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1:17 AM
@AloizioMacedo (1) I proposed a tag-wiki entry for a tag, and this was meant to include some generalizations of the gradient, e.g., to functional analysis, but this could certainly be narrowed. (In fact my original intended scope for was just the vector calculus gradient and its generalization to Riemannian geometry, but some other users' comments convinced me to broaden it.)
@AloizioMacedo (3) Yes, in practice these three operators are usually discussed together, but moreover---and unlike, e.g., determinant-trace-rank---they are a canonical trio (at least in dimension 3, which is the setting where one usually first does vector calculus); see my earlier comment supporting the particular order of the operator names in the proposed tag for a short explanation of this.
(The trace and determinant are part of a canonical family: One could analogously subsume the trace and determinant in a hypothetical , but that change would make the tag unrecognizable to people first learning about those operators.)
 
 
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7:00 AM
I will just add that even if is crated, a typical question about gradient will still have tag in addition to this tag.
Considering that some doubts have been raised (and that the answer has been edited a few times), I will ask this again:
2 days ago, by Martin Sleziak
There is no reasonable way of distingushing whether the upvotes count for the most recent suggestion or the upvoter agreed with the previous one but wouldn't agree with the new one.
2 days ago, by Martin Sleziak
Would making a new question about this tag be a better option?
2 days ago, by Alexander Gruber
My view is we're pretty much ready to implement the change, I don't think a meta post is necessary, but if someone writes one I'll wait for the upvotes before making the synonyms.
2 days ago, by Alexander Gruber
Though if someone would like to write one in order to recruit people to help move over grad questions from vector-analysis, I've no problem with that
Maybe the new question would end up with no feedback from the community, maybe it would get some attention.
It is true that it often happens tag related issue do not attention from the users of this site.
And I also understand that in some situations somebody has to make a decision (typically the mods) - if it's unlikely that some reasonable consensus will be achieved on meta.
As a side note: If compared with MathOverflow, on this site the tag-related issues are typically discussed on meta, on MO changes to tags are most often done without any previous discussion. (Of course, the way it's done on MO also has it's advantages. If things are discussed on meta first, that usually slows down any changes to tag system.)
 
 
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1:16 PM
A new tag was created by Trevor.
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Q: Why not more polymath project knockoffs?

TrevorMaybe this should be in meta? I'm not clear. Seems highly relevant in any case, but refile or delete if I've erred again. The polymath projects have been running for many years now. I have not been involved in any way, but I hear about them here and there from time to time and in news and blogs ...

 
 
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5:59 PM
The analysis tag seems too broad and not very useful for me.
 
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Has anyone seen any discussion about that before?
 
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One related question I found on meta is this:
 
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Q: How should the "analysis" tag be used?

Kaj HansenIn my mind, ideally, there should be a fairly consistent "etiquette", if you will, for choosing tags wherein any two people asking the same question are likely to pick the same tags for that question. With this in mind: What is the appropriate use of the analysis tag? This tag's description...

 
@Jack It is explicitly mentioned in the tag-info: "Consider a more specific tag instead: (real-analysis), (complex-analysis), (functional-analysis), (fourier-analysis), (measure-theory), (calculus-of-variations), etc. "
However, I am not sure whether complete removal would be useful/feasible.
Yes, there was something on meta. (Possibly even several discussions.) I can see that you find some post yourself.
If you look at the posts linked there you can see some other posts: Why is the tag (analysis) useful? and Should the (analysis) tag be deprecated?.
 
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@MartinSleziak the only one answer there says "it should never be used". Maybe it is useful for people who are not very sure which field in analysis his/her post belongs to.
 
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6:03 PM
"Terminology varies by country" as mentioned in this answer: math.meta.stackexchange.com/a/15208/9464
 
Here are the questions on meta which contain [tag:analysis]: math.meta.stackexchange.com/…
Conversation about (analysis) tag in this room from 2012: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3740/conversation/analysis-tag
 
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@MartinSleziak format like url:/questions/tagged/analysis seems to be very good way to search on the site.
 
You can see that (analysis) has been occasionally mentioned in this room: chat.stackexchange.com/…
Asaf Karagila mentioned (analysis) as an example when he asked this question: Can we please have a “deprecated tag” feature? But I do not know whether he planned to do something further with that.
I guess this might be more-or-less all I can say about . (Although it look like a terrible linkfest.)
 
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6:51 PM
@MartinSleziak Thanks for that.
 
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\analysis
 
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6:54 PM
@MartinSleziak How did you type the tag analysis in chat? I believe I have seen somewhere before but I can't find it on meta.
 
@Jack Do you mean this: ?
 
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@MartinSleziak yes!
 
It is the same in chat as in the posts.
You can use [tag:analysis] to get and [meta-tag:suggested-edits] to get .
 
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BTW you could have simply checked the source of my message to see that: chat.stackexchange.com/messages/52837526/history
 
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7:01 PM
@MartinSleziak Thanks! I only know that one can use ```` around the word.
 
That might be useful also when you see something else in chat and you are curious how it was typeset in that message: How to view/copy source of a message in chat?
 

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