Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Synonymise [influences] and [inspiration] tags?
The tags influences (23 questions) and inspiration (26 questions) both seem to have roughly the same meaning: they're both for questions about where an SF/F author's ideas came from, what influenced ...
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Let's solve the [mystery]
I just noticed that we have a tag mystery. Its tag wiki excerpt rather unhelpfully says:
a mystery is something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain. Or a novel, play, or movie ...
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Should [dc-movies] be merged into [dc]?
Now that we have the top-level tags marvel and dc for questions about any Marvel or DC properties, there's been some chat about whether we need certain subtags. Obviously it's worth having subtags for ...
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Not receiving any reputation change notifications
I can't receive any Notification about reputation change.
This is how my notification tab looks like right now:
This is my actual reputation tab:
As you can see, the rep gained today is not ...
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Tags for The Expanse book series and TV series
The Expanse is the name of both a series of novels, and the TV show based on that book series. They both share one tag, the-expanse. Is that OK? Should they be split up? If so, how?
(In addition, the ...
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Should the marvel/DC-comics tag be changed to just marvel/DC?
Marvel has long ago moved past only supplying comics for its audience, and now boasts a thriving film and TV section as well. The same can be said about DC.
I think that by changing the tag to just, ...
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Should we add the [star-trek] tag to all of the Star Trek questions that don't have it?
I've just searched for questions tagged star-trek-tng without being tagged star-trek. There are 79 of them, right now. (Here's where you can find them.) There also star-trek-tos, star-trek-voyager, ...
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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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Markup glitch: “Tagline to show on mouseover”
I just saw this ad:
on a SF&F page (it was here, although I doubt that it matters).
I moved my mouse pointer over it
and the text “Tagline to show on mouseover” appeared.
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Do we want a feed of bountied (featured) questions in Mos Eisley?
One of the reasons to place a bounty on a question is to attract attention to it. Either to get a better answer, or to get any answer at all.
So how can we draw more attention? By advertising it in ...
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There is an incorrect(?) tag "thelegobatmanmovie" which prevents me from creating the correct(?) "the-lego-batman-movie" tag
There is an incorrect(?) tag thelegobatmanmovie which prevents me from creating the correct(?) the-lego-batman-movie tag.
How should this be handled?
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Merge [gollum] and [smeagol]
For some completely unfathomable reason, we appear to have two tags for this character: gollum and smeagol. Can we please merge these?
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Should Book-vs-Movie tag be renamed to something more generic?
We have the tag book-vs-movie.
The usage descriptions says:
Questions about differences in plot/characters/details between a movie
based on a book and the source book, and vice versa.
So it is ...
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Should [han-shot-first] be shot first?
We have a tag for Han Solo himself, han-solo, and a tag for the age old question of who shot first: han-shot-first.
Should we make the latter a synonym of the former?
Even though the latter has 8 ...
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Request for a new tag for Shiva trilogy
The Shiva trilogy by Amish Tripathi does not have a tag on this site. However I have a query regarding certain story elements, and due to the lack of any suitable tag (if there exists one I have not ...
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Sanderson's Tags of Magic
Questions about Brandon Sanderson and his works are getting ever more frequent on this site, and yet I'm unclear on how our tags in this area should be used. Here's what we have at the moment:
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Fixing misspelling of "swords and sorcery" tag
It's almost always used as "sword and sorcery", only a single sword. The current tag "swords and sorcery" is a misspelling.
I am strongly in favor of correcting it to the actual term.
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What to do with the [author-identification] tag?
The author-identification tag is a mess.
Most of the questions under them are apparently just asking to identify a work (or series or collection) of sci-fi or fantasy. Most of them are also tagged ...
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Should [clark-kent] be a synonym of [superman]?
The clark-kent tag has four questions and the superman tag has 341. Should clark-kent be a synonym of superman, or is there value in having both tags?
The only similar situation I could find is that ...
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Should [memory] go down the memory hole?
This site has the tag memory, which is currently tagged on 17 questions and is very ambiguous. By my count, the questions are about the following:
Amnesia/Memory loss, 4
Specific memory removal, 2
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Tag confusion: Alternate Realities vs Alternate World
I am confused regarding the usage of the tags alternate-realities and alternate-world. Is there any clear guidance for their usage? Do we really need both the tags separately?
alternate-realities is ...
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Menu and site icons are different for SciFi StackExchange
I believe it's not how it should be.
Am I wrong?
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Do we need country tags?
UPDATE: in light of the voting on the answers below (+12 for "Nuke 'em" vs +3 for "Leave 'em"), these tags have been eliminated. french was already gone before I got to it, and I've just finished the ...
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Editing buttons missing (occasionally)
I've noticed that on several occasions over the last day, when I open a new editing box, the buttons on the top row are missing. They aren't invisible, just gone. It also seems to disable the Ctrl+I ...
