Questions tagged [title]
What is allowable or desirable in question titles.
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"Title cannot contain" oddities: Why is the term "Android app" not allowed in a title? [duplicate]
I came across a question with the title "Connecting Android Studio to Spotify API", which is total nonsense, as you don't connect Android Studio to Spotify API, but the Android app you ...
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What words are banned in titles?
I was doing an edit for a question and was about to save when I got the error
Title cannot contain 'xxx'
I tried to find an official list, and came across a couple of meta questions, but none of ...
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Can Stack Overflow have ChatGPT automatically generate the question titles (at least for lower-ranked members)? [duplicate]
People asking questions are frequently terrible at choosing a title for their question. I think it might be an improvement to have members below a certain reputation required to use a ChatGPT-...
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Does this edit change the meaning of the question?
This question originally had the title:
Keyboard shortcut suggestions in VScode
User @starball posted an answer, then changed the title to:
I want to learn VS Code keyboard shortcuts. How can I get ...
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Can we remove the "temporary" classification from the Generative AI ban post?
Regarding, Temporary policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned, is there really a future where we will be okay with ChatGPT or any other AI answers?
If we reach a point where AI answers are so ...
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Conclusions from title-drafting and question-content assistance experiments conducted by Stack Exchange
We’d like to share some results from our experimentation with two earlier releases: the first, a tool to generate titles for your post, and the second, a tool to help users format their questions’ ...
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How should I handle a question with a non-English title?
There's the following flag:
Not written in English
Use this close reason if the question is not written in English. Do
not use this close reason for questions that are primarily written in
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Stack Overflow will be testing a title-drafting assistant, and we’d like your involvement
June 7th 2023 -- The experiment has now concluded, and the title drafting assistant is no longer enabled on Stack Overflow. We will update you soon with the results of the experiment. Thanks all for ...
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Please float some less broken canonical titles for this post
There was an established canonical that deals with floating point arithmetic with the catchy title "Is floating point math broken?".
The "was" used because now the title is "...
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Why does the URL for questions on Teams not include the title slug? [closed]
I just noticed that the URL for questions on Teams doesn't include the title slug, unlike on the public Q&A platform, e.g.: https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/{TEAM_SLUG}/questions/{QUESTION_ID}.
I ...
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Should the string 'noob' be added to the blacklist for question titles?
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There appear to be quite some not descriptive question titles that boil down to [program language]-noob here..., noob-question why does y do y? (See for yourself.)
The actual questions might ...
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Unable to edit question without also editing the question title
When I attempt to edit the body of this question of another user in order to fix the formatting, I get the following error message:
Title cannot contain "troubleshoot in implement tokens in my C&...
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I found some newly posted questions with duplicate titles. Is this a bug?
I just saw at least two new posts with a title that matches two existing canonical duplicates:
What is a NullPointerException, and how do I fix it? (duplicating What is a NullPointerException, and ...
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Why is there a limit to the number of characters in the title of a question?
Sometimes, I want to post a question on Stack Overflow and the error message will be the title of the question, but the error message is too long, more than 150 characters. Why is there a limit to the ...
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Is it good to add/keep words like "Error", "Uncaught TypeError", etc. in the title of the question?
A Stack Exchange rule is explicitly telling:
Avoid inserting tags into titles in any of the following formats:
[tag]: [question title]
But there are lots of questions which are using this pattern ...
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