Questions tagged [tags]
Discussions related to creating, using, or removing tags.
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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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Should a [wealth] tag be created?
A comment on an answer to the question: Are both [inequality] and [income-inequality] tags necessary? suggests the need for a wealth tag.
We need to create tag wealth in addition to the existing tag ...
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What is the meaning/purpose of the [indicators] tag?
The main site has the indicators tag, but I can't seem to figure out what it means. It has no tag wiki, but there are 6 questions with the tag:
a question talking about generosity in the world ...
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Are both [inequality] and [income-inequality] tags necessary?
The excerpt for inequality reads:
Questions on economic, social, racial, gender and any other forms of political inequality, or political topics related to such inequalities.
While the excerpt for ...
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Do [racism] and [antisemitism] add relevant information on top of [discrimination]?
There are quite a few posts running into the 5 tag limit, so removing irrelevant tags is always a benefit.
On the other hand, useful tags are important, because they help people search up and ...
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Suggestion for new tag of "Racial-Discrimination"
We already have a tag of "Racism" but dictionary definitions of this seem to vary and many/most place emphasis on motive and belief system. Some definitions appear to say that racial ...
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Suggestion for additional tags "Jersey" and "Guernsey"
Can we add tags for:
Jersey
Guernsey
To be added to questions such as these
How did United Kingdom responsibility for the defence of the British Channel Islands originate?
Channel Islands Equivalence ...
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What is the point of [political-research]?
There is a political-research tag, and it has no tag wiki or excerpt. I have done a cursory glance at the tag and its questions, but can’t seem to understand what it means.
What is the point of the ...
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Is [meek-single-transferable-vote] so distinct as to need a tag separate from [single-transferable-vote]?
Concerning the new tags meek-single-transferable-vote and strategic-voting.
Currently the tag "tree" for "scoring votes" (as I see it) is:
First-level
Second-level
Third-level
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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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Should [political-commentary] be made a synonym of [media]?
There are three questions tagged political-commentary.
Is there any reason politicians don't talk about internal affairs while abroad?
How should one address concerns to a parliamentary ...
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Should [gerrymandering] be made a synonym of [redistricting]?
According to Wikipedia, gerrymandering is the:
practice intended to establish an arguably unfair political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating the boundaries of electoral ...
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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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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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Execution plan for implementing the [local-autonomy] tag
Execution plan for implementing local-autonomy. See, If the goal of [secession] is to gain [independence], is it necessary to have both tags?
To allow time for objections to be made, I will make no ...
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Are "has there ever been" questions always [history] questions?
Regarding questions for the history tag, are "has there ever been" questions always [history] questions?
Currently, most questions do not use the tag.
Tagged [history]: 9 (See the list)
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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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Use of tags: [congress], [senate], and [house-of-representatives], for US questions
There are 78 questions tagged with house-of-representatives or senate which are also tagged congress.
There are 26 questions tagged with house-of-representatives and senate. Five of those questions ...
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Should our faq questions be marked as CW?
On the main meta site and stack overflow meta, faq questions are normally marked CW. Should we do the same thing on Politics, or should we leave the faq questions as is?
Note: the only change marking ...
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If the goal of [secession] is to gain [independence], is it necessary to have both tags?
There appears to be a significant misuse of the independence and secession tags.
From the excerpt of the [independence] tag, it appears the tag should be used when the geographic area covers more than ...
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Should a tag be created for questions related to direct payments from a government for compensation, salary, wages, etc.?
Each of these questions, in some way, relates to payments made by a government to individuals elected or appointed to, or employed by, a government, as compensation in terms of salary, wages, etc.
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Should more popular tags in the long term be used in the placeholder text?
I noticed that the tags placeholder text when writing a new question includes the tag donald-trump:
Since Donald Trump is no longer the president of the USA, there are less new questions being posted ...
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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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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 ...