Questions tagged [tags]
The tags tag has no usage guidance.
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What is a good tag for quantum money, ala Wiesner?
It's been proposed that [cryptocurrency] is a good tag for discussions about Wiesner's protocol and other quantum monies. I'm OK with it, but I'm wondering if there would be something better?
The ...
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Should we get rid of the quantum-information tag?
As of now, quantum-information is one of the most popular tags, with 351 questions and counting.
Thing is, I don't quite understand what is it for. Or rather, what is it not for.
The whole site is ...
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Should we entertain career advice questions and have a [career-advice] tag?
This question seems pretty opinion based to me, however, I was a bit hesitant to close it initially (since it was well-framed). @NorbertSchuch mentioned that we might create a ...
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Creation of debugging tag
There are quite a few questions of Quantum Computing Stack Exchange which are often new user's asking help with Q# or Qiskit ...
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Creation of textbook-and-exercises tag
Following the apparent consensus in the previous discussion about an "homework-like" tag, and the lack of objections there, I went ahead and created textbook-and-exercises.
I tagged a few questions ...
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Would it be useful to have a tag for exercise problems and questions about standard textbook material?
Would it be useful to have a tag for exercise problems and questions about standard textbook material, or other educational material, like online courses and the like?
The idea would be to use them ...
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Creation of an 'openfermion' tag
Could somebody please create an 'openfermion' tag?
I don't have the required reputation.
It's how the Github for the project asks people to ask questions but when I tried it didn't exist.
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Rename tag ibm-q-experience to ibm-quantum-experience
The tag ibm-q-experience has been used to associate questions with IBM's quantum processors which are accessible online, as well as usage of these devices through ...
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How to remove a tag/retag?
We had quite a few requests to remove tags/retag:
Tags that start with quantum - ideas?
Should the [quantum-computing-models] tag be used in this question?
Please rename [tag:error-correction] to [...
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The tags [simulations] and [quantum-simulations] - should they be merged?
quantum-simulation has only one question and no description, but the question would fit with simulation which has a description and many questions. Should quantum-simulation be marked a synonym of ...
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Should there be a <community> tag?
As something slightly different from the "resources" tag, would it be adequate to introduce a tag for questions on community members? E.g. asking for a conference that deals with particular aspects of ...
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Should we have an [off-topic] Tag - for after we've decided upon Migration/Deletion/etc.?
On meta.SE they have this Tag:
off-topic
This tag is for questions regarding off topic questions, including whether a question is on topic and what to do with off topic questions.
Wouldn't that be ...
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Tags that start with quantum - ideas?
Unsure if now is the right time for it, but might as well bring it up.
What is the take on tags that begin with quantum-thing?
Personally, I find that such tags, on a Quantum computing site is ...
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Should the [quantum-computing-models] tag be used in this question?
I noticed that in this question the OP reverted back to putting in the quantum-computing-models, after I edited it out.
As far as I understand it is for questions regarding different "theoretical ...
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Should we micromanage tags, or should we leave them be? [duplicate]
A common (well, twice, at least. I will become common if nothing is done) occurrence on new questions is the following:
@blue removes some tags
I ask why those tags are removed and @blue puts some (...
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Is there a mistake in the name of the [qudit] tag?
I found a tag named qudit that was tagged in this question.
I highly suspect this might be a spelling mistake for qubit, since the question is also tagged with qubit, and no other question has this ...
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Tag excerpts do not fit on tags page
On the tags page, in some long enough tag excerpts, the text overflows a bit:
Edit: this also applies to some meta site tags.
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Do we need [error-correction] of the [fault-tolerance]?
I am wondering whether the tags error-correction and fault-tolerance can/should be merged. They seem to relate to the same topic: prevention/correction of errors.
What is your opinion towards merging ...
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Is meta-physics a good tag?
I don't believe the tag meta-physics is a good one for this site. Firstly, such questions generally are more philosophy based, and thus don't really belong here, so having this tag seems to encourage ...
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Should the tags 'qubit-state' and 'qubit' be merged?
There are quite few tags with the qubit-state and qubit. Are these fundamentally different? Should the tags 'qubit-state' and 'qubit' be merged?
If not, why are these things different? We should ...
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Should people reject edits on a thing, because they don't like the thing?
Recently, I've noticed that some (higher rep) users did some 'silent removal edits' and some tag usage rejections.
When I asked for the motivation for the tag excerpt edit, it was that the reviewer ...
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Why is there a <quantum-computer> tag?
Really, that tag should be gotten rid of.
At least, it should be renamed. Why would anyone not choose a tag named "Quantum Computer" in "Quantum Computing" forum?
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Writing the tag wikis and excerpts
we have already created a lot of tags and there are also a lot of meta-tags. Most of them have no excerpt/wiki yet.
I am proposing that we have a central list of tags that have no proposed excerpt/...
