Questions tagged [tags]
Questions about tags on the main site.
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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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Improve and extend the automatic tag-popup for identification questions
We currently have a feature in place that creates an automatic tag-popup whenever someone uses the identify-this-movie tag. This tag popup shows a message asking for providing as much details as ...
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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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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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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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How should "The $100,000 Pyramid" be tagged?
The question https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/79614/12783 is our first about the game show The $100,000 Pyramid. How should this be tagged?
My first guess is the-100000-pyramid. However, that's ...
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How should titles like "P'tit Quinquin" be tagged?
There is a question about the movie P'tit Quinquin: Who is the murderer in p'tit quinquin or li'l quinquin?
I wanted to add the appropriate tag, but I'm not sure whether it should be ptit-...
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Let's kill all the [character]s
Does this site really need a character tag?
Nearly every question is about some character in one way or another. And character wouldn't work as the sole tag on a question, which makes it a meta tag ...
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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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Delete the foreign-film tag
The foreign-film tag is awful and should be burninated (deleted) and here's why:
It assumes that everyone is from the same country. "Foreign" just means "anywhere except where I am", and unless you ...
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Should we use full names or last names in name tags?
Should name tags (for example, directors or actors) be of the form [surname] (for well-known enough, unambiguous names, such as Tarantino), or [firstname-surname]?
I propose full name tags.
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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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Indian-movies tag should not be a Synonyms of bollywood tag
Few moths ago i raised a Meta request,to delete the indian-movies because its not feeling important that time. Every question that time consist of indian-movies tag and bollywood tag regarding ...
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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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Reference, homage, realism, scientific-accuracy
What is the difference between a reference and an homage? Both these tags lack descriptions and there is very likely considerable overlap between them.
Similarly, what is the difference between ...
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Can we rename [mst3k] to [mystery-science-theater-3000]?
Now that we can have more than 25 characters in tags, I'd like to recommend renaming mst3k to mystery-science-theater-3000, preserving the old one as a synonym. This site seems to prefer full names ...
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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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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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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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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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Should the Movies & TV SE have a "suggested order" tag?
Over on the Sci-Fi & Fantasy SE they have a "suggested order" tag which is used for questions where people ask for the order in which they should consume a certain franchise.
Considering that ...
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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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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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Tag merge/synonym request: [memories-of-murders] » [memories-of-murder]
There is currently a question with the tag, memories-of-murders: Who is the serial killer in Memories of Murders?
According to IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, the English title of this movie is Memories of ...
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Where does the 'Untagged' tag come from?
Why are there so many questions with the untagged tag?
And how does it get there in the first place?
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"13 Reasons Why" vs "Thirteen Reasons Why"
I propose that the tag "Thirteen Reasons Why" is renamed to the correct "13 Reasons Why", since this is the title Netflix uses. "Thirteen Reasons Why" is the title of the book.
Perhaps there should ...
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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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How should the various properties called "Homecoming" be tagged?
There are currently three questions tagged with "Homecoming": https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/homecoming . Two of those are about the 2018 TV series, and one of them is about a movie ...
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Who created the "identificar-este-pelicula" tag? Can it be deleted?
I just noticed an ID question pop up on my homepage, which shouldn't happen since I filter these out. I then noticed that it had the tag identificar-este-pelicula.
Considering this is an English-only ...
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Movie Sequel Tag naming convention
There is some inconsistencies in how tag names for various movies are created. This is to clear up how they should be named, based on existing examples. So here is my proposed approach for movie ...
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Tag merge & synonym request: [guardians-of-the-galaxy-*] → [guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol.-*]
According to our current tagging policy, as agreed by the community in the meta FAQ post, What's the policy on abbreviating titles of Movies & TV Shows?
If the original title fits into the limit, ...
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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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Difference: [cgi] vs. [special-effects] vs. [effects]?
What is the difference between cgi (currently aliased to production), special-effects and effects?
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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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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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Is uncut-gem actually uncut-gems?
So while fixing up this question I was trying to fix the tags and found there was a tag for uncut-gem with a question to it.
Now when I Google the titles I find Uncut Gems which is a 2019 film ...
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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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Rename or delete tags
I just saw this question. It first only contained a "stanley-kubrick"-tag and now somebody also added a "stephen-spielberg"-tag. But well, I think he's spelled "Steven" rather than "Stephen". But the ...
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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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Do we really need an ending tag at all?
We have removed the specific scene tag recently because that was not considered a good tag and used quite inconsistently and doesn't hold much value to it either.
Similarly I feel the ending tag is ...
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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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Change spiderman tag to spider-man?
I know this may seem pretty nitpicky, but can we change the spiderman tag to spider-man? That's the correct spelling of his name (see Wikipedia for a quick example).
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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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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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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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Should there be a specific tag for Zack Snyder's Justice League?
Currently the Justice League tag says:
2017 American superhero movie about the team of comic superheroes of the same name as part of the DC Extended Universe
But the 2021 director's cut, which is ...
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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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