Questions tagged [tagging]
The tagging tag has no usage guidance.
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Do we need a tag for merging? I struggled to find something suitable for supermassive black hole mergers in galaxy collisions
I wanted to add a tag like black-hole-merger to How do we know that supermassive black holes can gain mass by means other than merging with other supermassive black ...
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Tag usage guidelines are being copy/pasted with WIkipedia definitions insensitive to astronomical context and unhelpful when needed most
There have been several tag Wiki and Wiki excerpt edits in the last half-day that appear to be copy/pasted from Wikipedia without regard to the astronomical context of the terms.
I've voted to reject ...
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Is there a useful distinction between the DIY and the telescope-making tags? Should they be somehow merged?
telescope-making has 16 questions starting from 2015
diy has 3 4 questions starting from 2014. I just added one that mentions a Raspbery Pi project.
Neither tag has any usage guidance!
A quick check ...
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Should the E-ELT tag get "sent to the cornfield" and replaced by extremely-large-telescope?
When tagging What two "little observatories" run by a university in Chile and "by Germans" are near the future site of the Extremely Large Observatory? I typed "extre..." ...
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Do we have enough tags to "span the space" of astronomical eclipses and transits? Is something missing or needs changing?
We have
solar-eclipse 143 questions
Questions about the complete or partial blocking of the sun by the moon.
and
lunar-eclipse 60 questions
Questions regarding an event where the Earth goes ...
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Why does SE hide the "stellar-dynamics" tag from us when we type "stella..." and leave a blank spot instead? ("stellar..." behaves differently)
When looking for the stellar-dynamics tag in the autocomplete box after stellar-astrophysics had been selected, the suggested tags concealed it from me for "stell..." and "stella...&...
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high-energy-astrophysics tag usage guideline, could this be improved?
There is a proposed edit to provide users with the following guideline when choosing the high-energy-astrophysics tag. This is the message that would pop up when someone started typing "high-ener....
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Should we have an observation-campaign tag and what is good usage advice for it?
I've just asked Is there a collection or list of all planned observations of 99942 Apophis during it's close pass to Earth? and added a new observation-campaign tag to it.
We have many questions ...
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What do folks think about adding (time-) dispersion and time-domain tags?
For Do ASKAP and ALMA have "fast dump" interferometric modes? Can they see and perhaps report Fast Radio Bursts in real time? I've created two new tags: [tag:] and [tag:].
Before I start ...
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How to use the tags specific-tag and tagging tags here in meta? Do we need all of them?
I've tagged I think that we have no good tags for solar-system-evolution or asteroid-formation or asteroid-evolution. Should we? with tags, specific-tag and tagging because I don't know which ones to ...
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