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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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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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Why is [docker-for-windows] described as only for Hyper-V?
docker-for-windows's description is "Docker implementation for Windows, running on Hyper-V".
Why is limited to just Hyper-V? Even Docker Desktop on Windows by default displays the system ...
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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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How to make good tag wiki excerpts for software tags?
I recently came across the tag deluge which apparently is a BitTorrent client. Seeing that the tag had no excerpts but a few questions I wanted to add one so that users can easily see what deluge is. ...
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Proposal: [parental-controls] tag wiki excerpt should be edited, so that it's not Windows-specific
Situation
The tag wiki excerpt of the parental-controls tag makes it clear that the tag is Windows-specific.
Problem
But Mac- and Linux-using parents, too, might want to impose parental controls ...
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Specific policy on AWS & EC2?
This is a follow-up to a recent Meta question: Where do EC2 and AWS questions truly belong? That question was posted by a WebApps moderator, calling attention to inappropriate migrations to WebApps. ...
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Retune the [radio] tag?
radio was finally given a wiki excerpt. I disagree with it and figure it would be better to hash it out here than to get into volleys of retagging.
The wiki excerpt is:
A radio is a device that ...
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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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SharePoint questions
We have https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/ (currently nearly 60,000 questions compared to less than 300 here).
Should we edit the various sharepoint tags to suggest asking on sharepoint....
DavidPostillMod
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What should I do with suggested edits to the wiki of bad tags?
An edit for the abandonware tag wiki came up in the review queue, and it's a fine edit, but the tag's existence is bad. It's clearly a meta tag (i.e. it does nothing to describe a question on its own; ...
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Need a better description for [Support] tag
Can we make a better tag wiki for [Support]?
The current text is very unclear:
Better Super User through use and working out why things are or how to better your experience here.
Proposal based on ...
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Tag wiki for [php] is out of date, or Should tag wikis include "current" version numbers?
Super User has a php tag. (There is also a php5 tag, which is much less used and maybe not necessary)
I was a little surprised at first when I saw it, since it's a programming language. It does ...
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community-faq is a useless meta tag primarily serving the older users
There should be no reason to have and maintain community-faq as a living tag. Certainly not to continue pasting a boilerplate into questions themselves explaining the tag's usage.
Yes, it spawned out ...
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Why were tags for [tagged-pdf] removed?
I created a new tag about a month ago for tagged PDFs, with a substantial tag wiki (see end of this post), alongside the same tags I created for SO and tex.sx. I did so because there are quite a lot ...
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Is it okay to begin tag wiki excerpts with "for questions about..." or "a/an", or are such words noise?
I've suggested many tag wiki and excerpt edits lately. While most of them were approved, a particular moderator rejected or edited a few of them, stripping out initial words like "for questions about" ...
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Basis for defining a tag?
Many tags have no definition and instead show "Help us edit this wiki". In the time since the tags were created, people have usually used them according to their own interpretation, so there may be ...
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Can tag wiki edit review be adjusted to make plagiarism easier to catch?
In the Suggested Edits queue, plagiarism is a rejection reason unique to tag wiki edits. Plagiarized edits can be caught by googling the tag wiki text or by googling the product and examining the most ...
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How long should tag wiki excerpts be?
I noticed that a tag wiki excerpt which I suggested an edit to was heavily trimmed down. The resulting excerpt is a bit too short for my taste as it fails to even briefly describe the topic.
Was the ...
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Should the tag wiki for [security] direct people to Information Security Stack Exchange?
Would it be ok to edit the tag wiki of the [security] tag (on the main Super User) to ask people to consider asking the question on our sister site the Information Security Stack Exchange? It appears ...
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Citing and Tag wiki
Is citing required for Tag wikis that come from other sources? If so, how does one do it? I am just curious as there is plenty of info out there and if something is a direct quote, should it be cited?
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Alternatives and the campfire lists are better in the tag wiki, within reason
"Your home backup strategy" and "What is a good backup strategy for home?" are a non-constructive set of baubles with dangling opinions and suggestions on what one can do for backups.
We already ...
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Suggested tag wiki edit mostly fine, but with a portion that is bad/wrong
So I happened upon this suggested tag wiki edit (link to the revision)
PostgreSQL is the open source database started at UCB back in 1986 as Postgres project and evolved into one of the most powerful ...
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If there is no tag wiki for a tag yet, is it okay to copy the introduction from Wikipedia?
I had just noticed that the utorrent tag has no description or excerpt. So I was wondering if I could/should just copy the introduction text from Wikipedia. I don't see how I could give a better ...
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Proposed change to the Services tag wiki
The services tag wiki excerpt states:
Services are processes running regardless of users logging in. They provide access and features to different programs or processes
The terminology is clearly ...
Daniel BeckMod
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Tag wikis accepted, but excerpts rejected
I thought I could help by suggesting a few new tag wikis. Most were accepted, but in 3 of them, the tag wiki body was accepted but the excerpt was rejected, leaving them with no summary.
The edits ...
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Should I edit those pesky empty tag wikis?
Every day I plan to grab a couple of empty tag wikis and edit them to provide at least a reasonable popup information to users of Super User.
Where possible, I plan to write an extended full wiki ...
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Can we please have better tag wiki excerpts?
Today someone proposed lots of tag wiki excerpts edits that all followed the form:
Questions about <tag-name>, <description of object>.
Why do we need the Questions about element?
We don'...
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Proposed tag wiki for Microsoft Excel
This is a suggested tag wiki entry for microsoft-excel, a tag which very few users can edit and would benefit from having a more detailed tag wiki. Please see "make editing tag wikis more ...
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Proposed tag wiki for Google Chrome
This is a suggested tag wiki entry for google-chrome, a tag which very few users can edit and would benefit from having a more detailed tag wiki. Please see "make editing tag wikis more ...
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Critique my [windows-7] tag wiki
I haven't seen any other tag wiki1 pages on Super User yet, so I didn't have anything to compare it to as I wrote up the new windows-7 tag wiki page. What do you think? If you can edit it, go right ...