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Should we keep stretching the meaning of [stretch]?
This is about stretch. It's the code name of the current stable Debian release, and it's also a tag on the main site.
Most of the usage seems to be about debian-stretch -- there are 19 questions ...
DavidPostillMod
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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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Tag cleanup: Delete / merge [function] tag
function has no description, but it has cc 130 questions.
In most of the cases it's used as synonym of worksheet-function (with or without it), and sometimes referring to functions in scripts or ...
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Retag + synonym [systray] => [notification-area]
Could we have systray (4 Qs) made a synonym of notification-area (19 Qs)?
At least according to Raymond Chen, the correct name is "(Taskbar) Notification Area", so the systray tag is ...
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Merge [transparent] and [transparency]
I propose merging transparent (34 questions) with transparency (79 questions). I think it's pretty clear to see why they should be merged.
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... yeah, that pun was pretty terrible, even by retag ...
MokubaiMod
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Retag [Windows-2012] into [Windows-Server-2012] or [Windows-Server-2012-R2]
windows-2012 contains 54 questions. All of them appear to actually be about Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2.
Shall we re-tag these questions?
What do to with the windows-2012 tag?
MokubaiMod
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Show the [guest] the door
The guest is unwelcome and would benefit from clarification. As it stands "guest" is simply too vague to be useful.
We have guest-additions, but this tag might do with being split into guest-...
MokubaiMod
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Can we empty out [null]?
Seriously, I have no idea what null is for - null characters, null processes, errors, null strings, nil, nada, nothing, blank, empty?
I really don't see the point of null when it's not specific ...
MokubaiMod
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Let's retire the [sysadmin]
The sysadmin tag has a different meaning almost every question, and it never seems to refer to the actual role of a system administrator. It seems to be used for questions that have to do with the ...
MokubaiMod
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Get rid of the [hack] tag
The hack seems barely useful, more like a meta tag. It's used for hacking, but not strictly in the sense of security threats, but also "hacking" something together.
Should we remove the "hack" tag ...
CommunityBot
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Sketchup tag rename needed
We have two Sketchup tags: sketch-up and google-sketchup. They both refer to the same program and neither tag name is correct.
The first has five questions and the tag was created with an ...
CommunityBot
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Rename [XBMC] tag to [Kodi]
XBMC was renamed/rebranded to Kodi: http://kodi.tv/introducing-kodi-14/
I'm not too clear on the right way to propose this.
Proposing:
new Kodi tag
make tag synonym for XBMC to point/resolve to ...
CommunityBot
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The DOS tag is ambiguous
As it is, the dos tag is ambiguous. Even the tag wiki excerpt is split:
DOS is an acronym for "Disk Operating System." DoS is an acronym for "Denial of Service." Do not use this tag for questions ...
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Should [charts] and [graphs] tags be merged?
charts - 205 questions tagged / 77% answered.
graphs - 148 questions tagged / 79% answered.
Both charts & graphs - 27 tagged with both / 74% answered
I think the real difference between charts ...
CommunityBot
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Merge [tag:windows-nt] → [tag:windows]
Microsoft no longer produces 9x versions of Windows, and I’ve seen lots of questions tagged windows that apply to NT-based versions (2000, XP, Vista), so the windows-nt tag seems a bit redundant. I ...
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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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The [filter] tag is ambiguous
See list of questions tagged filter: some of them are about ffmpeg filters (used for resizing videos and such), some are about filtering data in MS Excel, some are about organising emails... none of ...
CommunityBot
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Booting and friends
We have:
boot x3901
reboot x310
boot-failure x76
boot-time x6
startup x846
restart x201
I would merge all of them into boot (or booting, or boot-process) and be done with it.
CommunityBot
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The [static] tag is ambiguous
static (26) refers to both things being motionless and noise.
CommunityBot
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Why are people making up tags when we have one?
People are making up new tags to mean the same thing. There needs to be a definitive tag for each meaning.
Search for "multi" in Tags. Find:
multiple-monitors x12
multiscreen x3
multi-monitor x2
...
CommunityBot
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Is [data] an useful tag? Do we need it? What should we do?
How to cancel hard disk from wanting to format and how to get my files back?
This question is tagged data but you know it's about data from hard-drive-recovery.
Best Light Software to Manage Large ...
