Questions tagged [tags]
Questions about tags on the main site.
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Rules for multiple media using the same name
There's been a couple of discussions in the past about whether specific series or movies should get the -tv or -2001 (or whatever year) extensions due to their being a remake or a duplicate title in ...
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Do you think it's time for a change in the way we use tags?
I would like to apologize in advance for the long post, this post encompasses a full change to how we use tags on Movies and TV by focusing on the types of tags that we allow on the site, rather than ...
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Automatically remind users for the age, country and language of a film
How many times have you seen a "Country, age and language?" comment to an identify-this-thingy question? I'll bet it's every single damn time, or as close as makes no differences.
Would it at all be ...
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Why are there no tags for famous franchises?
In Movies and TV, why are important tags for famous franchises like saw not there?
I even think that Movies and TV doesn't have many tags.
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Cleaning up the general topic tags
There are various general topic tags like zombies, vampires, sex, fight, technology or revenge. Those serve primarily for either tagging identification questions or general questions about the ...
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What's the policy on abbreviating titles of Movies & TV Shows?
I've been browsing M&TV questions, tags, and meta discussions regarding tags, but haven't been able to pin down how we as a community decide whether to abbreviate tags or not. Here's a few ...
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How do I request a new tag?
How do I request (I don't think i've the rep to create one) a new tag for this site?
I'm very surprised that there's no martial arts tag..
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Discovered I do have the rep to create one.:
How do ...
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Country tag consistency
I've been having a look through the tags, and there's a few country tags from identify-this-x questions, however the names aren't very consistent. Some are the name for the nationality, such as:
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What to do with the [aliens] tag?
At the moment the tag aliens is ambiguous, as the tag wiki states itself:
Generally, indicates the presence of extra-terrestrial beings in a film or television project. Can also specifically refer ...
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The one tag cleanup post to rule them all
As I went through more and more tags, I found that more than a couple probably need cleaning up. Any tags that you feel need cleaning up - post them as an answer, as they get voted up and down they ...
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Should TV series tags be suffixed with -tv or -tv-series?
We have some TV series tags formatted like revenge-tv and sex-and-the-city-tv while others are formatted like thriller-tv-series. Shouldn't we have a standard way to suffix these tags? In my opinion, ...
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Should tags for individual movies be encouraged
Already I am seeing tags used for individual movies - Inception, Tree-of-life, Star Wars.
Should we be encouraging tagging on individual movies, or will that get out of hand with each movie getting ...
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Let's nuke [plot-inconsistency]! [duplicate]
I'll make this short:
Pointing out obvious plot inconsistencies just to be clever is not something we want here: Yes, that was a plot hole, and?
Asking about things that do not make sense to me are ...
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You can select tags to ignore
When you are browsing through the questions list, in the sidebar to the right there are a couple of text boxes labeled "Favorite Tags" and "Ignored Tags". By adding tags here you can alter the way ...
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What to do with the [marvel-cinematic-universe]?
The usage of the marvel-cinematic-universe tag seems quite a bit inconsistent at the moment. While it is clear that it should be used for any question pertaining to the general cross-movie intricacies ...
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The identification conundrum and the resultant tagging mess
I've been looking at tags recently as part of a post graduation clean up effort of sorts. The way tags are used on identification questions results in a lot of mess and I would like to propose a new ...
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Disambiguation between franchise and movie tags
Slightly related to Why are there no tags for famous franchises?:
What will we do to distinguish between the tags for a movie and the corresponding franchise/series of movies?
Examples: batman, saw, ...
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indian-movies and bollywood should not be Tag Synonyms
bollywood means movies made in the Bollywood Industry which generally consists of Movies in the language of Hindi, Hindi and English Mixed together, and very rarely completely English Movies.
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Disable removing tags used on single questions
This is a request to turn off the automatic removal of tags that only apply to a single question, preventing the situation where questions end up with just a meta tag against them.
I have noticed ...
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Create Tags for every movie I want to ask something about?
A few days ago I earned the 'create tags' privilege. My question for this privilege is short and simple: Should I create a tag for every movie which has no tag yet?
I don't want to create a tag for ...
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Television and TV Shows
Following on from my initial post, would it be possible for us to discuss tv-shows and television?
Did you know that we actually blacklist the movies tag? We explicitly ban the use of movies but we ...
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TV-Shows tag, should it stay or should it go?
We actually blacklist the movies tag because it is felt as too meta of a tag and has limited use.
Do we want to do the same to tv-shows?
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Foreign (non-US) Movie Name tag should be of original title or English dubbed title?
After reading End of Ame Agaru question, i edited it to mention the English title of the film in question body but i got confused in creating Tag, I mean what tag should be name ame-agaru or after-the-...
