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Favorite Questions and Answers from first quarter of 2017

Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from January 1st 2017 through March 31 2017 (They don't have to be your questions and answers.). Your answers ...
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Proposals for a list of FAQ questions

For the pedants: yes, I realise that "FAQ questions" looks like a tautology, as it means "frequently asked questions questions". But in this context, the word FAQ refers to the tag, so it means "meta ...
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The Big Edit Event (is finished)

Now that we have a broad consensus on having an edit event to deal with the broken links caused by the HTTPS update, we now need to coordinate the event itself. UPDATE #2 The Big Event is now (...
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How should we handle tag hierarchies?

Current Context We seem to have wound up in a position where we have some weird tag hierarchy issues on this site which have lead to inconsistent tagging practices. I'll point out some specific ...
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Does this question really need five Star Trek tags?

This question has a whopping five tags denoting it as a Star Trek question. Are they really necessary? Can't the question just be labeled star-trek and be done with it? Or am I missing some reason ...
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Tolkien tags - the way forward

Jason Baker's answer to Let's figure out our Tolkien tags provides an excellent description of the situation as it currently stands with tags related to the Tolkien legendarium, but it doesn't really ...
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Is it time to organize a major editing event?

UPDATE: this is happening. See The Big Edit Event (is finished). Stack Exchange is moving all images from http:// links to https:// links. The ones that can are being done automatically, but there ...
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Shouldn't all/most Deadpool-2016 questions also be tagged Deadpool?

I had added deadpool to my ignored tags and life was good. Then, to my dismay, I start seeing Deadpool questions again. Turns out they were not tagged Deadpool but rather Deadpool-2016. I'm fine with ...
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Should we have a Star Trek Franchise tag for questions that relate to the entire universe of shows, movies and books?

We have individual series tags for Star Trek. Should we have a Star Trek Franchise tag for questions that relate to the entire universe of shows, movies and books? I'm asking because sometimes Star ...
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Retagging some questions from [klingon] to [klingon-language] would be a most logical action

There's currently the tag klingon and the tag klingon-language. As Klingon is probably the most famous fictional language around, it having a separate tag from Klingons in general is justified. ...
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Should all part-of-franchise questions be tagged with franchise?

I was perusing prometheus and noticed that about 13 out of 22 also had alien-franchise but 9 didn't. I'm guessing this partial tagging also applies to other franchises, like Star Trek. I was ...
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When should we do another tag cleanup?

Recently, I've been looking at tags, and realized that some things really need to be cleaned up. Like all those star-trek questions without the star-trek tag. While we're at it, why not clean up other ...
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Should we synonymize [robocop] and [robocop-1987]?

The robocop tag has 11 questions and this tag wiki excerpt: A 1987 science fiction film starring Peter Weller and its titular character which have inspired a number of sequels, a "reboot", comic ...
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