Questions tagged [tag-wiki]

A "tag wiki" is an editable page that briefly summarizes the topic of the tag and that may provide links to existing questions that are often useful to many people.

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When you make a new tag, please write a description

I'm editing this to bump it, because I've been finding a lot of tags with no descriptions and few questions associated with them. If you feel like we need to group a certain set of questions with a ...
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What should the tag wiki for redundancy say?

So I was going to retag a question with redundancy when I noticed it didn't have a wiki, so I thought I'd write one. When I did some double checking, it turns out that there is a linguistic meaning to ...
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Tag wiki drafting zone

I've been seeing an awful lot of very substantial wiki suggestions, mostly from one editor. Some seem reasonable enough, although hard to verify thoroughly; some are arguably wrong. Either way, ...
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Stop giving [untagged] useless usage guidance

I've noticed a particular user* suggesting edits (of approximately the same content every time, asking users to refrain from tagging with it and explaining the purpose) to the untagged wiki and usage ...
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When should the "sentences" tag be used?

sentences has the following tag wiki: A sentence is a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate. I notice the tag is being used in questions that: Ask ...
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How can the tag wiki for "sentence-construction" be expanded?

The tag wiki for sentence-construction currently says: For questions about the proper construction of sentences. This is quite a short description, which is probably too generic to be understood. ...
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Is the 'mathematics' tag really necessary?

This came to my attention when I saw a tag wiki had been proposed. It appears we have a mathematics tag on ELL, which has only two questions. The proposed tag wiki is: For questions about ...
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How can the difference between the "grammaticality" and "grammar" tags be described?

I know the difference between grammar, and grammaticality, but I was wondering how the difference between those tags can be described. Can anybody suggest a sentence that can be used to describe the ...
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Can't edit tag wiki in main

If I go to https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/voting/info , I get a "Propose Tag Wiki" button, but if I go to https://ell.stackexchange.com/tags/phrase-request/info , I don't get a button. In ...
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