tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (Is the tag "path-connected" a good one?) Sun, 04 Nov 2018 23:20:04 -0800 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.9 & Feed Publisher Pete L. Clark comments on "Is the tag "path-connected" a good one?" (5450) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5450#Comment_5450 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5450#Comment_5450 Fri, 07 May 2010 11:24:46 -0700 Pete L. Clark Anton Geraschenko comments on "Is the tag "path-connected" a good one?" (5432) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5432#Comment_5432 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5432#Comment_5432 Fri, 07 May 2010 00:17:51 -0700 Anton Geraschenko I also agree with Qiaochu. Even if you were really interested in path connected spaces, searching for the tag wouldn't be the right way to do it since almost nobody will use the tag, even if their question has to do with path connected spaces.

Related: It's pretty common that tags get duplicated. If you notice that happening, please retag or flag for moderator attention ... something like "[rt-representation-theory] should be merged into [rt.representation-theory]". @10k+ rep users: You can view newly created tags with this tool.

]]> Andrew Stacey comments on "Is the tag "path-connected" a good one?" (5427) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5427#Comment_5427 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5427#Comment_5427 Thu, 06 May 2010 23:22:06 -0700 Andrew Stacey I agree with Qiaochu. "Path-connected" is so restrictive that if a question involves path-connectedness then the questioner is going to put it in the question.

]]> Qiaochu Yuan comments on "Is the tag "path-connected" a good one?" (5409) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5409#Comment_5409 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5409#Comment_5409 Thu, 06 May 2010 15:32:23 -0700 Qiaochu Yuan If someone is really interested in path-connected spaces, they can search for the phrase "path-connected." Admittedly this gives a few somewhat irrelevant questions, but I think tags should be for important keywords that you wouldn't otherwise say in the text of a question, e.g. no one asking about Dirichlet's theorem would say "this is a question about analytic number theory" in the body.

]]> Pete L. Clark comments on "Is the tag "path-connected" a good one?" (5408) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5408#Comment_5408 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5408#Comment_5408 Thu, 06 May 2010 15:22:13 -0700 Pete L. Clark
I'm not sure it's worth taking action against this. ]]> Harry Gindi comments on "Is the tag "path-connected" a good one?" (5407) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5407#Comment_5407 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5407#Comment_5407 Thu, 06 May 2010 15:12:19 -0700 Harry Gindi Qiaochu Yuan comments on "Is the tag "path-connected" a good one?" (5395) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5395#Comment_5395 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/390/is-the-tag-pathconnected-a-good-one/?Focus=5395#Comment_5395 Thu, 06 May 2010 13:41:19 -0700 Qiaochu Yuan Through retagging a question which was recently closed, I learned that there are currently four questions tagged "path-connected." Three of them are about path-connected graphs and the last is about path-connected topological spaces. This seems like too specific of a tag to me, but I don't feel comfortable taking unilateral action against it, so I'm curious what other people think.

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