Questions tagged [tags]
The tags tag has no usage guidance.
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Why are there two separate tags (open-problem) and (open-problems)?
I assume that most likely this was just an oversight - but since it was a result of a moderator's action, it is probably better to ask than just remove the tag singlehandedly.1
Question: At the moment ...
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Remove [tag:slick-proof] or make it a synonym of [tag:alternative-proof]
@YCor made a suggestion in an answer to another post (What is the intended use of the (proofs) tag?) a bit over a year ago. It received several upvotes, but does not appear to have been acted upon. ...
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Should [tag:feynman-integral] be a synonym of [tag:path-integral]?
The question is in the title: I see no benefit from having these two tags for essentially the same concept (particularly as the path-integral wiki excerpt refers to the path integral formulation of ...
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Tag [upper-bounds] is nowhere to be found
At the moment, MathOverflow has tag lower-bounds (100 questions), but no tag upper-bounds. Are lower bounds that much harder to compute? Or that much more interesting?
Worse, due to the non-existence ...
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How should [applications] be applied?
Is tag applications for
applications of mathematics to mathematics itself?
applications of mathematics to other fields?
applications of mathematics to any field?
job applications? (e.g., ...
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Removing "tag-removed" tag
Currently, contra its intention the "tag-removed" tag has more than $300$ associated questions, many of which are upvoted and have actually contentful tags. This seems like a situation ripe ...
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Should we have a tag for second-order logic?
There are a number of questions on this site about second-order logic (admittedly I may have asked a few more of them than is reasonable). For example, searching "second-order logic" (in ...
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Why is the ‘mathematical logic’ tag spelt [lo.logic]? [duplicate]
On MathOverflow, questions about mathematical logic bear the tag lo.logic, which has a synonym of logic.
Where did this lo.logic spelling come from? Why is it not ...
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How to tell who created a tag?
The "stats" section of a tag's page says how long the tag has existed, and the tag description history says who created the tag description. However, I don't see how to find who created the ...
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Creating theories-of-arithmetic logic tag
It seems to me that a tag for "arithmetic logic" is missing while it concerns a significant number ($\sim 500?$) of questions, which currently have no common tag other than the very broad lo....
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Role of the tag "gm.general-mathematics"
This question is about the tag gm.general-mathematics. A meta question about it already occurred here, but was less specific (and didn't generate much discussion). See also the discussion in the ...
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Should we blacklist or delete the "research" tag?
Should we blacklist or delete the research tag?
This site is about mathematical research, so I don't see how the "research" tag is helpful, any more than a "mathematics" tag would be helpful.
Of the ...
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How do I follow a tag on MathOverflow?
I am probably missing something, but I would like to follow a tag on MathOverflow, so that I get emails about new questions with this tag. How do I do this (I read MathOverflow help and Googled this ...
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Create usage guidance for 2-categories tag
The 2-categories tag has no usage guidance, can you help us create
it?
This is what the 2-categories tag page https://mathoverflow.net/questions/tagged/2-categories says.
Can some one create usage ...
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What to do with the synonyms for the deprecated tags?
Recently, the following tag synonyms were created by a MathOveflow moderator: abstract-algebra $\to$ ra.rings-and-algebras, geometry $\to$ mg.metric-geometry and discrete-mathematics $\to$ co....
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Would introducing an "operations-research" tag be appreciated?
What are your feelings about introducing an operations-research tag?
I was tempted of introducing it but as it OR is also covered by combinatorial-optimization or graph-theory and maybe also other ...
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Should algebraic-dynamics tag be made a synonym for arithmetic-dynamics tag?
Disclosure: On Meta at Mathematics Stack Exchange, I have asked whether an algebraic-dynamics tag should be created and made a synonym of the existing arithmetic-dynamics tag there, given the apparent ...
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Tags for off-topic question
This is a pretty minor issue, but what should I do (if anything) when there are no appropriate tags for an off-topic question, e.g. this one?
I tried to delete the existing tags but can't without ...
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Should there be another tag for vector bundles in Algebraic geometry (over schemes)?
Should there be another tag for vector bundles in Algebraic geometry (over schemes)?
Some questions about vector bundles in the sense of algebraic geometry are given the tag whose tag description ...
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What should the tag (open-problems) be used for?
Since this issue came up in comments to another questions on meta, I'll ask about the intended issue of the open-problems tag.
Question. What is the intended usage of the open-problems tag? Should it ...
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Suggested tag: approximation-property
I'm relatively new to MO (but have been on MSE for a longer time), which means that I don't have enough reputation to create new tags. Which is probably a good thing.
Lately I've been puzzling with ...
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How to edit tags correctly?
I attempted to edit the tags for this question. I got the message:
This edit introduces tags that do not help to define the topic of the question. Tags should help to describe what the question is ...
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Creating tag "small-uncountable-cardinals"
Looking through meta-MO I have found a proposal of Martin Sleziak to create a new "small-uncountable-cardinals", which I liked since many of my (and not only my) questions fall under this tag. So, I ...
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On convexity tags
The tags on convexity are convex-geometry ($\times$560), convex-analysis ($\times$ 266), convexity ($\times$ 420). Here the number is the current (2019/02/23) number of uses and I ignore some more ...
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Is it ok to ask for explanation of content in question?
I can not explain with out taking an example.
See this question Gauge theory on schemes.
I hear "Gauge theory" every now and then and wanted to know what it is about. I did not enjoy reading ...
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Noncommutative rings/algebra tags
I'm suggesting to make noncommutative-rings a synonym to noncommutative-algebra, in the same way as commutative-rings has been made to ac.commutative-algebra.
Initially asked there, I'm asking it ...
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Tag referring to a book/ specific collection of problems
The scottish-book has been created today by one user, posting various questions from the given book, or adding references and retagging existing a few questions when they appear in the given book.
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Tag subscriptions and "Watch tag"
Something changed about tags.
For the tags I have no subscription the new feature is like:
whereas for the tags I have a subscription it is like:
Questions: How to subscribe to a new tag? What is ...
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What is the intended use of the (proofs) tag?
There is a tag called proofs. This tag has empty tag-info/usage guidance.
Without any usage guidance it is quite likely to be used incorrectly.
The fact that there are many deleted questions having ...
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Should there be a separate tag for videos?
Sometimes there are questions about videos, movies, documentaries, etc. (I'll add a small sample below.)
Would it be useful to have a separate tag for this topic? This could possibly help when ...
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Removal of the "symplectic" tag
There is a symplectic tag on MO that currently contains just two questions. The first question so tagged dates from March 26 2017, so this makes this tag at least 1 year and 4 months old. I believe ...
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adding n cat lab tag
I propose adding n cat lab tag with an intention to discuss mathematics that is written in https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage.
As https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage has large amount of ...
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Is MathOverflow missing a tag for ODEs?
TL;DR: Is there a tag which is intended (only) for ordinary differential equations? If not, should there be one?
The situation with the tags related to ODEs seems a bit unclear to me. AFAICT there is ...
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Tags "riemann-zeta-function" and "zeta-functions" are almost identical
I have discovered that the following two tags are too similar to each other:
riemann-zeta-function, with 299 questions tagged, has the description
The Riemann zeta function is the function of one ...
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Does it make sense to have both "surfaces" and "curves-and-surfaces" tags?
I have noticed that there currently exist tags surfaces (with description "A surface is a two-dimensional topological manifold. The term can also be used to describe a smooth surface, depending on the ...
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The existing deprecated tags should be blacklisted
TL;DR: I suggest to blacklist the deprecated tags that still exist on some questions, in order to prevent them from being added to new questions.
There are a few tags which are deprecated and should ...
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The (tag-removed) tag and migration
Occasionally I have seen that for low-level questions (such as introductory calculus exercises or similar level) some user replaced the tags by the tag-removed tag1 - to indicate that the question is ...
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Tagging Answers?
Simple question: should the tagging of a question cover answers?
Suppose I asked a question about a mathematical problem and in the answers contained for example:
pointers to literature
algorithms
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Should MathOverflow request suggested tags feature?
There is a feature of showing suggested tags after the body of a question is included. These suggestions are based on the body of the question. More details can be found in these posts:
Automatically ...
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On the top-level tag ra.rings-and-algebras
I'm confused about the scope of the ra.rings-and-algebras
The problem is related to the ambiguity of the word "algebra", which essentially has two (rough) meanings
the meaning "ring&...
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"Singular Perturbation" is not among tags
Can I ask MO to define a new tag "Singular perturbation". I did not find this tag among the tag list.
Thank you
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The meaning of "The number of Followers of a tag"
My apology if my question is elementary:
One can find the number of followers of a given tag.
What is the meaning of this number? Is it the number of participant who are (reading ?)or ...
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Could there be a warning when a new tag is created?
It is rather easy to make a typo and create a new tag by mistake without even noticing it.1 Could we have a warning saying that the user is creating a new tag so that users can notice such mistakes ...
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Policy for Naming of Tags
I just saw that the Reedy cofibrancy of the bar construction for algebras question is tagged with "simplicial-stuff" and I wonder if such "sloppy" tag-naming is considered acceptable/appropriate.
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Should tag-wiki include a source where it is taken from?
The main purpose of the tag-info (and especially the tag-excerpt) is to help with tagging. This is especially important for the tags with ambiguous name. But usually tag-info also contains some brief ...
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How should questions about (various meanings of) coverings be tagged?
The word covering has various meanings in mathematics. Quite often choosing a tag-name which has several unrelated meanings can lead to problems - typically bunch of rather unrelated questions end up ...
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Which "non-arxiv" tags are de facto top-level tags?
The tag system on MathOverflow is designed in such way that each question should contain top-level tag; these are the tags which correspond to subject areas on arXiv and generally have format such as ...
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Hadamard product (and other ambiguous tags)
There is this tag, hadamard-product; as can be seen e. g. on the Wikipedia disambiguation page, it can have four different meanings. I for one, attracted by it in a recent question (I badly need to ...
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What is the correct way to handle questions with deprecated tags?
Occasionally some tags on MathOverflow are deprecated - it is decided that they should no longer be used.
If a deprecated tag is only used in a few questions, then it can be removed manually - the ...
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Is the [completeness] tag necessary?
I have noticed today that we have a completeness tag. It currently houses seven different questions on widely different notions of completeness.
Since there are widely different notions of ...
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