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Species Identification tag warning proposal
Ok, I've read people's comments and made what I thought were necessary updates:
The text was likely too long. As a result, I copied the detailed version from my original question post above to the ...
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Reorganise/merge tags for coronavirus / COVID-19 / sars-cov-2 / others
I suggest keeping covid-19 as well as coronavirus. COVID-19 is the disease caused by infection with the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Since we cover both microbiology/virology and some health topics ...
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Re-tagging questions based on the answers
As far as I understand the purpose of the Stack Exchange model, it is to provide expert answers, subject to peer review, to questions that could be of interest to a population greater than that of OP.
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Tag proposal: "troubleshooting"
This is a meta tag which are strongly discouraged on SE sites. There are various issues with meta tags, and in the long run they're just not worth the trouble. We haven't managed to avoid all meta ...
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Tag description and wikis - is there a need to mention sources?
A short reaction; I'm bit hesitant. To me, tag wikis are short pointers to describe how tags should be used, and not a full introduction to a subject. For that we have textbooks, reviews, Wikipedia ...
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Tag for neurodegenerative disorders is misspelled
Oops, thanks for spotting this mistake and informing us. I merged the two tags, the now unused misspelled tag will be automatically removed by the system tomorrow night.
ChrisMod
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Recent rejected edits - request for clarification
We appreciate your efforts to improve this site's posts and why would you be frowned upon for asking for a clarification?. However...
Tags are used to identify certain classes of questions. Questions ...
AliceDMod
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Are lncrna and ncrna worthwhile tags?
Unless we get significantly more questions about the various kinds of non-coding RNA, I don't think we need more than the noncoding-rna tag for now.
The abbreviations also don't work well as tags ...
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What is the problem with breasts?
Since I removed the tags, I will explain why. This tag is pretty irrelevant and had only very few questions (3 before you added it to another two questions) and is thus not helpful.
The tags are more ...
ChrisMod
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What is the difference between the "inheritance" tag and the "genetics" tag
I have merged questions tagged with inheritance with genetics.
Also, I have synonymized inheritance with genetics (master tag).
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Tagging hierarchy - best practices for adding more "general" tags
I think it depends on the breadth of the tag and question and whether it would be helpful for people finding the question.
So, for the first example, I would say yes, both human-anatomy and anatomy ...
Bryan KrauseMod
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Creating new tag synonyms for limnology
I see the point of joining limnology and freshwater-biology, since they are so close to each other (as @BryanKrause points out, limnology is a bit broader though). However, freshwater-biology is sort ...
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Where is a question on Radiobiology and Dosimetry going to best be answered?
I think the question itself is kind of vaguely described and seems to consist of two separate sub-questions. Try to ask focused questions and I would recommend splitting them up. I think I read ...
AliceDMod
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What would be the correct tag for "underwater vertebrates" like whales, dolphins, etc.?
Interestingly we have quite a few questions about whales but no one chose to use a tag "whale" so far. A lot of them used the "marine-biology" tag together with some more specific ...
ChrisMod
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Should there be a writing tag or similar?
The poster writes:
“…I'd like to see a tag created to allow…”
He seems to be making the common mistake of thinking that tags determine whether a question is on topic, i.e. if a tag exists that ...
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Synonyme tags `sterilization`/`sterilisation`
I merged both tags to the british spelling (which was the more common one) and created a synonym.
ChrisMod
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Tag Synonym Suggestions
Merged oncology and tumor with cancer and also created oncology as a synonym of cancer. I chose to keep cancer as the primary tag because it is more common and better understood than oncology.
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Please vote to make "Animal" tag synonymous with "Zoology" tag
Your activity relating this issue has escaped my notice - my apologies. I merged animal with zoology. The effects may take a while to become visible because of caching.
AliceDMod
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Metabolism Tag: What is the appropriate use for this tag?
Great question and thanks for posting!
My perspective is that of a physiologist who studies metabolism in general. I tagged the question specifically with the metabolism tag and didn't think twice ...
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Metabolism Tag: What is the appropriate use for this tag?
Good question. I agree the formulation "The set of chemical reactions that happen in the cells of living organisms to sustain life" for this tag is way too broad. Pretty much all of biology is ...
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Why is there a bio-informatics tag?
I agree that it can be a bit confusing, but I think the problem is that many people come here with questions about how to do bioinformatics, rather than how to relate bioinformatics results back to ...
Bryan KrauseMod
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Tags for species and families of mammals familiar to humans
It should first be emphasized that retagging and adding tags to old posts has negative, as well as positive, consequences for the list.
One negative consequence is that old retagged questions come to ...
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Creating new tag synonyms for limnology
Suggested Solution:
As discussed in this Q&A's comments and in fileunderwater's post, I think the best thing to do moving forward is:
freshwater-biology should be made the main tag (i.e., the "...
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Etymology tag on-topic?
I finally decided it was useful to create the etymology tag, and I did so a few days ago. I easily added the tag to 18 posts, and I'm sure numerous more posts could (and will) get tagged with ...
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Etymology tag on-topic?
To me, tags are created ad-hoc at SE-sites when there is a need for them. The point of them is to meaningfully categorize questions, and relate questions with similar subjects. It is true that we have ...
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Updating tags relevant to answer but not question
I mostly agree with @fileunderwater's answer but came across another example where I thought retagging was clearly appropriate so decided to make a separate answer:
What is this small tissue ...
Bryan KrauseMod
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Tagging hierarchy - best practices for adding more "general" tags
I would also say that this depends strongly on the tags and the question. But there is no real need to use tags which are closely related. So if this is about humans, I would use human anatomy, if ...
ChrisMod
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Should we create tags for popular animal models used for study? e.g fruit-flies
Honestly, I don't think there are enough questions in this area of research to warrant specific tags for them. More importantly, the question would have to be specifically about that species and very ...
AliceDMod
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Can we have a tag for "nurturing"?
A tag can be made by any user with 300 rep or more in case of graduated sites like Bio. To make a new tag just type it in and hit 'Enter'. In your case, you do not have enough rep here on Bio (you do ...
AliceDMod
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