Questions tagged [tags]
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Is an edit to the three Science tag wikis warranted?
A recent question posited a fantastic condition then used the science-based tag. In essense, the author wanted a science-based solution to a problem that wasn't science-based in the first place.
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Does using the tags [science-based] and [time-travel] in tandem make any sense?
IMHO, time travel (into the past) is fantasy. It is proven to be nigh-impossible, affects causality, there are dozens of resources discussing the vagarities and impossibilities of time-traveling to ...
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If we can't burn the "reality check" tag, can we rename it?
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The tag wikis have been updated and the new reality-check tag made a synonym of science-based. Users can conveniently find links to the modified tags here: Please review the updated tag ...
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What about splitting the WB physics tag in physics-past and physics-future?
When you see questions with a physics tag on WB, lots of comments and answers (and closures) immediately start to assess correctness, with current Earth physics as a reference. When a science or ...
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Can we have a controversy tag?
I think a tag to indicate that the OP is touching on a sensitive topic that is considered by most to be rather controversial in nature, it serves as a warning so that readers can choose to avoid ...
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Should we make a "unsure" tag?
Occasionally, although not often, there's a question where I can't figure out how to tag it. Usually I'll make one that fits, but low-rep users might not be able to do this.
So, should we make a "...
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How to keep the "hard science" tag "hard"?
Related: this Meta question, which has no answers after five years.
There seems to be an issue with the "hard science" tag. First, it should have an automatic banner to remind potential ...
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Four similar tags relating to metalworking
I was writing a question about working with iron, and noticed that there seemed to be quite a lot of tags relating to the topic, some of which seemed conflicting:
metals (147)
metalworking (56)
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Are the Science-Fiction and Hard-Science tags mutually exclusive?
A July 2022 renovation of the reality-check tag and others has changed the context of this question. It is now obsolete. Please see the following question and the link under "Conclusion." If ...
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How to prevent suggestions on reality check?
The tag reality-check states:
Asks if a given concept is realistic in a given context. Answers should say yes or no, with supporting info.
However I seem to be getting suggestions on alternatives ...
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Can we have a standardized system for determining how specific tags can be?
I have been on Worldbuilding Stack Exchange for slightly over a year and I have realized that many very specific and rarely used tags exist. On the other hand, certain topics only have very broad tags ...
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Synonymizing the werewolf and shape-shifters tag
We currently have two tags, werewolf and shapeshifters, which have a very large amount of overlap with the former more or less being a subset of the latter. There are only seven questions on the ...
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Creating a specific tag for questions set in a "real world" or "real world"-esque setting
A lot of stories are set in worlds that are like reality unless noted. These are settings in which the geopolitical situation is virtually identical to the modern world (minus the presence of a few ...
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Should Tag Synonyms require Moderator Approval As well as a Rating of 4?
As an aside, I notice there's a tag named, "tag" which is not a synonym of, "tags." I would suggest making it a synonym via the site-feature I just got as a privilege... but I can'...
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Should there be a 'frame-challenge' tag?
Understanding that there has been discussions about frame challenges in the past, notably in this question and this other question (plus certain others), is there any disputable reason why there is ...
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Proposed tag: survey-question
This site has struggled for a very long time over raw idea generation. There can be no best answer for raw idea generation. The OP is asking for the proverbial spaghetti to be thrown against the wall ...
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We have the "dragons" tag, so do we really need "dragon-anatomy" too?
The description of the "dragons" tag is quite general, and it would certainly seem to include questions about their anatomy:
"For questions involving dragons - generally large, reptilian, flying ...
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should the name reality check change to plausibility check or possibility check?
A July 2022 renovation of the reality-check tag and others has changed the context of this question. It is now obsolete. Please see the following question and the link under "Conclusion." If ...
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Lack of tags and mobile site problems
Why can't I crate new tags on Mobile?
And why isn't there a tag about pyrokinetics in over twenty thousand question. And I noticed lack of tags before that to. Like There isn't any tag about mobile ...
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Restore Tactics as a separate tag from warfare
I just noticed that tactics is now a synonym of warfare instead of being a separate tag.
As someone who spent 3 years involved in planning the tactics of warfare, 3+ years involved in determining the ...
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Reality-Check and Hard-Science's descriptions; Shared or exclusive?
Brought up by this question, the Reality-Check and Hard-Science tags' descriptions aren't in implied agreement (at least, as I read them) on if they can be combined.
Reality-Check reads:
Asks if a ...
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Is spatial trigonometry hard science?
The standard for hard-science is that we should edit out the tag if hard science is obviously not wanted. I.e. the asker doesn't want to require equations or citations in the answers.
In this ...
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Why no tag for tags on mechanical constructions?
I personally have written quite a few questions concerning mechanical mechanisms. My trouble is I believe engineering to be too broad and mechanics being ambiguous.
Is there anything I can do in this ...
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Scores and synonyms
I was looking through the new tags and saw money. IMO, money should be a synonym of finances, so I tried to flag it as a potential synonym.
Except that I need a "5 score" in finances to make the ...
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Cryo-Tags Suggestion / Proposal (cold stuff)
I'm trying to define a QA context about especially cold ice-worlds(maybe they should be called cryo-worlds), where surface temperature range 0-100°K. I noticed there is not a tag for ice-world, nor ...
