Timeline for Eliminate "windows" tag and use "windows-general" for nonspecific cases
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| Mar 7, 2013 at 11:27 | comment | added | Ramhound |
If anything the windows tag shouldn't exist since in most cases are almost always specific to a specific version of Windows anyways. Even the tools that exists between Basic and Professional versions of Windows is different. Since the tag does exist, and the current description makes it clear that it should only be used, when the version doesn't matter the name of the tag changing wouldn't make it be more useful. The differences between versions of Windows will continue to become different. There are very few things that don't depend on which version that hasn't already been answered.
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| Mar 7, 2013 at 6:12 | comment | added | Karan | @washbow: Just to add - people often add a generic "windows" tag because they don't have any idea that their problem might be specific to a particular version, or sometimes because they have no idea which specific OS version they use (it happens!) Worse still of course is when they fail to mention any OS at all, for when it's not obvious from the question one has to ask and await a response. | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 19:37 | comment | added | washbow | My point is that new users will often just tag "windows" without a second thought. You are correct that "windows-general" tag is not better, it would simply be a way of prompting new users to consider it carefully. | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 6:32 | history | edited | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 6, 2013 at 6:26 | history | answered | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |