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Burninate the [service-rec] tag and delete its questions
The service-rec tag, aside from likely being a meta-tag, has 22 of its 23 questions closed for being off-topic and not constructive.
As I don't believe that this tag, or its questions for that ...
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Request to reopen question 584837
My question "Why does redirection fail when passing through ssh, sudo and sh?"
has been marked as duplicate.
I edited it to add precision and show that it is not a duplicate.
Another user, Gabe, ...
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plasma tag itself is too generic, should be compounded and split into TV and workspace
As things stand right now, plasma is ambiguous. Questions labeled with it refer both to plasma TVs and to the KDE graphical environment, and this doesn't seem correct to me.
I suggest deleting the ...
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Burninate the [raw] meta-tag
Prior to an intervention, the raw tag was used for two different things:
Questions involving the camera RAW format. All of these questions that weren't closed were retagged with the camera-raw tag.
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2
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1answer
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Problems with SE sites
Over the past two days I have been experiencing various problems using SE sites - the first I noticed is that my chat wouldn't work even though I was logged in ("You need 20 reputation to talk here") ...
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0answers
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Request to reopen question 579836
This question was closed for being off-topic yesterday, 10 April 2013.
However, it seems perfectly on-topic for SuperUser, as Haiku is "a new open-source operating system that specifically targets ...
2
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1answer
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What to do with a deleted answer?
How do I go about dealing with a moderator-deleted answer? In my case, I had posted what was a request for clarification of the question as an answer, since I only had less than 50 rep on the main ...
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1answer
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Please burninate tag fx-8350?
fx-8350 was created here
It's a specific model number so I don't think it belongs.
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1answer
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$RECYCLE.BIN question that is not a duplicate marked as a duplicate
Oliver Salzburg♦ marked my question...
How to delete $RECYCLE.BIN folder on external hard disk?
...as a duplicate of...
There is a “$REYCLE.BIN” folder in my external hard drive; can I ...
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Reopen question 439470: “What is the difference between Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT?”
What is the difference between Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT?
How is this question not constructive? I mean, I don't see how this would be a subjective question, let alone "bad subjective"! This ...
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1answer
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Merge [office-2013] into [microsoft-office-2013]
Currently, office-2013 and microsoft-office-2013 are separate tags. Can someone merge the former into the latter?
microsoft-office-2013 should be the canonical tag, given that:
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5
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1answer
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Blacklist request: [Move], [Removal] and some more
following the tag cleanup for march 2013 I have cleaned up the move meta-tag. No more questions with move.
FYI, most of these questions referred to moving files - I have replaced these mostly with ...
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1answer
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Why was this question plus answer closed?
IE10 unexpectedly sends a HEAD request for PDF. What has changed?
I had a genuine problem. I am not the only one. While I researched the question, which was not obvious, I came upon the solution. I ...
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1answer
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“not-recognized” - not-required?
Do we really need the not-recognized tag? There's unrecognized which needs to be killed too
2
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1answer
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Rename [extreme] tag to [extreme-conditions] or remove it
There are currently 3 questions tagged with extreme:
One relates to extreme temperatures, the second to extreme tabbed browsing (massive pressure on the computer), and the third to temperatures and ...
4
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1answer
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Tag synonym request: [mac-os] to [osx]
The mac-os tag has four questions, all relating to OS X (one is even tagged with both).
Following the lead of Apple.SE, I suggest that the tag (and its synonym macos) be merged into osx.
An ...
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1answer
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Tag clean up request - [repeating]
There is a repeating tag.
It doesn't seem to be very useful, almost a meta tag.
It's only on 16 questions (at the time of writing) so should be easy to clean up.
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1answer
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Let's remove the “change” tag
change is an absolutely meaningless tag.
With 43 questions tagged, it should be easy to get rid of. All that's needed is a handful of users who want to go through these questions and remove the tag, ...
5
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1answer
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Why are different colours used for the homepage tab borders?
The main tabs on the Super User homepage use two different colours for the borders:
On Stack Overflow, a single border colour is used:
Similarly, on Meta Super User it looks like:
Is the ...
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Reopen this. It's not localized
Behind corporate proxy : Can't install program that self-downloads from the web
There are gazillions of people trying to make things work behind a corporate proxy. Why on earth is installing ANY ...
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1answer
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Reopen or still a duplicate?
Using onboard graphics card and dedicated graphics card for mixed performance
This question was closed as a duplicate assuming the OP wanted to use multiple monitors, and it was edited to clarify ...
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1answer
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Remove bugs tag on Main site
Is there any point keeping bugs on the main site around?
Related: Is there a way to block the recreation of the "bug" tag on the main site? (where soandos even commented about and drew ...
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1answer
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Review Reopen Votes broken
The review queue Reopen Votes seems to be malfunctioning.
When I try review questions, it says loading item , but it never finishes.
After a while, the JavaScript Console shows
Unexpected ...
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0answers
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Bad name for [modern-ui] tag
modern-ui was AFAIK never the official name from Microsoft. It was always either knows by the codename “Metro”, by the internally used name “Immersive” or by the moniker “Windows Store apps”
Request: ...
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1answer
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Merge [utf8] and [utf-8]
Can we merge utf8 and utf-8 & synonymize? They're obviously identical. I would merge utf8 into utf-8, since it's usually written with a hyphen (Wikipedia).
