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Introduction
Tags are used mostly to search for a particular post (or set of posts).
Unfortunately, nothing guarantees that a post has a certain tag (actually, many posts are undertagged, i.e. missing many essential tags.)
Guidelines
Read howto:tag and help:cheatsheet.
Full names (i.e. characters with a name and a surname) should be tagged as "last name first name". Some posts are probably mistagged and it's ok to fix them.
Family Friendly
Please always check if a post has the family friendly tag.
If you think a post isn't family friendly or needs the tag, but you are not 100% sure, please state so in a comment and wait for people to reply.
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