CommunityBot
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Burninate or disambiguiate the [data] tag [duplicate]
Looking through data (x70), there's a lot of ambiguity:
data transmission
data encryption
data recovery
data saving
data in Excel
data editing
So, unless somebody wants to retag these manually, I'd ...
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What do we do about [web-conference], [conference] and [video-conferencing]?
I've found a set of conference-related tags, here are the retags I have already did:
Retagged 4 questions from conferencing to conference. 1, 2, 3, 4
Retagged 2 questions from teleconference to ...
CommunityBot
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Retag windows-8 as windows-8-preview
As of now, Windows 8 is not out, and as such, all questions with tag windows-8 really relate to the preview, and should be retagged as such to windows-8-preview
This is in line with implementing the ...
CommunityBot
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Related or synonymous tags: [monitor] and [screen] [duplicate]
The tag screen appears to be a mix of
the same topics as monitor
GNU Screen (which has its own tag gnu-screen)
Should something be done about this? Perhaps separating the two into monitor and gnu-...
CommunityBot
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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 matter,...
randomMod
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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 ...
CommunityBot
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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 can ...
CommunityBot
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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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Retag request X and x11
Please merge tags x, x11 and xorg See Daniel Beck’s comment. They seem to refer to the same thing.
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Retag request: [case] <--> [computer-case]
The tags case and computer-case look like they are duplicates of each others.
Which one should we keep? Or are there any more specific uses to case?
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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.
CommunityBot
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The [xps] tag... What is it intended to refer to?
I just noticed that the xps tag seems to refer to two different things: the Dell computer series, and the .xps file type. Which was it intended to refer to, and if one, should the tag be removed from ...
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Please help clean up the ambiguous Apple iWork Tags
Apple has cleverly named their iWork products "Pages", "Numbers" and "Keynote".
We therefore have three tags:
pages, currently 69 tagged, mostly very ambiguous
keynote, currently 34 tagged, all ...
CommunityBot
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"mono" tag as in "vs .net" and as in "vs. stereo"
There seem to be two uses of the tag "mono", one for questions related to audio and one for questions related to the Mono framework.
Wouldn't it be better to create a tag "mono-framework" and retag ...
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Grouping various tags regarding energy efficiency
I've recently gained the rep to retag, so when I saw this question and didn't think the energy tag made sense (yes it's about energy, but really something like "energy efficiency" would be ...
CommunityBot
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Merge ram and memory?
[ram] has 277 questions; [memory] has 296. Should we:
Merge the two into [ram]?
Merge the two into [memory]?
Leave both of them alone?
Retag [memory] questions that aren't about RAM into another tag, ...
CommunityBot
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SU retag request: hdd, bluescreen, karmic, torrent, ...
Tags in need of automated retagging:
[xp] (31) to [windows-xp] (1987)
[vista] (57) to [windows-vista] (1239)
[hdd] (37) to [hard-drive] (493)
[bluescreen] (33) to [bsod] (65) [*]
[karmic] (47) to [...
CommunityBot
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Merge tags driver, drivers, and device-driver on SU
This is a simple retag request:
Merge driver, drivers, and device-driver.
driver is the most common, so they should probably be merged into that.
Actually, as a few people have pointed out, ...
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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, ...
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merge [shortcut], [shortcuts] and [keyboard-shortcuts] on superuser
On superuser we have
[keyboard-shortcuts] x 34
[shortcuts] x 4
[shortcut] x 2
I was thinking of changing the 6 ones labeled shortcuts and shortcut to keyboard-shortcuts as this would be the least ...
CommunityBot
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What is the standard term for a USB flash-drive/pen/thumb/stick?
There are several questions, particularly on Super User, which refer to the use of these drives but there isn't a standard term in use nor a standard tag. Though SU has 'thumb drive', it is not ...
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Change virtualmachine and virtualdesktop to virtual-machine and virtual-desktop
I've seen many multi-word tags without hyphen in superuser.
The last ones being virtualmachine and virtualdesktop.
Should they be changed this way?:
virtualmachine => virtual-machine
...
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Microsoft related Retagging
I've noticed some alternate tags that should be cleaned up. The first one listed for each of these should be correct (unless I don't know of some other naming convention).
windows-7
windows7
windows-...
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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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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 ...
CommunityBot
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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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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 tag....
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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 robots,...
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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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