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The next [selection] for burnination
The selection tag has 131 questions and 0 followers. Questions with this tag cover the entire scope of the site. The tag serves absolutely zero purpose and should be wiped from the face of Super User ...
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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 ...
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Sonicwall: Is it a manufacturer tag?
As part of the ongoing manufacturer tag clean up I came across this question:
L2PT VPN ports are not opening
Which is tagged with sonicwall, I was wondering if this is considered a manufacturer or ...
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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: [editor]
I was looking for an example for my question on tag definitions and came across editor, which isn't the best example because it obviously needs tag cleanup. So this is a tag cleanup request. In ...
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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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Split the [manual] tag
manual usage is evenly divided between people referring to documentation and people referring to doing things by hand. Recommend splitting it into two tags that each have a consistent meaning. ...
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Clear up the [clear] tag
clear is another undefined tag that is used is multiple ways:
the "Clear" command in a number of command languages
To empty various lists like history, cache, or cookies
Clear (TM) brand hardware
to ...
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Document or shred [manual]?
manual is an undefined tag that originally had 20-some motley questions. I cleaned up the ones where the tag was just decoration, or should have been a more accurate existing tag, like [command-line] ...
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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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Let's expel [native]
native is undefined and has 12 questions, pretty much each about something different. Does anyone object to nuking this tag?
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We're not a bank, get rid of [audit] (or replace it with less ambiguous tags)
audit isn't useful as it refers to a whole bunch of different topics, including license auditing, security auditing, and software auditing.
Can we get rid of it, or perhaps retag questions with less ...
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Cleanup up [organization] tag [duplicate]
Most of the 98 questions with the undefined organization tag refer to providing structure, and that is probably the appropriate usage. There are some exceptions that should be retagged. A number ...
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Glitch tag cleanup now completed
Similar to yesterday's question: Looking at the planned tag cleanup requests, the tag glitch has now been cleared. No questions remain.
So, can the question: Remove the [Glitch] tag now be set to ...
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Options tag cleanup now completed
Looking at the planned tag cleanup requests, there is one, options, that now has no tagged questions.
So, shouldn't the question: Too many [options] to choose from now be set to status-completed?
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Can we [design] a better tag?
design: "Questions relating to software used for graphic design, web design, computer-aided design, et cetera." It appears to have been intended as a catch-all tag for software that didn't have a ...
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Time to change [pop] flavor(s)
I see 12 questions using this tag.
25% of the questions are related to pop-ups.
75% are related to the Post Office Protocol.
So (at the time I'm making this question) we really have two separate ...
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Archive the outlook-archive
We have 23 questions tagged outlook-archive and 113 questions tagged pst.
Both are about .pst files used by Outlook.
We do not have any special -archive tags for other programs. E.g. no thunderbird-...
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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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The theory tag may be redundant
theory has 15 questions. Some are low quality but out of scope. Its also a classic meta-tag, and considering our close reasons contain a mention of practical problems, I propose we nuke this
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Unsynonomize [synaptic] and [synaptics]
Synaptics is a company that makes human interface devices like touchpads. Synaptic is a Linux package manager that works with Apt. At some point in the past, these two tags were incorrectly ...
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Pummel [panel]?
panel is an undefined tag with 42 questions. Even if it was defined, it begs misuse because it can apply to so many different kinds of things, and people don't read the wiki excerpts. Should we beat ...
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Drop kick [dropout]
Is dropout useful?
A long time ago it was identified as a tag that should never be the only tag on a question...a good sign it's a meta tag.
There are only 4 questions tagged as such so I get it's ...
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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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Skip the [skipping] tag?
skipping has no wiki definition and is used in various ways:
failing to process fragments of audio or video
intentionally ignoring items when processing a list like a playlist
searching for the ...
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Time up on the [trial]?
I have recently discovered the trial tag. The questions in it all appear to low quality. Is it worth retiring this tag?
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Burninate or clean up the tag [dual]
We currently have 48 questions tagged dual.
There questions are on different subjects:
Dual ISPs
Dual dual mail accounts
Dual monitors
Dual graphics cards
Dual boot
Dual OS installations (...
