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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
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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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Let's bring [tables] to the table
tables is a very broad tag, which currently has no tag wiki and encompasses everything from questions about Excel, SQL tables, tables in Microsoft Word, and a whole host of other things. In other ...
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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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Kill the [identification] tag
A very typical meta tag: identification for all kinds of "identify this for me" questions.
Most of these are barely useful and can probably be closed and deleted while cleaning up the tag.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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.
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Should we delete the [homework] tag?
The homework tag is a meta-tag, which is explicitly discouraged. Should we delete the homework tag from all questions? Although a question may be about homework, there's nothing useful gained by ...
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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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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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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 [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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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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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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Eliminate the [home] tag?
home is an undefined tag with one question and it is closed as off-topic. Is this a needed tag?
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Files and folders everywhere
I hate to see these perfect examples of our tag problem go, but, oh well.
Please help clean up the tags:
file 1407 - 679 141 questions
folder 1129 - 857 319 questions
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Normalize [normalize]
normalize is used mostly to mean equalizing volume. However, some questions use the tag to mean standardize the format of a document or spreadsheet. Although there are not yet any examples, the term ...
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Canning the ccna tag
The ccna tag seems to either be "I saw this question in an exam" IE - not a actual problem or dosen't really add to the searchability of a question. There's 7 instances of it, a good chunk of which ...
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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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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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Remove [os-rot] tag?
os-rot contains two questions. One was a duplicate (of a question that didn't need the tag). The other asked, "What is OS rot?" in response to the duplicate. It appears to be unnecessary and not ...
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Eliminate [point] tag?
point has seven questions with almost as many tag definitions. It has been used to mean restore point, mounting point, wireless access point, and location on an image. There were no examples of data ...
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Can we pair off [pairing] with [bluetooth]?
pairing is a tag specifically for pairing bluetooth devices, according to it's Wiki. However I'm not convinced it's different enough of a topic area from bluetooth to warrant it's own tag.
Should we ...
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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 ...
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Un-referencing the [reference] tag
It only has 7 questions, but I can't imagine reference is specific enough to be useful. I didn't want to just clear this out without asking others if it could be useful.
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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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Replacement needs a replacement
replacement
Questions range from file replacement to find and replace text to hardware replacement
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Should we put a limit on [limit]?
limit is a meta-tag used for a bunch of totally different purposes. Scanning the first page of questions I find questions about limiting
screen resolution
number of files
downloaded amount
parallel ...
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Tag cleanup: Delete the [bug-report] tag
The bug-report tag doesn't specify any cohesive topic. Instead, there are questions under this tag about:
how to report bugs to developers;
issues caused by specific bugs, whether identified by the ...
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Tags beyond saving
save (merged into saving)
save-as (merged into saving)
saving
These tags need to die.
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Nuke the [damage] tag
The tag damage is too vague, and people use it for very different things. Please block it.
MokubaiMod
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Size doesn't matter
It's not the size that matters; it's how you use it. That being said, I have no use for these size-related tags:
size (155)
resize (207) (merged into size)
filesize (96) (merged into size)
folder-...
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Filter the [filter] tag [duplicate]
Well, another useless meta tag - filter has a useless Tag Wiki and Tag Wiki Exert, and does not enhance any of the questions tagged with it. There was another request already to kill it, but it looks ...
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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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No OpenID end point found
I always use Yahoo account as open ID to login in my superuser account but it was working fine till yesterday after that it is saying No OpenID endpoint found.
I want to know why this problem is ...
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Is the [multitouch] tag needed?
Tag multi-touch is useless because these years almost all devices support multi touch, and we have other tags such as touchpad or touchscreen that is used for every question with the multi-touch tag. ...
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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 ...
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Merge [email-rules] and [email-filter]
email-rules has 1 follower and 61 67 uses:
Actions performed automatically on incoming or outgoing messages, based on conditions that you specify.
email-filter has 0 followers and 48 51 uses:
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