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1answer
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Let's nuke the “error-message” tag
We have a tag named error-message, with now 220 95 49 questions tagged.
This is quite the meta tag, because it doesn't mean anything and adds no value to a question. Most problems result in some kind ...
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1answer
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Reopen Closed Question (reason for closing : Off Topic)
I posted the following question on Super User : Issues with htaccess , url re write
However this is not the original question , the original question seemed application specific and thus was marked ...
4
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1answer
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Tag for cleanup - finger
finger - Usage seems to roughly equally divided between the *nix command and the digit of one's hand.
Perhaps we can break this up into 2 separate tags? Or even remove the references to physical ...
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1answer
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Tag for removal - heater
heater - Stupid tag used by a single closed question. I think we can safely get rid of it.
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1answer
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Merge [mic] into [microphone]
mic obviously refers to microphone. Can we merge mic into microphone and synonymize?
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1answer
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Important question about svchost virus was closed
I asked this question and It was closed as a Exact duplicate of a question which does not resemble it at all. First of all, nowhere in this "dupilcate question's" answers does it mention the stop ...
4
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1answer
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Merge [screen] [display] [monitor] and [resolution] [screen-resolution]
I really think we should merge 2 tags out of these 3:
screen x 544
display x 564
monitor x 1032
because they're too similar. There are even 11 questions tagged with all of them.
I also think we ...
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0answers
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Make [blue-ray] a synonym of [blu-ray] and [bluray]
bluray is already a synonym of blu-ray, so why not make blue-ray a synonym as well?
(Hope no-one creates blueray!)
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2answers
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List of tag merge requests (Dec 2012)
Merge:
merge php-ini x2 => php.ini 10x
merge autofill x1 => auto-form-fill 3x
merge dos 2x => ms-dos 91x (checked their posts. They mean ms-dos)
synonym mainboard 2x => motherboard 954x
Split:
...
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1answer
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Merge [laptop-battery] into [battery]
battery x 373
laptop-battery x 69
I think that instead of having 2 separate tags, questions about laptop batteries should be tagged with laptopbattery instead of having a special laptop-battery ...
2
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1answer
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Merge [advanced-format] and [4k-sectors]
Advanced Format, at least in its current state, specifies sectors of 4096 bytes in size, but questions involving 4K AF drives have been tagged as both advanced-format and 4k-sectors. Can someone ...
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1answer
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Merge [xbox] and [xbox360]
Can we merge xbox and xbox360? I think all of the questions tagged with xbox refer to Xbox 360.
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1answer
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Tag synonyms/merge request: [ati-catalyst], [catalyst] and [amd-catalyst]
Questions tagged ati-catalyst and/or catalyst are talking about the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Catalyst
I think they should be merged and/or made synonyms of each other. (Not ...
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0answers
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Tag for removal - for
Just came across this closed question: Windows 8 64 bit which itunes version which has the tags
itunes version for windows-8.
I checked the other instances of for and they seem to be related to the ...
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1answer
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Merge [web-crawler] [webcrawling] [crawler] [spider] tags
web-crawler x 20
spider x 12
webcrawling x 6
crawler x 5
They're all identical and refer to Web crawler:
Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots,
Web spiders, Web ...
4
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1answer
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Merge [hard-disk-space] and [storage-spaces] into [disk-space]
disk-space:
The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive,
floppy or USB flash drive.
I think we can merge hard-disk-space & storage-spaces into disk-space
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1answer
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Merge [dual-monitor] and [triple-monitor] into [multiple-monitors]
I don't really know a lot about dual-monitor, triple-monitor or multiple-monitors setups, but it seems logical to move dual-monitor and triple-monitor into multiple-monitors since "multiple" refers to ...
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Merge [packet-sniffers] and [sniffer]
Can we merge and synonymize packet-sniffers and sniffer (probably sniffer into packet-sniffers)?
It's not like there are non-packet sniffers; "sniffer" refers only to a packet-sniffer.
Also, should ...
3
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1answer
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Merge [tips] into [tips-and-tricks]
Can we merge tips into tips-and-tricks (and maybe even synonymize)? They're identical.
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1answer
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Merge [spoof] and [spoofing]
spoofing - 21 questions tagged.
spoof - 6 questions tagged.
They're obviously identical. Can we merge them (I guess spoof into spoofing?) and synonymize?
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1answer
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Merge [process] and [processes]
I guess processes refers to multiple process, but I don't see why process can't refer to both single / multiple processes so I don't think we really need processes.
I think processes should be merged ...
3
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1answer
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Difference between [shutdown] and [system-shutdown]
What's the difference between shutdown and system-shutdown?
1/3 (16/43) of the questions that are tagged with system-shutdown are also tagged with shutdown, so I don't think the difference between ...
5
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1answer
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Question erroneously declared to be a duplicate
How can I create multipart tar file in Linux?
This question is currently number one result in Google for "how to create multipart rar in Linux".
The question that they claim is a duplicate is NOT a ...
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Retagging [find][replace] questions with [find-and-replace]
Please retag questions tagged with findreplacement with the
find-and-replace tag.
I know I could do it myself, manually, but I thought it would be better to post about it here on meta first.
I've ...
