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Martin Sleziak

7:31 AM

BTW shouldn't the tags search and searching on meta be synonyms?

The tag search is one of the default tags, so it will remain on the site even if it has no questions.

I have mentioned this here in chat some time ago: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/10243/2016/10/2

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Martin Sleziak

7:24 PM

specific-question What would be good tags for: Diplomacy when reporting errors? Maybe advice and publishing are the first ones that skip to mind.

Q: Diplomacy when reporting errors

I am a young researcher and sometimes I face an uncomfortable situation : I find an error in a research paper! Of course, most of the time, it is all just my misunderstanding but it happens that after checking tens of times, there is indeed an error and therefore I am not sure what I should do. ...

soft-question

Speaking of publishing related tags:

Apr 21 at 21:24, by Martin Sleziak

BTW I see there is a synonym publishing $\to$ journals. Wouldn't the other direction be more logical? I mean, with (journals) as the master tag.

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Martin Sleziak

9:29 PM

specific-question I have removed the deprecated abstract-algebra tag from the recent question Closing Subsets Under Operations. Since I am not sure whether my choice of tags was really optimal, I'd be grateful if somebody more experienced has a look.

Q: Closing Subsets Under Operations

My question is about closing sets under operations. First, I need a definition: Definition: Let $A$ be a set and take a function $f : A^n \rightarrow A$ for $n \in \mathbb{N}_{\geq 0}$. For a set $S$, we define the closure of $S$ under $f$, $c_f (S)$, inductively as follows: define $S_0 = S$. Fo...