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Difference between [shutdown] and [system-shutdown]
What's the difference between shutdown and system-shutdown?
1/3 (16/43) of the questions that are tagged with system-shutdown are also tagged with shutdown, so I don't think the difference between ...
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Retagging [find][replace] questions with [find-and-replace]
Please retag questions tagged with findreplacement with the
find-and-replace tag.
I know I could do it myself, manually, but I thought it would be better to post about it here on meta first.
I've ...
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Merge [nvidia-geforce] and [geforce]
nvidia-geforce - 119 questions tagged.
geforce - 3 questions tagged.
These tags are identical, please merge them.
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Merge [acer-aspire-one] and [aspire-one]
acer-aspire-one - 40 questions tagged.
aspire-one - 2 questions tagged.
They're identical, please merge them.
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Merge [fn] into [fn-key]
fn tagged questions should probably be merged into the fn-key tag, since all of the fn tagged questions relate to the Fn key. There are also questions tagged with both fn and fn-key.
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Merge [omnibar] into [address-bar]
As far as I know omnibar relates either to the Safari Omnibar or to the Google Chrome omnibar / omnibox.
As for the Safari Omnibar, it's basically a tweaked location bar ("Search directly using ...
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Removing the [modification] meta-tag
modification seems like a meta-tag, as it doesn't really describe the content of the question. Also, there are only four questions under it, and two of them have been closed.
Please burninate the ...
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Merge [sound] and [audio] tags
audio - 1338 questions tagged.
sound - 692 questions tagged.
Both audio & sound - 107 questions tagged.
What is the difference between those tags?
I think that most of the users (including me) ...
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Retagging [firefox] [mozilla] questions?
Almost all of the questions tagged with mozilla are questions about Firefox or Thunderbird, for example:
Is there a Firefox extension to bookmark a specific position on a webpage?
How to override the ...
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Renaming/Merging App Store tags
I'm referring to these 4 tags:
windows-store
windows-apps
windows-store-app
app-store
I think app-store should be renamed to something like apple-app-store because the term "App Store" is no longer ...
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Use of the [extension] tag
Where should the extension tag be used?
Does it refer to browser extensions?
This question has both google-chrome-extensions and extension tags, and this question has both firefox-extensions and ...
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What is the [what-is] tag for?
what-is seems like the very definition of a meta tag.
Should we whack it?
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Tag for burnation - [new]
I've just noticed we have a new tag.
I can't see any benefit for such a tag - so it needs removing. There's at least one question where this is the only tag so it has to be a manual process.
There ...
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Please burninate the [loading] tag
loading doesn't sound like a very useful tag to me.
16 questions are tagged with it and I request that it is burninated!
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The [desktop] tag is ambiguous
desktop (x119) has questions that deal with either:
desktop (as opposed to portable) computers
an operating system's desktop environment
The tag wiki primarily concentrates on the former meaning, ...
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Please use [modern-ui] instead of [metro] for the moment, Metro conflicts
Please use Modern UI for the moment, because Metro was a code name that conflicts with Metro AG.
Feel free to update questions with the new naming as you go around making our Windows 8 part of the ...
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Burninate the 'links' tag
links is used for
Hyperlinks (web sites, HTML emails, ...)
Soft links and hard links on filesystems
Library linking
Someone probably even used it for the web browser...
Therefore it is not useful ...
Daniel BeckMod
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Correct the [lithum-ion] tag
lithum-ion is misspelled. Currently, five questions are tagged with this misspelled tag.
I propose two solutions:
Option 1: Burninate lithum-ion.
Just use the more general battery. Are different ...
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Synonym request from "system-tray" to "notification-area"
It looks like systray is already a synonym of notification-area (26 questions). However, system-tray (95 questions) is off on its own.
I would suggest merging system-tray into notification-area, ...
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Tag "lock" is a mess
The tag lock seems to be a mess.
It's used for among other things:
file locks
lock screen
keyboard lock
locking of preferences
excel
We should do something about it.
We should probably ...
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Get rid of the [hack] tag
The hack seems barely useful, more like a meta tag. It's used for hacking, but not strictly in the sense of security threats, but also "hacking" something together.
Should we remove the "hack" tag ...
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Retag + synonym [systray] => [notification-area]
Could we have systray (4 Qs) made a synonym of notification-area (19 Qs)?
At least according to Raymond Chen, the correct name is "(Taskbar) Notification Area", so the systray tag is ...
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Get rid of the "Broken" tag
Its basically the same as having a problem, issue, or other tag thats says they have a problem.
59 questions with it though, so its a little big for a manual de-tag (or not? not really sure).
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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 deletion request: unknown
It's unknown to me what this tag is supposed to mean.
Unrecognized hardware ("unknown device")?
Default file editor, or file type associations ("unknown file types")?
What is this file? ("unknown ...
Daniel BeckMod
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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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Tag [general] is so meta
Trogdor? Please burninate the tag general. No explanation necessary...
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Does [windows-xp-sp3] need its own tag?
There are 73 questions tagged windows-xp-sp3.
Does this version really need its own tag? I'm sure that questions related to specific service packs can be tagged service-pack. Also we wouldn't create ...
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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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Oh noes... [pc] Trogdor? You there?
Hello citizens of the Super User Ville!
As our website is all about these beloved personal computers, it appears to me that pc can be applied to almost any question. As so, I don't think that it is ...
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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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The silent tag... dismember and burninate?
The silent tag is used in at least two different contexts , to do with silent-installs and silent-cooling - could we get rid of the silent tag, and replace them with seperate, more accurate tags?
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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 the [tag:region] tag [closed]
region tag seems to have a mixup of unrelated questions.
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