Questions tagged [tags]
This is a tag. Tags are used for organising questions by categories. If your meta question is about creating/adding/removing tags on questions, or about the proper uses of a given tag, use this tag.
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Should Game Identification questions be tagged with the game name when an answer is found?
Someone else knowing this game could use the other ("wrong") answers as recommendations to similar games.
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How should we tag Prince of Persia?
The warrior-within tag was just created, and used in conjunction with the prince-of-persia tag. While the Warrior Within "subtitle" is unique to my knowledge, and fairly well-known, do we have a ...
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Setting priority for Twitter #hashtags from question tags
Sometimes the mechanism that posts tweets seems to be posting the least relevant tag as the Twitter #hashtag.
For Example:
http://twitter.com/StackGaming/status/113546504408547328
Can you answer ...
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The tagging on Minecraft mod questions is a mess
As many of you are well aware, we have a giant mess of tags related to Minecraft mods. (and if you're not aware, here's a short list: minecraft-forge minecraft-feed-the-beast minecraft-ae minecraft-...
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Mandatory tags for platform?
We appear to have instant consensus that a game tag (or game series tag) should be applied to all questions on specific titles.
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The only added value I see in adding it is for ...
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Prey-2017 or just Prey?
Our first Prey question has been posted! But is it Prey or Prey?
Based off reading the question, and current events, it's likely Prey (the new one). However, what if someone wants to tag the ...
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Do we really need this "longplay" tag?
From my understanding, we typically avoid meta tags. However, I saw this longplay tag get created, which is essentially just a type of playthrough and I'm not entirely sure it's necessary.
The ...
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Questions where OP has mentioned he/she is using a specific platform: how to answer, how to tag and when to close as exact duplicate?
In the question, Can I empty a soul gem?, the OP has mentioned that he is using Xbox 360. I take this to also mean that he's not looking for PC-only console commands or mod solutions, so I edited in ...
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Ability to block/warn about certain combinations of tags
We already have blocked tags and tag warnings, but we need to expand this feature to block or warn about certain combinations of tags, not just the presence/absence of a certain tag.
This argument ...
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Why was [game-recommendations] shortened to [game-rec]
Seems someone changed the [game-recommendations] tag to [game-rec] tag retroactively - i.e. not by manually going over each question.
Why is that? I think [game-rec] is very bad, as it's not clear ...
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What will happen with the starcraft-2 tag if Heart of the Swarm is released?
What will happen to the starcraft-2 tag once the new add-on Heart of the Swarm is released?
Will all the questions remain starcraft-2 and we add another starcraft-2-wol tag or will all current ...
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Minecraft cross-compatible edition tags
So, as Mojang announced at E3, Minecraft is merging Pocket edition, Console edition and Windows 10 edition as one cross-compatible edition.
Currently, we have tags for each one of them. minecraft-...
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How should I tag on gaming SE? (Are genre tags used?)
I tagged a question about a role playing game with role-playing-game.
The tag was removed by Drake, and I guess he knew what he was doing, as also the tag wiki states:
Use this tag for questions ...
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How should we tag "The Wonderful End of the World"?
The game's homepage.
Existing question currently tagged as 'thewonderfulendoftheworld' (25 characters)
We can't use 'wonderful-end-of-the-world' because it's too long. (26 characters, the limit is ...
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Inconsistency in Minecraft related tags
We have a tag called minecraft-commands. You must use it with another minecraft tag to specify. Same goes for redstone.
We have minecraft-java-edition-server and minecraft-bedrock-edition-server. ...
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Would a computer-build tag be off topic?
In the last week (my first week here :p) I've see that there is a lot of questions about their computer build.
Would a computer build tag be off topic, or should it start been considered as on topic ...
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Starcraft 2 'strategy' tag should actually many times be 'tactics', agree?
Just noticing that people use 'strategy' tag very loosely for starcraft 2 questions. I recommend that we use our brains and start using the 'tactics' tag when it makes more sense. Anyone disagree?
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Lets merge [tag:street-fighter-4] and [tag:super-street-fighter-4] to [tag:street-fighter-4-series]
Lets merge street-fighter-4 and super-street-fighter-4 to street-fighter-4-series.
They have each about 25 questions of which most overlap anyways. Some have both tags, others only one. After looking ...
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Rename [skyrim] → [elder-scrolls-skyrim] [duplicate]
Because, you know, scrolls is a pretty important aspect of the game.
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Is there any way to combat the minicraft problem?
You probably thought this question was about minecraft. It's not, it's about minicraft. Nearly every minicraft question has, or has had minecraft answers, and the author has to add a disclaimer.
Is ...
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How do we tag Terraria versions?
Terraria is out for the PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and Android and iOS devices. As far as I can tell, the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions have little to no difference as seems to be with Android and iOS versions. (...
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Rename [swtor] → [star-wars-the-old-republic]
Back in 2011, this site had a tag of star-wars-old-republic, since adding "the" increased the character count beyond the 25 character limit.
Then we had Rename [star-wars-tor] → [star-wars-old-...
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Make the 'Related' sidebar links prioritize questions matching *all* tags
Although SE in general considers tags to be equal, we have some tags (like achievements) that are usually only valid when paired with another tag for a particular game or series.
However, the code for ...
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Expanding tag names for Pokémon
I would like to propose renaming the following tags in the Pokémon series:
pokemon-rse → pokemon-ruby-sapphire-emerald (29)
pokemon-frlg → pokemon-firered-leafgreen* (25)
pokemon-dpp → pokemon-...
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How to know who created a tag?
Taxonomist badge description states:
Create a tag used by 50 questions
and I was wondering if there's a way to know which tags were created by me.
