Linked Questions
34 questions linked to/from Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again
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Retagging [google] questions [duplicate]
Some of the questions tagged with google actually relate only to Google Chrome and not to Google products / Google company in general, for example:
How does Google Chrome installer work?
Google ...
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Get rid of Microsoft tag [duplicate]
microsoft shouldn't exist, as it does not help find pertinent questions. I vote to get rid of it
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Let's dellete [dell] [duplicate]
There are currently 1002 questions tagged dell.
According to Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again:
We don't like company-only tags, and there's been various crusades in the past to ...
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What should the [microsoft] tag be used for? [duplicate]
Initially, I assumed microsoft (132) is about the company. But I took a brief look through them and didn't find any about the company.
In fact, all the question seem to be about various Microsoft ...
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Retagging [microsoft] questions [duplicate]
Same as the 2 previous questions I've posted:
Retagging [google] questions
Retagging [firefox] [mozilla] questions?
Most of the questions tagged with microsoft (180 questions) relate to Microsoft ...
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Is the "microsoft" tag of any use? [duplicate]
I have found a tag named microsoft which was created August 26 with 10 questions. Does the tag have any use, or should it be removed?
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The monster that can't be killed
The microsoft tag is like something from a sci-fi horror movie. This manufacturer meta tag was cleaned out in March of this year, but people keep using it. I just fixed the third question in the ...
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Tag cleanup weekend 1 - After action reports and impressions
We had about 4-5 users who were actively/obviously cleaning up, and at least one complaint of over efficiency.
How was tag cleanup weekend?
More specifically, if you were involved, what tags did ...
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Can we get rid of the company tags?
I don't think any of the following tags have questions that benefit them:
microsoft, apple, acer, samsung, sony, asus, ...
And thinking in the meta tag way, a question that's only about those tags ...
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Pew Pew the Laser Tag
While working my way through the manufacturer tag clean up list I came across the tag laser.
It has no description and the questions listed all appear to refer to laser-printer. Am I ok to remove ...
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Company tag necromancy: The zombie apocalypse!
Just when we thought we finally got rid of them all they appear to have been resurrected.
adobe x 200 — about 100 software and service products, PDF, Flash, Flex, graphics and video editing, web ...
Daniel BeckMod
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Blacklist Google?
google (the manufacturer meta tag, see Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again), was cleaned up a little over a year ago. It stayed dead for almost a year, but starting in July of this year, ...
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The msi tag is ambiguous
Currently we have the msi tag which (according to the description) is supposed to be used for tagging questions about Windows .msi installer files. However, there are quite a few questions (about a ...
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Is [GNU] a manufacturer meta tag?
The gnu wiki excerpt defines the tag as referring to the GNU OS. The wiki says the tag can be used for any software developed by the GNU Project.
As far as I know, there is no working GNU OS, at ...
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Tags flash, adobe-flash and flash-player
flash:
Adobe Flash is a cross-platform multimedia runtime used to embed animations, video, and interactive applications into web pages. According to Adobe, Flash delivers over 75% of online video ...
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Take away the chinese tag
While working on Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again I have come across the tag chinese. There are quite a few questions on there of varying quality.
What is it for, why do we have tags ...
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Potential Tag Merge/Synonym: [msiexec] -> [windows-installer]?
msiexec is used by 7 questions to denote msiexec.exe, which is the actual executable of Microsoft's Windows Installer program.
Seeing as we already have a tag for windows-installer, and the fact that ...
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Is there a method to rename a tag without editing the questions?
I just added apache to the manufacturer meta tag list because Apache is a software foundation with an extensive list of projects, not just the web server software. The [apache] tag has been used for ...
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Please make [amazon] stop hurting my brain
I started to write a tag cleanup request for amazon, listing the different ways in which the tag is used. I got writer's cramp. Basically, if you can create an anagram that spells "amazon" from ...
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Should we pair [unifying-receiver] with other [logitech-*] tags?
Logitech product tags exist in the form of [logitech-*] as outlined by yours truly on the Manufacturer & Company tag meta.
However there's currently an outlier, which is the Logitech Unifying ...
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Retagging [firefox] [mozilla] questions?
Almost all of the questions tagged with mozilla are questions about Firefox or Thunderbird, for example:
Is there a Firefox extension to bookmark a specific position on a webpage?
How to override the ...
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Unmerge [msi] from [windows-installer]
A recent edit to the Manufacturer Tags question spotlighted a problem with an old action. Five years ago, the post The msi tag is ambiguous identified that the msi tag was being used for both the ...
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Block the [hp] tag
The hp tag has been removed repeatedly as a generic company tag.
Since the previous major effort to clear out the company tags, this tag has been recreated and removed again four additional times, ...
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Alias nvidia to nvidia-graphics-card
There is no Nvidia tag. Confer, https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/nvidia.
It may be a good idea to make nvidia an alias for nvidia-graphics-card.
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Why no tag for AnyDesk, and can it be created?
There are currently 35 questions that contain the word AnyDesk, however there's no tag to it.
I thought maybe it's a global "no commercial tags" policy, but there is a teamviewer tag.
So ...
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Remove [asus-g73jh] tag
asus-g73jh has two questions. It is obviously too specific, I believe in both cases just asus would fit better.
I am new to the whole tag cleanup/merge/remove concept and I am still trying to figure ...
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Lotus tag cleanup
While looking through some questions on lotus-notes, I found that some of them were also tagged with lotus, which has 34 questions. Looking through the lotus, many of them are just about Notes, one ...
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Possible Tag Merge: [toshiba-satellite] into [toshiba-laptop]
As part of the Manufacturer & Company tags cleanup, I'm removing toshiba and replacing it with a more topic/product-centric toshiba-laptop (for laptop-related questions anyway).
However I've just ...
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Get rid of the Manufacturer (tag)
manufacturer looks quite useless for the 7 questions it has... Let's just get rid of it! Too meta for us
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Retag [mikrotik] to [mikrotik-routeros] or [mikrotik-swos]
mikrotik is a manufacturer meta-tag. Mikrotik makes a variety of routers, but for all intents and purposes they have two main products: RouterOS and SwOS (their operating system for switches). I ...
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Synonomize Red Hat tags
redhat is among the remaining manufacturer meta tags. Roughly 500 of the questions have been cleaned up; the ones needing general tag remediation. About 136 questions remain. All of these refer to ...
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Cleaning [gigabyte] tag
I saw that the gigabyte tag said "Use this tag for questions concerning gigabyte technology, a hardware manufaturer - not filesize." (I also submitted a suggested edit for the typo in the tag wiki - ...
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Can we convert older (question body format) duplicate notices to the new, not editable duplicate format?
Duplicates used to be handled by the system putting some markup in the question body, like so:
> **Possible Duplicate:**
> [Title of the Duplicate Question](http://superuser.com/)
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Should the hyper-threading tag be made a synonym of a new hardware-multithreading tag?
While many questions on hardware multithreading on SuperUser will concern Intel's Hyper-Threading, a significant fraction concern hardware multithreading more generally. (Those concerning actual Hyper-...
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