Questions tagged [titles]
This tag is for issues of what is allowable or desirable in question titles.
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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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I do not understand the feedback about my title
I don't understand how my question does not fit the site's standards. Can I please get some guidance?
Is this an appropriate use of async/await combined with Task continuation?
The current question ...
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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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Should I change the question's title or body, and/or create another question?
In this question (What is the best practice between second assignment or dict's value call?), I first ask for the best solution between second assignment or dict's value call.
But, after few days I ...
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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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Vote to close and unclear titles
We usually VTC questions with titles that don't reflect the goal of the code. Examples of said titles:
"How do I make this better?"
"My code is not fast enough"
"I'd like my code to be more pythonic"
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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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Given CR's question title policy, how to title a second question about the same program?
Originally asked in 2nd Monitor
If we're asking a second CR question involving the same software, is it acceptable to give it nearly the same title? What is best practice for naming these questions?
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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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Should Code Review serve as a refactoring cookbook?
NB. It's not an argument against "keeping the original code intact". I understand the point, I agree with the benefits and I realize the issues that may arise should we digress.
I'd like to hear the ...
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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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Does preventing exact duplicate titles makes sense here?
When editing the title of Multiple FizzBuzz from a file, I first wanted to make the title "FizzBuzz from a file" but that exact title already exists which showed an error message:
Considering our ...
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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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Is it bad to reference the best titles?
Recently, on new Code Review questions, I've been seeing this:
Welcome to Code Review! As we all want to make our code more efficient
or improve it in one way or another, try to write a title that
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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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