Questions tagged [tagging]
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Discouraging the proliferation of bad tags: Proposal
As some of you may have noticed, we've got some truly awful tags littering the parent site. I'm not talking about the little one-off tags where somebody pastes their question title into the tag box, ...
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Differentiating between "truffle" mushrooms and "truffle" chocolates
I just discovered the truffle tag.
Mushrooms and chocolate goodies
Apparently we've decided to manage questions about chocolate and mushrooms under the same tag. YAY!
Not really...
So, we ...
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Tag policy for regionally-ambiguous food names?
A previous question came up on meta about "cookies" vs. "biscuits" - one which I answered but was ultimately unsatisfied even with my own answer.
It occurred to me today (and I'm actually surprised ...
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Can we rename [nutrition] to [nutritional-content]?
People often think that because there's a nutrition tag, nutrition questions are on topic. So:
Are there any on-topic questions which can be described by nutrition but not nutritional-content?
Is ...
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Rename [tag:ingredient-selection]
Well, I know that it also means the thing we want it to mean. But honestly, when a cook takes a look at it, what's the first thing that comes to mind? For me, it's clearly, "which ingredients should I ...
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Should we merge [bread] and [breadmaking]?
We actually had a previous meta question about this subject a very long time ago, in which the only response was that we shouldn't have separate tags to begin with.
Now we do have separate tags, and ...
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Tags about safety
Some questions about food safety and kitchen safety are tagged with safety. Is retagging questions about food safety with the tag safety to food-safety and leaving all kitchen safety questions with ...
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Should we delete the tag [uk]?
uk exists, and is often used for shopping-recommendations for people from the UK. However, this tag is not saying much as is.
Do you agree it could be deleted?
Sidenote: english-cuisine exists if ...
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What is the purpose of tags? How do I use them appropriately?
I've created this question to address the intent and purpose of tags. There has been a lot of talk recently on the subject, and I'd like to address each aspect of tagging in one place. This is a CW, ...
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Let's actually decide what "cleaning" means
I've found another tag that has two definitions.
cleaning
For questions about preparing food for cooking or about removing the results of cooking that food.
Like with truffles, it is not useful ...
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Should we combine or totally separate the tags [salt] and [seasoning]?
These two tags are somewhat redundant as written:
salt:
Questions about the use of culinary salt in the kitchen.
seasoning:
Questions about the use of salt, spices and other flavorings to ...
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How should food-difference tag be used?
Recently I tagged my question about the difference between soup and stew and I used the tag food-differences. As you can see in the edit, that tag was removed. I then went into the tag to see if there ...
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Scope and/or tagging for "local ingredients" questions?
The following questions have been posted:
Local special ingredients on Cape Cod (tagged local, recommendation; just posted)
Ingredients: Danish local specials (tagged untagged, meaning original tags ...
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How should we tag "What can I do with [ingredient]?" questions?
I have no intention of reopening the discussion of whether or not these questions are appropriate at all. I don't love them, but I'm not really offended by them either. If we have to have just one ...
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Tags that should probably be deleted
I think these tags are fairly uncontroversial deletes. Please comment out exceptions, or re-list them as an answer for separate voting. Same comment about a mod-updating these (I was going to do it ...
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Proposed Edit of Tag Instruction Area for New Questions
I think our site could greatly benefit from improved instruction on how to tag.
There's been a lot of discussion here on meta about changes needed to the tags, what the purpose should be, etc. I ...
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How can we tag this question about patenting recipes?
The question I'm referring to is here:
Is it possible to patent recipes?
The recipe tag has got to go. But I honestly have no idea what should take its place. It has to be something that will ...
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How can I create a tag for [X]?
I have an idea for a new tag that is so mind-blowingly important and brilliant that every passing second without it fills me with unfathomable, suicidal sorrow.
What can I do to add this wellspring ...
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Should a question about cookies tagged with both "cookies" and "biscuits"? [duplicate]
If a question is about cookies, is it correct to tag it with cookies and biscuits?
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American or British Spelling for Tags?
I recently had a question retagged from "Yogurt" the American spelling to "yoghurt" the British one. I can see this easily becoming a fairly epic war. As an American I was momentarily infuriated by ...
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Why retag so many questions, and who decides these tags?
In specific reference to a retag of this question, tags were added for [fruit] and [bananas].
My concern is chiefly: the [bananas] tag didn't exist before, so why create a tag for this question? The [...
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Tagging: How to differentiate "spicy" foods from questions about spices?
This one's been bugging me for a while now and I have yet to think of a good solution.
We have one question tagged [spiciness], another tagged [hot], and a few more tagged [spices] even though they ...
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What Tag Term Should We Use For Questions in Regards to Fixing Mistakes?
I've come across several questions about fixing a mistake in a recipe the OP is working on. I was trying to come up with a new tag to incorporate such a genre of questions but came up short. "Fix" ...
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What is the translation tag for?
Recently, there was a user with multiple questions on translation, for instance this question. In my opinion, it was off-topic and I commented that. He or she replied 'what is the translation tag for ...
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What is the "please-remove-this-tag" tag?
I saw that please-remove-this-tag has been added to some questions, and then removed.
What is the purpose of that tag?
