Questions tagged [tags]
For questions concerning the tag system used at Latin SE.
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A less clear-cut tag synonym example
I have doubts about the potential equivalence (or not) of christianity and ecclesiastical-latin.
The descriptions are:
Use this tag for all questions related to Christianity. Consider also using more ...
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Potential questions to be tagged as `genus-epistula`?
A few days ago I suggested the tag genus-epistula and (unfortunately caused an issue when I) went on to tag all questions I could find that clearly belonged under that tag. There were a few questions ...
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What is our policy on meta questions tagged as discussion?
Problem and examples
In our chat I asked this question, and I was encouraged to ask this as a meta question (though the potential futility of it is not lost on us), so here goes nothing:
What ...
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What language should our tags be?
Back in the early days of this site we decided to have our tags in Latin.
Now that we have years of experience with our tags, it's time to re-evaluate that decision.
At the moment our tags are in ...
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Should we add a suite of test tags?
In some countries, the UK and the US are the first that come to mind, standardised tests for entering higher education seems to be the norm. I noticed when editing tags that someone has posted a ...
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Is "ancient-greek" needed as a distinct tag from "greek"?
I saw both greek and ancient-greek come up when writing a question, and I couldn't figure out what difference there would be using one or the other, considering that we specify that questions ...
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How can we link tags for spelling variants to existing tags?
This comes from the chat, and I’ll be as brief as possible:
How would one go about to add tags that are linked to existing tags, such as mediaeval-latin = medieval-latin?
The above example covers ...
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The tag "translation" has been removed on Latin Language Stack Exchange
This is an announcement rather than a question, but feel free to ask and comment through questions or comments.
The tag translation is was overly broad.
We decided to get rid of it and agreed on a ...
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Tag specifically for incorrect 'Google Translate' translations?
This is a suggestion based on discussion from this comment onwards, where there is some suggestion of a tag specifically for incorrect Google Translate translations.
Such a tag could be used to ...
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Should we synonymize [numerals] into [numbers]?
There are two closely related tags, numbers and numerals, which don't have a tag excerpt or wiki, and many questions have both these tags. Would it make sense to synonymize them, just like our sister ...
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Is this an "example-request" or a "vocabulary" question?
I've asked a few questions along the lines of "does any word with X properties exist?" For example, this question was answered succinctly with "yes, one example is glôssa".
Should these be considered ...
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Should there be a Romance-languages tag?
Just what the title says. Does it make sense to create romance-languages?
From time to time we get questions like Why did "cattus" replace Latin "feles"? asking about the ...
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Tags for authors and their naming conventions
Some of the Latin authors have their own tags, such as Cicero, but far from even all the most important ones. I have a simple two-part suggestion:
All authors should have their own tag
All author-...
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There should be a negation tag
An important part of Latin grammar, is how to negate. Whether it be done by negation prepositions, words (e.g. ūllus vs nūllus, nōn, nē) or any other means, it raises a plethora of grammatical issues ...
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Number of questions in "genus" and "gender" tags - bug?
There seem to be two tags for questions related to gender: genus and gender. They are also tag synonymous. However, then one is typing "genus" as a tag, it states 15 questions have that tag. When you ...
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Getting rid of the translation tag
Following a recent discussion in chat and a year-old meta discussion, it seems to be best to get rid of the tag translation.
The tag is broad and used in many different ways, so I find it pretty ...
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When to use the "English" tag?
I am "guilty" of 4 out of 9 questions with the english tag, with four other questions being from "very low" reputation users (nothing wrong with that, but just an indication of, perhaps, less ...
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Which tags are confusing?
A tag is useful if it has a descriptive name that is difficult to misinterpret and a good use description.
Not all of our tags are this good.
Which tags do you find confusing?
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Should We Get Rid of the Translation Tag?
Here's yet another tag that means just about everything. It's used to refer to problems translating from Latin to English, from English to Latin, individual words, grammar, difficult sentences, etc.
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Should We Change the Specific Words Tag?
We seem to have duplicate tags. One is the specific-words and the other is vocabulary. Why do we have both? Should we merge them, and if so, which one is merged into the other?
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Why the [spinoza] tag?
I recently noticed that spinoza tag was used to tag a series of questions by one user who appears to be working through Spinoza's Ethics.
All of the questions deal with a translation/grammatical ...
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The tags [ovid] and [ovidius] are not marked as synonyms
Currently, the tag ovidius has five questions, and the tag ovid has one question. The questions are clearly about the same author (and there is only one famous poem named Ovid, as far as I know). ovid ...
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What should we do with [grammar] questions?
In a previous question and answer, a consensus developed that grammar is not something we want to keep around: Do we want the [grammar] tag?
But the tag was never blacklisted, and we're now up to 23 ...
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Should author tags be in their original Roman form?
It is good to have badges for important authors.
At the moment we have the tag horace, but I created the tag horatius today when I asked about the same poet.
This is because I strongly prefer using ...
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Are culture questions on-topic?
Specifically, questions about Roman culture.
My gut reaction is "yes", because idioms are part of and based on culture, and so learning about the culture of the time is a good way to read and write ...
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Should our tags be in Latin?
On other Stack Exchange language sites, tags and tag wikis are in the language the site uses. French Language, for example, names their tags in French. Currently, Latin Language Stack Exchange has ...
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Do we want the [grammar] tag?
It is inevitable for language sites that somebody creates grammar. The usefulness of this tag on other language sites is strongly disputed. We now have the chance to make an early decision against it ...
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Should we tag geographical/contextual variations in Latin language, and if so, how?
We already have the following meta questions for establishing tag scope:
Latin language eras
How should a tag for changes in Latin language through time be named?
The former is a static ...
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Latin language eras
Latin has changed through history, obviously, and many times the correct answer to a question is going to depend on which era the OP is talking about. What are the right high-level tags to describe ...
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How should a tag for changes in Latin language through time be named?
For now, I named it language-change. language-history feels better. But I'm almost sure there's established term for this, which I don't know. Should I change the tag name? It's early enough to do ...
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