Timeline for Fill the empty tag excerpts
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 22, 2016 at 1:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 4, 2016 at 0:09 | comment | added | Adamant | @Randal’Thor - It’s definitely on my to-do list. | |
| Oct 4, 2016 at 0:06 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | Now that September is over, how about posting a wrap-up answer to this question listing the number of tag wikis/excerpts filled and maybe thanking all those who contributed? (If that information is readily available somewhere - I'm not sure whether it is, short of browsing through a month's worth of suggested edits.) | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 23:19 | comment | added | Adamant | @Randal’Thor - That’s a mistake. It should read assiti-shards. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 23:13 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | @Adamant Assity assity ass shards - sounds like someone singing about posterior shrapnel. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 9:50 | comment | added | Adamant | @PeregrineRook - Well, to start with, this advice is not really followed. Just look at the tag wiki for email on StackOverflow. It actually defines what email is! So (guidance aside), I don’t think this is much of an issue. But perhaps as important: The actual advice is “Avoid generically defining the concept behind a tag, unless it is highly specialized.” Most of our tags are highly specialized. Aside from a few common franchises, most people are not going to have any idea what something like assity-shards is. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 9:26 | comment | added | Mithical | @PeregrineRook anyone can suggest tag wiki edits. I think. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 2:55 | comment | added | Peregrine Rook | (1) I’m not sure that I understand what you’re saying. Are you saying that all tag wikis that are in place have been approved, and therefore, by definition, they are “officially approved examples”? That’s not quite right. Any user (above some trivial minimum rep, like a few hundred) can suggest edits to tag wikis. Any two users with rep ≥ 5K can approve such a suggestion. Users with rep ≥ 20K can edit tag wikis without peer review. (2) If you think you understand what SF&F tag wikis should look like, please post a feature request asking that the SF&F-specific tag wiki guidance be corrected. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 16:45 | comment | added | Peregrine Rook | I believe that there needs to be better guidance on how to write these things, ideally with officially approved examples. The #2, #3, and #4 tags currently are “harry-potter,” “star-wars” and “star-trek,” and they all seem to violate the rule “Avoid defining the concept behind a tag.” And I don’t understand “Concentrate on what a tag means to your community.” What is Harry Potter supposed to mean to SF&F SE that is different from what he means to the world at large? | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 13:29 | comment | added | Radhil | @Thunderforge - I have removed at least one tag like that but those are pretty specific characters and not likely to be badly used or confused, even if not many will actually use them. Err on the side of keeping what exists unless its pretty bad, would be my thought. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 23:44 | comment | added | Adamant | @Thunderforge - It is probably better to spend time on work and author tags, in my opinion. There are more of them, and they are not at risk of vanishing. If you see a character tag that meets no standard of notability (say, one question), it is probably fine to edit it out. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 23:43 | comment | added | Thunderforge | @Adamant To clarify, should I write a tag wiki for them or edit the questions to remove them? I don't want to waste time writing a tag wiki if they shouldn't exist in the first place and will eventually be deleted. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 23:42 | comment | added | Adamant | @Thunderforge - They do exist, and thus deserve wikis. Policy can be hammered out later. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 23:41 | comment | added | Thunderforge | I notice that several of the tags are character tags (e.g. beast-boy, captain-cold, nicholas-flamel). Should we write tag wikis for them or just remove them? On the one hand, we have a meta question about not having them, but we also have tags like voldemort with over 300 questions. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 20:53 | history | edited | Rand al'ThorMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2016 at 12:12 | comment | added | Ankit Sharma | @Valorum not so dubious as you proposed. They are useful to clear out when they should be used. | |
| Sep 14, 2016 at 7:33 | history | edited | Mithical | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 13, 2016 at 6:19 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/775579733123792896 | ||
| Sep 12, 2016 at 21:25 | comment | added | Adamant | @Radhil - If, in the course of filling in the tag excerpts, you come across the tags that should not be, you can edit them out, possibly after discussing it with moderators or on meta if uncertain or likely to be controversial. | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 20:19 | comment | added | Radhil | Or one that's useful enough to bother with... subtags are way inconsistent. I wouldn't bother writing an [eye-of-the-world] excerpt when it only has 2 questions and none of the other individual novels in that series have tags (except [a-memory-of-light] w/ 26 q's, which mostly seems to exist for finale questions, and doesn't look used well either) | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 19:16 | comment | added | Radhil | They're not hard to write. The hard part is - given the thousands of imaginary worlds that are covered - finding one where you'd actually know what it is. | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 17:47 | comment | added | Jack B Nimble | I don't know about the tag wiki, but having the excerpt hopefully helps people (particularly new users) from choosing the wrong tag when making a new question. | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 13:46 | comment | added | Valorum | @Randal'Thor - There are those with far more experience than I. Personally I think tag wikis are of dubious benefit anyway. | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 12:18 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | @Valorum You could post an answer here with some guidelines on how to write good tag wikis, perhaps? There are already some existing meta posts which could be quoted in such an answer, like this one. | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 7:29 | history | edited | Adamant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 12, 2016 at 7:20 | history | edited | Adamant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 12, 2016 at 7:16 | comment | added | Adamant | @Valorum - Not yet. :) But perhaps that’s something worth adding to the question. | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 7:01 | comment | added | Valorum | .....aaaaand now the review queue is filled with crap that people have copied/pasted from wikipedia :-) | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 5:55 | history | edited | Adamant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 12, 2016 at 5:33 | history | asked | Adamant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |