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Good Tags now save a lot of work later!
Thanks for shareing your experience. I will start looking through the tags right now and list suggestions here.
Unfortunately, there is no member with the merge-tags privilege yet.
Issues identified ...
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Is it possible to create a GNU+Linux Tag?
You can do it in the following way: gnu-linux.
As spaces are taken as delimiters for tag creation, gnu linux would be parsed as two different tags.
So, include a hyphen between the words, and you'...
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Should we delete the "api" tag?
I looked at the api tag today, in a hope of CULLING THE HERD, but I had trouble finding targets!
There's several which are reasonable questions about the existence of a given API. For example, a ...
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Should suicide tag be synonym of selfdestruct?
Agree. Think we may need to add the support to this question.
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Good Tags now save a lot of work later!
Quite a few of the listed tags in my question where already removed, but here are some comments on the remaining:
development: Since Ethereum is Software, a lot of very different question topics ...
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Should we merge "errors" into "exceptions" tags?
exceptions is better than errors, but neither is a good tag. The problem is that any software can have them and the tags will get stuck on everything from "human errors to errors in any kind of ...
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How do we edit or remove a Tag from the Tags section?
Additionally to removing it from all questions as Chenmunka suggested, a moderator can fix this directly:
The tag can be merged into one of the correct spelling. Let's say somebody created prove-of-...
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How should we tag questions?
I have reviewed how these tags are used in practise to see if they can be broken down logically:
security could possibly be broken down into consensus, encryption / cryptography, cold-storage, ...
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Can we just import all the tag-wiki from other SE sites?
The short answer is no.
Apart from the technical considerations, tag wiki excerpts were not meant to simply define what a word means. Excerpts should describe when and how that tag is to be used on ...
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web3js questions
Given that other StackExchange sites with similar version issues do exactly this - have tags for each version - I would say yes.
Create the version tags you describe. Leave the existing web3js and ...
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Should suicide tag be synonym of selfdestruct?
I agree with this and you are correct that SUICIDE is deprecated.
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Good Tags now save a lot of work later!
Singular or Plural tags?
we should point out if we want tags in singular or plural. here is a list of tags:
Singular
dapp ---> rename dapps
blockchain ok
wallet ---> rename wallets
address ---> ...
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What's the protocol tag for? Should it be deleted?
I think this is like the api tag, which I am also in favor of deleting. What specific question could actually have "protocol" as a meaningful delimeter? If nothing else, protocol-design seems like it ...
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Should we dissolve the dapps tag?
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It's like if stackoverflow had a "program" tag. Nearly every question will relate to a dapp in some way. I'm not sure what exactly you would learn from browsing the tag, or what you would put in ...
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What tag should we use for questions relating to developing/designing smart contracts?
I suggest:
smart-contracts for general questions on smart contracts.
contract-design, contract-debugging and contract-development for special issues while creating smart contracts.
dapp for anything ...
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How do we edit or remove a Tag from the Tags section?
To answer the 'remove' part of your question.
The system automatically deletes tags that have no questions. This is done by a task that checks every now and again. See this post on SE.Meta.
Just ...
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What tag should we use for questions relating to developing/designing smart contracts?
I think this is a distinct category of things that we will probably keep running into. In my industry we call the peocess of making third-party widgets talk to each "Integration" so when there is a ...
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What tag should we use for questions relating to developing/designing smart contracts?
The use of contract-design and contract-development seems to be more appropriate for the development of a smart contract. And I make a suggestion: We can use contract-development also to refer the ...
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What tag should we use for questions relating to developing/designing smart contracts?
I generally agree with your suggestion, buy we may continue to get a variety of those tags. Thanks for using my example - lol.
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Should we rename the tag statetree to state-tree?
As this has been done (status-completed tag), I'm answering this question so it doesn't appear on the list of unanswered questions. If someone can accept this answer it then it will disappear from ...
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How do I do Tag/synonym edits - moderator help needed perhaps?
No problem. I renamed the tags.
There are no synonyms needed for this use case. Text completion will show users the correct tags.
deni → denial-of-service
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Is it the State-Trie or the State-Tree?
Since also Christian Reitwiessner in his most recent post also refers to state trie pruning, I would suggest to rename the tags using the term trie.
The wikipedia entry also explains why trie is the ...
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On Ethereum Classic usage
IMHO, the network is Ethereum Classic, the currency Ether Classic, and the ticker ETC. (Or ETHC, but that didn't seem to make it as a symbol.)
I think the tag should be ethereum-classic. I don't ...
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On Ethereum Classic usage
Well, ETC is the most commonly used name that I've seen on the Etherium Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/ as well as most pool and exchanages that I've ssen. I'd assume that we'd want to keep ...
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Let's create tag excerpts and wiki entries!
This post is a community wiki. Start editing tags, writing descriptions, adding wiki entries and update this list along the way.
If every user updates one tag per day, we will be done in a week. We ...
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Should we dissolve the smart-contracts tag?
Lets nuke it. The tags contract-design, contract-development, contract-invocation and contract-debugging should jointly cover most usage.
Update All uses of the smart-contracts tag are retagged. Now ...
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Changing Solidity tags from Solidity-0.5.0 to Solidity-0.5.x
Thank you for raising this and the helpful suggestion: both tags have been updated.
In case people were interested, this is one output from moderator tool:
Preview tag rename Be careful! There is ...
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Should we break up the mining tag like Bitcoin SE?
No. At the current point with less than 100 answers tagged with 'mining' it should not be broken down yet. We should re-evaluate this at a later time.
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How many meta questions should have a 'featured' tag?
Use with great restraint. It's pretty rare that you actually have to 'feature' a post. The system already has processes in place to raise certain meta posts to the main Q&A. The featured tag was ...
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Is it the State-Trie or the State-Tree?
Tree is the more general term; trie is a more precise term technically since it's a more specific type of tree... Trie is more nitpicky. I think using the general term, "tree", is better for tagging ...
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