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| Feb 28, 2019 at 5:31 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @YCor and domotorp: This is (to some extent) related to discussion about (graph-theory) and (co.combinatorics): Which “non-arxiv” tags are de facto top-level tags? Of course, if we strictly follow the guidelines pointed out on MathOverflow Meta every question should have a top-level tag In reality, the top-level tag is missing on roughly 20% of questions. | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 15:45 | comment | added | YCor | I know it's hard to rely on a good labeling and acquainted users can help by editing tags. In any case, in such situation the entropy (I mean the mess) is an increasing function of the number of relevant tags. | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 7:23 | comment | added | domotorp | @YCor That's my point - people still don't label them co.combinatorics, so you also shouldn't expect people to label the ones that have combinatorial-geometry or discrete-geometry. | |
| Feb 19, 2018 at 21:55 | comment | added | YCor | @domotorp some people say that every question in graph theory should also be tagged combinatorics. In any case, a very large majority of these questions would perfectly fit in co.combinatorics | |
| Feb 19, 2018 at 21:48 | comment | added | domotorp | @YCor I would challenge the statement that every question pertaining to combinatorics gets the tag. Check graph-theory; the majority of the questions doesn't have co-combinatorics: mathoverflow.net/questions/tagged/graph-theory | |
| Feb 19, 2018 at 14:26 | comment | added | YCor | @domotorp co.combinatorics is a top-level tag so basically every question pertaining to combinatorics gets this tags (unless it has comprises too many topics, but this concerns a very small minority). Usually when anybody ask such a question without tagging combinatorics, somebody adds the tag. As discrete-geometry, the topic makes the tag natural, and also it is regularly added. Adding another tag which basically is relevant iff two other wider tags are simultaneously relevant, would in practice just increase entropy. | |
| Feb 19, 2018 at 13:44 | comment | added | domotorp | @YCor Then this should have been done when the merger happened, right? Not to mention that I don't recall seeing anyone ever applying both tags. I also don't think it's good to make people double-tag almost all the time, because a large part (but not all) of discrete geometry is combinatorial geometry. | |
| Feb 18, 2018 at 19:27 | comment | added | YCor | I'm not sure I can see a problem. For the distinction it's enough to use either the tag "discrete-geometry" or the combination of "discrete-geometry" and "co.combinatorics". | |
| Aug 4, 2017 at 8:47 | comment | added | domotorp | @Francois So I should propose a tag info for combinatorial-geometry? I would write something short and simple, like Combgeo. is the study of combinatorial problems that involve geometry. Btw, how can the description of discrete-geometry include that "It is closely related to [...] combinatorial geometry" if the latter is a synonym of the former? | |
| Aug 3, 2017 at 22:28 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | That merger was done on December 15, 2014. We can't undo the merger but we could remove the tag synonym to allow future uses of combinatorial-geometry. A test for doing this is to propose a tag info blurb which demonstrates how the two tags are different. | |
| S Aug 3, 2017 at 20:59 | history | answered | domotorp | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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