Questions tagged [tags]
Questions regarding the tags used on Space.SE, and what kind of questions they should be used on.
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Tag moxie? I mean MOXIE tag?
I've recently asked three questions related to MOXIE and created a moxie-oxygen-generator tag. I'm not sure
that that is the best name for the tag
that a tag is even needed; we already have oxygen
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Would a “Speculation” tag be useful?
There are many questions on the site of the form of "could this work". These questions generally propose a solution to some real or imagined problem and ask if the solution would work. Would it be ...
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Rosalind Franklin is no longer called ExoMars, how to manage tags and titles of older questions?
Just like the "Solar Probe Plus" working title was changed to Parker Solar Probe, the "ESA Roscosmos ExoMars Rover" has now been officially named Rosalind Franklin.
We have over 60 posts that contain ...
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What should be our standard for creating speculative craft/mission tags?
So today I came across falcon-super-heavy. There's one question, and it links to an article that talks about it in theoretical terms
Musk was asked whether SpaceX can increase the Falcon Heavy’s ...
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Appropriate definitions for stage-separation and separation tags?
I've adjusted tagging on a few questions so that stage-separation appears on questions about separation events involving
stages
capsules
"pseudo-stages" like Apollo command and service modules
and ...
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Tags [expandable] and [expendable]
I noticed that someone had confused the words EXPANDABLE and EXPENDABLE and used the wrong tag.
To avoid confusion I added a description for the expandable tag.
However, I'm not sure if the best ...
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Should [space-law] be just [law]?
I was thinking of going through and retagging all the space-law questions to just law. Before doing so, however, I decided to ask the community - It seems like there is something I am missing.
Should ...
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Biology shouldn't be aliased to Life?
We have a Biology tag which is aliased to "Life"
However, I am not sure this is appropriate for all the biological experiments done in space (the description of Life aka Biology is closest to ...
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Should [dragon-v2] and [crew-dragon] be merged?
SpaceX really likes to rename things and the crewed Dragon capsule is no exception
The problem is we have dragon-v2
SpaceX's second version of the Dragon spacecraft, also called "Crew Dragon". It ...
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How did we end up with a hypothetical tag? Should we keep it, or not?
Lo and behold, we have a hypothetical tag! I spotted it on this hypothetical question but it's on three questions total.
Hypothetical questions can sometimes be asked here if the answer can be based ...
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Should 'solar-power' be renamed 'photo-voltaic cell'?
The tag 'Solar Power' is used as a synonym for 'photo-voltaic' cell/array at present. This term used is not unacceptable. It may be misleading to a nouveau who comes to SEx.SE, perhaps, to seek a ...
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Created “reduced-gravity-manufacturing” tag but then noticed “manufacture” tag exists, what to do?
I just created a reduced-gravity-manufacturing tag to go along with the reduced-gravity-sports and reduced-gravity-cooking tags and then enthusiastically added it to eight questions.
On the last one ...
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What's up with the [tag:structure]?
Just saw [structure] was used the other day and had 5 entries, anyone have objections if I remove this tag and add more specific ones to the entries in question? Mainly:
Why aren't rockets built ...
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You say tomato, I say tomato, you say Ultima Thule, I say 2014-MU69. How to deal with dual names and tags?
I created 2014-mu69 a year and a half ago but they've since nick-named the asteroid Ultima Thule and people use that a lot.
It currently has 8 questions and no doubt in the next week it will get more,...
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Two SpaceX Dragon tags, is clarification needed?
In the question What is SpaceX's parachute problem that NASA is concerned about in the NASA ASAP report? I needed a Dragon capsule tag. There are two to choose from:
dragon and dragon-v2
Do we need ...
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Can the tag [specfications] be spelt correctly
There are 7 questions in this tag, but it is not spelt correctly. It looks a bit illiterate at the moment. It should be spelt specifications, and probably does not need to be pluralised.
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Can we ban the satellites tag?
This site is fundamentally about space, exploration, and satellites. As a result, most of the questions could be tagged with the satellites tag. I think it should be banned entirely from the site.
In ...
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Should we merge launch-site and launchpad tags?
launch-site tag's description:
Questions on launch complexes, spaceports or other locales for the
launch of spacecraft.
launchpad tag's description:
Questions regarding structures used to aid ...
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Ice, [ice], baby?
I submitted an excerpt for ice, but I realized that not all the existing questions were about extra-terrestrial ice (e.g. 1, 2). Trying to shove rocket ice into that mix introduces double meanings, ...
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Identify-this-object tag potentially misapplied? Should it be slightly broadened in scope?
It was called to my attention in since-deleted comments below this answer that I might have mis-applied the identify-this-object tag a few times.
Current definition:
Questions which ask for an ...
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Merge [dust] and [regolith]
It seems to me that dust and regolith are p̶e̶r̶f̶e̶c̶t̶
̶ more or less synonyms (for the purpose of this site). I suggest we merge and synonymize. What do you think? ("Yes" answers should specify ...
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Do we need the ORBITAL tag?
I think almost all (if not all) of the 18 instances of the orbital tag could be replaced with orbital-mechanics or just be removed. There's only one question where it is the only tag currently present....
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Three-body versus CR3BP tags; combine them?
The three-body tag (5 questions) has the best name, but the tag info is written like a full tag Wiki rather than an excerpt. I think it can be shortened.
