Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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No [westminster] is better than a bad [westminster]?
The westminster has only 8 questions but they seem to cover different topics.
Few are about the Westminster system of government:
Is regular Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) something unique to ...
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Proposal for two tags: [intelligence-service] and [secret-service]
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I propose adding two tags: intelligence-service and secret-service.
The intelligence-service tag complements the existing tags: espionage, surveillance, intelligence and counterintelligence, ...
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HTML formatting issue on voting button [closed]
This may be a more generic Stack issue, but I'm raising it here as I've only seen it here.
My rep on the site is low, so I don't have the ability to vote. The dialogue to inform me I can't vote has an ...
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Are there any strong objections to the creation of the neutrality tag?
On Which of the BBC's postwar "many versions of neutrality" are candidates for one which "meets the competing needs of Kyiv and Moscow"? I have added a new neutrality tag.
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Should a [term-limits] tag be created, or should that tag be made a synonym of [election-requirements]?
There are 29 questions that refer to "term limits" or "term limit"; some as a limitation on re-election.
20 questions "term limits" is:q
9 questions "term limit&...
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Should the [majority] and [supermajority] tags be "burninated"?
Should the majority and supermajority tags be "burninated"?
majority (8 questions tagged; 877 questions using the term)
supermajority (2 questions tagged; 26 questions using the term)
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Can we remove `fer` tag?
https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fer
Just 1 recent, -3 votes, closed, question. Fer has no explanation on its use. Doesn't seem an obvious acronym.
What's best way to flag an ...
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Add a synonym for tag [rnc]
I have added the tag rnc. Would a Mod be so kind as to add the tag republican-national-committee as a synonym. This would be similar to the combination of dnc with democratic-national-committee as a ...
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Rename [voting-registration] to [voter-registration]
Please rename voting-registration to voter-registration.
Voter registration is the more common and recognized term.
Using Google search:
Search terms
Results
"voter registration" -"...
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Rename the [25th-amendment] to the full [twenty-fifth-amendment]
Right now, there are 8 tags about specific amendments in the US constitution. All of those, except the 25th-amendment use the word, instead of the number. It would be more consistent to rename the tag ...
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Do we need [voters] and [electorate] as separate tags?
voters 7 remaining of 17 questions
electorate 1 remaining of 6 questions
Both tags: 0 remaining of 1 question
List of all 8 remaining of 22 questions
There are 89 questions that use "...
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Concerning the tag [conflict-of-interests]
The tag conflict-of-interests has an unnecessary and incorrect "s" at the end. Would a Mod please remove the final "s". The tag should be conflict-of-interest.
The Tag Info is fine,...
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Should accepted answers still be pinned to the top of the list of answers?
There's a proposal on main Meta regarding accepted answers floating to the top in the list of answers. I'll selectively quote parts of CM Nicolas Chabanovsky's question here to get you up to speed ...
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About certain overlapping tags for [transportation]?
About certain overlapping tags for transportation?
This list is: tag, question count, followed by excerpt.
infrastructure 32
Use this tag in reference to the structures and systems that sustain large ...
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Searching tags, documentation error
In How do I find topics I'm interested in?, under Search tags,
If you're looking for questions about multiple topics, you can also search by tags. Our site search recognizes tags enclosed in brackets ...
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Follow up on previous question concerning the [money] tag
Following up on, Why do we have both a [money] and a [currency] tag?, there are currently 2 14 questions remaining that use the money tag. After these questions have been edited the [money] tag may be ...
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Better defining the [polling] and [public-opinion] tags
Following the discussion in Should [public-opinion] be made a synonym of [polling], or vice-versa (or neither)?, it seems like the best suggestion is to redefine polling to refer to the technical ...
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Can we move out of beta now?
Note: this is not a duplicate of this question because that is tagged discussion while this is tagged feature-request
Here are the reasons why I think we should be graduated:
Politics stack exchange ...
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Someone is downvoting my answers here every day since about one month
I'm receiving downvotes pretty much every day, sometimes more than once per day on a wide range of answers without any correlation about the topic and the details of my argument. Perhaps others here ...
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Keeping this tag is an in[justice]
There are 56 31 10 questions tagged with justice
Most of the questions seem to be about law or crime or corruption where the asker seems to think that "Justice has not been done", and ...
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Request for a tag to be removed
The tag political is redundant and should be removed, considering the entire site is about politics. This tag simply encourages not being specific about the purpose of a question in the tags and ...
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I'm [conflict]ed about these tags
I noticed that we have tags for: armed-conflict, conflict, and war.
There was an earlier request to make armed-conflict a synonym of war which never went anywhere due to concerns that there were non-...
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Make [race] a synonym of [demographics]
racism and race. They're not quite the same thing, but I'm seeing some tag confusion already. This question was tagged [race], when it needed to be tagged [racism]. Fixed it, but the remaining usages ...
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On-topic page is unclear
See here. This paragraph, first sentence:
Processes are central to legislation is made. Questions seeking to understand the rules and processes by which policy is made in various legislatures or ...
