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Where can I ask this question about Computer Screen Technology?
I have asked a question about Computer Screens on Super User. Specifically, about understanding their (supposedly different) technology, certainly not a question about their use as computer screens (...
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How is this question about resolution off-topic?
I have asked a question about Upschaling and Pixel Replication
I have frequently heard that it is better to have a display resolution
with the resolution of the content you want to display on the ...
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Should the [ps1] tag be used, and if not, should it be removed?
Tag ps1 has no guidance, with only 44 questions using it, however the main problem is .ps1 is a PowerShell profile and script extension, but is being used both for PowerShell and other shells that ...
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Pondering mod status tags
We've been using the status tags - things like status-review were used for 'internal' SU moderation tasks. At some point, review tags on per site meta get fed into tickets internally.
I feel like a ...
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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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Can we get a description for the [ole] tag?
Could we ask for the description of the ole tag or its removal?
I used the tag in the sense of Object Linking and Embedding in How to compare TIFF files with tags 37680 (0x9330)?, but see http://...
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Against the "restrictions" tag
So, we have a restrictions tag. I believe it is much too vague and general.
Now, true, it has 95 associated questions, but they should either just lose the tag or get more specific tags, existing or ...
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Inconsistent tags: .bash-profile (with dot) vs bashrc (no dot)
Problem
There is the tag .bash-profile, note the leading dot. Currently it has no synonyms, so the "canonical" tag is naturally with the dot. And there is also bashrc with .bashrc as its ...
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Make [on-hold] synonymous of [closed-questions]
I kindly request to make on-hold synonymous with closed-questions
"on-hold" was a wording used between 2013 and 2019. Nowadays, it's used "closed":
on-hold has no tag wiki and has ...
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Use of [moderation] in Meta
TL;DR:
Should moderation be added to questions about the general practices of using moderation privileges in Super User? Could it be better to create a new tag, i.e. "community practices" or ...
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Add the URL to a site recommendation question from Meta SE about Wordpress to [wordpress] tag excerpt
Tl;Dr: Is it OK to add the url to Where should I ask WordPress questions? (Question from Meta SE) to the wordpress tag excerpt?
The reason is that while some questions about Worpress might be on topic ...
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What to do with [google-docs], [google-drive], [google-drive-file-stream] and [google-drive-for-desktop]
google-docs has 134 questions. Several years ago, "Google Docs" was the name of what currently is called "Google Drive". See What to do with "Opening local document files in ...
user152004
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Fixing .NET tag names and synonyms to reflect the current official naming convention
In November 2020, Microsoft released .NET 5.0 and the "Core" branding was removed.
Alas, 2011's Merge some .NET tags request messed up present times by doing the opposite - removing the word ...
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Are Matrix.org questions in-topic? Also about Tag #matrix.org
I would like to discuss about questions related to #matrix.org, and discussing about a new related Tag for SuperUser.
What is Matrix.org
The Matrix.org is an Open Source, decentralized, distributed, ...
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New tag request - 'newbie-friendly'
I realise this is unlikely to be added by the newcomer themselves, but sometimes the simplest "LMGTFY" questions are from people new to a given platform/OS; they haven't yet really figured ...
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Merge [tag:power-delivery] with [tag:usb-power-delivery]
power-delivery and usb-power-delivery seem synonymous. Let's merge them?
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Merge [tag:speech-recognition] with [tag:speech-to-text]
speech-recognition and speech-to-text seem synonymous. Let's merge them?
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Let's [bypass] usage of this tag
I saw the bypass tag a few moments ago. I think it is redundant. It has no tag wiki.
I saw it when a question was asking how to bypass school controls. The tag seemed totally useless in that question.
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Suggestion to retag Microsoft Store
The Microsoft Store:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Store
was previously called the "Windows Store". To that end, I see questions under both:
https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/...
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InCopy tag creation request
My Super User question here involves Adobe InCopy. I would like to request the creation of a tag about Adobe InCopy. Could we please create such a tag? Thanks!
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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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Merge tags windows-10 and win10
I have recently noticed that, there is a tag named win10 which has a few questions on Windows 10. But there is already the major tag windows-10 and questions should use the major tag. I personally ...
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Tag wiki should provide guidance on [zoom] vs [zoom-meeting]
I've noticed that we have both zoom and a zoom-meeting tags. Some questions about the Zoom videoconferencing software are tagged with zoom, and some with zoom-meeting -- there is currently no ...
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What is the difference between the file-types and filetype tags?
What is the difference between the file-types and filetype tags?
Is it best to leave them as two separate tags or merge them together?
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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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Which sorting superuser use for displaying reputations of users in one page
I have come across this page https://superuser.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=week and most of the elements look like in sorted order, but some elements are not in sorted order.
