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Marvin

00:46

Q: a manga about boy has extraordinary born in noble family that defend the border cuntry and his mother she is the head of that family

this boy did not get recognized by his mother who is the head of the family and she did not know that he has an extraordinary sword skill and always she compare him to his younger sister , and then his sister was full of her self she propose to fight him and he won against her

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Marvin

02:11

Q: 80's/90's anime about a mecha made out of bones

I need help finding a mecha anime that I have stuck in my head. I saw a clip of it on Instagram reels about 2-3 months ago and it refreshed before I could share or hit like and I was very interested in it. It has a mecha that seems to be made out of bones and I think meat? (I could be wrong.) Wha...

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Marvin

08:20

Q: Cartoon - stone creatures live with a woman who is possibly a wizard

I'm looking for an old cartoon. I was very little when I watched it (early 2000's), so I pretty much don't remember anything about it. The only things I can recall is that there were these stone creatures (like gargoyles) who lived in a tower or a house with this old lady and I think she was a wi...

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Feeds

09:18

Darths & Droids: Episode 2489: Ticking Away the Moments

posted on July 09, 2024

fez

09:41

@b_jonas I'm editing to align with our site policy. If a question pops up that is tagged with an author tag incorrectly, I'll remove it and replace it with a more applicable tag (if possible). I'm not sure why it's an issue, really. The questions are about the novels and not the authors, and so the tag should be for what the question is about not just what it contains.

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Slartibartfast

12:55

Q: Is the game Settlers of Catan on-topic?

I recently saw the question How big is the sun (in the world of Catan)? which plays into something I long believed: that Catan was another world. That would make the game SFF-nal. But Wikipedia says something different (emphasis mine) The players in the game represent settlers establishing settl...

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Marvin

13:15

Q: Manga which involved knights, the Catholic Church, and people with powers

I read this manga years ago (10 years or so) and I don't remember much, but I hope to find it. I remember it had knights; the church was involved too, so I suppose it takes place during the medieval period. Certain people had powers and one that I remember particularly was a girl (I believe) who ...

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Cereal Bot

13:54

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Forecast

posted on July 09, 2024 by Zach Weinersmith

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: That's the official International Sign system imagine for in-the-butt. Today's News:

DavidW

14:08

@b_jonas No, and it's not wrong if someone else comes along and removes them either.

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b_jonas

18:02

@fez Thank you for the info. My problem is that if you removed the robert-heinlein tags from every question then it would be hard to search for all the Heinlein questions. This isn't a problem for my two questions, which do at least have "Heinlein" in the body, but some other questions don't. Even if the questions are about a specific novel, those novels are related.

Lazarus Long appears as the protagonist in Methuselah's children, Time enough for love, and then these are connected somehow to Number of the Beast and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and more. The red-headed girl from The Moon is a harsh mistress reappears in Rolling stones. I don't know all the connections, I only read like three of these books.

There is no big problem yet, because most of the questions currently have the robert-a-heinlein tag, and many of these novels have very few questions, but it could be a problem.

The same problem doesn't occur with J. K. Rowling, because there's a franchise tag harry-potter that covers the questions in all the novels, supplementary works, and even Cursed Child and the more recent movies. If you search for that one tag you find practically all questions about J. K. Rowling's books, and all that are connected to Harry Potter books.

Similarly there's not much problem with Tolkien, because most of his works are covered by the tolkiens-legendarium tag, though there are a few exceptions like scifi.stackexchange.com/q/121663/4918 .

Also it makes sense to not have an author tag for most of the tolkiens-legendarium and harry-potter questions, because those are big tags that people know to search for, and the questions often hit the five tag limit.

Whereas for Robert Heinlein, scifi.stackexchange.com/q/273876/4918 does not say "Heinlein" in the body and does not have the tag, so it's hard to find in a search. It's hard to search for the titles of all the Heinlein novels and short stories at the same time, we have questions about like a dozen. Should I edit the body to say "Robert Heinlein" before the book title? I think I should.

And I linked three other questions that could have the same problem if you removed the robert-a-heinlein tag.

fez

18:56

@b_jonas I 100% get where you're coming from. If the novels are related through some shared universe (in whatever way), then an encompassing franchise tag makes sense, and should be added to all questions that need it (what that would be I have no clue!). Funnily enough the tolkiens-legendarium tag came about because there were questions being tagged with [tolkien] author tag

Ideally each tag wiki would contain all the links to the related work and author tags. So one would only need to visit the wiki for the the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress tag in order to discover questions not only about the author specifically, but all other related media.

b_jonas

@fez It's not like all the Heinlein novels are related, there are mutliple groups of novels, and some standalone stuff.

Marvin

19:28

Q: Fantasy book about a woman without magic who is summoned to royal court when her sister dies

As ironic as this is, I work at a bookstore and can't remember the name of this book or its author. I'm looking for a fantasy book set in a world where people have magic. The protagonist is a woman who is without magic, and haply about it, and then her magical sister dies, which upsets her power ...

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fez

@b_jonas I know they're not all related, but the ones that are could and should have a tag to categorise them as such

DavidW

19:54

@b_jonas What's the use-case that would require finding The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Job with the same query?

@b_jonas So what you're really agitating for is a series tag for Heinlein's "Future History," not a global author tag.

@b_jonas No, you should not.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a standalone work, so it shouldn't be mistagged with anything else.

@b_jonas Then they shouldn't all have the same tag. I'm really not getting the use-case here.

DavidW

20:14

Hold on. Wait. The future-history tag already exists; we can slap it on any question in that universe that lacks it, and just use the author tag as intended.

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Marvin

22:25

Q: What are the criteria that the Wise use for deciding that a new Age has begun?

Details taken from the Tolkien Gateway The First Age ended with Morgoth's overthrow - a truly epic event which seems appropriate. The Second Age did not end with the sinking of Númenor, and the reshaping of the Earth from a flat one where Valinor could be reached by sailing the sea to a round one...