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For questions regarding the definition and use of tags on the main site.

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Descriptive term for oil in water or visa versa?

I've never heard the term chocolate-milk in this context - but mayonnaise for water in the oil is common here. I think that water-in-oil and oil-in-water are much clearer and cross-culture (especiall …
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Electrics tag needed?

Hmmm - we have three similar tags - electrics, electrical and electronics To my mind, electrics and electrical both describe tha main electrical system of the car - fuses, wiring etc, and one should probably …
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Precedent for creating new tags, specifically for Karting in this case

We do have the ability to create tag synonyms for these sorts of terms, but it does need some care with potentially ambiguous tags - e.g the term 'transmission' is used in the UK to refer to the entire …
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Do we need the 'car' tag?

As above - it seems fairly superfluous! Of course, that above sentence is too short... So I'll add this bit to make it pass the automated check...
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A tag for intermittent problems

It would appear that we didn't. We do now ;-) There's 300-odd questions with the word 'intermittent'. Perhaps a mass retag isn't such a good idea, a few at a time might be better...
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Why our 2 wheeled tags are described "wrong"?

Part of the problem is that such terms don't always have an 'official' definition - Wikipedia describes a 'moped' as: A moped (/ˈmoʊpɛd/ MOH-ped) is a type of small Motorcycle with bicycle pedals, …
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Disambiguate the Seat tag

I have added a seat-cars tag for the company, and added it to the ibiza and leon questions. I've also added a wiki to both that and the seat tag to clarify which is which...
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