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Tag Wars Episode I: Harry Potter and the Tag Cleanup
Untag Decade Tags: 70s 80s 90s
Tag Score: -3
Impact: ~150
These tags are way too broad and it's very difficult to figure out when to use them. They have some very limited use for story ...
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Tag Wars Episode I: Harry Potter and the Tag Cleanup
Untag plot
Tag Score: -9
Impact: 139
This tag is usually used in a way that should be a synonym for plot-explanation, but is more ambiguous and thus even worse. Again, a majority of our questions ...
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Should we rename [tmnt] to [teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles]?
No
Unfortunately, it's too long. teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles has 28 characters, which is 3 over the limit. You could try it without the dashes, but that makes for an ugly tag.
What we could ...
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Should we include 'the' in tag names when the official title starts with 'the'?
Yes, rename them.
There's a lot of precedent for including the 'the' in the tag name, as mentioned in the question. We don't have to worry as much about running out of characters in the tag name. And ...
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Tag Wars Episode I: Harry Potter and the Tag Cleanup
Untag plot-inconsistency
Tag Score: -1
Impact: 107
Much like plot-explanation, this is a tag used only in some of the instances where it is arguably appropriate, but is unlikely to be used for any ...
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What is the correct usage of individual works tags vs. author tags vs. franchise tags?
We should be pretty liberal with creating tags for specific works of science fiction, and here's why I think so (if you don't care, skip down a bit :) )
In my opinion, a "work of fiction" is the core ...
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Tag Wars Episode I: Harry Potter and the Tag Cleanup
Untag death
Score: -6
Impact: 57 questions
The tag wiki notes that the term can refer to either the end of life of a subject, or the personified entity of death, so there's no clear correct usage ...
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Tag Wars Episode I: Harry Potter and the Tag Cleanup
Untag plot-explanation
Tag Score: -6
Impact: ~500
This question arguably applies to over half of the questions on this site, but only gets used haphazardly. This seems proof enough that it's not a ...
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Should we add the [star-trek] tag to all of the Star Trek questions that don't have it?
After some discussion I'm fine with retagging all star-trek questions with the generic franchise tag. However, I would like it to be a coordinated effort during off peak (ie weekend evening) hours.
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The Big Edit Event (is finished)
Acknowledgements
Let's have a big round of applause for all those who helped take part in the Big Edit Event (that image shows the number of edits made from Saturday/Sunday midnight up to now; I ...
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Should the Age of Ultron be Avenged?
Rename it and create an 'Avengers' convention
Step 1:
Create a new tag called avengers-age-of-ultron and either make age-of-ultron a synonym (this allows people to find it) or delete it. Additionally, ...
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What tags should we rename now that we have 35 characters in tags?
These tags need to be renamed:
(done) jonathan-strange → jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell
(done) captain-america-tws → captain-america-the-winter-soldier (old meta post about it)
(done) captain-...
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Should Tron have its franchise tag as well?
Yes
There are currently:
16 questions tagged tron but not tron-legacy or tron-uprising, so I assume these 16 questions are only about the 1982 original;
27 questions tagged tron-legacy but not tron, ...
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What to do with the [author-identification] tag?
Let’s get rid of it
The vast majority of the questions listed are standard story-identification questions. Sure, the querents don’t know who wrote the story, but that’s because they don’t know the ...
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Should we rename the tag [2001] to [2001-a-space-odyssey]?
Yes, we should rename 2001 to 2001-a-space-odyssey.
The proposed tag is more expressive and unambiguous. (You couldn't, for example, mistake it for a year tag.)
We should rename 2010 to 2010-odyssey-...
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Should we rename the [star-wars] tag to [fairy-tale-rubbish]?
I have given this serious consideration and my answer is
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How do we deal with massive author retag?
EDIT: I've just completed the retagging of questions about Sanderson and his works. In future, please use the brandon-sanderson tag only for questions about the author, and individual work tags, along ...
Rand al'ThorMod
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How should we tag Donkey Kong Country questions?
Questions about games that do not involve Mario or Luigi (or their evil doppelgangers) should not be tagged super-mario-brothers. The characters of Mario and Donkey Kong originated in the same game, ...
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Tag Cleanup 2016: Before the burnination
plot originally had 140 questions tagged.
Of those:
115 already have a franchise, work, or author tag on them, so superfluous
7 are also tagged [story-identification], so superfluous.
3 closed ...
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Is [tag:xkcd] going to be contentious?
tl;dr: I'm skeptical that we need it but I would not likely argue over it, which is just another way of saying "not contentious."
Using our "checklist" here, for me I score xkcd a 7:
Does it make ...
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Should we rename [tmnt] to [teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles]?
We can now rename it
All sites are now allowed to use tags with 35 characters. Thus we can rename this tag to teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles.
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How many tag edits should we allow per day?
The guideline agreed to in the past within Mos Eisley, with approval from mods (at the time) was 5 of the top 15 posts on the most recent filter of the front page.
Most weekdays, this rule worked ...
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Should we have a graphic-novel tag?
No
To quote arch-curmudgeon Alan Moore;
It [graphic novel] is a marketing term... that I never had any sympathy with. The term
'comic' does just as well for me... The problem is that 'graphic
...
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Should the Legends tag be added to Star Wars questions before April 2014?
The tag wiki for star-wars-legends gives the following usage guidelines:
Use this tag if your question references Legends sources and/or to indicate that answers are permitted to use Legends ...
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I have Infinitely messed up a new MCU tag!
Since the tag has only been used on one question so far, an easy solution would have been:
remove the incorrect tag;
wait a day for it to be automatically wiped from the system along with other zero-...
Rand al'ThorMod
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Should we include 'the' in tag names when the official title starts with 'the'?
List of tags to be renamed
curse-of-the-black-pearl → the-curse-of-the-black-pearl
heroes-of-olympus → the-heroes-of-olympus
lord-of-the-rings → the-lord-of-the-rings
wheel-of-time → the-wheel-of-...
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Tag Wars: The Science Fiction/Fantasy Tag Cleanup Event
The First Sci-Fi/Fantasy Tag Cleanup Event -- such as it was -- has been completed.
It was a very small one; myself and @DVK cleaned up 31 questions tagged plot-explanation and 4 questions tagged ...
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