Tagging - 2015-01-14

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7:35 AM

A: How to differentiate between (elementary-number-theory) and (number-theory)

How to differentiate between (elementary-number-theory) and (number-theory)? Wouldn't things be cleaner if we just ... didn't? Currently there are only three tags that have elementary in them: elementary-number-theory elementary-set-theory elementary-functions Having a distinction for e...

John suggests merging (elementary-number-theory) and (number-theory).

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7:47 AM

Q: Whats the use of tag “book-recommendation”?

I have seen people asking for book recommendations. But as it is opinion based it is removed. Then what is the use of the tag "book-recommendation" ?.

Martin Sleziak

8:09 AM

The way it is phrased at the moment, the above question seems a bit ambiguous.

You wrote: But as it is opinion based it is removed. Do you mean that the question itself is deleted or that this tag is removed from the question? — Martin Sleziak 1 min ago

No I came across 1-2 questions where people were asking about which book to read for a specific topic using this tag. Unknowingly i flagged them opinion based and they got removed — sasha 39 secs ago

From the last comment it seems that the OP wants to ask something along the lines: *Are question about book recommendation off-topic? (And, consequently, should they be removed from the site?)

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Martin Sleziak

9:15 AM

A: Whats the use of tag “book-recommendation”?

I'm not certain if the tag should be removed (and such questions declared off-topic), but I do feel that we need to work on quality control for these questions and answers. Compare our current laissez-faire attitude about "reference requests" to physics.SE's policy. So I don't think that referen...

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Martin Sleziak

11:03 AM

Personally I would not be very happy with the decision that questions about book recommendations should be off-topic. (I will probably ask a few such questions at some point.)

Of course, if there were some policy about standards for this type of questions, I would try to make my post in the required way.

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Martin Sleziak

12:43 PM

I was wondering whether (contests) would be a reasonable tag for this question, since it is basically about a contest, but published in a journal. And maybe bumping the post will make some user who were not here two years ago aware of this. — Martin Sleziak 4 hours ago

Q: Should we allow ongoing journal questions?

Recently, a question was asked. In an answer, it was explained that the question was a problem from the most recent Mathematics Magazine Problems section, and that the answerer was in fact the author of the problem. [I did look at MM's June issue, and there the problem is:] It's certa...