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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Should questions about Minecraft mods be tagged mods?
I know Minecraft mod questions should be tagged minecraft-mods.
Should they also be tagged mods? That seems redundant, but should tags look like this:
minecraft-java-edition minecraft-mods
Or this:
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Rename [osx] → [mac-os-x] [duplicate]
The tag osx should be renamed to mac-os-x as that is the proper name of the operating system.
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Do we use abbreviations in genre names? [Completed]
I know this has been asked about games, but what about genres?
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[turn-based-strategy] - 8
[rpg] - 6
[mmorpg] - 6
Longer forms - 0
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Synonym request: [zelda] to [the-legend-of-zelda] [duplicate]
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How to tag "buying"?
There are 3 questions tagged buy.
I don't like this tag, and I think it should be buying, however, two of those questions refer to buying stuff inside the game, and the other buying gaming stuff (a ...
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What is the purpose of the [pokemon] tag? [duplicate]
On most Pokemon questions people add the pokemon tag, but it's often removed in the first edit by other users.
So my question is: is it wrong to use that tag for a question about a specific game? If ...
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Can we rename the [go] tag to something else?
It's clear that many new users don't know how to use tags. They try to tag pokemon-go writing pokemon (space) go and we get a lot of questions tagged pokemon-series and go.
Due to this question we ...
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Tag synonym request: [mac-os] to [os-x] (or vice versa) [duplicate]
The upcoming version of "OS X", which is macOS 10.12 Sierra, changes the canonical name of the operating system series from "OS X" to "macOS".
Therefore, I suggest that ...
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How should we tag flash games?
Flash games aren't overly common, but there doesn't seem to be much of a consensus on how to tag them. Most of them were tagged with the game's name and flash, but as most flash games don't have too ...
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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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Rename [mtg-*] → [magic-the-gathering-*]
The tag for the games related to Magic: The Gathering should be renamed as follows, thanks to the 35 character tag limit:
mtg-duels-of-planeswalker → mtg-duels-of-the-planeswalkers
magic-2012 → mtg-...
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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
Also common. In contrast to tagging ...
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Questions relating to Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles can also relate to the combined game - should we add this tag?
Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles were first released on cartridges for the Sega Genesis/ Mega Drive. These cartridges can be physically joined to access the combined game, Sonic 3 & Knuckles. As ...
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Tagging sports games - can we get away with just a generic [sports] tag?
For example, if a question is about pro-evolution-soccer, does it also need the football or soccer tag, or can we get away with a sports tag only?
It hasn't come up often, really because we only ...
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Add tag for "Diggles, the Myth of Fenris"
I asked a question about the game Wiggles from a German developer, forgetting that it was released in English as Diggles, the Myth of Fenris. Someone kindly created a tag for it. However, I have ...
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How should we be tagging questions about multiple games in a series?
This is the question that prompted mine:
Steam version of Fallout / Fallout 2 in a window
There have been several attempts to retag it, some of which have reversed earlier retagging, so I thought it ...
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Why is this tag without me as the author?
I was reading this question about knowing who created a tag and, after looking at the tags they had linked (like this one), I went to visit the tag I had created recently: space-hulk-deathwing.
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Tagging those shmups with lots and lots of pretty bullets
In English, there are two commonly used terms to describe the kind of scrolling shooters (shoot-em-ups, STGs... there's a lot of fanciful names for them) where you are literally overwhelmed by bullet ...
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How should we treat demo related questions in terms of tagging?
I came across a question about a demo that has been released. The question is entirely answerable, but this lead me to look up how many demo related tags we have. I found three matched the search ...
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Tag [Economies], [Economy] -> [Economics]
There were only 11 questions affected, both now altered.
I tried to set up a synonym so that future "Economies" tags get pushed to the singular again, but discovered I lack the ability to do so.
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Can we change the Metal Gear Solid Series to Metal Gear Series?
On the surface, this seems like a silly question, but why do we have a metal-gear-solid-series tag? Please bear in mind that there is the assumption that users reading this question will have a good ...
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Unlockable content tag
Which would be preferred as a tag for unlockable content and items, unlockable or unlock?
I suggest unlockable for content, since unlock could then be used for "how do I unlock door x"
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Is there a 'tag-less' tag? [duplicate]
Is there a tag that we can use for games which we don't already have tags for? While we do have an extensive library of tags, there is no way we have a tag for every single game available on steam, in ...
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Should a GTA 5 tag be made ready? [duplicate]
Tomorrow, in the UK (I don't know about the RoW I'm afraid) the next instalment in the GTA series is released. In preparation for a flood of new questions should a GTA 5 tag be added (gta-5?) so that ...
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Introducing a new tag for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria
Since the start of the Mists of Pandaria contest, we've had to clarify that not only does a question have to be tagged world-of-warcraft, but also has to be related to Mists of Pandaria. As a user who'...
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Questions about media rating bodies
We have esrb - it has some questions on it that belong on that tag, we don't appear to have any questions raised for any of the other major rating bodies;
ACB, the Australian media rating system.
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Add game tag to answered game identification question? [duplicate]
Once a game identification question is answered, and the asker acknowledges the answer, would it make sense to add the tag for the game to the question?
I think this would primarily serve to alert ...
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Clean-Up: [graphics-card], [monitor], others -> [hardware]
We have a tag hardware, and then several tags for other components.
Examples:
monitor
graphics-card
mouse
keyboard
power-supply
hard-drive*
Currently all hardware-related tags to hardware. Very ...
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Tagging overhaul?
I absolutely hate staring at the tag assassins-creed-revel due to the 25 char limit. I think its atrocious and not intuitive at all for searching purposes.
What about a scheme where we split up ...
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Are game subtags still needed?
I'm talking about tags like tf2-spy, diablo-3-wizard, and starcraft-zerg. I believe only team-fortress-2, diablo-3, and starcraft-2 use subtags like these.
I have the feeling these tags were created ...
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Format for Borderlands 2 class tags
I am preemptively bringing up Borderlands 2 class tags as I expect more class specific questions to be asked in the coming days and weeks as people progress further in the game and unlock higher level ...
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Closed tag for closed questions?
Is it worth having a closed tag (as well as "[closed]" in the title) as this stackexchange site seems to have a lot of closed questions and a closed tag would make it really useful to put it in the ...
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Questions tagged [Minecraft] and [Minecraft-redstone]
There are currently 113 questions tagged minecraft-redstone and all but one of them are also tagged minecraft. The other, is additionally tagged with minecraft-xbox.
Should every question tagged with ...
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Consider retagging version specific [minecraft] questions to [minecraft-0.12]
We currently have 42 questions about Minecraft. Some of those can be expected to still be valid in the final release (examples: 1, 2, 3, 4), while others are more or less clearly version-specific (...
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Can we get tags for Borderlands 2 Classes?
I have asked two class-specific Borderlands 2 questions, one about a particular skill in Axton's tree, and one skill in Maya's tree. It could be useful for people looking for answers in class-specific ...
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Tag Request for Game-of-War
Can game-of-war be a tag on the main site, please?
Game of War: Fire Age is a revolutionary free-to-play MMO developed by Machine Zone (creators of Global War, iMob, and Original Gangstaz). The game ...
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