Timeline for How to use redundant tags (eg microsoft-excel, excel-2007)
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 7:46 | comment | added | robinCTS | "how to improve them [tags] for past questions" - Even if there was complete consensus that the general tag should never be used with a version specific one (and the specific one was preferred), an edit that solely removes the general tag is the definitive example of an edit that "…does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are … completely superfluous …". The word "redundant" by very definition implies that the removal of the tag will have no effect! Nothing could be clearer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 2:00 | comment | added | fixer1234 | With certain topics like Excel, people tend to follow the general tag rather than every version tag, so there's value in including both the general tag and the specific version (but not tagging with every version). An additional tag for the OP's version is more important if that is an old version that might not support features or functions offered in solutions, or a new version that might enable a solution that wouldn't work in an old version. It also facilitates testing solutions for validation and diagnostics against the OP's version. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 1:59 | comment | added | Albin | Great, thanks. I should have used "redundant" in my search... sigh | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 1:50 | comment | added | fixer1234 | This kind of tagging guidance has been discussed a lot in the past. Here are some links to relevant discussion (and these links contain more links: meta.superuser.com/questions/12291/the-scope-of-the-windows-tag, meta.superuser.com/questions/9198/… | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 1:43 | comment | added | n8te | If I'm looking for an answer that has to work in my specific excel version which always hast been the case isn't the question/answer always version specific? - But are you really sure that potential answers won't help other versions of excel as well? Any time I go searching around about an excel issue, I never really care much if the link I click from the search result is specifically for my version of excel. Most issues aren't version-specific. Maybe the details of the answers will change slightly depending on version, but you can still usually get what you need from the answer regardless. | |
| Jul 22, 2018 at 21:38 | history | asked | Albin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |