Questions tagged [tags]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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TypeScript and JavaScript tags
We typically treat c and c++ as mutually exclusive. We don't tag the same question with both c and c++. I feel we should do the same for TypeScript and JavaScript.
TypeScript needs to run through a ...
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May I post a question whose code is written in a programming language about which nothing exists in Code Review Stack Exchange?
May I post a question whose code is written in a programming language about which nothing exists in Code Review Stack Exchange?
For example, Asymptote is a vector graphics programming language which, ...
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Should we generalize the [native-code] tag?
Until now, we have been using the native-code tag for questions involving high-level code that calls c, c++, or similar lower-level code.
Occasionally, people write code to allow c or c++ code to call ...
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Should we copy over the requests tag?
The requests tag would be an informative addition to questions like this. Should we copy it over from Stack Overflow?
I have filled the wiki but do not know how to add the Code Language and the ...
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Tags for social platforms
We have a tag for twitter (not to be confused with twitter-bootstrap). We also have questions about Whatsapp and Telegram, but those questions don't have specific tags yet.
In my opinion, we have 2 ...
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Should we have a "clone" or "deep copy" tag?
I was going to tag this question with either "clone" or "deep copy" or "deep clone" but it appears we have no such tag.
If as a community we feel this tag is worth ...
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Create [x86-64] synonym for [amd-64]
On Stack Overflow, the x86-64 tag is the main tag for questions about 64 bit extensions to the Intel x86 architecture. The amd64 tag is a synonym.
Here on Code Review, the amd64 tag exists (and only ...
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Burninate [heuristic]
The heuristic tag has only one question, no description, no synonyms and no wiki entry. The only question using it has four other tags and a comment pointing out that the use of the word "...
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Replace tag [parse.com] with [parse-platform]
The tag parse.com should be replaced with parse-platform analogous to a similar renaming that was done on Stack Overflow.
This tag request is part of the Parse Community's effort to maintain Parse ...
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The [Salesforce] ecosystem
While hunting for my next zombie to take down, I encountered the following question: Patient Appointment CSV to insert records using simple_salesforce
A question that seemed well written, almost ...
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Creating a new tag for Alloy
I would like to use this site to review Alloy code. However, I do not have enough reputation on this site to create a tag. Without a tag, I cannot post code. This seems to be a chicken and egg problem....
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Unifying "Is {language} on-topic?" questions under one tag scheme
Please can we unify all "is {language} on-topic?" questions to one tag scheme.
Since there are, with my counting at least, 35 such questions if we were to make this a tag then it would have more ...
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Let's demerge [mergesort] for consistency with other sorting tags
In a previous meta question, we decided that the sorting tags should not be merged. I am fine with this.
Currently, however, there is a peculiarity among the 6 major sorting algorithm tags:
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Perl6 is now known as Raku
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21251666
perl6 should be renamed to raku and existing postings should be re-tagged. SO did this already.
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Why is the [beginner] tag appropriate here as opposed to e.g. Stack Overflow?
I'm sure many of us have seen the blog post about the death of meta-tags on Stack Overflow.
One of the tags included in the aforementioned blog post is beginner.
However, this tag seems to be ...
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Shouldn't [random] be renamed to [randomness]?
The tag random evokes the idea of a "random" post, something which is categorically disallowed on Stack Exchange.
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Synonym request for tag [animations], proposed synonym [easing]
Synonym Request
I came across this question screen-transition-effect-like-in-final-fantasy-games where OP makes their custom easing function in order to smoothly transition a color over an image. I ...
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Peculiar application of [reinventing-the-wheel] tag on my question
My question has been edited by a moderator to include the tag reinventing-the-wheel.
Allthough I did state
I am not relying on libraries like cats even if they might already provide solutions for ...
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Disambiguate 'rop' tag
I see rop was recently added, to refer to "Railway-oriented programming" (which I have to admit was new to me, not having come across the term when I was using functional Scheme).
However, the ...
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New tag proposition: Leetcode
Leetcode is a very popular website for programming challenges. I would request that a new tag be created, leetcode, that can focus on these specific types of questions.
There has been an influx of ...
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Tag request [visual-foxpro]
Just edited a question mistagged as VBA to instead use a new visual-foxpro tag.
After looking at tag synonyms for VBA, I see there is no visual-basic-applications tag, so perhaps the new tag I ...
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Create Tag Clean Code
My reputation is too low to create the tag clean-code. I really miss this tag since clean code is a major aspect of code reviews (just nowadays more than in the ...
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Warn if question is tagged with [python-3.x] but not [python]
Given that 16/50 of the latest python-3.x questions aren't posted with the python tag,[1] and site policy is to tag with both.[2] Can we move the burden onto the poster to tag properly, rather than ...
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Do we have a blurry scope?
When building the base of 'the guide to wonderland', I've looked through the scope and site-policy tags. But I don't really know what the difference is, and I'm unsure why a significant amount of them ...
