Timeline for `positive-characteristic` and `characteristic-p` are synonyms
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| Mar 25, 2021 at 13:01 | comment | added | LSpice | @HenrikRüping, I think that was @YCor's point earlier. I imagine, being mathematicians, we can find some shade of difference between any two tags, but, especially given their low traffic, I think it's safe to bet that the audiences for positive-characteristic and characteristic-p are almost, if not wholly, identical. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 8:34 | comment | added | HenrikRüping | The characteristic of a ring could also be a non-prime number, so I don't see how these tags are strictly synonymous (not knowing whether there are really questions about rings with characteristic 6). | |
| Mar 24, 2021 at 12:58 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Here is a link to a discussion in chat between me and @YCor concerning the advantages of bringing up possible tag synonyms on meta (as opposed to relying solely on voting). Of course, the tag management has one additional problem on MO - there aren't enough users interesting in discussing and managing tags. | |
| Mar 24, 2021 at 10:06 | comment | added | LSpice |
I agree with @YCor's rationale for which should be the main tag. If I remember correctly, the reason it's this way is that I was forced to choose the tag with fewer questions (positive-characteristic currently has 83) as the synonym of the one with more (characteristic-p currently has 253).
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| Mar 24, 2021 at 10:04 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Mar 24, 2021 at 9:49 | comment | added | YCor | I strongly approve synonyms in both directions, with a preference to keep positive-charactistic as "main" tag, the other being synonym — I don't like the symbol "p", implicitly meant to be positive, to be prime, etc, to be part of a tag; also positive in principle allows characteristic $p^2$, etc, beyond fields. | |
| Mar 24, 2021 at 9:49 | comment | added | YCor | As always, this synonym voting system is inept for such tags with not many ($\sim 100$) questions (I can't vote because it relies on the score on this very tag); it's likely the the number of authorized voters who will open this discussion be $\le 2$. So I guess the only door to make it a synonym is to make this question feature-request and rely on moderators. | |
| Mar 24, 2021 at 9:10 | history | edited | LSpice | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Link to the synonym proposal
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| Mar 24, 2021 at 6:04 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | It is probably worth mentioning that the synonym (positive-characteristic) $\to$ (characteristic-p) was proposed and users with sufficient score in the tag can vote for/against. According to SEDE, it was proposed in August 2020 by LSpice: data.stackexchange.com/mathoverflow/query/1178483/… | |
| Mar 24, 2021 at 3:39 | comment | added | LSpice |
I tried putting [tag:positive-characteristic] in the title, as in the linked question, but it wouldn't let me.
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| Mar 24, 2021 at 2:30 | history | asked | LSpice | CC BY-SA 4.0 |