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C tag usage, radical changes to tag wiki. Which policy to keep?
Unilaterally changing the very meaning of a tag like this is a big no-no. The user in question should not have done it without bringing it up on MSO first, and therefore you should revert it back ASAP....
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Is blockchain "efficient", or should we drop that from the tag description?
"efficiently" is not needed here at best.
Practically it is a marketing buzzword fluff and should be removed.
When it is efficient and not heavily depends on situation. For vast majority of ...
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C tag usage, radical changes to tag wiki. Which policy to keep?
My proposal is to use the previous policy:
Unless the question does not explicitly mention which version of the C standard that is used, it is assumed that the current version is used. That is, ...
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Should we accept a tag-wiki edit made by a corporate employee?
We should judge any edit based on its merits. The source of the edit is not relevant, as long as the information is correct and it's a good excerpt.
That being said, this edit broadens the tag (to ...
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I didn't get what is the Research assistant badge
The tag excerpt and tag wiki are different things:
The research assistant badge is for editing the tag WIKI. For only providing an excerpt, you won't make progress on that badge.
Just do know that ...
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Why is the [arraylist] tag only about Java?
The simple/obvious answer is also the correct one: because the person who wrote the tag wiki (Stephen C) is a Java expert. He interpreted the tag relative to his own expertise, just as we all tend to ...
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Isn't teltonika tag (a company) advertising too much for it?
It is. I'd argue the entire tag is unneeded. The consensus from my understanding is that company tags are too broad anyway*.
As per past discussions and the tag should be removed as done before, where ...
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Should we always update the [java] version?
I would completely remove the "Latest Stable Versions" section.
I don't see that the section provides much value with regards to asking and answering questions on Stack Overflow. Ultimately,...
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Should every tag have a tag wiki?
If there's no other necessary info to convey, I don't see any harm in a brief description.
I've always thought of the tag excerpt as a way to quickly understand a tag, even if I'm not particularly ...
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Should we be able to put bounties on tag wikis?
Tag wikis shouldn't be a popularity contest.
While bounties do attract more attention to whatever they're tied to, I'm not convinced it's the kind of attention tag wikis require.
It's also not ...
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"Questions about general usage" regarding tag [gitlab] vs [github]
I've fixed the excerpt so it no longer suggests that questions about GitLab are off-topic.
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Can't edit a tag wiki
The suggested edit queue was full at the time and we don't do a good job of showing anything that resembles a proper error message in that case.
Starting today (June 14, 2017), we're going to show ...
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How much promotional language is acceptable in tag excerpts?
I've gone ahead and reverted both of these to a version that a moderator contributed.
The excerpt wasn't usage guidance and so is not good; I've reverted to a version that actually gives guidance.
For ...
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Proposed update to C and C++ tag usage wikis
I think the usage sections have too much needless verbiage or present information best stated elsewhere.
For example, MCVEs are appropriate for all debugging questions, not specifically those of C ...
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What is [winapp]?
A winapp is, obviously1, a Windows Application!
I won't be writing the tag info, however, as the tag probably shouldn't exist. I just went through all 85 questions on this tag to summarize what they ...
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Edit was rejected even though it doesn't copy from an external source
It appears verbatim on page 637 of Comp-Computer Science-TB-12 by Reeta and Gagan Sahoo. It also appears in many other places on the Internet, as Makyen said, including this website.
Even if this is ...
Cody GrayMod
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Why am I suspended from the review queues?
https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/32586307: The edit doesn't really improve anything. The first sentence should have been removed ("I've run into a problem with my Python code and ...
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Is it appropriate to add a link to an Area 51 proposal in a tag-wiki?
Let me preface this by saying that I don't know what the consensus is or if there even is one.
I personally think this is a good idea. It seems like one of the best and most subtle ways of letting ...
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Is blockchain "efficient", or should we drop that from the tag description?
The tag description is horrible marketing-speak - just tap edit and change it.
No need for a meta discussion to change a tag description.
(It is a common problem on the site that tag descriptions are ...
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Has tag editing been removed?
You have 5 pending suggested edits; you cannot submit more edits until the 5 pending edits are reviewed (see Rate limit suggested edits for more information).
It would seem that the button just ...
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Tag wikis seem to be converted from Markdown to HTML on edit
Apologies peeps, this was an unintended side effect of the tag wiki work we're undertaking currently.
The fix is rolling out now, so you should soon be seeing less HTML-based horror in the review ...
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Restore SQL Fiddle link for [sql] tag wiki
People seemed to have found it useful, so if you are confident that it is now reasonably stable and usable, then it makes good sense to edit the link back in. At least, I can't see how it would hurt ...
Cody GrayMod
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Tag Review: What do to if I only like a certain part of the edit
Having incorrect information in a tag description or excerpt is a more severe problem than having incomplete information (or none at all). On that basis, I'd be inclined to reject the edit.
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How to edit a tag wiki
You can edit a tag wiki using the following URL template
https://stackoverflow.com/edit-tag-wiki/some-tag-name
For example, if you want to edit the tag wiki of javascript, you can go to
https://...
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Should we accept tag wiki excerpts with co-tagging guidelines?
Should we accept tag wiki excerpts with co-tagging guidelines?
Yes we should as long as the co-tagging guidelines make sense and are created in good faith. First of all, tag usages guidance in tag ...
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What is a good description for tags?
Hmm that sounded familiar. https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/15340127
And the tag wiki you identified also should have been rejected as plagiarism, because it's directly copied from ...
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