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Synonym suggestion for [tag:tides]

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Tags “planetary-atmosphere” vs. “atmosphere”?

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What is a healthy number of bounties?

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Tag synonym suggestion for planetary-science

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modified Feb 22 at 17:57 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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What's the point of the tag “laws-of-physics”?

discussion status-completed tags

modified Feb 22 at 17:57 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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What distinguishes the “nomenclature” from “definition”?

discussion tags

modified Feb 22 at 17:56 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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High-energy-astrophysics vs. particles and other tags in the same field

discussion tags

modified Feb 22 at 17:55 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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Towards defining the tags “electromagnetic-spectrum” and “wavelength”

discussion tags

modified Feb 22 at 17:54 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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Duplicate Sagittarius A* tags

discussion status-completed tags tag-synonyms

modified Feb 22 at 17:53 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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When should [early-universe] end?

discussion status-completed tags

modified Feb 22 at 17:50 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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Do we need separate tags for [habitable-zone] and [goldilocks-zone]?

discussion status-completed tags specific-tag

modified Feb 22 at 17:49 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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Is the tag “measurement” a synonym of “observational-astronomy”?

discussion status-completed tags tag-synonyms

modified Feb 22 at 17:47 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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Let's make an attempt to answer old, unanswered questions

discussion unanswered-questions

modified Feb 21 at 14:06 Nilay Ghosh 1,307

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high-energy-astrophysics tag usage guideline, could this be improved?

discussion tags specific-tag tagging

asked Feb 17 at 21:30 uhoh 25.1k

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Tag usage guidelines are being copy/pasted with WIkipedia definitions insensitive to astronomical context and unhelpful when needed most

discussion tags specific-tag tagging

asked Feb 16 at 11:19 uhoh 25.1k

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How to proceed with tags with only a single occurence?

discussion support tags

modified Feb 12 at 11:18 Glorfindel 3,505

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How can we can bring questions about radio astronomy observational techniques to the eyes of radio telescopists?

discussion asking-questions site-promotion

modified Feb 10 at 0:23 uhoh 25.1k

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Is a charged-coupled-devices tag okay? If so, what would be good usage guidance for it?

discussion tags specific-tag tagging

answered Feb 6 at 13:11 Aaron F 893

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Should we link to the PDF or to the abstract or source page for scholarly references? Does it matter which?

discussion resources sources-references

answered Feb 6 at 6:11 HDE 226868♦ 29.5k

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Should the tags stellar-classification and spectral-type be merged?

discussion tags specific-tag

modified Feb 5 at 1:36 uhoh 25.1k

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Why do we care if Pluto is classified as a planet? [closed]

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answered Jan 22 at 11:18 peterh - Reinstate Monica 2,771

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2020: a year in moderation

discussion moderation statistics

modified Jan 21 at 12:52 JNat♦ 101

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Is it possible to recover the text from my polarization-dependent apodization question about CHIME?

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answered Jan 19 at 13:08 Glorfindel 3,505

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Can we make arguments that Pluto should be considered a planet off-topic?

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answered Jan 18 at 17:36 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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Tag definitions for solar-flare and solar-storm?

discussion tags specific-tag

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Am I a sea lion?

discussion specific-question

modified Jan 6 at 11:44 Community♦ 1

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Cavalier insta-closing of a new user's first question without even giving them a chance to respond?

discussion specific-question close-reasons

answered Jan 5 at 20:53 Connor Garcia 6,285

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What do folks think about adding (time-) dispersion and time-domain tags?

discussion tags specific-tag tagging

modified Jan 1 at 1:20 uhoh 25.1k

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Interest in looking into adding the YouTube viewer?

discussion feature-request status-completed

modified Dec 31 '20 at 1:27 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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Shall we continue to agree that good SETI and extraterrestrial questions are on-topic? What about METI?

discussion on-topic specific-question

modified Dec 26 '20 at 23:29 uhoh 25.1k

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Post your pictures of the Great Conjunction here!

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answered Dec 23 '20 at 13:06 ProfRob 90.8k

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How to use the tags specific-tag and tagging tags here in meta? Do we need all of them?

discussion tags specific-tag tag-synonyms tagging

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I think that we have no good tags for solar-system-evolution or asteroid-formation or asteroid-evolution. Should we?

discussion tags specific-tag tagging

asked Dec 19 '20 at 0:29 uhoh 25.1k

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Should the wording on the 'close vote' window dialogue be changed?

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answered Dec 17 '20 at 20:02 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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When is the next Moderator Election?

discussion moderators election

answered Dec 15 '20 at 21:33 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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Can I nominate someone for an award for answering an extremely tough question?

feature-request

modified Dec 13 '20 at 2:34 Connor Garcia 6,285

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Etiquette for using comments to answer old, unanswered questions?

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modified Dec 9 '20 at 3:04 uhoh 25.1k

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Congratulations Astronomy Stack Exchange for 10k questions!

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asked Dec 8 '20 at 14:42 fasterthanlight 2,717

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How could I use siunitx package in the form?

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answered Nov 20 '20 at 10:41 James K 64.4k

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Request to use image

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modified Nov 12 '20 at 11:19 PM 2Ring 4,403

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Are “vague” edit comments acceptable?

discussion editing

answered Nov 9 '20 at 15:08 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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Make no prior research or effort a reason to close?

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answered Oct 22 '20 at 11:19 Community♦ 1

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Why are other questions about messages to aliens on-topic but this one isn't? Was answer-blocking premature in this case?

discussion on-topic specific-question

answered Oct 18 '20 at 4:56 Chappo Hasn't Forgotten Monica 1,070

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Community Policy Repository

discussion faq

modified Sep 14 '20 at 17:14 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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Etiquette for user-created external resource links in posts

discussion etiquette hyperlinks

answered Sep 9 '20 at 16:11 Community♦ 1

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Are questions about equipment instructions on-topic here?

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A modest proposal to increase question quality

discussion feature-request status-declined

modified Sep 4 '20 at 11:26 JNat♦ 101

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Do we need both ephemeris and ephemerides tags?

discussion status-completed tags specific-tag

modified Sep 1 '20 at 12:31 called2voyage♦ 5,837

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