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Are these Fail2Ban, Munin and “Failed password” related questions more appropriate for Server Fault?

While I spend a good chunk of time here on Super User, my day-to-day/work-a-day head is in the Linux server administration world. A lot of times there’s overlap between “power user” needs and server ...
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Eliminate results

Meta tag results has four questions, zero followers, and zero utility. Can we nuke it?
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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 ...
Máté Juhász's user avatar
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Tag cleanup: Delete the tag [collecting]

There are currently five questions with the tag collecting, some of them has some relation to collection, list... I don't even understand the meaning of this tag, neither can imagine an expert of ...
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Do we have any experts on "applications"?

The applications tag has suddenly been added to a lot of posts by an enthusiastic tagger. There are now over 400 questions. I didn't do an exhaustive review of these, but for the ones I looked at, ...
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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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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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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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Question closed as duplicate of a similar one

I just posted this question about enabling font smoothing for select applications, and it got closed as a dupe of a problem with quick switching for all applications. I understand it must have been an ...
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Remove the [Glitch] tag

The glitch tag has no use. The top five questions don't relate at all. In order: Glitch detection in MP3 files Glitchy GPU output Office 2013 drawing oddly Mouse moving on its own Sound card ...
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Split the [dolphin] tag

dolphin is currently used for both the file manager and the Dolphin emulator. The tag info says: File manager for KDE As there are only 13 questions tagged with dolphin, and as I don't have ...
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modprobe -r [modules]

60 questions tagged modules. Most of them are dealing with kernel-modules. Others talk about Apache2/Perl/Python/Puppet/Drupal/Slax modules. There's even one about memory modules. The [modules] tag ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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We're in the [same-state] as a messy tagged site

Does anyone know how to be an expert at same-state? Who are the experts that would benefit from this tag? Get rid of it!
Canadian Luke's user avatar
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Do people still use a [downloader]?

Nice useless meta tag. downloader is only a useful tag when people tell you just what downloader they are using. On its own it serves no purpose. Only a few questions tagged with it so it's an easy ...
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Too many [options] to choose from

There are a lot of questions tagged with options. It's extremely meta, and there are no "options" experts that would benefit from a tag like this. I suggest burninate, and black list.
Canadian Luke's user avatar
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Close down the [small-business] here!

The small-business tag seems quite meta, and I don't see how an "expert" in small business would profit from using this tag. Thoughts? Should we keep it or get rid of it?
Canadian Luke's user avatar
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You're fired: Burn the [position] tag

position seems quite meta - no useful description, and no consistency, and it will not help experts in "positioning" find questions, in my opinion. I vote to fire it
Canadian Luke's user avatar
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DROP [columns] FROM tags;

There are 103 questions tagged with columns, and they are all over the map: several Excel questions that involve a column of data somehow (i.e., Excel questions), some questions about manipulating ...
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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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Burninate or clean up the tags [freeware] and [shareware]

Could we burninate or clean up the tags freeware and shareware? They are meta tags without explanation about the topic, usually used for off topic searches for software or licence issues.
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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
Canadian Luke's user avatar
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The [helpdesk] tag isn't helpful

If you look at helpdesk, most of the questions have nothing to do with helpdesks, or they are denoting a "helpdesk"-style question. I recommend that this tag be deleted because it does not have a ...
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Go green with environment-related tags

There are three overlapping environment-related tags: environment, work-environment, and physical-environment, none of which are defined, plus desktop-environments, which does not overlap. I did some ...
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Everyone's talking about the same [dialogue]

dialog and dialogbox are defined and synonomized. dialogue is undefined and had one question. I edited the tag to change it to [dialog], which leaves [dialogue] empty. If the alternate spelling is ...
fixer1234's user avatar
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Make a decision on [decision-tree]

decision-tree is an undefined meta tag with two questions, both of them closed. Recommend deleting the tag.
fixer1234's user avatar
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The tag [os-agnostic] is meaningless

os-agnostic is a classic example of a meta-tag. It doesn't provide any meaningful information and should be deleted.
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No excuse for [odd-behavior]

odd-behavior doesn't seem to be very meaningful. It's very vague as it just means something is acting oddly, failing to denote any cohesive topic. I suggest that this tag be deleted.
bwDraco's user avatar
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Eliminate [capabilities]

capabilities is an undefined meta tag that does not appear to add value to any of the three questions using it. One of the questions should probably use [permissions] or [file-permissions] instead. ...
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Stop mis[behavior]

behavior is a meta tag that does not appear to add value. A few of the 8 questions with this tag could benefit from the addition of an existing specific tag (unrelated to "behavior"). Recommend ...
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Eliminate [annoyance]

annoyance is a meta tag that serves only to diminish any question it is attached to. Actually, it's not even a meta tag, it's a comment tag. Recommend simply deleting it (4 questions, which makes ...
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What action on [action]?

I'm not sure what to recommend for the undefined action tag. The questions all seem to have something in common and "action" is probably the best single word to describe the concept they share. If ...
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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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Kill the [live] tag

live is undefined and used in many ways: booting into memory-resident OS streaming multi-media accomplishing a secondary task during an active process Windows Live etc., including irrelevant usage ...
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Tag cleanup: [interface]

interface is an undefined, ambiguous tag that appears to be unnecessary as a stand-alone tag. It is used to mean: network interface (existing specific tag) user interface (existing specific tag) ...
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Tag cleanup: [electronics]

electronics appears to be a pretty useless, undefined tag. Many of the questions contain this tag only because computers and related devices use electronics. Aside from that, usage includes: ...
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Erase the [notes]

notes is an undefined tag with multiple uses: The "Notes" feature of various software The Notes page in PowerPoint Small text files Endnote Lotus Notes Notes 9 Webmail Evernote MS Onenote Request for ...
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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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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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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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Reverse the [vlc] synonym direction?

Currently, vlc-media-player is synonymised to vlc. I think it would be better the other way around. Doing so, we would: Reduce the ambiguity of the tag. It would then be obvious, even to people who'...
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Eliminate the [skills] tag?

skills is undefined. It has two questions, both generally about acquiring skills. Acquiring skills seems off-topic. The tag doesn't add anything to either question. Should it be eliminated?
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Is the [ethics] tag appropriate?

ethics is an undefined tag. It has two questions, both closed. Comments on both go to the issue of whether ethics is an appropriate topic for this site. I would think the existence of the tag would ...
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Is [crowd] needed?

crowd is undefined. It has one question which never received an answer. The question appears to be about basic functionality which would seem to indicate that there is not much familiarity with it ...
fixer1234's user avatar
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Eliminate the [home] tag?

home is an undefined tag with one question and it is closed as off-topic. Is this a needed tag?
fixer1234's user avatar
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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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Separate the [separator] tag

I don't even understand why this tag exists. Only 5 questions.
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Eliminate [temporary] permanently?

Many of the questions with the temporary tag deal with temp variables, folders or files, but otherwise, this is a motley collection of stuff. Does this tag add value for any use?
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