Questions tagged [tags]
Discussions related to creating, using, or removing tags.
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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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Should [public-opinion] be made a synonym of [polling], or vice-versa (or neither)?
The tags public-opinion (56 questions; no tag wiki) and polling (183 questions; "A sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons")...
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What, if anything, should be done with the [corruption] tag information and questions?
Regarding the tag information for corruption,
Corruption is where a government official acts in their own interests, often over the interests of their position or country. Use to discuss confirmed ...
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Request to merge [election] and [presidential-election] tags
Any question about presidential-election would also be about election.The page on tag synonyms says. Also, this article on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_election explains ...
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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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Why do we have both a [money] and a [currency] tag?
Looking through the tags on a new question, I noticed that we have both a "money" and a "currency" tag:
money: 64 39 28 questions
currency: 42 46 49 questions
The usage information ...
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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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Why is there a democratic-primary tag with 39 questions but until just now no republican-primary tag?
Why is there a democratic-primary tag with 39 questions but until just now1 no republican-primary tag? I'd created the latter for How did Alaska "change its primary system recently" and was ...
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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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What is the procedure to add description to a newly created tag?
After getting enough reps (I am not sure how much), one can create tags.
Questions:
What is the procedure to add small description to the tag?
What is the procedure to make synonyms? Eg: EU and ...
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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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Should the uyghurs tag be removed from all questions?
Recently, uyghurs was added for two questions:
Why is China primarily targeting the Uyghurs with their internment camps?
Could China's actions in Xinjiang be classified as genocide?
and three ...
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What’s the appropriate tag to use for questions about political mottos or slogans?
I asked this question about the phrase "Don't tread on me" but I couldn’t find an appropriate tag such as “political motto or slogan, so I used history instead. Is there a more appropriate ...
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Should there be a tag for the 2020 US Presidential Election?
Should we create a tag to identify questions related to the 2020 Presidential General election, of which I assume we're likely to start seeing lots? Is it necessary to identify these kinds of ...
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Should US State specific tags exist?
Should we have tags for specific US States?
We definitely have questions about state laws and politics, but I'd argue that having individual tags for each state is too localized. Here are some state ...
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Are bureaucracy and civil service synonyms?
If so, should tags bureaucracy and civil-service be merged?
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What do people think of the dozens of tag-only edits of old questions?
Over the past few days, one user has been editing dozens of old questions and primarily adding new tags. What does the community think of this?
One the one hand, accurate tagging is useful and I ...
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What is the appropriate tag for travel bans, in general?
Despite all the tags we currently have, I'm having trouble tagging questions about travel bans in a way that doesn't generate disputes/comments under the questions.
We currently have immigration (as ...
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Alter [marshallislands] to [marshall-islands]
This is related to this question about the Marshall Islands; the new tag marshallislands has been created which does not have a space in, making it inconsistent with other tags such as republic-of-...
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Should the [echr] tag be about the European Convention on Human Rights or the European Court of Human Rights?
After editing the wiki for echr (which I assumed to be about the European Convention on Human Rights) I noticed that both question so tagged are about the European Court of Human Rights. Both ...
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How should we deal with tags that refer to individuals?
This answer from 2016 seems to suggest that tags of this kind are meta-tags and should be deleted. Should we apply this logic to the current individual-specific tags, or should we allow them in ...
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Is there any difference in [history] and [political-history]?
While political history is on-topic we have two tags
history - 108 questions
Questions on the history of politics, political action and political debate, as well as historical political figures, ...
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What should our standard be for event-specific tags?
We have
brexit
trump-impeachment
Now, bolivian-revolution might be presumptuous, but it's not well-known enough to warrant a tag (I mean, we just created bolivia this week). Before people get that ...
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Should we rollback composite tags, in particular [trump-impeachment]?
I've noticed a lot of questions have been tagged trump-impeachment. The consensus, I think, used to be that separate tags should be preferred over such specific tags, for example based on these ...
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Should we have a more neutral tag for “communication”?
We do have fairly used tags for propaganda and rhetoric but these are somewhat loaded terms (especially the former). I'm not sure these tags are enough to cover all aspects of political communication. ...
