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Changing tags from [the-fairly-oddparents] to [the-fairly-odd-parents]
It sort of is, and sort of isn't. Officially, the show's name is The Fairly OddParents, with the two words squished together into a single compound word. This makes more sense than it appears to - it'...
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How should "The $100,000 Pyramid" be tagged?
I created a tag called game-show. I think this is sufficient for tagging any TV shows classified as "game shows". We haven't really had many questions of that genre, I don't think every game show ...
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Scope of X-Men tag and its usage? Is it really suitable for being a franchise tag?
I don't see any reason why we can't go with x-men-cinematic-universe. It parallels very nicely with the marvel-cinematic-universe, and until Fox decides to name it officially, we have no better option....
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How should titles like "P'tit Quinquin" be tagged?
In this case, p'tit is an abbrev of petit. It seems weird to replace the apostrophe with a space, because that suggests they are two words.
As such, I would suggest going with ptit-quinquin.
The ...
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Improve and extend the automatic tag-popup for identification questions
While we're at the task of cleaning up the identify tags (as much as possible) it might be worth also trying to improve identify-this-actor. It's not nearly the crisis that identify-this-movie is, but ...
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Creation of a ww2 tag -- pros and cons?
The policy here been to not allow such generic categorizations of the movies and TV show content like ww2.
Look at the existing tags, they fall into the following categories, in what I would guess is ...
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Deleted tag: Harry-Potter-Universe / Potterverse
There are a few issues -
While "Marvel Cinematic Universe" is the official term for this collection of Marvel film and television properties, it is not the case that "Harry Potter Universe" is an ...
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What to do with the [marvel-cinematic-universe]?
The question you ACTUALLY are asking is:
"Should all the movies/films/videos/shows of a given franchise be tagged with the associated franchise tag, regardless of question scope?"
To that question, ...
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Can we rename [mst3k] to [mystery-science-theater-3000]?
Your request has been fulfilled and the tag has been renamed and synonymized. Thank you for bringing this to notice.
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Tag Suggestions for Star Trek The Next Generation
Make star-trek-the-next-generation the master, and make star-trek-tng a synonym.
The official name of the series is Star Trek: The Next Generation. The tag was created as star-trek-next-generation ...
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Improve and extend the automatic tag-popup for identification questions
I think it should be enhanced a bit to something like:
Don't forget to include the following in your question:
The original language of the film (English, French, Spanish, etc.)
The ...
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Let's kill all the [character]s
I think that this tag is useless.
No one is going to look for all of the questions about all characters in all movies or TV shows.
Most questions with this tag are about a specific character in a ...
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Should there be an "Identify-this-documentary" tag?
No, there shouldn't.
Documentary is less of a medium than rather a genre or style. Documentaries can very well be either movies or TV-shows, which are the media that we separate ID questions into. So ...
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You can select tags to ignore
This changed at some point and is not in preferences; now the way to hide tags rather than just gray them out is a box on the right side of the homepage:
If you click the Hide questions in your ...
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Let's kill all the [character]s
I don't think that this tag, character, is useless.
"Nearly every question is about some character". It's good word choice: "near" ...it`s not the same than all. I've made questions about characters ...
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Should we implement tags for Seasons of TV Shows?
Tags are designed as a means to categorize groups of related questions based on a typical users' interests. Tags are not really intended to enumerate every possible detail about a question.
It is ...
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What information should be included in a Tag Wiki Excerpt for a film/tv series title tag?
The tag wiki excerpt is formally called User Guidance and that is what is should be. In the case of a film or a series, it should give enough information for a user to be able to discern tags for ...
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Can we increase the tag length limit?
This has finally reached the whole network and the new maximum tag length is 35 characters.
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Tag merge/synonym request: [memories-of-murders] » [memories-of-murder]
I have updated these two questions with memories-of-murder. If plural one doesn't get used, it will die automatically.
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Should we have [YEAR] tags?
TL;DR: This would cause more problems than it would solve, especially when dealing with new users, so no, we shouldn't do this.
Napoleon Wilson has already pointed out in the comments that we can ...
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Fix the "Sisters" tag please
I have added the correct tag sisters to the question. The old tag sister will get auto-deleted after a day since it has no questions anymore now.
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Why is Adaptation-Differences tag being removed from my question?
The tag was originally created not to discuss the difference of an adaptation to its source material (which your question seems to do), but for discussing the differences of two adapations between ...
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"13 Reasons Why" vs "Thirteen Reasons Why"
We had two question with thirteen-reasons-why and one with 13-reasons-why, now they have been merged while keeping the original show title as primary one.
Synonym tag th1rteen-r3asons-why is also ...
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Can we have a tag synonym to replace or have as an alternative to plot-explanation?
I don't see what this would accomplish. Tag synonyms are there to make it easier for users to discover tags by alternative (and maybe more intuitive to them) names. I can't for the life of me ever see ...
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How should I create a tag for Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, since it's more than 25 characters?
With the recent maximum tag length increase to 35 characters, this whole problem solves itself and I have renamed the tag to godzilla-against-mechagodzilla.
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Should there be a tag for [regional-differences]?
The tag wiki for alternate-version reads..
An alternate edit to a film (or less commonly, a TV show) which may include new or deleted scenes, removing or re-ordering existing scenes or updating ...
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Creation for the tag synonym 'Red Dog'?
Tag's can be created by anyone with 300 reputation or more, you don't need to ask for a tag to be created. You can create a new tag by typing it into the tags field on the question form.
You can ...
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Can there be a tag synonym for 'plot-explanation'?
No.
This is not what tag synonyms are for.
Tag synonyms are used when two terms are used interchangeably for the same thing. Nothing about the word "conspiracy" means "plot explanation". They're ...
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Is the Filmography tag now obsolete?
My initial thought is
Keep it
Not that we have any questions on the subject but something like....
What were the common influences/theme on the filmography of [insert actor/director here]
would,...
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