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Change the "lgbt" tag to "lgbt+" or "lgbtq+"
Currently, the lgbt tag isn't really as inclusive as it could be - particularly when other sites like IPS SE use the more inclusive lgbt+ tag
I know this is hardly the biggest change in the world, ...
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Make [gdpr] and [general-data-protection-regulation] tag synonyms
general-data-protection-regulation has 6 questions and gdpr has 2. It's easy to retag one to the other manually, however, new questions are likely to create the other tag again.
Therefore, I think it'...
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Make [judicial-branch] a tag synonym of [judiciary]
judiciary has 17 questions, judicial-branch has 36 questions. They are basically the same, so it makes sense to make one the synonym of the other.
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Should we unfreeze Politics chat?
The main Politics chat room, Agora, has been programmatically frozen for inactivity. Should it be unfrozen?
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Can we have a "references" tag in politics.meta.SE?
A number of question on meta and occasional discussions deal with whether certain assertions need to be supported by references. There was also a question about whether all questions should be ...
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Make [trump] a synonym of [donald-trump]
I’ve come across a few questions that’s tagged with trump and I’ve retagged them with donald-trump.
As such, can trump be made a synonym of donald-trump?
(I have suggested this synonym at https://...
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Make [eu] a synonym of [european-union]
In a political context eu is synonymous with the European Union (which uses european-union).
Request: Can eu be made a synonym of european-union?
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Synonyms for local-government tag
I was asking a new question about local-government but I'm new to the site and that wasn't the first term that came to mind. First I looked for tags like civic or municipal but found nothing at all. ...
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Should we have the "Controversial Post" post notice?
I've notice that Interpersonal Skills Stack Exchange has a custom post notice which moderators can add to questions:
Controversial Post — You may use comments ONLY to suggest improvements. You may ...
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Incredible low visits/day
Just caught a glimpse of site stats on Area51 and visits/day has an incredibly low value:
I cannot imagine such a low value with more than 900 avid users. Maybe on the 1st of January it is possible. ...
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Why doesn't the Politics site have the same Graphics support and markup support as other sites?
I recently answered a question where I would ordinarily have used a table. The given markup facilities do not allow this. I suggest that tables are an important and useful way of discussing politics ...
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I agree that my question is a good fit for another site, but it's clear that it's on topic here too
According to the help center:
Matters of Policy:
Central to the idea of this site are the nuts and bolts of policies introduced by governments, presumably for the welfare of their citizens. As such, ...
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Did we lose the "not about politics" close reason?
Previously we had a close reason which read:
This question does not appear to be about governments, policies and political processes within the scope defined in the help center.
This seems to have ...
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How can I delete my account? [duplicate]
After due consideration I don't think I can enjoy this forum.
How could I delete my account profile if possible.
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Site Stats link points to nothing
In the right pane, there is a box contain Site Stats and in it, a link called Stack Exchange under the title More site stats.
The link points to a url https://stackexchange.com/?expand=true#politics,
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Can we add a tag for Universal Basic Income?
I'm seeing more and more questions relating to the UBI on here, including one from myself, and there is not yet a tag for it as a topic.
I think it would prevent inaccurate tags to allow people a ...
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All these taxes tags are taxing
There's tax, taxation, and taxes.
I don't see how these are any different? They should be merged.
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Four tags for economics is not very economic
There are currently four tags for economics:
economy
economics
economic-policy
intl-political-economy
Right now there are no real tag descriptions to differentiate.
It seems to me that they're all ...
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Possible bug / bad feature? "Moved to chat" comment may be deleted
One of my answers got some comments, and some of the commenters and me were having an exchange of ideas.
I (and some commenters) realized that it should be moved to chat, so I did click on the link.
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UN or United-Nations?
We currently have a un and a united-nations. Overall, I think that united-nations is clearer, but UN has a wiki excerpt and more questions and followers. There are only three questions that are ...
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To delete an answer question
I'd like to delete this question which has been put on hold too broad (see below). I keep getting the below message when I apply the deletion.
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Question
Other than asking the person that answered ...
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Merge [tag:uk] and [tag:united-kingdom]
There is a frequently used tag uk. I think this would be better called united-kingdom, considering that for other countries, we also use the full name rather than a two-letter abbreviation. uk can ...
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Congress and US-Congress tag merge
If you look at congress, these are all about us-congress, and the latter tag is bigger. So perhaps a merge from congress->us-congress is in order? I don't think a synonym is necessary, or desirable, ...
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Duplicate tags: russia and russian-federation
Despite of the growing interest caused by their plans of breaking a global war against the entire world,
I think the country does not deserve two tags russia and russian-federation. Suggesting to keep ...
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Where are the beta badges? [closed]
On the Politics beta, nobody has the beta badge, although 16 people fulfilled their commitment.
By comparison, other recent betas have beta badges: 58 at ExpressionEngine, 25 at Robots, 32 at ...
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Should we allow the tags *left* and *right*?
There is already the use of the tags left and right and I wanted to ask whether anybody else sees a problem with using them.
Personally I think because there is no clear definition of "left" and "...
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