Gilles was nice enough to share a Data.SE query with us identifying tags with similar names, prime candidates for cleaning up and possibly synonym creation.
I consider the following to be false positives of the query:
Feel free to comment and disagree.
- windows (the OS) and window (the GUI concept)
- http and https (if you use the latter, there's usually a good reason)
- video and s-video (due to how the query finds similar terms)
- parallels (virtualization software) and parallel (parallel port or doing two things at the same time)
- stack (programming and debugging) and stacks (file and folder preview in Mac OS X Dock)
- ibook (predecessor to Macbook product line) and ibooks (Apple's e-books, tag no longer exists)
- hpux / hp-ux (only the latter exists)
- file-server / fileservers (only the former exists)
- zombies / zombie (only the latter exists)
- list / lists (both no longer exist)
That leaves the following pairs of candidates for cleanup:
Any ideas how to handle those?
Discuss only one pair of tags per answer please.
Up vote answers to agree, down vote to disagree.
account
without synonym, maybe use that as the synonym target),port
andports
can refer to networking and making software available on a different platform. So far I only discussed the easy one of these...