The cr3bp tag (7 questions) has an admittedly ...
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Do we need both “scope” and “off-topic” tags on meta?
I've noticed we have both scope and off-topic tagged questions in meta.space.se. Do we really need both of them? I prefer the scope tag, and I think we could make ...
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Can we have a [pollution] tag?
I asked a question about jettisoned rocket parts residing in the ocean, and tagged it with waste, but this tag was removed in an edit, presumably because most other instances of this tag relate waste ...
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Synonym [astronauts] and [astronaut]
astronauts is the more used of the two. astronaut has only 5 questions.
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Can we get a tag for the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation?
I just edited the tags of this question. I'm surprised we don't have a tag for the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation. Shouldn't we have one?
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I don't understand why - by design - “ion-thruster” tag remains hidden when I start typing “ion…”
I wanted to see if there was an ion-thruster or ion-propulsion tag when I was writing this question. When I started typing ...
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Should we have separate tags for the Soyuz launcher and the Soyuz spacecraft?
Right now, the soyuz tag refers specifically to "questions regarding the Soyuz manned spacecraft"; it doesn't include questions about the Soyuz launcher. Should we create separate tags for the Soyuz ...
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Clarify celestial-mechanics tag
The celestial-mechanics tag implies that planetary orbital mechanics are on-topic for space.SE. I would like to edit the description of the tag to clarify that it is intended for spacecraft only. ...
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We have two tags for the Quest Joint Airlock
quest and quest-joint-airlock both refer to the Quest Joint Airlock. How should we handle these synonyms?
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What is the [shuttle-shuttle] tag for?
Title pretty much says it all.
What is the [shuttle-shuttle] tag for? How is it different from space-shuttle?
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Should we have an [up-goer-five] tag?
A recent question included the following line:
Note that this question was translated into English by my father, who is the one typing it. I'm eight years old and I don't use SE unsupervised.
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Is it Starman or is it the Roadster?
After the test flight of the Falcon Heavy, we've gotten a flood of questions related to its wonderfully quirky payload. Before the launch, this payload was known as 'the Roadster', and we created a ...
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What should distinguish [tag:health] and [tag:medical]?
Currently each tag only has one question (and neither tag has a wiki summary).
For health the question was Would wearing heavy clothing be enough to solve the health effects of reduced gravity on ...
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Should we disallow the Exploration tag?
Should we disallow the exploration tag? I don't think it's going to be very useful, since theoretically this entire Stack Exchange site is about Space Exploration.
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Tags: space-law vs. international-law
I've started on the tagging, and I've already noticed two related tags: space-law and international-law. The few questions I've noticed could be tagged with either, as far as I can tell.
Are we ...
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can we do away with the 'trajectories' tag and just keep 'trajectory'?
According to this answer there can be issues when there are two tags which are singular and plural form of the same term.
However it seems we have both trajectory and trajectories.
It looks like the ...
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Do we need the [technology] tag?
I just noticed we have a technology tag. It's excerpt states this:
Questions relating to the use of technology to further space exploration.
I'm wondering what the community's opinion is on this ...
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Rename the [bfr] tag
We've have the enigmatic spacex project that was tentatively called the BFR, or Big F[alcon] Rocket. Elon Musk likes to shoot from the hip and the F means something else. Unsurprisingly, they didn't ...
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Is thre a difference between the tags [sun] and [the-sun]?
What is the difference (if any) between the tags sun and the-sun?
Should they be merged, or do they refer to different topics?
Note that there is currently zero overlap between the two tags; no ...
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Rename [lunar-module] to [apollo-lunar-module]
While a viable lunar mission might be some years off still, I've noted that the existing lunar-module tag is geared towards Apollo exclusively.
The Lunar Module was part of the Apollo program ...
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Synonym [accident] to [failure]
I ran across accident today. It has 23 questions and no excerpt or wiki. But we already have failure (87 questions, 1 overlap), which is already the synonym for [launch-failure], [failed-mission] and [...
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Best use of the 'separation' and 'stage-separation' tags
separation 11 questions
stage-separation 14 questions
both tags: no questions at the moment
The meaning of stage-separation is probably straightforward, but what ...
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Can we merge [falcon9-r] into [falcon-9]?
There's currently both a falcon-9 and a falcon9-r tag. As far as I can see, falcon-9 is the generic tag for the Falcon 9 rocket, and falcon9-r is specifically for the reusable version (and was ...
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Defining requirements for hypothetical-invention questions
The idea of a hypothetical-invention tag seems to be gaining mild acceptance:
https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1167/58
If we're going to have this tag, we should probably first establish what ...
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Role of country tags
The russia and china tags are used on 63 questions and 20 questions respectively. I've asked two questions that seem to be about the US space program and government positions, so I've created united-...
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How did my question become untagged?
I just received a notification of a suggested edit https://space.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/16868 which would change my question from the untagged tag to an actual tag.
I'm just curious ...
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Does the astro-biology tag apply to all life in space, ever?
@Conelisinspace shouldn't the astrobiology tag be for non terrestrial
native life forms? I don't think it applies to tardigrades any more
than it does to to mold, plants, mice, or people on the ...
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When are questions regarding Python on topic here?
I only realized we have a python tag the other day when someone added the tag to several questions containing Python code, and then someone else disputed the validity of the tag. But now we have 17 ...
