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A "tag wiki" is an editable page that briefly summarizes the topic of the tag and that may provide links to existing questions that are often useful to many people.

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What should I do with suggested edits to the wiki of bad tags?

Reject it with the reasoning that the tag doesn't even need to be here. If it's not clear that the tag is a meta-tag then bring it up here on meta to gauge its worthiness and relevance. You can stil …
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community-faq is a useless meta tag primarily serving the older users

There should be no reason to have and maintain community-faq as a living tag. Certainly not to continue pasting a boilerplate into questions themselves explaining the tag's usage. Yes, it spawned out …
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Is it okay to begin tag wiki excerpts with "for questions about..." or "a/an", or are such w...

Brevity is the issue here, and a style of writing or speaking that can differ between two, or even more, users. How wordy you want to be when it comes to the limited space and attention that displays …
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How long should tag wiki excerpts be?

Excerpts need to be as long as they need to be. Often, they're not needed at all as the tag is self-explanatory. If it needs to break two lines, then it's too long. It should be short, sweet and t …
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Banned for 3 days because of wiki tags - explain please

That warning means to not just approve any tag wiki edits that appear. If you grab one or two sentences from the proposed tag wiki suggestions they come up on Google pointing to other sites, verbatim …
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Alternatives and the campfire lists are better in the tag wiki, within reason

"Your home backup strategy" and "What is a good backup strategy for home?" are a non-constructive set of baubles with dangling opinions and suggestions on what one can do for backups. We already hav …
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Citing and Tag wiki

Tag wiki content should be cited just as you would if you were posting it as an answer. You'd quote a few sentences with a link back to the source. If you need to quote more than three sentences, tha …
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If there is no tag wiki for a tag yet, is it okay to copy the introduction from Wikipedia?

It is frowned upon and shouldn't be done. You should make the tag wiki applicable to how it's used and relates to Super User. Lifting direct from external sources rarely is relevant. But if the tag …
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Appeal tag wiki ban?

Just wait the seven (7) days before trying again. The timeout is to slow down users suggesting edits that may not be up to scratch and need of some refinement. In your tag wiki excerpts, while a sug …
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Can we please have better tag wiki excerpts?

For tags such as iphone and android then yes, the nature of the questions should be put in the excerpt. It's the chunk at the top of the page when users go looking over the questioned tagged as such. …
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Who is previewing tag wikis?

Either users with a reputation over 5000 or moderators can approve tag wikis. You did create the tag wiki body but apparently left the excerpt blank. Adding in the tag excerpt proper fills the landi …
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