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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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There ain't no such thing as a free tag
The free tag has 107 questions tagged to it - it dosen't have very much of a practical purpose (free what? Free as in beer? Free as in speech? Free hugs? Free space?), so, perhaps mercifully ...
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Combine [l2-cache] and [l3-cache] into [cpu-cache]?
l2-cache: 6 questions
l3-cache: 1 question
Is it really necessary to be so specific? We already have cache and cpu which together cover the CPU cache. cpu-cache could be created but having separate ...
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Make [unity] a synonym of [ubuntu-unity]
unity (×21) refers both to:
ubuntu-unity (×21), Ubuntu's new default desktop
vmware-unity (×12), a special display mode in VMware
I've already mapped all "unity" questions that ...
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Tag merging suggestion: [joystick] [joypad] [gamepad]
I propose to merge joystick joypad and gamepad (with a total of 25 questions) into game-controller; as we do not get many questions targeting one specific type of game controller, instead, having one ...
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The [howto] tag seems barely useful, please burninate
I call the mighty Trogdor to burninate …
howto
… a tag with 49 questions. Why delete? Having the tag doesn't add any value to a question. People probably shouldn't specifically ask for how-tos, ...
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Firefox versions going to infinity – should we merge the tags?
This is an update to: Merge firefox-related tags?
We now have:
firefox-3.6 x33
firefox-4 x129
firefox-5 x33
firefox-6 x15
firefox-7 x8
(nothing in between)
firefox-10 x4
How is this going to end up?...
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What do we do about [web-conference], [conference] and [video-conferencing]?
I've found a set of conference-related tags, here are the retags I have already did:
Retagged 4 questions from conferencing to conference. 1, 2, 3, 4
Retagged 2 questions from teleconference to ...
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The [touch] tag is ambiguous
touch has 24 questions and no wiki. Some of these questions are obviously talking about touchpad (175 questions) or touchscreen (52 questions), but some are talking about a device with touch in the ...
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Kill the [software-tools] tag
The tag software-tools seems like a perfect meta-tag.
It could never be the only tag of a question.
What are "software tools", even?
People often abuse it for software-recs. Also, a common mistake ...
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Ambiguous tag: [build]
The build (x31) tag seems ambiguous. It either relates to:
building a computer or accessories
building software (e.g. with make, etc.)
What should we do with these?
Note: I stick to answering my ...
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The 'Things' tag should be renamed
things refers to the program Things. Makes sense. There was no wiki on this, so I just stumbled on to it. Of the 6 questions tagged with things at least 4 of them give some specifics as to what "...
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Merge [encoder] → [video-encoding]
Questions currently tagged under encoder (x8) all are about video-encoding, and therefore should be merged.
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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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Retag windows-8 as windows-8-preview
As of now, Windows 8 is not out, and as such, all questions with tag windows-8 really relate to the preview, and should be retagged as such to windows-8-preview
This is in line with implementing the ...
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Get rid of the [annoyances] tag
I was surprised to see that we have a tag called annoyances (99 questions). Really?
Burninate it, fast! Trogdor, I summon you!
It is obvious that this is a useless meta-tag, that adds no valuable ...
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Retag request X and x11
Please merge tags x, x11 and xorg See Daniel Beck’s comment. They seem to refer to the same thing.
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Remove the [tweaks] tag
The tag tweaks (x60) is very broad and does not really serve any good purpose.
It never adds value to any given tag combination, since you mostly want to "tweak" a certain thing – and we already ...
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Merge [video-conversion] → [video-converter]
video-conversion (x13) needs to be merged into → video-converter (x94), and a synonym needs to be created.
I would actually propose to do it the other way round, focusing on the "conversion" ...
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Burninate or disambiguiate the [data] tag [duplicate]
Looking through data (x70), there's a lot of ambiguity:
data transmission
data encryption
data recovery
data saving
data in Excel
data editing
So, unless somebody wants to retag these manually, I'd ...
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Merge [radeon] into [ati-radeon]
radeon (x13) should be merged into ati-radeon (x94). It should also be a synonym of the latter.
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Merge [vaio] into [sony-vaio]
vaio (x11) should be merged into sony-vaio (x93) and be made a synonym thereof.
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The [xps] tag... What is it intended to refer to?
I just noticed that the xps tag seems to refer to two different things: the Dell computer series, and the .xps file type. Which was it intended to refer to, and if one, should the tag be removed from ...
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What’s up with the volume tag? [closed]
The volume tag is a mixup of partitioning questions and audio questions.
Could someone sort it out? (FYI it's the same mistake done by Polish Windows translators: translating "volume manager" like it ...
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Merge [benchmarks] into [benchmarking]
benchmarks (x6) should be merged into benchmarking (x73).
Additionally, there should be a new synonym benchmarking ← benchmarks.
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The [failure] tag, a story of fail?
Please look at the 226 questions under failure.
We are a site for computer problems. Tags such as "error" often don't add any additional value. The same goes for "failure", and it's probably a bit ...
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Retag request: [case] <--> [computer-case]
The tags case and computer-case look like they are duplicates of each others.
Which one should we keep? Or are there any more specific uses to case?
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What could we do with the [error] tag?
Well, we have a tag called error. Its description says:
Please use a more specific tag instead.
Awesome. So what do all these 547 questions have in common? A non-descriptive tag. On Oct. 10, @...
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Merge [external-display] and [external-monitor]
There's
external-display, 121 questions
external-monitor, 13 questions
As the two are obviously synonyms, and the first one is much more widely used, I suggest to:
Merge external-display and ...
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Can `ui` tag be merged with `user-interface`?
There are two tags which have the same meaning:
ui (15 questions),
user-interface (89 questions).
I imagine that ui may be removed, and the 15 questions retagged with user-interface.
What do you ...
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"mono" tag as in "vs .net" and as in "vs. stereo"
There seem to be two uses of the tag "mono", one for questions related to audio and one for questions related to the Mono framework.
Wouldn't it be better to create a tag "mono-framework" and retag ...
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Can Trogdor please burninate the [must-have] tag
Found another meta tag today must-have
I call upon the mighty and hope that he does what he does best.
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Help clean up the Mac Office tags
Office for Mac uses versions like 2008 and 2011, which makes it different from Office for Windows (2003, 2007, 2010).
The word tag wiki suggests that for Mac there should be:
word-2004
word-2008
...
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Merge [search-and-replace] and [find-and-replace]
There are:
find-and-replace (56 tagged)
search-and-replace (17 tagged).
I'd propose to merge them. There's no difference between these two. Then, create a synonym for search-and-replace → ...
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Should we nuke the [calculations], [research] and [malfunction] tags?
These tags have about a dozen questions each.
calculations and research are too general and ambiguous. A few questions tagged research do relate to hardware and software for academia, but even then ...
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Tag merge: [powerline-networking] and [ethernet-over-power]
There are
16 questions tagged powerline-networking
7 with homeplug
6 with ethernet-over-power
powerline-networking and ethernet-over-power should be merged into powerline-networking, I believe – ...
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request for burnination/synonyms
In reference to: Should we blacklist the [technical-support] tag?
Shouldn't we also do the same for customer-support and palm-support?
customer-support is general and also a large percentage of the ...
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Please clean up the USB drive tags?
I'm currently updating the Tag wiki for usb and found some irregularities:
usb-drive x153 – the most commonly used one, also mentions in the excerpt: "especially devices known otherwise as ...
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Please help clean up the ambiguous Apple iWork Tags
Apple has cleverly named their iWork products "Pages", "Numbers" and "Keynote".
We therefore have three tags:
pages, currently 69 tagged, mostly very ambiguous
keynote, currently 34 tagged, all ...
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Please burninate the [problem] tag
We've had it before and way before that, and also on SO, but the "problem" (which is problem) seems to be reappearing.
Can we please get rid of this meta-tag again?
By the way: There are a few ...
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Tag Nuke Requests [comcast] and [verizon-wireless]
The comcast and verizon-wireless tags are on 16 and 24 questions respectively. As they are typical US-only ISP's could the tags be removed?
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Ambiguous Tag: "atom"
Current status:
The tag atom in its current form is used for both:
The Intel Atom CPU architecture
The Atom standard for XML-based web feeds
Resolution:
There already is an intel-atom tag. I've ...
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Related or synonymous tags: [monitor] and [screen] [duplicate]
The tag screen appears to be a mix of
the same topics as monitor
GNU Screen (which has its own tag gnu-screen)
Should something be done about this? Perhaps separating the two into monitor and gnu-...
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Suggested tag synonym: blogs/blogging
blogs and blogging seem to be basically similar in content. In principle, the former could be about reading blogs and the latter writing them, but I doubt that distinction would survive. Also, blog is ...
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Can a synonym be made for the [windows-phone] tag?
The tag windows-phone-7 should be retagged windows-phone. While there are a few more instances including the 7 bit, the questions listed all apply to every current version of Windows Phone, including ...
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SU Retag Request: [tools] <--> [utilities]
tools and utilities are the same thing, right? I think they should be merged under tools.
What do you think?
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Windows 7 Edition-Specific Tags
There's a couple tags currently out there with <10 posts each, and I'm wondering if they're actually necessary:
windows-7-home-premium and windows-7-professional
While I'm aware that there are ...
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