kvm tag ambiguity

Question

The kvm tag is used for both Keyboard-Video-Mouse switch and for Linux Kernel-Virtual-Machine infrastructure.

There are tags kvm-switch and linux-kvm

Is it worthwhile changing all 'kvm' tags to one or other of these? There are 109 questions with this tag, maybe 90-95% could be changed to 'kvm-switch'.

• Is it useful to do this?
• Are there tools to help?
• What happens in future when someone creates a 'kvm' tag?

Answer 1

Seems like a good suggestion.

• This will have to be done manually(Ed: if majority of them are questions which belong to a tag, Mods can do a mass rename and handle the minority questions manually)
• we can create a synonym mapping for kvm to any of the above.

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Now complete.

updating post history, 99 rows affected
updating posts, 78 rows affected
updating PostTags associations, 67 rows affected
removing/renaming old tag, 1 rows affected
updating count for master tag, 1 rows affected
tag remapping of [kvm-switch] and [kvm] complete!
remapping 0 synonyms
10 favorite and ignored tags remapped!
Tag Synonym kvm -> kvm-switch was approved!