Questions tagged [tag-creation]
For questions about the process and etiquette of creating new tags.
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How can I be notified about new tags?
I am a highly active curator on a medium-sized site. We don't have all that many tags: 8 pages total, of which 6 are non-synonyms. Usually we don't need new tags. In general if someone creates a tag ...
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If you create a tag, you shouldn't get reputation by adding it to questions
There is a mass edit dump into the Suggested Edit review queue in Music.SE, by me. I'm suggesting several edits adding tritone, a tag that I created, to all tritone-related questions I can find. I don'...
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The "creation date" shown in the tag-info shows incorrect date (AFAICT the date when the tag-info was created)
The tag-info for a tag contains some stats in the right sidebar. At least in some cases,1 it says: "created .... ago by ". (And the timestamp shows the exact date if you hover above it.)
As ...
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Offer similar tags when dialog to create new tag opens
I think it will be a lot more useful if the prompt on new tag creation shows similarly sound alternatives whenever a user attempts to create a new tag.
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Should you ask a Stack Exchange Community if it wants a certain tag? [duplicate]
Suppose you went a Stack Exchange community (lets use Stack Overflow as an example) and intended to ask a question. However, you want to use a tag that you now discover does not exist. You have enough ...
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Grant site permission based on the total accumulated, rather than current, reputation [duplicate]
I've been using Stack Exchange sites for about seven years now, and in that time I've probably accumulated a few thousand reputation points — primarily on Stack Overflow. Recently I was posting a new ...
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Tag creation pluralization bug
On Ask Ubuntu, here is what the tag creation dialog looks like. I was trying to create a new tag (although the discussion of said new tag is irrelevant here), and I stumbled across a pluralization bug....
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How to give the creator of a package / framework some elevated rights?
This is a bit of a question with a comment, and a bit of a story. I'm a bit new to meta and getting some downvotes -- if someone wouldn't mind telling me why, that would be great.
I just created the ...
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Best practice in tag housekeeping re; tag assignments after tag creation?
I read When should I create a new tag? How do I request a new tag if I don't have enough rep?. The relevant section says
If you have enough reputation to create the tag
If you think there ...
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What are the criteria for a tag creator's userid to be shown or not?
Consider these Tag info pages:
the Tag info page for the bounty tag.
the Tag info page for the markdown tag.
For either of these 2 pages, in the right column, it shows the typical Stats for each tag, ...
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Can I add a description for a new tag I created?
If I ask a question with a newly created tag, am I then able to add a description describing the tag? I have the reputation required to create a tag.
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Do not allow massive retagging by the tag-creator shortly after creation of a new tag
Proposal. At least for some period after creation of a new tag, there should be a limit on the number of questions where this tag can be added by the tag creator.
EDIT: As a reaction to animuson's ...
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Creating tags from SE app [duplicate]
I am currently using SE app for Android. I just posted a travel question but could not create a new tag for my question.
I know that:
This is SO meta, and my issue is with travel, but I am afraid ...
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Mobile site says "your answer couldn't.." when submitting a question edit that creates a new tag [closed]
Noticed this on Bicycles, but I presume it affects any Stack Exchange site
Write question
Edit question, write a new tag
Submit edit
When performing the above steps, I properly get an error message, ...
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Can I check a tag's creator if the Taxonomist badge hasn't been awarded?
According to the accepted answer for Show a tag's creator on the tag wiki page:
If a tag has a related Taxonomist badge, the creator will now be
shown on its tag wiki/info page.
I recently ...
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