Is it supposed to ...
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Do we really need multiple [ubuntu]s?
As of now we have:
ubuntu-8.04× 23
ubuntu-8.10× 8
ubuntu-9.04× 104
ubuntu-9.10× 433
ubuntu-10.04× 904
ubuntu-10.10× 252
ubuntu-11.04× 206
ubuntu-11.10× 131
ubuntu-12.04× 798
ubuntu-12.10× 94
ubuntu-...
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Why do we have the google-calendar tag if we can't ask questions about it here?
I'm just wondering why we have the google-calendar (or any other web application) tag here for superuser when questions on this topic are considered off topic? I recently had my question migrated ...
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Clean out our [container]
The container tag appears to be too broadly scoped to be useful in its current state. With its oldest question being from 2010, it is used for many different areas of expertise including but not ...
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Correcting tags on a question (Rejected Edit - Why?)
I edited this question to remove two misleading tags - the question has nothing to do with either PowerShell or bash. It was rejected twice, once by a subsequent edit by a high-rep user, and once by ...
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What are correct tags or SE sites for the I2P questions?
Are proper tags or SE sites for the I2P questions?
I find out some specific links maybe clarify some things about what is the I2P:
I2P Compared to Tor and
The I2P are the main alternatives to the ...
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Add tag for drive-file-stream and for google-backup-and-sync
As the old Google Drive application is being depreciated on all platforms, I vote that we need new tags for its successors Drive File Stream and Google Backup and Sync in order to distinguish between ...
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How to use redundant tags (eg microsoft-excel, excel-2007)
I think I'm not using tags correctly I was always going for the "how to ask" rule: "be as specific as possible". This edit here: https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/775074 the rejection ...
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Should [clock] be split up into 3 tags?
I was writing a question about how the clock changes between Linux and Windows, and noticed the clock tag. However, after looking over the questions, it seemed broad - or, at least, had multiple ...
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Should there be a V6 Specific Powershell Tag
Version 6 of Powershell is significantly different from every prior version. Unless I am completely missing it there is not currently a V6 specific tag. I believe that there should be one. The ...
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Reopen request for "Installing fltk on VirtualBox"
In this question: Installing fltk on VirtualBox the asker wrote:
Can someone give a very specific step-by-step instruction on how to install it?
The next day fixer1234 posted this comment asking ...
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Alpine and Alpine-Linux tag
People inadvertently choose the tag alpine (an email client) instead of alpine-linux. See the recent question How to create Alpine live-USB without using `dd`?.
I suggest to remove the tag alpine ...
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Why are there multiple versions of windows-10 tags?
I see 13 different windows-10 tags. Some of them appear to be for specific applications such as windows-10-calendar-app, but that leaves many such as windows-10-v1511, windows-10-v1709, and windows-...
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Make a [conversion] to proper tags
I couldn't think of a pun for the title that wouldn't sound more forced than witty, so the current title comes courtesy of Canadian Luke.
Looking at the conversion tag, the vast majority of the ...
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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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Tag suggestion for the new kind of browsers extensions
Can we have a "webextension" tag, (and/or a tag for E10s)?
PS: Saying "I disagree" if you disagree, is enough, no need to downvote every tag suggestion.
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The scope of the [windows] tag
[windows] tag currently applies to all versions of Windows:
For questions not specific to a single version of Microsoft Windows.
Otherwise, use a more specific tag such as [windows-7] or
[...
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Is a preview of [preview-pane] enough?
We have a new tag preview-pane on a question about the Windows Explorer preview pane, and would like to get community input on the tag. I thought we had either this tag or preview-panel previously ...
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Consolidate reverse-dns and dns.ptr?
We have 12 questions tagged reverse-dns (the tag, itself is undefined).
We have a new tag dns.ptr, with a wiki excerpt. This tag has only been applied to two questions so far. There are 132 ...
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Should Windows users be allowed to comment on *nix tagged questions?
It can be generally observed that there is a difference in aptitude and attitude between Windows users, and Linux/BSD/OSX (*nix) users.
I would suggest it would be beneficial for questions tagged ...
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Google Apps is now called G Suite
Google has renamed Google Apps to G Suite:
We created Google Apps to help people everywhere work and innovate
together, so organizations can move faster and achieve more. On
September 29, 2016, ...
DavidPostillMod
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Clarification on [mac] and [osx]
Relevant tag information
mac:
Hardware related questions of computers sold/made by Apple. Use [osx]
for the operating system, and use [mac-address] for MAC addresses
instead.
osx:
A Unix-based ...
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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 clean up tools
I'm sorry I couldn't think of a witty title.
I've been helping a lot recently with the ongoing tag clean up and I had a couple of ideas on how how to help further and speed up the process.
Firstly, ...
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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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