# Tags against wrong topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-against-wrong-topic/24389
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [January 24, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-against-wrong-topic/24389 "2015-01-24T04:29:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-against-wrong-topic/24389/1 "2015-01-24T04:29:24Z")
I remember creating this topic with some tags:
This is my topic
> [@Private Message Button in Posts or "Post Menu" area](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-message-button-in-posts-or-post-menu-area/24374/):
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> In some communities / certain categories / topics it is required for people to “Private Message” the author to continue the conversation. This is possibly extension / plugin territory - I place it in the feature category for now in-case this matches common other community requests. ###The Idea Where some code used in posts perhaps like: [pm] or [pm @DeanMarkTaylor] Could be included where this would generate embedded buttons as replacements: [image] or [image] ###Possible uses For ex…
It’s now displaying like this (note no tags):
Then later looking at this topic I noticed my tags on it - which don’t match the topic
> [@Not receiving notifications for edited Wiki posts unless you are the author](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-notifications-for-edited-wiki-posts-unless-you-are-the-author/24340):
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> This is something strange. I have made one topic a wiki post and kept it open. Then inside another browser I login with a different user id. I edited the wiki post and then I checked the forum on my admin ID. I did not received any notification whatsoever that could tel me that someone actually contributed to the post and edited it? Am I missing something here or some setting is required. Why are we not receiving notifications for wiki post edits? Is the original author of wiki post the sole pu…
Which is displaying with my tags from the other topic
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-against-wrong-topic/24389/2 "2015-01-24T05:19:07Z")
I removed the tags from that post – is rare that topics here need tags and then only at most one or _maybe_ two tags that can be used on multiple topics without confusion. This topic is a good example of tagging, ironically..
But I too noticed a few other topics had the same combination of odd tags shown – I also removed that particular combo of tags from _another_ topic not pictured above.
This is a legit bug @eviltrout.
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 5:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-against-wrong-topic/24389/3 "2015-01-24T05:42:41Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> is rare that topics here need tags and then only at most one or maybe two tags
I have users who will tag everything :allthethings:
Currently there is no other place to get an idea of how the tagging system might work and weed out possible problems.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 6:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-against-wrong-topic/24389/4 "2015-01-24T06:04:17Z")
Yes it is fine to test, but let’s please refrain from tagging things with ultra generic concepts like “button” or “post” or using three synonyms 😉
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 6:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-against-wrong-topic/24389/5 "2015-01-24T06:10:57Z")
I can’t see adding tagging to a community until tag merging / aliasing is added - a process that involves moderating once and no user conversations.
Basically something that turns my tagging for these example topics into a non-issue.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 6:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-against-wrong-topic/24389/6 "2015-01-24T06:14:01Z")
On our forum only the Admin can create Tags.
I think this is the safest way to ensure it doesn’t get out of control.
True, we have members that will select inappropriate and / or too many tags for their topics, but that isn’t as bad as it would be if they could create their own.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-against-wrong-topic/24389/7 "2015-01-24T13:27:59Z")
> [@Mittineague](#):
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> On our forum only the Admin can create Tags.
And partially supported by Discourse’s Tagging process too. You can set which TL level can create tags, just set it to TL 4 (IIRC).
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### Author:  [@Mohammad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mohammad)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-against-wrong-topic/24389/8 "2015-01-25T12:06:16Z")
I would agree to @codinghorror, I wonder why would people add tags when the category name itself is self-describing. Multiple Tags never helped any way in SEO either, they are just for better user navigation and only when you use at most 1 or 2 tags. More than that makes no sense
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2015, 12:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-against-wrong-topic/24389/9 "2015-01-25T12:07:14Z")
Tagging should be TL2 and above here. At the bare minimum.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2015, 1:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-against-wrong-topic/24389/10 "2015-02-17T13:03:24Z")