Questions tagged [tag-wiki]
For questions about tag wikis. This covers both the tag wiki excerpt (or usage guidance), and the full tag wiki that potentially describes it in more detail. (See also: the overall [tags] tag on Meta.)
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The tag wiki/excerpt for [mouse-guard] should probably be updated
The tabletop RPG system Mouse Guard (based on the comics of the same name) appears to have 2 editions. The first edition of the game was published in 2008, and the second edition was released in 2015.
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Should we reject tag wiki edits that improve a tag wiki for a newly created tag that we think shouldn't exist?
Sometimes we think that a tag should not exist when we see an excerpt/wiki edit when someone tries to establish the tag for the first time. At the same time, should we reject such an edit when it ...
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Can we provide a good tag wiki for [mental-health]?
A bunch of questions on this site involve discussions around mental health (namely, I found this one), so I've created the tag mental-health.
It's a subject that needs to be handled with care (not ...
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Does the usage guidance for the [closed-questions] tag on this Meta need to be updated?
The usage guidance for closed-questions says:
This tag is for posts looking to raise meta discussions about specific closed questions, as well as for questions about the concept of a closed question ...
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Tags with at least 10 questions that need usage guidance
I went through and looked for tags with no usage guidance/blank wiki excerpts having at least 10 questions on the site. Here they are:
bloodline 26 questions
immediate-actions 23 questions
move-...
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Let's fix the [arcane-archer] tag!
The arcane-archer tag has a quite wrong tag description at the time of this post:
The Arcane Archer is a fighter subclass in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition (published in Xanathar's Guide to ...
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How did it come about that so many of our tag excerpts start with "for questions about..."?
More often than not, our tag wiki excerpts start with “for questions about topic so-and-so”.
How did this “for questions about...” thing come about as such a common excerpt format? Why do we use ...
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What is the [psychology] tag for?
I've noticed the psychology tag on a few questions (it's up to 11, at the time of this posting). It has no tag info/wiki, so it's not obvious what exactly it's meant to be used for. The questions ...
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What is the [character-development] tag for?
We have 23 questions with the character-development tag. The tag has no description and by looking over the questions I'm not getting a good idea of how the tag links them.
What does the tag ...
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What is the [psychic] tag meant for, and how distinct is it from [psionics] and [mystic]?
The psychic tag has no tag info/wiki, but the tag currently appears on 8 questions. 6 of them are about Pathfinder (all but 1 of those are about the Psychic class, as far as I can tell), and 2 are ...
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Is [spell-components] description correct?
spell-components
Physical items that are required for use in the casting of certain types of spells.
By the description, it seems the tag refers to only spell material components, and excludes verbal ...
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Why can't [magic] sit with a more specific tag?
So, we have a magic tag. It's a fine tag, and there's nothing majorly wrong with it. Part of its usage advice in the tag wiki, though, says:
Questions that merit more specific tags should not also ...
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What is the [dnd-miniatures] tag for, and can we give it a tag wiki / revise its usage?
We have a dnd-miniatures tag on main site which has 8 questions and no tag wiki, and I'm not sure what to add for one, nor what this tag gets used for exactly.
There seems to be a D&D Miniatures ...
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Are we satisfied with the Tag Wiki / Info entry for the RAW Tag?
The rules-as-written tag has been a really contentious issue here. We have highly debated questions related to the RAW tag's usage (What's it for?, Changing the approach, Keep it?, Rename it?), but ...
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Avoid just copying text into the tag wikis
Our tag wikis are best when they have informative descriptions and excerpts.
However, we have a low-grade but ongoing problem with copyrighted material being copied and pasted into our tag wikis. ...
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Alchemist vs. Alchemy
Just a note, I just added tag wikis for alchemy and alchemist and cleaned up a few questions for each. I decided against synonymizing because a distinction was apparent in their emergent usage, and ...
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Can the Dungeon World Wiki entry be improved?
There seem to be smattering of questions about Dungeon World of late, which is apparently a system with very specific rules as to what a GM can and cannot do. However, the wiki entry doesn't include ...
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Let's make the [new-gm] tag wiki useful
Since we're keeping new-gm, at least for now, we should fix up its (empty!) tag wiki. What should it say? Especially, what usage guidance should it include?
So that it's immediately useful I've ...
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