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How should we tidy up the halal/haram family of tags?
When someone asks an "is X halal?" question, it is tagged with some almost-random subset of the following thirteen tags:
halal (99 questions 1), haram (191 0), halal-haram (609), haram-halal (18 0), ...
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Removing some tags
Going through tags, I noticed there are some tags that don't make much sense.
I think we should list them here so that we can avoid using them and they'll be automatically deleted. I'll post a ...
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When to use haram and halal-haram tags?
I saw this question that contains haram tag which I replaced with halal-haram
Is it haram to hang up a picture of Manchester City badge?
Why do we have two tags?
Should we keep them ?
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List of tag synonyms and tags to be burninated or removed [closed]
We'll need to merge tags/clean up. In the answer below is a list of tags that need to be turned into synonyms.
Concerning which tag should be made 'dominant', this answer says:
The practice on ...
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Some micro-steps to improve tags (early 2017)
Update: I'll retire this thread now, and start a clean one: Some micro-steps to improve tags (mid 2017)
Here's a list of steps to improve tag quality; I'm planning on doing these in increments so as ...
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What is the "shia-sunni" tag for? Do we even need it?
Currently, we have a shia-sunni tag (16th most popular on the site), but it's not very clear what this tag is for, or why we would need it. The tag wiki simply explains what the Shi'a and the Sunni ...
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Compound tags: Do we need them?
I make the following definition: compound tags are tags of the form x-y where both tags x and y are already in use.
Using a data explorer query to generate a list of tags, and searching for those ...
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Which questions should be tagged "sharia" and/or "fiqh"?
We currently have tags sharia and fiqh which are used unpredictably.
Question: Which questions should be tagged "sharia" and/or "fiqh"?
The tag wiki excerpts just define what "sharia" and "fiqh" ...
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Can we kill off the tags "clarification", "meaning", "islam-for-beginners", and "advice-request"?
Can we kill off the following tags?
clarification (28 Q's) Gone.
Googling site:stackexchange.com "clarification tag" yields no StackExchange sites where this tag has been beneficial. It appears to ...
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What's the best way to reorganize the "kufr", "kuffar", "non-muslim" and "unbeliever" tags?
These tags are closely related:
unbeliever (9 Q's now 0 Q's)
non-muslim (138 Q's)
This tag is for questions about Islamic guidelines for relations with people who are not Muslim.
kuffar (12 Q's) ...
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Should "arabic-translation" be a synonym of "arabic"?
We currently have two tags:
arabic (150 154 Q's)
arabic-translation (28 32 Q's)
Question: Should "arabic-translation" be a synonym of "arabic"?
I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be a synonym. ...
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Let's make "charity" a synonym of "sadaqah"?
Currently, we have a "tag triangle": charity sadaqah zakat. This was raised in 2012 here: List of tag synonyms and tags to be burninated or removed
In this situation, we have:
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Can we zap the "muslim" tag now?
In response to this question Why do we need a "muslim" tag?, I proposed we get rid of the muslim tag. The answer score is currently +3, and I've been editing questions in preparation for ...
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Let's not have an "Is X halal?" tag?
Proposal: Let's not have an "Is X halal?" tag.
TL;DR: As a solution to the halal/haram family of tags problem, I (tentatively) propose we burninate/blacklist all of the tags: halal, haram, halal-...
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What to do about the "birth-control", "family-planning" and "contraception" tags?
There's these three tags:
birth-control and
family-planning (1 question)
Both used for: Family planning: Is it right in Islam? tagged sharia family birth-control family-planning
contraception (1 ...
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Why do we need a "muslim" tag?
Title says it all: We have a muslim tag, but I can't fathom any constructive use for it; might as well just add islam to everything while we're at it (don't do that).
What possible use does this have?...
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Ramadan and ramadhan tags should be merged
Is there a way to flag tags for merging? I don't really want to open up a meta question every time to request a tag merger.
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How to decide which halal/haram tag(s) to use
Summary: This has become my algorithm for (re)tagging halal/haram-related questions:
For questions about the haram-ness of X, use halal-haram (and the tags for X).
For questions about sins in ...
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Shouldn't these two tags [Aqeedah and Belief] be synonyms?
aqeedah and belief mean the same and they have the same types of questions.
I think belief should be made synonym to aqeedah.
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Plan of attack for tidying the halal/haram family of tags
While I'm not sure if we even need an "Is X halal?" tag, I'm confident that the number of tags with this meaning should be either 0 or 1.
Underlying goal:
Make the halal-haram tag the only "Is X ...
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About renaming and merging tags and tags in general
There are a lot of tags which I really don't understand or maybe would "re-name" or suggest to merge, one of those I would suggest to rename is:
comparative-madahib i think a better name would be ...
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Reference-needed or citation-needed or reference-request, which tag?
reference-needed, citation-needed and reference-request are synonymous to each other. All of them have at least 2 questions on the main site.
Meaning of tags: Reference from Qur'an, Hadith, and ...
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Can we make "shahadah" a synoynm of "shahada"?
Can we make shahadah (16) a synonym of shahada (3)?
As per the transliteration protocol: the Wikipedia page is shahada.
We might as well think about a suitable tag wiki excerpt at the same time. ...
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Tags "moses" and "musa" synonyms of "prophet-musa"?
I don't expect this will be remotely controversial, so I won't bother making this post too polished.
Can we make moses (6) musa (3) synonyms of prophet-musa (0)?
This is to match prophet-adam, ...
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What is the difference between tags islamic-rules, islamic-law and islamic-ruling?
At time of this writing:
islamic-rules× 427 Question relating to shariah or Islamic law, based on the teachings of the Qur'an and Sunnah.
islamic-law× 95 indicates that the question demands a ...
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Tag synonym and language differences
Recently I posted a question about marriage. I have added tag "marriage". Someone edited it and added tag "Nikah". But they mean the same thing (but different in language). (may be they are called tag ...
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Some micro-steps to improve tags (mid 2017)
This is a continuation from Some micro-steps to improve tags (early 2017). Here's a list of steps to improve tag quality; I'm planning on doing these in increments so as to not flood the home page, ...
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List of Arabic tags which don't match Wikipedia
Motivated by the recent post here, I went through the Arabic tags, and identified the following which do not match the Wikipedia page, as per the transliteration protocol.
I used a data explorer query ...
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How should the reference-request tag be used?
The reference-request tag (or whatever we end up calling it), as it currently seems to be used, is really rubbing me the wrong way.
As is, it is basically requesting that answers provide references ...
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How to deal with ambiguous tags?
Lately I found out that the tag make-up is used for "beauty purposes" and also for making up leeway or missed worships like prayer and fast.
My question is how to deal with such ambiguous tags (I ...
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Did you know you can ignore tags?
Some topics, while on-topic for the site, might not be suitable for all users. For example, at some point, you may not be keen on dream questions popping up in your feed. It's actually possible to ...
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Tags related to Halal-Haram should be merged
There are four tags related to the same topic. These are
halal-haram
halal
haram-halal...!!!
halal-consumer
I think this is a bad show of ill management and irresponsibility by him who has created ...
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