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What happened to my ability to retag?
I recently noticed that the option to retag posts is missing:
The privileges page still lists it as a privilege, and I earned the necessary rep a long time ago.
So what happened? Has the ability ...
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Eliminate “windows” tag and use “windows-general” for nonspecific cases
EDIT: After discussion it is clear that trying to restrict the choice of tags is not the right way to guide tag selection. If there is ever considered to be a sufficient need for users to be more ...
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Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?
Tags for Microsoft products are currently a mess.
Office:
office, microsoft-office
office-2007, office-2010, office-2010-beta, ms-office-2007, office-2008, microsoft-office-2010, office-2010, ...
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Please use [modern-ui] instead of [metro] for the moment, Metro conflicts
Please use Modern UI for the moment, because Metro was a code name that conflicts with Metro AG.
Feel free to update questions with the new naming as you go around making our Windows 8 part of the ...
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Tag merge [anti-spam] and [spam-prevention]
Does anyone want to merge anti-spam and spam-prevention? They seem rather redundant.
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Do we need separate tags for [vnc]? They are oddly tagged
We seem to have vnc, vncserver and vnc-viewer.
(Please note that I have retagged a small number vnc-server --> vncserver as per Ask a SU mod room)
Some questions are tagged with all three, which ...
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Why are tags sometimes lost when quick-editing them?
I noticed the issue on this question:
Any game kills my sound
Before
After
The windows-xp is simply lost in the process.
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Should we do something about the [osx] / [mac] distinction?
TL;DR: osx and mac are a complete mess. What should we do about that?
What's the current situation?
Per this question, we've established the following distinction between the "OS X" and "Mac" ...
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Managing Management
file-management has 438 questions
power-management has 326 questions
password-management has 106 questions
memory-management has 51 questions
project-management has 45 questions
time-management has ...
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What is the difference between [profile] and [user-profiles]? Which to keep?
There are some questions tagged with both [profile] and [user-profiles]. See also: profile & user-profiles
(Please note that I retagged some questions from user-profile to user-profiles as per ...
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Are file extension tags welcome? Make them consistent/grouped?
There appear to be quite some tags that represent a file extension:
Some have a dot (.cfm, .mov), while others don't (bin, bkf).
A lot of these don't seem to have much questions in them.
There might ...
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The tag [media] is used for both music / video as well as mediums?
It seems that the media tag is ambiguously used. Sometimes it applies to music/video, and sometimes it applies to physical media like CDs.
What should we do with it?
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Does retagging count as an edit?
When you retag a question, it displays on the question as an edit. However, does it actually count as an edit (such as toward the Strunk & White or Copy Editor badges)?
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Retags should not bump a post
I think (following the cd incident) that retags, as a maintenance operation, should not bump the question to the front page. What do you think?
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Can retag without retag questions privilege
I was looking at the privileges, and noticed a Retag Questions privilege. However, as long as you can edit posts, you can retag, as I have done it.
Bug because someone under 500 rep shouldn't be able ...
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Retagging questions with the answer
This is a bit related to this topic on MSO.
In a recently suggested and approved edit a tag was added to the topic, but it only became applicable through the answer. The user didn't know the tag was ...
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Are we going for a public [sharing] tag or for specific [X-sharing] tags?
We have quite some sharing tags:
sharing
file-sharing
connection-sharing
screen-sharing
home-sharing
internet-sharing
web-sharing
keyboard-sharing
file-sharing
Will we go for the more public ...
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Why are changes applied without any reasoning or community agreement?
Please align the Excel tags isn't agreed upon, while Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags? has been there for ages and has been a consensus which we pretty much agreed up.
Why does a ...
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Is command-line a meta tag?
I noticed that command-line had no tag-wiki. So I thought I might try to add one. Unfortunately I wasn't among the top 20 answerers in that tag so I couldn't do it.
I then thought about the bash ...
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Super User tagging convention: Ubuntu and variants
I know I promised to open this a long time ago...
Super User has settled into some ad-hoc, but well-established, conventions for tagging questions about operating systems and their various versions. ...
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Editing and retagging to make a duplicate fit?
There's a question currently open, but with one vote to close as duplicate.
The open question is about fast user switching in Mac OS 10.6.4 (aka Snow Leopard).
The original question has an answer ...
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DLP tag renaming
Over on superuser we have a tag conflict.
DLP is used for both for DLP & DLP
Since it's only three questions it would be easy to retag them, but I don't know what tags I should use.
Any ...
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Superuser: retag-request for 64-bit, 64bit and maybe x64
On superuser "64-bit" and" 64bit" tags should be aliased into one or the other.
"x64" is similar, but may be a slightly different animal for some people, being specific to the mainstream AMD ...
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Mac and osx tag usage on SU
I see there are a lot of questions tagged mac (749) and even more tagged osx (860) on SuperUser. However, I find the usage of the tags to be quite inconsistent. A lot of people tag their questions mac ...