So I searched on Stack Exchange Data Explorer ...
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How to handle multiple games with the same exact name?
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is the 2005 EA Black Box game that's imho the only Need for Speed game worth playing of the titles I've tried so far. Box art straight from Wikipedia:
Need for Speed: Most ...
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Is there a reason why Ignored tags are, well, not really ignored?
I understand that this is a question regarding the entire StackExchange network, but recently this annoyance of mine has been considerably elevated because of Skyrim.
I like the idea of being able to ...
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Player Two Press Burninate? Should we keep the [Multiplayer] tag?
I'm not convinced that multiplayer is a good or useful tag. It's primary use at the moment is as a meta-tag to allow for filtering of questions concerned specifically with a multiplayer-mode in a game ...
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Posting a question for a game that doesn't yet have a tag [duplicate]
I want to post a question about the game Towns, but there's no tag for that game and I can't create one. I'm not really sure if any tag that current exists applies.
How can I post this question; what ...
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Consider creating a separate tag for Fortnite's "Battle Royale" mode
fortnite has an entirely distinct Battle Royale game mode (PvP, Save the World is PvE), which is sometimes referred as a standalone title, with its own progression system and game mechanics. It may ...
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Request for Tag Burnination: [Review]
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There is no good reason for this to ever be used, given the scope of our site and the rules outlined by our FAQ. Looking at the questions it's currently applied to, one is spam, one is closed, ...
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Same tag is being used for Star Wars: Battlefront (Pandemic Studios) and Star Wars: Battlefront (EA DICE)
We have star-wars-battlefront that unfortunately does not distinguish between the 2004 Star Wars: Battlefront by Pandemic Studios and the 2015 Star Wars: Battlefront by EA DICE. Similarly, star-wars-...
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How should we tag Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation?
With the release of the PS Vita title Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation, I find myself struggling on coming up with a good tag.
assassins-creed-3-liberation is too long
assassins-creed-3-lib doesn't ...
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Retag request for zerg, protoss, and terran
There seems to be a general agreement that zerg, protoss, and terran should be retagged as starcraft-zerg, starcraft-protoss, and starcraft-terran so that they follow the same convention as subtags ...
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Achievement Tag (Un?)locked
So, this is spawning based on the discussion in the clean up thread. Pulling it out so it is more visible and can be discussed.
What should we do with the achievements tag?
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Rename tags zerg, terran, and protoss to starcraft-zerg, starcraft-terran, and starcraft-protoss? [duplicate]
Currently there are three tags called zerg terran and protoss
I think having these current tag names is like tagging things redstone and minecart instead of minecraft-redstone and minecraft-minecart
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Do we need a separate tag for Dwarf Fortress adventure mode?
Do we need a separate tag for Dwarf Fortress adventure mode? Obviously, it's pretty different play experience with different questions than fortress mode.
The tag dwarf-fortress-adventure already ...
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Tag synonym request: [osx] -> [mac] [duplicate]
Currently, the excerpt for mac explicitly mentions OS X (as opposed to older operating systems to the mac). I agree with this definition since in common usage, "Mac" does indeed refer to OS X. But I ...
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Tagging games that have more than one title
As if the differences between abbreviated titles and full titles was not already a problem, what should we do for games that actually have multiple different titles? There are a few different cases ...
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Tag merge request: nfs-hot-pursuit and need-for-speed-hp
I don't have the rep needed to suggest synonyms, but nfs-hot-pursuit (9 questions) and need-for-speed-hp (6 questions) refer to the same game and I think they should be merged. It seems like most NFS ...
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How religious should I be about tagging questions to include the platform of the game?
Is it an accepted practice to tag console-specific games (PC, PS3, XBox 360, etc) with the platform for which the game in an exclusive game? What about non-exclusive games? If the question is worded ...
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What defines "retro-gaming"?
What exactly are people using to define retro-gaming when they use the tag? I ran into this question while trying to think how best to retag this question about adaptations.
Looking at the layout ...
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Console tags, any consensus yet?
Yesterday, Someone removed the [Wii] tag from almost all many Wii questions.
I rolled-back is modification on the question I asked because I found those tag really useful; In my interesting tags, ...
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Rename Heroes of Might and Magic tags
I would like to propose renaming the Heroes of Might and Magic series tags as following:
heroes-might-magic-1 → heroes-of-might-and-magic-1 (27 characters);
heroes-might-magic-2 → heroes-of-might-and-...
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How should we tag the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the same game?
Terraria was just released for the Xbox 360 and PS3, with a lot more features than the PC version, and it will be getting more. As far as I know, the base mechanics are the same, but it's been updated ...
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Proper usage of spoiler tag?
It's been noted that spoiler tags should be used only(?) when the titles contain spoilers, but I'm noticing that the tag is also being used to note that there are spoilers in the content of the ...
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Revisiting the Dwarf Fortress tags
A few years ago, we had this question: Do we need a separate tag for Dwarf Fortress adventure mode?
Since then, we've made a number of changes to how we handle tags, especially in the area of ...
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Tagging Suggestions
I think tagging on this site can get out of control very fast. I propose we use the method started by Math Overflow and precede game names with their acronym followed by a dot. This helps the search ...
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How should we tag Space Invaders Infinity Gene?
Yet another game with a tag longer than the 25 character limit. I'm having trouble figuring out how we should do this one. In our past discussions regarding titles with more than 25 characters, we ...
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Tag synonym request: [mtg-dotp-2012] and [magic-2012]
So Wizards of the Coast, not satisfied with having a really long company name, has taken to making video games with excessively long names, too. Last year, they released Magic: The Gathering: Duels of ...
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