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Comments on Users can suggest tags with spaces (but the suggestion can't be approved)

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Users can suggest tags with spaces (but the suggestion can't be approved)

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See this suggested edit, where the user suggested adding the tag "American English". Due to it having a space, I am unable to approve the edit, getting the message

Tags may not include spaces or underscores

Note: I changed the tag from "American English" to "American-English" to try to get it approved, but it still rejects it.

Even if that workaround had worked, though, this should still have been caught at the suggestion stage.

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posted almost 3 years ago
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Tag creation interface (2 comments)
Just to be sure, we don't want tags with spaces in them, right?? (4 comments)
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Karl Knechtel‭ wrote over 1 year ago
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Related to the issue of allowing spaces in tag names in the first place: people coming from Elsewhere will be confused that typing a space after a tag name doesn't attempt to use/create the tag and that an Enter key press is needed instead. If we decide to keep things that way, then that gets rid of what I see as the primary reason not to have spaces in tag names. Spaces are prettier than hyphens, so if the functionality is designed in a way that seems intended to support them then I would prefer that they were actually supported.

Moshi‭ wrote over 1 year ago
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Spaces were supported. They are rejected for non-technical reasons (which afaik were never explained beyond just saying that tags should not have spaces, and should be all lowercase)