# Allow package names in tags

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/allow-package-names-in-tags/71408>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Tags:** discourse\
**Created:** [November 12, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/allow-package-names-in-tags/71408 "2021-11-12T22:39:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![jzr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jzr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jzr)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/allow-package-names-in-tags/71408/1 "2021-11-12T22:39:12Z")

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- I want to tag my questions with the name of the package I’m asking about
- I want to follow the tags of some packages

Currently it is not possible to use the name of a package as a tag because

- dots are not allowed, e.g. `Pkg.jl`
- capitals are not allowed, e.g. `Pkg.jl`

I request that those be allowed, so I can tag with package names and follow those tags.

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 11:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/allow-package-names-in-tags/71408/2 "2021-11-12T23:00:01Z")

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As far as I’m aware, we can’t currently change the set of allowed characters in a tag. Capital letters are allowed, but we use the default setting which only permits the creation of new tags that are all lowercase.

You could ask for allowing `.`s upstream at [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org), but requests for other non-word characters have [not](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-in-tags/128345) [seen](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-tag-with-plus-in-it/115549) [much](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-tags-with-space-and-special-characters/47471) success.

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**Author:** ![jzr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jzr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jzr)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/allow-package-names-in-tags/71408/3 "2021-11-12T23:30:02Z")

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> **[Allow dots in tags](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-dots-in-tags/209014)**
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> On the Julia Language Discourse, I want to use Julia package names as topic tags. Julia Package names contain dots, like “Foo.jl”. Currently, dots are not allowed in Discourse tags, so I can’t use those package names in tags. I request that dots...

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**Author:** ![gustaphe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gustaphe/32/18174_2.png) [@gustaphe](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gustaphe)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/allow-package-names-in-tags/71408/4 "2021-11-13T09:31:23Z")

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How about `using-unitful`