Questions tagged [tags]
Questions about tags on the main site.
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Are tag synonyms necessary?
I don't see the point of tag synonyms. I see bond for james-bond and nolan for Christopher-nolan. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a mod approve tags? We can even have people with enough rep do ...
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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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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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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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Join [tv-shows] and [tv-series]
I'll make this one short. We have two tags tv-shows and tv-series.
As Tyler Shads pointed out in his meta post there are valid uses for tv-shows.
However I don't think we need to distinguish between ...
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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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Would creating decade tags help to de-clutter and simplify tagging?
The issue of too many tags has been brought up before (Should tags for individual movies be encouraged) with the general opinion (from what I read) being that unused tags get removed automatically. ...
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Can we just roll up the identification tags?
I'm not a big fan of having the seperate tags, identify-this-movie and identify-this-tv-show. I think these are cumbersome and we should just have an identification tag.
For further support, there ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Should [history] and [cinema-history] really be synonyms?
The tag history currently redirects to cinema-history. I think they should not be synonyms.
cinema-history questions clearly should ask about the history of cinema and movies in general, how film ...
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Should Cartoon tag and Animation tag be merged?
cartoons and animation exist separately. Is there a reason they should be separated, or would we be better off merging/synonymousing them?
I see nothing special that cartoons brings to the table as ...
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Should individual tv or movies have its own tags? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should tags for individual movies be encouraged
Should movies have their own individual tag?
e.g. If a movie is about inception does it really need its own inception tag?
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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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When a movie/series is identified, should it be tagged with the movie/series?
We have about 20 identify-this-movie questions that have an accepted answer, implying the OP got their answer.
I wonder if it is beneficial to the site for us or the OP or whoever has the privilege ...
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Multiple Identify tags
We currently have two tags, idenitfy and identify-this-movie. IMHO I think we should make identify-this-movie a synonym of identify.
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Are meaning and interpretation junk tags?
The tags interpretation and meaning, imho, aren't being used consistantly. Or maybe I'm just crazy and they're being used find. What's everyone think?
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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 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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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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Would identifying a country of origin be helpful?
I'm noticing a string of questions about movies that could be considered 'foreign'. This is defined by a movie not well known due to not being in the American/UK box office. I realize I must tread ...
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Tag synonym requests: Merge [allowed-topics] to [on-topic]
Before things get out of hand, I'd like a tag synonym for allowed-topics to on-topic.
Currently the Gaming Meta has topic, off-topic-content, and allowed-questions; if we catch this early we could ...
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How do we signal a typo in a tag?
I just noticed a typo in the tag cowboy-behop - it should be cowboy-bebop. I didn't find any link to signal that kind of errors though. Rare as they are, maybe it's not really needed.
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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 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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