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This is a proposal to

  • retag cs.ds.data-structures as ds.data-structures-algorithms
  • rename algorithms as a tag synonym of ds.data-structures-algorithms

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as an aside, maybe this should be the template for future retagging requests.

Update: Two tag synonyms have been created: ds.data-structures $\leftarrow$ cs.ds.data-structures, and ds.algorithms $\leftarrow$ algorithms. Nothing has been merged YET, but that can also be done to rewrite history entirely.

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Too long. Max 24 characters. – Jukka Suomela Sep 5 '10 at 9:16
If we believe Wirth when he says that data structures + algorithms = programs, shouldn't we retag it ds.programs? – Charles Stewart Sep 5 '10 at 10:27
Is this proposal completed? I do not see the [ds.data-structures-algorithms] tag yet. – Tsuyoshi Ito Sep 6 '10 at 14:05
Or is the proposal modified? In that case, I appreciate if you append to the post what has been actually done. – Tsuyoshi Ito Sep 6 '10 at 14:17
apologies. I'll amend the post accordingly – Suresh Venkat♦ Sep 6 '10 at 15:30
@Suresh: Thanks! – Tsuyoshi Ito Sep 6 '10 at 16:34
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It might be good to manually check questions with the old cs.ds.data-structures tag; some of those need to be retagged with ds.algorithms and some of them with ds.data-structures. – Jukka Suomela Sep 6 '10 at 17:27
You could also create another synonym: ds.data-structures <- data-structures. I think these can be safely merged. – Jukka Suomela Sep 6 '10 at 17:27

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I'd prefer a split into two separate tags: ds.data-structures and ds.algorithms. Some questions would be reasonably tagged with both, of course.

(Actually, I'd prefer the arxiv-free tags "algorithms" and "data-structures", but I've already lost that battle.)

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Made the same suggestion on another thread. – Ryan Williams Sep 4 '10 at 22:56
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meta.cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/118/… Anyway, I strongly support having two tags... "data-structures-algorithms" is way too coarse of a tag to have for a TCS website. – Ryan Williams Sep 4 '10 at 22:58
I have updated the proposal meta.cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/118/… so that we have two DS tags. – Jukka Suomela Sep 5 '10 at 9:20

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