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Can we have a MacGyver tag or category?
The great strength of this community is its wide-ranging expertise on diverse subjects.
Questions that involve an individual are routinely put on hold as too story based but where else can we go for ...
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Should we have a swarm-robotics tag?
Should we have a swarm-robotics tag?
What weapons would nanomachines use?
I mean, it largely differs from robotics (especially thanks to its unique challenges), then I realized we don't even have a ...
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Do we want era tags?
I'm editing tag wikis and two new ones have appeared (one in just the last few minutes).
western
byzantium
As used in their questions, these appear to be "era" tags. They would have been more ...
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Move the robot... with tags?
Hovering over certain tags moves the robot up when the browser is narrow:
(At the width I'm at, it's only the second, third, and fourth tags on questions that trigger this on the Home pages, and the ...
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New cosmology tag?
I am thinking of adding a new tag that might be helpful in Worldbuilding. One of the tags I am think of at the moment is cosmology.
Cosmology
For questions about the creation and development of ...
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Topic Challenge: Space-Colonization
I propose a fortnight-long space-colonization topic challenge, which will begin today, August 10th, and finish on August 24th.
Most sci-fi stories feature humans in space. However, manned missions ...
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Should we take off our [footwear]?
A short time ago, a blatantly off-topic question got posted on main and swiftly deleted, and I was curious to see that it had been (incorrectly) tagged footwear. I didn't know we had such a tag. It ...
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Do we need [economy] and [economics]?
I just came across the tags economy and economics. They seem to be about the same thing, at least according to their descriptions.
The tag wiki excerpt from economy:
For questions regarding ...
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Do we need the [idea-based] tag on Main?
I was just going through the "Suggested Edit" review queue and saw a tag wiki edit suggestion there for a tag that was recently created, which read as:
This tag is used by questions that requires ...
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Do we need the tag [transformation]?
In a different discussion @EveryBitHelps wondered whether transformation would be a good tag to add to a question, which made me realize that this tag exists.
The tag has neither a tag wiki excerpt ...
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Why are all tags un-capitalised?
This seems self-explanatory but I noticed when looking through the questions, that all of the tags don't have capitals at the beginning.
I don't mean to sound pedantic but shouldn't they have capital ...
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Should we rename [insect] to [insects]?
On the Main Site we have a tag named insect. Normally tags should be plural, not singular. See Tags cleaning: singular vs. plural for more information.
The tag wiki excerpt even says:
For ...
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Mutually-exclusive goals and how to discover them
I have to admit, I've been here a month now and I still have absolutely no clue what most of y'all's goals are in patrolling posts.
My first question was closed for being too open-ended and ...
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Are there technology tags?
To be more specific are there tags for:
medieval technology
magic-enhanced medieval technology
modern technology
magic-enhanced modern technology
futuristic technology
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Should we migrate our conlang questions?
The Conlang stack has just hit the private beta and to celebrate that I wanted to bring up the discussion if we should migrate our conlang content to that arguably more suited stack and have a quick ...
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Topic challenge: alien geometry
I propose an alien-geometry topic challenge.
Its often hard to tweak the mathematics of a world (for example, you can't really make 2+2=5 in a reasonable way), but one way you can is by tweaking the ...
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Tag questions that want science to pick up the pieces
A lot of people seem to be asking questions about what would happen if the laws of science suddenly reasserted themselves after some absurd thing happens. Three recent questions I found right off the ...
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Do we need the tags [diet] and [nutrition] on the Main Site?
Today I went to writing a few tag wikis as I do every once in a while. I found the diet tag and suggested an edit. dot_Sp0t had a closer look at the tag and we discussed what to do with it. Basically ...
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Do we need both [medicine] and [medical] tags?
We currently have medicine
For questions about treatment methods as well as substances used to heal wounds and cure diseases.
with 77 questions thus tagged. We also have medical
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Could redefining Reality-Check and the assumed proof standard be useful?
Having asked and read through a number of questions and the replies to them, including but not limited to Does [hard-science] imply [science-based] imply [reality-check]?, Do we need the reality-check ...
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Where does Reality-Check actually fit in the burden of proof framework?
A July 2022 renovation of the reality-check tag and others has changed the context of this question. It is now obsolete. Please see the following question and the link under "Conclusion." If ...
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Do we need the [open-source] tag on the Main Site?
Today I found the tag open-source. At first I thought that it sounds pretty interesting and I was thinking about adding a tag wiki. But when looking at the questions in that tag I saw that there were ...
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What should be the tag wiki for [science-fiction]?
Yesterday I asked whether we should burninate the fiction tag on the Main site here. In that post and the comments I mentioned that I think the science tag would already be enough to show that a ...
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Do we need the [fiction] tag on the Main Site?
When looking through the tags on the Main Site I found the tag fiction. Two of its questions are closed. Two questions use the tags science and fiction, which looks like the author wanted to use the ...
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Do we need the [gun] tag on the Main Site?
I was looking through the tags today and I found the tag gun. The first thing that comes to mind is that it is using singular whereas other non-meta tags normally use the plural form.
The second ...
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