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Merge [nukes] and [nuclear-weapons]
Can we please merge nukes and nuclear-weapons? We really don't need both of them.
(I was going to just remove nukes, but then I saw that it had more questions than nuclear-weapons, so...)
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Should [lightsaber-combat] be a synonym of [lightsaber]?
I just learned that we have a tag lightsaber-combat, used on 17 questions, as well as the tag lightsaber which is used on 138 questions.
Is it really necessary to have two separate tags, one for the ...
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Rename [black-mirrors] to [black-mirror]
This question about Black Mirror was mistakenly tagged black-mirrors, while the proper tag name should be black-mirror (which doesn't exist yet).
Can we have this fixed? The tags are too similar to ...
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Smart quotes are not so smart in the new design, it seems
Check it out:
Those leading single quotation marks are backwards. Crazy talk!
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User cards (?) seem broken for users with many badges
User cards (not sure what official SE name is) seem to be too small for fitting the info for users with many badges.
2 examples in 1 image:
This seems invariant as far as zooming in/out with Ctrl-...
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Bronze badge count gets truncated on the badge page
It's a very minor formatting issue, but I might as well point it out.
When looking at the list of people who have earned particular badges, it seems the columns are a bit too narrow for users with ...
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Can we please reopen this question about Cyclops' optic blasts?
I asked a question recently: Why was the tree burnt?
Part of this question is checking whether Cyclops' optic blasts produce heat. That's only part of the question because if they do, then that ...
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Please change my name
Also related UUID displayed instead of username
There's a bug where my name is messed up, that's besides the point. Please change my name to 'Alex' (no quotes) because it looks bad.
I don't want my ...
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Chakoteya.net links are broken
Update
Per Rand al'Thor♦'s answer below, the site manager for Chakoteya.net is apparently unwilling or unable to make changes at their end to resolve this problem.
That being the case, our options ...
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Should infinity-gems and infinity-stones be synonyms?
We currently have a infinity-stones and a infinity-gems tag.
These two terms refer to the same objects in two closely connected fictional universes. The first applies to Marvel Comics and the second ...
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Tag Duplicate close on old question
A few hours ago, I voted to close this question for being a duplicate:
How did Obi-Wan know Darth Vader was Anakin?
It closed immediately, despite the fact that I only have a gold tag badge for star-...
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Tags for Lego Star Wars
Do we need a tag for the Lego Star Wars franchise? We have about five to ten questions about it, including
What is the canonicity of the new "Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales" TV show?
What is ...
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What's going on with the "Marshal" badge?
I've just been awarded the Marshal gold badge twice. In 5 minutes.
A) I was under the impression this was a "one time only" badge
B) I'm not the only one who just randomly got it. 22 others seems to ...
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Messages not posting in chat
Posts are not appearing in chat right now. When a user posts something, it often doesn't show up, as confirmed by various users. On my end, posts are staying green, indicating that they are not ...
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Chat search facility not working
When I go into the chat lobby and use the search facility, no results are returned, even for strings I know are present.
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Retagging [retagging], or a [tag-cleanup] tag cleanup?
We have two tags on meta about what to do with tags: retagging and tag-cleanup.
Is there any meaningful difference in meaning, or any useful difference in usage, between these two tags, or should ...
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Reopen this mistakenly-closed-as-duplicate question
The question Short story where man rejected from learning program and identified as untrainable was closed as a duplicate of Story where the protagonist is turned off from an automated system of ...
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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 we merge [ethics] and [morality]?
The ethics tag has ten questions and the morality tag has nine. The tag wiki excerpts on both are basically dictionary definitions. Should we merge these tags?
The morality tag has a full tag wiki ...
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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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Why was this question reopened?
This question was posed by enderland:
Wasn't Rey cold on Starkiller base? Shouldn't this have impacted her somehow?
And it was promptly closed (by myself) as a dupe of this one:
Why does ...
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We need a Liaden tag
I just read a question about the Liaden books. It had no tag and I wasn't able to add one because my rep is too low. But we need one. The series deserves it!
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Do we need both [currency] and [money] tags?
The currency and money tags have 16 and eight questions, respectively. I can’t think of a reason why we would need both tags. Should one of them be made a synonym of the other? Or should questions be ...
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Rename [amber] to [chronicles-of-amber]
The amber tag has 11 questions and no tag wiki. Every question appears to be about Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber, rather than, say, fossilized tree resin containing Jurassic mosquitoes. Should ...
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Is it time to get rid of the [real-world]?
I recently discovered that we have a real-world tag.
Firstly, I'm really not sure when this tag is meant to be used. It can't be for all out-of-universe questions, as it would then have a lot more ...
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Is it important to mark spoiler questions as such?
Since most of the questions here are going to be about films, television series and novels, perhaps it would be a good idea to mark spoiler questions with [Spoiler], or a spoiler tag?
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