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aria2 vs. aria2c?
A proposed tag wiki edit raised a question about two tags: aria2 and aria2c. The first has 5 questions, the second has 8, and a number of these questions have both.
I'm not familiar with the program,...
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Send out [newsletters]
newsletters has no usage guidance, there are 14 questions tagged with it, mainly about format of newsletters, or sending newsletters in e-mail.
I see it from time to time as a favoured tag of spam ...
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Don't give us static about deleting [dynamic]
dynamic is meaningless. Seems like it mostly attracts Excel-related question for some reason. There are also some questions on random topics, like folder binding, task scheduler, DDNS, dynamically ...
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Is there any difference between the tags "windows-server-2003" and "windows-2003-server"?
Discovered a few semi-related tags:
windows-server-2003
539 questions, 10 this year
this has a good excerpt, but no tag wiki
windows-2003-server
19 questions, 2 this year
this has nothing... no ...
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Are we [licensed] for all this?
I think license-key and product-key should be synonyms. There's also software-activation.
I also don't see why the 12 volume-license questions aren't just tagged with license given you can get volume ...
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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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We should cleanup/remove the [combine] tag
There are around 100 questions with the tag combine. Some of them are related to combining or merging items, and for others, I don't know why they're tagged with it at all.
I don't think this tag adds ...
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Is there a way to block the recreation of the [bug] tag on the main site?
I've been editing out the bug tag from threads on the main site because I've noticed that there were just a few questions tagged with it and that it doesn't improve the post in any way that can't be ...
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Let's deal with the [if] tag, else it'll become a problem
The if tag exists, most notably on questions about the IF functionality in Microsoft Excel, but it has been used for all sorts of conditional and branching questions.
Is it worth keeping separate? ...
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User SS64 updating URLs, but old URLs still work
A user named SS64 is editing several links to the (really good resource) site ss64.com on various posts, changing the path from https://ss64.com/osx/... to https://ss64.com/mac/...
The old ../osx/... ...
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Should we enable a banner to warn about our policy on AI-generated content?
As you may have heard, Stack Exchange has announced a new feature: Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content.
This feature could be useful for Super ...
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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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Is this text on a help article a bug (or something else)?
In the editing help article it says:
if(thisSite.Settings.Site.StyleCodeByDefault) { Code blocks will be
highlighted using highlight.js. In many cases, the syntax highlighting
language will be ...
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Location of the "( visit meta )" link
Can we please move that link to top right? Like this "log out | about | meta | faq" ? Please?
Update: Here is a screenshot
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Question of the week #43 [duplicate]
Ok so apparently nobody was interested in the whole "42" thing, so we'll go back to the normal Question of the Week nominations:
Now we're into post #43 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the ...
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Logistics for Cleanup Weekend 2
We are having another cleanup weekend.
This time we will focus on:
fixing the rest of the broken images (most of this work has been completed)
cleaning up some more tags
The cleanup will last for ...
DavidPostillMod
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Let's part ways with [computer-parts]
computer-parts appears to be a useless meta tag. Nobody is an expert on all computer parts and there is no reason to search for questions using that tag that I can think of.
Should we remove this tag?...
DavidPostillMod
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Vampyric tags: [design] won't die
design didn't die like we wanted it to.
The answer to life, the universe, and everything may be among the questions tagged with it, but these still cover such a broad swath of computery experience ...
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Recovery tag needs to stop recovering
I think that the recovery Tag is far too broad as there are so many different types of recovery (which also have tags for them) such as data-recovery, password-recovery, partition-recovery and so on. ...
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[hardware-combination]: lock it away
hardware-combination decorates questions about anything that contains two or more non-identical components.
mixing RAM of different speeds
how to orient the fan on a computer case that contains a ...
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Ship [shipping] to /dev/null
We have six questions tagged shipping. The tag has no description and there seems to be no clear usage for it.
I would like to remove it completely.
Opinions please.
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Is application-error an error?
We have a tag, application-error, with 79 questions. Since a good percentage of software questions could be labeled "application error", it is not only meta, but does nothing to differentiate ...
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