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Why was the content of the tag descriptions reduced? [duplicate]
It seems like the content of the tag descriptions was reduced. E.g. when I open a question containing a JSON tag and hover the tag, I can only read "JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a ...
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Should we burninate [class-names]?
The tag class-names has 79 questions in it, has no wiki or wiki excerpt, and is used for questions where the questions refer to different things. Running through the burnination criteria:
Does it ...
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Even asking a good question and answering it yourself causes downvotes => moderator intervention? [duplicate]
I'm a regular member of Stack Overflow. I have experience in Delphi, C++, Java, Python and now I'm working with C#, based on XAML.
Despite my Delphi experience, I'm having some issues with XAML ...
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"Ignore tag" button is missing as of today
I just went to ignore a tag but the Ignore tag button is missing from the popup. Why?
It used to look like A, but now it looks like C for me and might look like B for you.
As far as I can tell, there'...
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New tag watch redesign uses the full wiki (without formatting) in the modal instead of using the tag wiki excerpt
The new "watch tag" design has apparently rolled out to Stack Overflow (only). Where previously, hovering a tag on a question would show the wiki excerpt (which is designed precisely for ...
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What to do about the [wss] tag?
The wss tag is currently described as referring to "Windows SharePoint Services", but almost all of the recent questions under this tag refer to the "WebSocket Secure" (which uses ...
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Synonymize [taskscheduler] with [windows-task-scheduler]
There are two tags whose wiki/excerpt say they are about the Windows Task Scheduler OS-level utility, taskscheduler (currently some ~270 questions) and windows-task-scheduler (currently ~940 questions)...
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Synonymize [aad-b2c] to [azure-ad-b2c]
At some point the tag aad-b2c popped up, but it's an (undefined/undescribed, other than to say that it's a duplicate/synonym) exact synonym of the much more-used, better-named, and better-defined tag ...
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I'm a bit [salt]y about these tags
The tag salt is supposed to refer to the cryptography concept:
Cryptography function that takes random bits and a string (typically a password) and uses a one-way hash to provide a new string that ...
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Clarify the [cryptoapi] tag
My impression is that the cryptoapi tag is supposed to be about the subset of Windows API that deals with crypto (NCrypt, BCrypt, CAPICOM, CertEnroll and the like), and not about any API/library that ...
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Consistent name and wording for C++ containers tags
I desire to propose a complete and consistent name and wording for all the existing tags that refer to the C++ containers. They include stdarray, stdvector, stddeque, forward-list, stdlist, stdset, ...
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