A tagging scheme for papers

Question

Proposal: If someone wants to post a question while reading / studying a paper, the following tagging-scheme is proposed:

Format for title:

• Title: [Paper] <Title of paper>

  Naming priority:

  1. inSPIRE-indexed title
  2. general formatting for papers
     e.g. "How far are we from the quantum theory of gravity?"
     not "How Far are We From the Quantum Theory of Gravity?"

• In-title pseudo-tags

  • [Paper]
    default; must be included to differentiate from general posts
  • [Paper][Review]
    for review papers

  This system can be further expanded and/or modified as the site progresses.

Format for body:

• Start with an unlinked url :

  1. inSPIRE
     first priority
  2. arXiv
     if applicable, and inSPIRE url is not applicable
  3. user url
     only when applicable

  use only text for urls: http://inspirebeta.net/record/615514

• Body of the post — where the question is asked

Format for tags:

• For inSPIRE-indexed papers
  use the most relevant inSPIRE keywords
  examples: quantum-gravity, loop-space, review

• For arXiv-archived papers
  limit to primary classification
  examples: hep-th, hep-ph, hep-lat, math-ph, gr-qc, astro-ph.lsub-domainl, nucl-th, math.lsub-domainl

• Both
  Include both tagging groups
  limit to four most relevant inSPIRE keywords + primary arXiv classification

• Neither
  use appropriate tagging similar to above
  should be approved by moderator(s) first

• Notes on tags:
  • they have a maximum length of 25 characters
  • they are all lower case
  • they cannot contain spaces
  • words are separated with dashes (hyphens) or periods
  • posts can contain a maximum of five tags

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Example template:

Title: [Paper][Review (when applicable)] <Title of paper>

Body:
Unlinked url

Body of post

Tags:

Example posts:

Title: [Paper][Review] How far are we from the quantum theory of gravity?

Body:
inSPIRE: http://inspirebeta.net/record/615514

Body of post

Tags: review quantum-gravity loop-space string-model hep-th

Title: [Paper] A model of leptons

Body:
inSPIRE: http://inspirebeta.net/record/51188

Body of post

Tags: lepton.model electroweak-interaction gauge-field-theory renormalization mass.gauge-boson

: If a person has a specific question while reading a given paper, she can use the template to ask that question; if she has multiple questions on the same paper, each question will then require a separate post (with identical referencing info).

The scheme should - ideally - integrate with the entire tagging-system. --

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Answer 1

I'm not entirely sold on this idea. I think it would be far better if the person reading the paper has a question, asks it in a way that a person who hasn't read it could still answer.

I have this feeling that your proposed scheme will introduce a flood of 1 line questions like: "How does the Author derive Line 16 from Line 15".

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Fair point. I could see a couple of cases where your counter example would be valid on this site, but in general, they would not be.

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I'm just afraid that people will start linking papers and assume everyone has read it or will read it in order to answer the question

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I must admit, the thought occurred to me.

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Good point. Hadn't thought of it that way. ... Well, let's see what the rest of the community has to say. ...

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But, on the other hand, there will be posts on papers -- and -*should*- be. So, we should have a reasonable and manageable system to handle them.

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I think it should be more case by case. Some questions regarding papers can (and probably should) be asked in a way that doesn't require reading the paper. However, some questions are going to need a greater understanding of the paper. I like the idea of having a template for asking questions on papers, but maybe the body of the post should contain enough information if possible to answer the question without consulting the paper.

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