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How to create a new tag

I've been wondering about this. You can get a badge for creating a tag that is used in 50 questions. I don't know how one does this. I've tried implicit creation by adding a non-existent tag on a question but the system comes back with a message that new users can't create tags. I'm pretty sure that by now most of us are not new users.

Too bad. I think I could be credited with at least two tags that are now active: hp-polyserve (does anyone else support this?) and red-gate (which I am sure will be popular as the site catches on).

IIS, HOTFIX, TROUBLE-SHOOTING (or PROBLEM-SOLVING) WEB, SITE, HARDWARE, VBSCRIPT, SOA, CLOUD, WINDOWS, WINDOWS-2003, WINDOWS-XP, QUESTION, and SHAREPOINT are outstanding candidates as I type.

I recognize the need to keep tags standardized (see the tags I included for a prime example), but... how do we create new tags?

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Rob Farley avatar image Rob Farley commented ·
I'd like to see `meta` replaced with `meta-askscc`, to make it very clear that we're not talking about metadata. I've created the flag, but I'm not sure it's appropriate for me to edit the 16 questions that use `meta` (after evaluating each question).
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Blackhawk-17 avatar image Blackhawk-17 commented ·
Before the post was edited, the TAGs associated with this question where: meta, metadata and meta-data. Tomatoe, tomato.
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Grant Fritchey avatar image Grant Fritchey ♦♦ commented ·
Just up-voted your question. You should be past 250 now.
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Blackhawk-17 avatar image Blackhawk-17 commented ·
Thanks a ton! SEEDER-QUESTION is my first tag :)
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Kev Riley avatar image Kev Riley ♦♦ commented ·
Not quite Tomato - Tomatoe: 'meta' indicates 'about this site'. Whereas 'metadata' and 'meta-data' have a much more specific meaning in the context of data and database
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Melvyn Harbour 1 answered

See this question:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4876/how-can-i-create-a-tag

In short, you need 250 rep to create tags.

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