The tags tag has no wiki summary.
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How should we disambiguate between questions that are only for a Drupal version, and questions that are valid since a specific version?
Normally, when a question is tagged 7 it means the question is for Drupal 7, and not Drupal 6; nothing is said about the validity of the answers for Drupal 8. So, a question about DBTNG is valid for ...
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Allow “drupal-N” tags to be migrated from other sites
When a question is migrated from other sites, any tag that matches ^drupal-?\d+.*$ is removed. The problem is that Stack Overflow uses drupal-6, and drupal-7; as users on Stack Overflow are used to ...
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1answer
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Do we need the tutorials tag?
There are a few pending edits in the queue right that that remove tutorials.
It appears that if all of these edits are approved, that tutorials will not be on any questions anymore, so it will be ...
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Incorrect tag synonym?
The schema tag is currently a synonym of the db-api tag.
Schema API and Database API refer to two separate things in Drupal (they even have separate documentation in which they are specifically ...
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1answer
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categorize question by modules
so it make it easy to replace D.SE with module issue or even add related question inside issue link in Drupal module page.
I think its useful, is not?
2
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1answer
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Are tags automatically removed?
I noticed that one of the tags I used in my question has been removed. Are there cases where tags automatically removed?
0
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1answer
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What is the “untagged” tag?
I see there are some questions tagged untagged.
What does the tag mean?
What should I do when I find questions tagged with that tag?
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1answer
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Are tags allowed in question's titles?
Is it fine to write a title like the following ones?
Views: How do I create a list of OG groups for which the current user has edit privileges?
Views/jQuery/jCarousel/Galleria/Colorbox - best ...
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Duplicates and version numbers
There is currently a question, Creating referenced nodes together with parent node, that is tagged with 6.
I have the exact same issue, but for a Drupal 7 instance.
Given that the answer could very ...
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Is it really necessary to have a generic tag for e-commerce, and specific tags?
We actually have commerce, which is described as a generic tag for e-commerce modules, and that could be used for modules such as Drupal Commerce, and Ubercart; we have also drupal-commerce, and ...
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Does the “content-management” tag have any meaning, for Drupal?
I notice there are questions tagged content-management, but I don't understand in which cases the tag should apply, considering that Drupal is a CMS, and the content management aspect of it is ...
3
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1answer
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The handler and views-handler tags
Was just looking at the suggested edit queue, and saw there are a bunch of edits where someone removed handler from the question.
Instead, I changed most of these to views-handler, as handler is ...
3
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1answer
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How do we respond to requests to create tags?
A few days ago there was a question (How does Browscap work?) in which the user asked for a couple of tags to be created (mobile-tools and browscap).
I created these tags and added an excerpt/wiki ...
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1answer
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Are the 'mail' and 'email' tags synonyms?
The differences between these tags are not clear. When would one use email, over mail and vice versa?
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When should the themes tag be used, if at all?
I'm a bit confused on when/if the themes tag should be used. For example, take the following question:
How to modify a core theme and what is the correct way to do this?
While looking through ...
3
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1answer
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Is the “modules” tag useful?
I was just reviewing some suggested edits, and saw two questions that someone has retagged with modules.
Is this tag really useful?
Considering how much of Drupal revolves around modules in one form ...
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Calling for action: Help improving our tag wikis
Some of our tag wikis need to be improved, and they need the help of the community. Before to describe the task, I will give a description of what a tag wiki is.
Each tag, such as views, has a page ...
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1answer
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Is it appropriate to add a tag that relates to answers to a question?
Questioners tag questions based upon the context in which they are asking. They may for instance ask a question about what module could display information in a specific using the module tag. The ...
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What is the rationale behind this instruction in the 7 tag wiki?
In the tag wiki for 7 there is a comment at the bottom:
Version tags should be used only when strictly necessary, and not used just to report "I am using Drupal 7 in my site."
While I understand the ...
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1answer
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What is best practice for flagging or removing a tag on a question?
I was just reviewing a question with three tags. The latter two tag appear to be new and vague. I have been cautiously editing tags, usually to add a tag where needed. I am not sure about deleting ...
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1answer
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What is the definition for “Publish” tags?
I just ran across a question with the tag publishing, and saw that there are three other similar tags containing "publish": publish, code-publishing, and content-publishing. None of them have tag ...
2
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1answer
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Does “code” make a good tag or not?
Most questions on the Main site appear to fall into two categories, those solved through the UI and those solved though coding. We have tags for Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 and other broader categories so a ...
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0answers
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What should the description for the “arguments” tag be?
arguments doesn't have a description, and the tag could be used for different purposes (e.g. function arguments). To avoid this, the tag should have a description.
What should its description be?
If ...
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Should we have a “form-alter” tag?
I was pursuing questions today, and ran across jQuery hotkeys plugin.
The accepted answer shows how to use hook_form_alter() to accomplish what the OP wanted to do.
Given that a lot of work with ...
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1answer
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What is the difference between the “access” and “user-access” tags?
There are questions tagged access, and questions tagged user-access; as far as I know, the term access is always used to refer to user access.
Is there any reason to have both the tags?
Update: As ...
