Questions tagged [tag-synonyms]
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Why are there two tags about the "show" and "tell" advice?
I came across a question tagged both show-dont-tell and showing-telling. There is a tag wiki for the second but not the first. It says:
This tag should be used for questions about the [technique] of &...
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Do we need a [characterization] tag or redirect?
I was writing a question when I noticed there was no tag for characterization, only "characters", which seems to serve the same purpose. I was thinking this might be a bit confusing because &...
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Do we need three tags about voices?
We currently have three tags about voices: voice, passive-voice, and voice-choice. Here are the definitions:
voice: "This tag should be used for questions about the usage of a literary voice in your ...
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I don't understand tag synonyms
Okay, I don't get this at all. When I've seen synonyms elsewhere (even elsewhere here), they just point to the main tag. You can still choose to add the synonym to a question but it will show up as ...
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Do we need a mythology/folklore tag?
I'm looking at this new question
What are the components of a legend (in the sense of a tale, not a figure legend)?
and went to add a mythology tag, but we don't have one!
We also don't have ...
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Can kindle be a synonym of amazon?
We have two overlapping tags:
kindle (33 questions)
This tag should be used for questions related to publishing on
Amazon's Kindle, a tool to read E-Books.
This tag should be used for ...
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Documentation, api-documentation and software-documentation tags
I've stumbled on the software-documentation and api-documentation tags today, but funnily enough, there was no generic "documentation" tag that could gather all-documentation related issues.
So, i've ...
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Sorting out tags about pictures
So we've got:
illustrations — 29 questions — created Dec 14 '15, first asked Nov 21 '10
Worth a thousand words
Questions about using images in a work. How to find an illustrator,
how to ...
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Why is there a tag for [ellipsis]?
So we have a question asking about "ellipses." Which is the plural of ellipsis. Except it's not.
The post itself is kind of a non-sequitur, because the poster used the ellipsis tag and the plural ...
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What is the difference between [characters] and [character-development]?
After answering this question: Character is onscreen for three seconds
I took a look at the tags. characters and plot
I added character-development but realized I didn't know if I should delete ...
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POV and Grammatical Person tags
Should we turn the pov into a synonym of the grammatical-person tag? For the purposes of this site, I think they're more or less the same thing.
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Tags "openings" and "first-line": merge / synonyms?
The tags openings and first-line seem to cover roughly the same thing. "First line" is a sub-category than "openings", but it's not like the broader tag sees so much use that it needs to be subdivided ...
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What's the difference between [script] and [scriptwriting]?
Some time ago Έρικ Κωνσταντόπουλος (Erik the Outgolfer) mentioned the following in the chat:
I've noticed there are both script and scriptwriting, sometimes on the same question too!
Both tags ...
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Fiction vs Creative-Writing
We currently have two tags that describe basically the same thing: Fiction and Creative-Writing. Fiction is described as "a form of prose writing that deals with at least partly artificial or imagined ...
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"Fair-use" and "copyright" tags
We have four questions using the fair-use tag, and all of them are questions about fair use of a copyrighted work.
All fair-use questions are, by definition, going to be copyright questions. Is ...
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Tags "Erotica" and "Sex": Merge or synonyms?
Both erotica and sex seem to cover roughly the same domain of writing. Perhaps they should be merged or else be added as synonyms?
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Should the tag "Verse" be merged with "Poetry"?
A verse would come to mean a poetic composition, right? In that light we could perhaps merge verse and poetry?
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Should [tag:publishing] be a synonym of [tag:publication]
The tag publication and the tag publishing seems to be very close, and the questions tagged 'publication' can be tagged 'publishing' in my opinion. So I think they can be synonyms.
If they can't, ...
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Should [tag:methods] be a synonym of [tag:technique]
The tag methods does not have a wiki summary, but (based on the name and the first portion of the four questions so tagged) it seems likely it should be a synonym for technique (which tag is used by ...
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Should [character-development] be a synonym for [character]?
Do we need separate tags for character-development and plain ol' character? Can we define a simple, meaningful, and useful distinction between the two?
If not, I suggest we synonymize 'em up good.
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