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Synonymise [tsp] and [traveling-salesman]
I'd vote for traveling-salesman being the master and tsp being a synonym. Same for vehicle-routing (master) and vrp (synonym).
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Optimization vs Optimisation in tags
By convention tags should be in American spelling. So optimization is default, but you can add the synonym optimisation
See this page on the main Meta.SE: What should the standard spelling be - ...
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Optimization vs Optimisation in tags
I'd vote to follow Google and the consensus elsewhere (i.e., US for tags; free-for-all elsewhere).
An open question is queueing vs. queuing though :) Perhaps we can let the first asker decide.
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What should our tags look like?
I suggest that for types of optimization problems, we use the full name, and the most common one; so: linear-programming, integer-programming, mixed-integer-programming, etc.
~~Also, "program", not "...
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Should tags be singular or plural?
I would prefer the plural
This is also the way Wikipedia lists categories. For example, looking up heuristic reveals the categories: heuristics, problem solving methods.
While it is no big deal, ...
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Synonymise [lp] and [linear-programming]
I believe linear-programming should be the master. It is more intuitive, self-explanatory, and easy to read. lp can be a synonym.
It seems that folks prefer linear-programming to linear-program, so I ...
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What is the Soft Question tag?
If you are using tags as designed, there should be no soft-question tag.
Please edit it out when you see it. It's one of those "meta tags" that appears from time ...
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"problem" in tags
A quick search on Stack Overflow shows that questions about classical problems are tagged like traveling-salesman, vehicle-routing, shortest-path, etc. In order to keep it consistent, I think it's ...
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Should we have a custom tag for questions deviating from SE norms?
I vote for “subjective”, with “discussion” my second choice.
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What is the "People" tag?
I interpret that tag to refer to questions about to people related to OR. Presumably in the future it could be used to tag questions related to figures in the history of OR, questions about who first ...
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Synonymise [mixed-integer-programming] and [milp]
I think mixed-integer-programming should be the master, for similar reasons as I mentioned for [linear-programming] here.
I also think that both mip and milp should be synonyms.
There might be some ...
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Rename [logicaal-constraints] to [logical-constraints]
It seems that only one question was tagged such; someone suggested an edit which manually removed the wrong tag and added the correct one. The tag with the typo will be automatically removed (in at ...
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What is the Soft Question tag?
I agree that it gives that connotation, and that that's a bad thing. There may be some value in categorizing them somehow though. Of the questions that currently have that tag, many are about the ...
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How can we clear the backlog of tag usage guidance and wiki edits?
Unfortunately there's not much that can be done until we have more users with 750 reputation (the approve tag wiki edits privilege). It takes 2 users to approve tag wiki edits, and other than the ...
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How can we clear the backlog of tag usage guidance and wiki edits?
As users continue to gain reputation to perform these tasks, the pro tem moderator team will be either appointed or elected in the upcoming weeks. In the meantime, I can generally resolve issues that ...
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Optimization vs Optimisation in tags
If I am not wrong, in the UK (also Australia afaik) OR is called Operational Research. So I guess if the community is named as Operations Research, we should follow American English, right?
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Should we have a custom tag for questions deviating from SE norms?
If we use tags, we are not limited to one, although I think too many would invite confusion. My preferences are to allow such questions within reason (so not option 1) and to tag the appropriate ones (...
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Blocklist [operations-research] tag
Blocklist operations-research
It is irrelevant on this site.
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Blocklist [operations-research] tag
I've added this to the site's blocklist. [or] was added as an intrinsic tag as Andrew T mentioned, but [operations-research] was overlooked. Thanks for the request!
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Retire unused tags?
We can just remove the tags from the questions: whether those that have been created by mistake (like optimi) or tags that don't add much value (like ...
EhsanKMod
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Tagging questions related to Python-based packages
I generally agree with this proposal, and it goes to show that tag curation is often somewhat inconsistent.
In particular to your question, retagging questions related to Python-based modelling ...
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What is the Soft Question tag?
Let me first answer the question in the title: The soft-question tag is used on some SE sites (most notably math.se and mathoverflow) and on OR-exchange to indicate that the question is not about the ...
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What should our tags look like?
I think very short tags such as lp or sp should be turned into their full names, as they could be misinterpreted for another tag with the same starting letters, as the number of tags increases. ...
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Should tags be singular or plural?
Previously we had a problem with tags that differed by only a hyphen, but that problem was coded away. With singular vs. plural it's more difficult to code a solution, so it's important to create the ...
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