Questions tagged [titles]
This tag is for issues of what is allowable or desirable in question titles.
28 questions
5 votes
2 answers
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Should Code Review improve the new-question Title hint?
I would like to suggest a UX improvement for new users, so they're less likely to encounter edits / pushback from mods. 1. Summarize the problem Code Review posters are typically new users. ...
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11 votes
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Can we remove the need for titles to be unique
I came across the following title on the HNQ list. I made a Guess the number game in Python This is a pretty poor title, but the OP isn't to blame for this. As you can see the title almost ...
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9 votes
3 answers
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Titles that reference external resources
A couple of us disagreed (in comments) on whether titles that are nothing more than external references, such as "Advent of Code 2019 Day 3, Part 3" and "Project Euler nº 5", are reasonable. I ...
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5 votes
1 answer
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Multiple related question titles
I am creating a programming language, Linny, and have asked two questions (First Question Here, Second Question Here). As I continue to improve the language, I intend on asking more questions to ...
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10 votes
1 answer
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"Flood" of "Doing something in [language]" titles
I always thought that questions containing a language tag in the title should be cleaned-up as discussed in Should name of programming language be in the title of a question? Apparently I'm the only ...
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19 votes
4 answers
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Punny/Playful Titles Policy
Related: How can we avoid redundant titles? When you ask a question on the main site, the watermarked instructions say: State the task that your code accomplishes. Make your title distinctive. This is ...
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8 votes
1 answer
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Usage of 'obsolete' on CR meta titles for locked posts
This question drew my eye today: https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/41/obsolete-iterative-code-reviews-how-can-they-happen-successfully-obsolete and I found out there are several ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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Programmatically removing "review" from titles
It looks like we all agree that titles should never contain the word "Review" or "review" inside them. What about writing a small script to remove all such occurencies? (4,369 such occurrencies to be ...
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