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I don't really see a point in questions being double tagged as , can we please change these to as this would cover both tags? What do you think?

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can you cite a few examples from SU and perhaps elsewhere? – Jeff Atwood♦ Jun 26 '11 at 1:31
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  1. If the tag is somewhat or possibly ambiguous without the brand prefix, include the prefix.
  2. If the tag doesn't need to include the brand, it doesn't need to include the brand.
  3. If a question is asking about a product, and isn't specific to a particular version, then it doesn't need to include a version tag.

The brand is usually superfluous unless in the first case. Then you can just go with the product or product version.

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You are again not answering to the question, and repeating yourself as this is your personal reasoning for the recent action you had performed. Other that than I voted to disagree because I think this leads to inconsistency; as simply typing microsoft doesn't reveal all auto-complete results nor does the tag list list them together, and questions display odd against each other... – Tom Wijsman Jun 25 '11 at 1:37
So your ultimate goal is to have all product tags grouped together by brand? @tom – random♦ Jun 25 '11 at 1:52
Ultimately letting the community decide (which they have already done before), in the case of Microsoft I feel it's necessary to get it standardized and consistent... – Tom Wijsman Jun 25 '11 at 2:02
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I kind of agree with random here, though I do not feel strongly about it; that is …

… should be sufficient in the case where the product is unambiguously and uniquely .. itself. That is, if it is not a generic name. Now you could argue that "word" and "access" are not unique enough and that

helps. I won't disagree.

However, one thing I do feel strongly about and I agree with Tom: I certainly do NOT want us to have

that is not good, we should simply have

or

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For the third part, I meant that some questions were tagged like microsoft-excel excel-2010, as that leaves a duplicate excel in the tag line where micrrosoft-excel doesn't add value. As for the last line, I wonder if it's good or bad to have inconsistency between Word or Access, it's something the community has to decide. I'm just saying, they were a mess for a pretty long time and I believe that they still are a bit now. I'm feeling that if we don't handle them now more specific re-tag requests are going to keep showing up for related tags. But well, I'm just asking... – Tom Wijsman Jun 26 '11 at 1:42
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