Is it a tag that has been renamed, and then removed? If this is the case, why ...
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Should there be separate tags for [bread] and [breadmaking]?
Currently I think the [bread] tag covers baking bread and using bread in cooking (and even a question about using bread as something to eat off).
Seems to me bread is a case where making it is ...
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Retagging Recap
Alot was discussed tagging and retagging wise, and a few things changed this week on SE, so I'd like to recap and consolidate everything into one post, which can be used by those of us doing tagging ...
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Should the "Differences" tag be removed?
6 questions tagged. People have used it to ask about differences between similar ingredients and end products as well as differences in cooking methods.
https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/...
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Which tags can we use for questions of culinary nomenclature?
I've seen a couple questions lately that deal with nomenclature (how we name something) for foods and techniques:
For example:
What is the English Name for Chitrah Rajmah?
What is this French ...
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Why was "chinese-cuisine" tag removed from my question about 皮蛋?
I have recently created a question about how can one make century eggs at home, with eggs and chinese-cuisine tags.
However, chinese-cuisine was shortly removed from question, and I assume this has ...
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Should we merge [cookware] into [equipment]?
I just noticed that we're starting to accumulate a fair number of questions tagged cookware. To me, this is a fairly ambiguous and trivial subset of equipment, especially considering that many "...
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The "closed" tag
This question (How to make a salad olivier) has been tagged as "closed" a few hours ago. Is there a community consensus that tagging closed questions with "closed" is something we're now doing? I ...
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should there be tags for each type of food stuff?
I've noticed a few tags like pizza meatballs eggs. Do we want to allow these sort of tags? or should they be removed?
I can sort of see the use for more generic foods like eggs or pasta but ...
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Why the new quickbread tag?
Two old questions, and two new questions have been recently re-tagged with the new tag "quickbread". This is a North American term?
What is wrong with "Chemical Leavening" or similar
Is there a ...
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which tag should we use [bbq] or [barbecue]
which tag should we use [bbq] or [barbecue] -currently there are 3 of each 9 for [barbecue] and 11 for [bbq] with no overlap.
or something else entirely?
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How should we tag questions about specific techniques?
We had an earlier meta question about this, but (a) it didn't get a lot of attention, and (b) I don't think it really asked the right question.
Right now I'm seeing a lot of inconsistency in the tags....
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What is the most common term for sand dough?
Recently, this question was asked. The OP created a tag "sable", which I deleted. I thought there was a tag already for these kinds of dough, but apparently, there isn't. I created the tag "sand-dough"...
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Better tag for party compared to catering
In my question Party scale sous-vide I wanted to convey the domestic side of cooking so I used tag party-scale, not the best tag in hind sight
But it got re-tagged catering, which is definitely not ...
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Why are there separate pickles and pickling tags?
I came across a question tagged both pickles and pickling.
Pickles has no tag wiki / usage guidance, and 19 questions.
Pickling has "Preserving food by immersion in vinegar or brine" which is just a ...
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How could we retag meta for easier use?
Meta is the repository of knowledge about the main site's policies, along with all the discussion that helped reach those points. Unfortunately, it's also pretty difficult to search, let alone to read ...
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Unclear about a tag
Can I season cast iron *without* using an oven?
I added the cast-iron tag, that seems clear enough. What about "seasoning"? Is that referring to the flavoring of food or the care of cookware?
Either ...
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What's the tag for washing before cooking? Please create one?
Users wrongly tagged the following [cleaning], because [cleaning] is intended
For questions about cleaning kitchen equipment after use. Please also tag with type of equipment you're cleaning. Do not ...
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This doesn’t seem [professional] …
As an outsider, I wanted to gauge whether career questions are on-topic here (due to an off-topic question asked on a site I moderate). Turns out they aren’t. However, before I found that, I stumbled ...
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Merge [replacement] and [substitutes] tags into [substitutions]?
Should we merge [replacement] and [substitutes] tags into the [substitutions] tag? [substitutions] seems to be very popular and the other 2 haven't been used much.
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Difference between "health" and "nutrition" tags.
Re: Does microwaving destroy nutrients in food?
I wasn't sure if I should add the health tag to this question or not. Nutrition, obviously, fits the bill here. However, I'm not sure how the health ...
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Tags needing synonymification/consolidation
--I think these are uncontroversial duplicates. I think we should make them synonyms to avoid repeat cleanup. I think a mod should do it to avoid bumping threads (or give me the ability to do it).
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How should we tag questions about ethnic cooking?
Simple tag-related question, but one that I suspect will become important over time: How should we tag questions that relate to recipes, techniques, or equipment from or relating to a specific culture ...
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Diacritics in tags
I noticed today that tags can't contain characters with diacritics symbols (I tried to add the "túró" tag and I got the "tr" tag: the software just removed the unallowed characters without notice) so ...
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Related Tags - How is this list determined?
On the right side of the page, when you are looking at questions, there's a list of related tags. What determines that a tag is related? It doesn't seem to be a compilation of the tags for the visible ...
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Tag Voting: what you need to know
Per the recent spate of tag discussions, a list of retagging requests grew, as did calls for discussion of controversial tags/synonyms.
Hobodave made clear that tag-voting functionality is built in ...