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How to address the "Advertising" tag?
Many of the 15 questions (of which two are closed) tagged advertising are actually about product-placement or marketing.
In relation to the former, I feel that product placement is the preferable tag ...
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Delete Tag `indian-movies` because `bollywood` tag is enough for the purpose
indian-movies tag has only two question , each of them have Bollywood tag too.
So there is no significance of having two tag for same meaning. Bollywood is only refers to Indian cinema in whole so ...
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Let's talk about [sex] [duplicate]
I can't see that this tag would ever be used for any purpose other than "having another tag on it". Do we really need a sex tag? Wouldn't the fact that the question is obviously about sex be enough?
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Tagging foreign language films
Is there a system for tagging foreign language films (i.e., languages other than English)? I would personally like to follow questions on all Korean and Japanese films and there does not appear to be ...
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Can we increase the tag length limit?
The 25 character limit on tag names has always been a problem for this site, due to our policy of tagging questions with the titles of the movies they're about as accurately as possible and the fact ...
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What's the point of the "Specific Scene" Tag?
Essentially, specific-scene is a pointless meta tag that doesn't really add anything. (not like anyone is going to follow/be an expert in "specific scene"). It's basically synonymous with plot-...
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Scope of X-Men tag and its usage? Is it really suitable for being a franchise tag?
We have an x-men tag with the tag wiki
A film series of superhero films based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name.
Even with having a tag wiki for the universe tag it is still ...
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What information should be included in a Tag Wiki Excerpt for a film/tv series title tag?
When creating tag wiki excerpts for film or TV show titles, what information should be included? Right now, every excerpt seems to be different, which makes some of them more helpful than others.
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The future of Genre tags
As discussed in this completed proposal regarding all of the other content description tags and this subsequent discussion on tags in general, I would like to start a discussion about Genre tags and ...
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Cameras and cinematography
Following on from my initial post and the subsequent discussion on cleaning up the advertising tag, would it be possible for us to discuss camera and cinematography?
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Questions about the use ...
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How to use genre tags?
Genre tags are tags describing the genre of a movie, like horror,comedy or thriller.
Currently there is no consistent usage of these genre tags on the site. While they are mainly being used for ...
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General theme tags
I just saw this question, which is a kind of plot-hole question, if you want. The question, being about "Hunt for Red October", has the tags submarine and cold-war (which the movie's story is about in ...
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Should two different TV series with the same name have the same tag?
There is a TV series called Shameless that has an American version and British version. Should both of them have the same tag called shameless? Or should they have separate tags like shameless-us and ...
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Meaning of revenge tag [duplicate]
Recently the questions about the TV-show Revenge have been retagged revenge-tv in order to distinguish it from the general revenge tag used for movies about revenges.
But given that such general ...
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Please blacklist the TV tag
A recently-created tag, tv should be blacklisted. It's a given that everything on the site will be about a movie or TV show, so having such a uselessly broad tag is not helpful. Usually, tags that ...
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Multiple tags for 'The Hobbit'?
With the release of The Desolation of Smaug, do we need multiple tags for the three Hobbit films? (I'm guessing that we do.) If yes, how do we go about retagging all the questions?
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About [zombies] and [vampires] [duplicate]
aliens are already dead. Obviously, aliens should be about the classic sci-fi movie and not about aliens. Why are we even talking about aliens? Surely a conversation specifically about aliens would be ...
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The "Star-Trek-2" tag
There's a tag I've seen a few times for Star-Trek-2, I feel this is a little unclear as there are almost two "2" films (it's also rather inconsistent).
Star Trek Into Darkness has it's own tag, can ...
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How to translate @ into tags?
There was a recent question about the show @midnight and I was unsure what to use as tagname, given that you cannot use @, I settled for the rather easy and generic midnight. But this seems a bit too ...
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Do we need a comic-adaptation tag?
We have quite a bunch of questions, general as well as pertaining to specific works, about the intricacies of adapting books into movies, which are tagged book-adaptation. Likewise is there the ...
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Tags for TV series and movies
Since TV is now on topic here, there's a tag for them: tv-series. If that tag is going to stay around, do we need a movies tag? I think so. It seems silly to have a tag for one and not for the other.
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Should we have [YEAR] tags?
Whenever there are multiple films with the same name (remakes, franchise reboots and such) usually we create moviename and moviename-year to differentiate them. However (bear with me, maybe it's just ...
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Can we have a tag synonym to replace or have as an alternative to plot-explanation?
What would you guys say if we shortened the tag plot-explanation to only p-e?
It would come into handy and lots of people would probably use it.
This is just a suggestion.
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