Questions tagged [tags]
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Duplicate Sagittarius A* tags
We have tags for both sgr-a and sagittarius-a, which should presumably be merged. The actual usage of both of these tags shows they are both actually being applied to questions about Sagittarius A* ...
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Is TESS a sky-survey? Is the tag sufficiently broad for all kinds of surveys?
The sky-survey tag currently has 21 questions after I added it to Any plans for TESS after it finishes northern sky survey?
For background, Wikipedia's Astronomical survey says
An astronomical ...
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Spectroscopy Spectrometry Spectra and Spectrum tags; is there room for some consolidation?
Here are four related tags and their current question count:
spectroscopy (100) (101)
spectra (60)
spectrum (13)
spectrometry (10)
Here are three related questions about them:
As terms and as ...
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Strange problem creating sunspots tag & should we have a sunspots tag?
As was noted in comments below the question Is the longitude assigned to sunspots spherical or projected? it is impossible to create a sunspots tag.
Trying to do so results in the error message:
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Is the [ufo] tag on-topic for this site?
Is the [ufo] tag actually on-topic for this site? The help page discourages questions about satellites and notes we are not a UFO-reporting site. Most of the questions tagged with this are of the "...
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What is the difference between the “chemistry” and “astrochemistry” tags?
Both the chemistry and astrochemistry tags have over a dozen questions.
However there are only four questions that have both tags, and three of those are mine, probably in anticipation that they ...
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Is there really a use to having separate [time] and [date-time] tags?
I question the need for having separate time and date-time tags. I think those concepts will rarely be distinct in terms of the questions we have here. What do you think? My inclination would be to ...
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Destroy the [science] tag
I think the science tag should be removed, and maybe even blacklisted from the site. The way it is currently used it does not really mean anything, and I don't really see it being that fruitful of a ...
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Should [observation] and [observational-astronomy] be merged?
observation and observational-astronomy seem to more or less mean the same thing. Should these tags be merged? Which name should be favored?
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Monthly focus tag
There seems to be an interest in reviving the topic of the week in some form:
Should we revive the Topic of the Week?
My proposal is based on the top upvoted "topic of the month" idea there.
Each ...
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Should the hubble-telescope and hst tags be merged?
Should hubble-telescope and hst be merged?
It looks like I may be the culprit here, I only see three hst questions and they're all mine.
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Merge [photography] and [astrophotography]
We have two very similar tags on the site: photography and astrophotography. According to the excerpts, the first one is for
Questions about photography of celest[r]ial objects by amateur ...
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Tag synonyms for the Moon
We have three tags that should be synonyms: moon, the-moon, and lunar. Tags related to the Sun (the-sun and solar) have been marked as synonyms of sun, which is the master tag for this group. In ...
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Can we change the tags from sun to Sun and moon to Moon?
A recent question raised a problem with the current tags.
When referring to the Sun, our star, capitals should be used. This tag could rarely be misused, but that is not the case for the Moon, which ...
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Should we have a speed-of-light tag?
I have seen a few questions relating to or using light speed. These seem to often be tagged with speed and/or light. I would think the speed tag would be better categorised as kinematics/motion sort ...
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Shouldn't we fuse “planet” and “planets” tags?
I recently noticed that we have both planet and planets tags. I may be wrong, but aren't both of them used in the same ways? Shouldn't we fuse them or label them as synonyms?
I think this is an ...
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Is this a duplicate tag?
Here on page 9 of the tags list, there's a tag named "foundamental-astronomy", which seems to be a duplicate of "fundamental-astronomy". The tag description is the same, and when I click on it, it ...
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Is tag “trajectory” necessary?
FYI, I created a new tag, trajectory. I thought I should ask it not if I was too lame to ask before creating, so there wouldn't be too late to delete it in case.
Is this tag necessary or is tag orbit ...
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Tags to synonymise, merge or nuke
I have just reached the 'can make tag synonyms', so thought making this discussion would be prudent.
Which tags should be synonymised, merged or nuked. Discuss them here!
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Planetary tags for our solar system versus exoplanets
So far we have tags for Venus, Uranus and Neptune (from my questions), I am sure the rest of the solar system planet tags have either already been made or will be soon. We also have an exoplanet tag ...
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Should tags reflect questions exclusively or the entire question-answer post
This question has been discussed on other stackexchange sites as well but I feel this is a good time to ask it and get a basic understanding of where we are at. So here we go. When asking questions ...