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I suggest two tags, [readability] and [compatibility]
I suggest adding two tags readability and compatibility. I can't add them myself but think they will be useful.
At my last code review question I added a tag related to the programming language ...
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Should there be a tag for Python library [requests]?
I recently asked a question where I was interested in if I used the Requests library correctly. To my surprise, when I was adding tags, I didn't see the one for this library. Googling ...
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Optimize our meta tags?
First off I should say I'm ignoring the following meta tags: beginner, homework, reinventing-the-wheel, and most with less than 100 views.
A short overview of the discussions around these tags is ...
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Are machine-learning questions a good fit for CR?
I'm aware of When are Machine Learning questions on-topic?, but I think maybe there's room for discussion regarding the machine-learning tag.
I've made a search on the ML tag (because I do not have ...
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Please add the tag [red]
red is already a tag on Stack Overflow. Please add it here.
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Search result displays unparsed HTML in tag excerpt
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/search?q=test+[bash]
The URL above leads to the result you see in the picture. Note the unprocessed HTML ...
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What's the [api] tag for?
The taginfo for api describes what an Application Programming Interface is, but doesn't give any guidance as to what kind of question it applies to.
Given that the majority of code here is at ...
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Requesting tag [arcpy] be created
There are not a lot of questions involving the popular GIS/geospatial library ArcPy from Esri (just 14 at the moment), but could someone with the create tags privilege create one for it, please?
If ...
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Does [ascii-art] mean only ASCII?
I'm looking at the ascii-art excerpt, which says:
ASCII Art is a graphic design technique that uses 93 of the 128 printable ACSII characters to create images.
Whilst this is almost true (it uses ...
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Python 2.x merger bugs
After the creation of the Python-2.x tag there are a couple of bugs:
The 'top users' page now doesn't show the correct information.
My profile shows the tag as Python-2.7.
The Python-2.x badge page ...
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Are practical user-created languages suitable for a tag creation?
I recently created a language, and was wondering (As many others may be) if a user is allowed to create a tag for their language and post a few example questions. The following things should be ...
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Give [jison] a higher tag priority than [javascript]
Recently I asked a question and created the new tag jison. I also tagged the question with javascript because that is what the language compiles to. However, I noticed that the title in the browser ...
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JavaScript concepts applying to JSX posts
Many posts are tagged with jsx as well as javascript and sometimes ecmascript-6, but then those latter tags are often removed by others.
While I understand that jsx is not syntactically valid ...
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Clojure tag not sorting first
I've noticed that all language tags are sorted first but clojure tag.
Is this by design or is there some setting that this tag is missing?
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Make constexpr synonym to a new tag, constant-expression
I'm proposing creating a new tag, constant-expression, and then making constexpr a synonym for constant-expression, rather than constants. Constant expression in C++ requires different usage of ...
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Not notified of unwanted edits to question
I was surprised to see one of my questions being changed that much that the intent of the question was removed from it.
As C++ is evolving rapidly, I was experimenting with one of its features: ...
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Create tag [nuxtjs]
Please create a tag nuxtjs for the popular VueJS framework nuxt.js.
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Can we replace the misleading [unity] tag with a more distinct tag?
Some unity3d (game engine) questions are being accidentally tagged as unity (Microsoft dependency injection container).
Can we rename unity to unity-container, and create a tag synonym for unity and ...
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Posting very simple questions as exemplars [duplicate]
I noticed a couple things that have been pointed out repeatedly. Having an exemplar of that single issue (not a bunch of issues in a long piece of code) can be pointed back to along with a simple ...
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Should python3.x be an alias of python-3.x?
The existing tag python-3.x works great, but I regularly forget to add the dash there, and type python3.x. This tag doesn't exist, and I don't have the rep to ...
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Favorite categories - not all favorite tag questions are colored
In my favorite tags section I have python, python-2.7 and python-3.x. When searching for specific questions containing, say, python I don't have all of the questions colored.
Should this happen? Do I ...
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No tag for Angular
There is no tag for Angular (v2, 4, 5). It redirects to Angular.js, which is a completely different framework using a different language. Is it possible to create a new tag for Angular?
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Shall we keep shelling out questions for [shell]?
We have a shell tag, but we also have more specific shell tags such as sh and bash. Many tags with shell also include these specific tags, so it almost looks redundant. I could see that there are ...
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What's your angle on desynonymizing [Angular] and [Angular.js]?
As we should know from ""Angular" (Angular is not Angular.js)", Angular is not AngularJS - Angular is Angular2+.
Wikipedia also says they're different things:
Angular - "Angular (commonly referred ...
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.net to the core
An entity-framework-core tag was recently created. Tag asp.net-core was created some 8 months ago.
I can see a pattern here: do we really want a -core version of every single .net-related technology ...
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Should we forever deconstruct [data-structures]?
This tag was recreated today and was probably also recreated some time ago since its burnination as part of our massive tag purging. We already have separate tags for the most common data structures, ...