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Show a description for the tag even when the users enter a partial string for the tag
When I first click on the field to enter the tag, I see a list of some tags with their description.
When I enter some characters because I want to select a tag I know, I only see a list of possible ...
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How should the “drupal.org” tag be renamed?
I have seen some users using drupal.org for questions that are not about drupal.org; probably they pick up that tag because it contains the word "drupal." This reminds me of when on drupal.org users ...
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How to handle users that re-add their deleted tags?
Kiamlaluno edited a question to remove selectquery which isn't (and don't think will be) a popular tag on this site; just after this, the user retagged the question just for the hope to gain the ...
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Is the “display” tag specific to Views, or can it be used in different contexts?
display doesn't have a description, which would probably help in understanding when to use it.
Should display be only used for Views, or does it have a wider meaning?
In the latter case, should we ...
2
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1answer
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Can adding 6 and/or 7 as a tag be mandatory?
Forgive me if this was addressed, but I didn't see it when I searched.
I have seen a lot of questions lately that will have different answers, depending on whether the user is running Drupal 6 or ...
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1answer
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Inline tag editing sometimes doesn't work
Lately, I had problems with inline editing of tags.
I hover the mouse close to the list of tags used in a question, I click on the "edit tags" link that appears, and I change the tags in the text ...
2
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1answer
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Can we delete the “nod” tag?
There is nod; I think this was created by mistake.
Is it possible to delete it, so that it doesn't get misused?
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1answer
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Order of html title attribute
Anyone else find it a bit weird that tags are placed first in the html title attribute. for example I've seen quite a few start:
6 - Some question here
7 - Another question here
When I have ...
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2answers
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What should be done with tags similar to “d6,” “d7”?
d6 was used in a question. What should be done with such tags?
made synonym of the respective version tags currently used
blocked, so that nobody could use them as tags
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Don't allow any tag containing “drupal”
As far as I can see, there is just two tags containing "drupal." drupal-commerce, and drupal.org.
For the same reason drupal-6 has been blocked, which is to avoid users who don't know the tags to ...
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What is the next step?
Tags for the Drupal version has been changed from drupal-7 to 7, but 7 is still the most used tag on Drupal Answers.
What is the next step? Should we check all the questions tagged with 7, decide if ...
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1answer
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The “edit” link in the tags page takes me to a different edit page
I tried editing the Wiki page for 7, but when I click it, I am taken to the page for editing the Wiki page for commerce. I tried the same with 6, but in that case, I get a error 404 page.
Could not ...
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Numeric version tags considered … OK
As a followup to
Version tags considered harmful
TL;DR -- my main point in that post:
The danger of version tags is that they become de-facto requirements -- crutches to avoid thinking about ...
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Why was the drupal-commerce tag nerfed?
I don't understand the decision to remove the drupal-commerce tag in favor of a general e-commerce tag (especially since there's still a tag for Ubercart specific questions). There are questions in ...
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Version tags considered harmful
We've noticed that a huge percentage of questions are tagged drupal-6 or drupal-7.
This is a dangerous pattern for your community to fall into. Here's why:
Version tags are redundant. The site is ...
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1answer
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Usage of the “filter” tag
What should filter be used for?
This term has two distinct meanings in Drupal.
One refers to content filters (hook_filter()), and the administrative side of this for non-technical people. The other ...
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2answers
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Should we keep three different tags for Views, or should we merge all the tags, and use just one?
Looking at the questions about Views, I see there are 133 questions tagged views, 39 questions tagged views-2, and 35 questions tagged views-3.
I doubt that all the questions tagged views are ...
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1answer
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Are there questions that could use the tag “vocabulary” without referring to taxonomy terms?
We have both vocabulary and taxonomy.
Are there cases where vocabulary is not referring to the "container" of taxonomy terms, for which taxonomy could be used?
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Do we need the tag “windows”?
Do we need to tag questions with windows? Is there any reason to tag questions with that tag?
I can imagine users adding linux, osx, or windows-7 and then describing something that is not specific ...
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1answer
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What is the purpose of the “change-control” tag?
I have noticed there are some questions tagged change-control, but I don't understand what the purpose of the tag would be.
May anybody enlighten me? What should the wiki page of that tag report?
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1answer
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Module tagging name length
If you all choose to allow questions about specific modules, you probably have to agree on a common way to tag them. I see that taxonomy-access.module, update.module and others of the format ...
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1answer
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Block the “cms” tag
Questions migrated from other SE sites are sometimes tagged cms. As drupal.SE is about Drupal, which a CMS, that tag should be blocked.
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1answer
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Which tags should be used for a questions about CCK fields?
When a question is about CCK fields, should the question be tagged with cck and fields, or just with cck?
Should we consider fields only for Drupal 7?
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1answer
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Revert the tag drupal-x -> version-x tag synonyms
In “Drupal-X” tags versus “version-x” tags, the question was brought up whether core version tags should take the form of drupal-7 or version-7. Despite the top-voted answer being that it should be ...
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What is the difference between “sql-query” and “db-api”?
What is the difference between sql-query and db-api?
Are there any cases where a question is about a SQL query, but it is not about the database API?
Should both the tags be kept, or should db-api ...
