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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Shooting trouble and supporting tech - yet another tagging qualm
In today's episode of tagging disputes, we discuss one of our topics that isn't about gameplay! Well, usually. We're talking our support for software and hardware, which we have considered on-topic ...
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Is it allowed to add the logo of the corresponding game to tagwiki's?
Just as the title says, is it allowed to add the logo of the corresponding game to tagwiki's? For example, I just edited the tagwiki roller-coaster-tycoon-3 and added the logo of the game at it.
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Do we need a classic-games tag?
I saw this ITG question today and noticed that it was covered in tags, which isn't unusual for someone's first question ... but also that one of the tags was classic-games.
Isn't this just a ...
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How should we tag questions dealing with expansions of games?
Currently on the site we have 32 questions tagged under cataclysm and 11 questions tagged under expansions. Similarly, with DLC, we have some questions for Fallout:NV:Dead Money tagged as fallout-new-...
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Why are some questions tagged [fun]?
There are 6 questions on the main site currently tagged fun.
What is the sense in this? Aren't all games supposed to be fun? A search for the word fun in text turns up 3 pages of results.
Is there ...
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Tag name for Amnesia: A machine for pigs?
Its a little too long to be amnesia-a-machine-for-pigs. For now I have it at amnesia-machine-for-pigs (dropping the 'a'), but other options could be a-machine-for-pigs or something else.
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Rename [monkey-island] and related tags → [the-secret-of-monkey-island] etc
We have tags such as monkey-island that were made when we had a 25 character tag limit. Now that we have a 35 character tag limit, I propose that we expand these out
monkey-island → the-secret-of-...
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How do we tag questions about Call Of Duty Zombies mode?
There are a lot of posts about Call Of Duty's series-spanning game mode Zombies, but none of these questions have a tag that reflects the game mode itself.
In first page of the search I saw posts ...
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Tag synonym request: Street Fighter tags
As per Should we standardize our tag formatting regarding Arabic vs. Roman numerals?, the official spelling of the game title should be used in the tags whenever possible, instead of replacing Roman ...
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Dealing with tagging policy inconsistency for iOS games
There's no specific discussion on Meta nor any mention in the ios tag wiki of how we should be using this tag and whether or not it's being used properly, so I wanted to discuss it here. We currently ...
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Rename [gta-*] → [grand-theft-auto-*] to be consistent with other tags in the series
There are a number of tags for the Grand Theft Auto series, such as grand-theft-auto-5, grand-theft-auto-san-andreas, grand-theft-auto-5-ifruit, etc. However, this is inconsistent since there are a ...
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How should questions about Falskaar (Skyrim mod) be tagged?
This is about how to tag questions related to Falskaar, a Skyrim mod:
Falskaar is a new lands mod that adds an entirely new worldspace to the world. It's accessed by a dungeon the first time, then ...
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Is there any reason to keep the secret tag around?
The secret tag doesn't seem to provide any useful information. Plus, once we discuss them in detail on the site, they don't exactly fit the description "secret" any more. It seems like another one of ...
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Should "hide ignored tags" be the default?
The recent spate of Skyrim questions has made the home page unusable for people who aren't interested in the game. Due to the nature of the gaming site (and since we're probably going to do more ...
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Tags that should not be used
What tags should not be used in this site and why?
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How should we tag Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep?
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep is yet another title that blows past our tag limit (not suprising given the series' penchant for long/weird naming). I'd asked it last year and forgot to ask another (...
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Tags' shadow design
When you put mouse cursor over a tag, some kind of shadow appears, and I don't like it.
One of the suggestions of new design may be:
Umm... post your suggestions or proofs that the current ...
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What's the purpose of the [internet] tag?
I was poking around at recently-modified questions today and noticed the internet tag on one of them. (It was this question about Xbox Live and a connection through T-Mobile ... I proposed an edit to ...
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Tag rename request: [remote-play] -> [ps4-remote-play]
After asking a question where I used the remote-play tag, I was a bit worried that it might get edited and removed. The reason is that "remote play" sounds like a generic term (the act of playing a ...
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Introducing a PvP tag for WoW
I think that there should be a PvP tag for World of Warcraft, wow-pvp or world-of-warcraft-pvp.
There are currently 77 questions regarding PvP in WoW, showing that there is a lot of interest. In-game, ...
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Should we start putting Diablo 3 lore questions into a tag?
With Diablo 3 firing on all cylinders, players are progressing at vastly different rates. There are starting to be more and more questions about the lore from people who have finished the game. The ...
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What's going on with meta tags?
I've noticed that there have been some edits recently involving meta tags: specifically, on questions like these ...
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/30443/8366
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/...
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How to differentiate old games (Starcraft vs Starcraft II)?
I just bought Starcraft/Broodwar, and I've been asking questions about it, but there's a strong tendency to get Starcraft II questions since it's so popular right now. Right now I use a disclaimer ...
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"looking-for-game" tag vs. "identify-this-game" tag
I think the looking-for-game tag is excellent, but it's being used for two purposes right now. Some people are using it when they are looking for a game they remember details of but not the name of. ...
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What do we think about maintaining a site list of covered/tagged games?
Talk about a radical suggestion coming from the least likely of candidates! Read me out, if you will, because this actually has nothing to do with the Rec Wars.