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Would we benefit from a states-rights tag?
The United States has a relatively unique relationship between state governments and the Federal government in that state governments are independent from the Federal government although there are ...
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What is the tag “social-politics” about?
I see we have this social-politics tag, but I have no idea what qualifies for that. There is "Social Politics" journal, but it's basically a feminist journal.
Social Politics is a leading ...
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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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If there are many questions centering around a specific amendment to the Constitution, why don't we create a tag for said amendment?
Background
Recently, I help to initiate the creation of a tag called seventeenth-amendment. There are a total of 3 questions that pop up when you enter "seventeenth-amendment" into the search bar, ...
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Tag for tax funded public art/culture patronage?
Do any existing tags apply to tax funded public art or culture, or also government permission to place or maintain these even at private or corporate expense? Could be applied to things like large ...
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How should the [social-security] and related tags be used?
Background
This question is somewhat related to (perhaps broader than) my previous Make [welfare] a tag synonym of [social-welfare]. It may also be related to the pensions tag.
In this case, the ...
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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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Confusion with tag [Cyprus]
cyprus seems ambiguous as it's not clear if it refers to the Republic of Cyprus (a country that's a member of the European Union) or Northern Cyprus a state that consists of the northern part of ...
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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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Make [welfare] a tag synonym of [social-welfare]
welfare has 9 questions, social-welfare has 24 questions. They are basically the same, so it makes sense to make one the synonym of the other. I suggest keeping social-welfare as the main tag because ...
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Should we encourage 'explain in very simple terms' questions?
Questions explaining a subject in simple terms
The title may be a bit ambiguous, but I recently came across the following questions:
How to explain the E.U. to a 5 year-old
How to explain the ...
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Make [dnc] a synonym of [democratic-party]
I noticed the dnc tag this morning. The Democratic National Committee is simply the governing body of the democratic-party. It does not need a separate tag, as the DNC is simply who sets the ...
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Merge [public-pensions] and [private-pensions] into [pensions]
Both existing tags have few questions associated with them yet there is no tag for pensions in general. Given that it is difficult to distinguish between the two in some countries* it might be better ...
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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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Is there a practical difference between [electoral-system] and [voting-systems]?
electoral-system - 18 Qs, no excerpt
voting-systems - 186 Qs with this excerpt
For questions about rule systems for gathering and counting votes. Not for questions about country-specific rules but ...
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Merge [free-trade] and [trade]
I think we should merge the free-trade and trade tags. The degree to which trade is "free trade" and who benefits from "free" trade is a big part of what discussions of trade are about. There might be ...
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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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Confusion with tag “Georgia”
As you know there are two Georgias: a state in USA and country. Consequently, the tag "Georgia" is used for both:
https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/georgia
I suggest changing one ...
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Change definition of [abortion] tag?
Currently the abortion tag is defined as follows:
Abortion is a quasi-medical procedure in which a physician terminates
a woman's pregnancy. It is a contentious political issue in many
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Do we need [measurement]?
I recently noticed [this question] using measurement. Should we burninate this tag?
Although measurement is a fundamental concept of all sciences (including political science), it doesn't seem to be ...
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Merge [tag:legislation] and [tag:legislative-process]
We have the two tags legislation and legislative-process, which have very similar excerpts and IMHO discuss the same thing:
legislative-process (61 questions):
Questions about the processes to ...
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Less pejorative tag for “commie plot” questions?
One of the more paranoid cold war devices in the American rhetorical armamentarium is the accusation of a given reform being a "Communist Plot". This device has been so overused and successfully ...
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What tag should I use for these questions about political organization?
I've recently posted somequestions about political organizations:
In U.S. local politics, what is the relationship between a campaign and a party?
Where do local political parties get their revenues?
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Rename [presidency-term] to [presidential-term]
We have presidency-term, but
It's poor English (writers use presidential term)
It isn't in line with other similar tags (i.e. presidential-election)
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Can you, please, remove Carpetsmoker's ability to deface questions?
Carpetsmoker is causing raucous by removing tags that authors put on their questions and substituting his opinions for the intents of the authors.
So far he's managed to
convince a moderator to ...