While addressing this question ...
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Change [heroes-might-magic-6] -> [might-magic-heroes-6]
With the new title of the Heroes of Might and Magic series, they have re-titled the game (and all future games) to "Might and Magic Heroes: VI". I propose the tags heroes-might-magic-6 and heroes-...
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Burn [dlc] as per Cleanup Thread 2013/14
As discussed on last/this years tag burnination question*, dlc should be burned outright.
Mods, please remove one of the last vestiges of the ambiguous tag era!
* Or rather, not discussed as ...
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How to tag questions asking for a solution to a puzzle?
After reading Should we try to encourage at least 2 tags per question? I'm trying to add a second tag to my recent questions.
What's the proper tag for questions like "How do I solve this puzzle?" ...
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Red tags are displaying strangely
Got this on Chrome, Mac, 100% zoom:
Others have apparently been having similar issues with tag display.
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Is a good idea to edit ETS2/ATS questions to make them suitable for both games?
About Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator: They are both truck simulators made by SCS Software with the same game engine and set of features with a couple of exceptions. As of 1.34 ...
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Should we merge the overwatch and overwatch-2 tags?
I understand the motivation for having a different tag for sequels. However, I think Overwatch 2 is an exception, as it's a live service game that completely replaces Overwatch 1 (which cannot be ...
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How should we tag games in the Elder Scrolls series? [duplicate]
Along the lines of this recent discussion, how should we tag games in the Elder Scrolls series? Skyrim will be out soon (woo!), and we already have questions for Oblivion, Morrowind, and yes, even ...
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An End to Endings
endings
Is it a useful tag? It strikes me as a prime candidate for burnination. It's attached to 54 questions, so an edit spree seems like a bad idea here.
Do we need this tag?
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Should the "Glitch" and "Bug" tags be merged? [closed]
I don't think there's an obvious, meaningful difference between these two terms. The questions in each tag seem pretty similar.
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Is [java] a good tag?
I noticed java due to a recent suggested edit. It appears to be used with Minecraft questions to mean "I run a command involving either java.exe or javaw.exe at some point". Is this useful?
IMO, it ...
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Should I tag a request by the associated console?
Last night I asked a question regarding an original Gameboy game and I included the Gameboy tag. The tag was removed by another user (who has a score about 5 times larger than my own.)
I was under ...
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How should Counter-Strike global offensive be tagged?
Now that the game is playable via beta invites on Steam, questions about it may start popping up.
Obviously, counter-strike-global-offensive is too long, so should it be:
cs-global-offensive
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Remove old synonyms
As part of our recent tag cleanup, we've finally got around to actioning the change to the multiplayer tag, and this has now been renamed to mass-effect-3-multiplayer. However, because it was renamed, ...
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How should we tag the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series?
I just asked the first question on the site regarding the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series. How should we go about tagging the games? Some information:
There are currently 5 games that have been ...
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Odd tag roundup, 2011/12/14 edtion
Another week, another set of weird tags:
fast-expand - Is this maybe a subtag of SC2? It seems like it could be a concept across multiple RTS games though. I'm on the fence.
economics - I don't ...
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A world outside of gaming? Preposterous! But... it still needs a tag.
We've got a few questions that deal with matters of the real world, such as, air quotes, having a life. They're currently branded under two separate tags.
general-gaming: This is not really different ...
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Expand the Metal Gear Solid tags to reflect 35 character tag limit
Since the 35 character tag limit is long enough for all of the full game names in the Metal Gear Solid series, the following tags should be renamed:
metal-gear-solid-2 → metal-gear-solid-2-sons-of-...
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Should the [dota] tag be used ONLY for the Warcraft 3 map?
I see plenty of questions on Arqade that are about DoTA 2, the Valve game, rather than the actual Warcraft map. Most of the time, these questions also tend to have both [dota] and [dota-2] tags.
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Cleanup 2013: It's time for consensus on... the multiplayer tag
The multiplayer tag is not a good tag. Here are some previous resources for some "light" reading before we get started:
Player Two Press Burninate? Should we keep the [Multiplayer] tag?
The Great ...
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Might & Magic tag cleanup request
I don't really know much about this game or the series, but the tags for Might and Magic seem to be all over the place. Can someone familiar with it suggest what they should be and some mod rename?
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Is a Playstation | Playstation-3 tag fork needed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tag Synonym Request: [PS1] -> [Playstation-1] ; [PS2] -> [Playstation-2] ; [PS3] -> [Playstation-3]
I just got done editing this question from a generic "Playstation" ...
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Tag synonym request: [mortal-kombat-9] and [mortal-kombat-2011]
The most recently released Mortal Kombat game is simply titled (confusingly enough) "Mortal Kombat." It's the 9th game in the series, so it's been tagged here as mortal-kombat-9 but in several places ...
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On tagging "Command & Conquer"
We have a single command-and-conquer, which has 8 questions distributed thusly among actual games in the series.
Command & Conquer: Generals - 1 2 3
Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour - ...
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What tag should be used for MMO questions?
What tag should be used for Massively Multiplayer Online Games?
Options that come to mind:
mmo
Most common? Combined with rpg for games that are both.
mmorpg
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