Questions tagged [retag-request]
Questions that are asking to have some questions retagged, usually for a misused tag, or generally removing a tag
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Merge "jabber" and "xmpp"
jabber and xmpp are synonyms on Stack Overflow. They should be synonyms on Super User also.
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Merge [EFI] and [UEFI] tags?
The tag description for EFI is :
EFI stands for Extensible Firmware Interface, and is an updated version of BIOS. It sits between firmware and the operating system in the software stack.
while ...
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Ongoing community task: ensure there are no [untagged] questions
The tag untagged is applied to questions which either have all their tags burninated, or to questions migrated from other sites (when tags from the origin site do not match any tags here).
According ...
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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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Merge [browsing] and [multiple-browsers] into [browser]
I think these tags are too similar to be different tags. browsing and browser are basically the same, and if the purpose of multiple-browsers is to be more general (not browser-specific) then I think ...
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Merge [aero-snap] and [windows-snap-assist]
aero-snap has 44 questions whereas there are only 7 questions in windows-snap-assist. They're small enough that none of them has a wiki. They're all about snapping feature in Windows Aero
aero and ...
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Stick it to [pin]
pin is undefined, with 35 questions and many meanings:
Damaged pins on chips, connectors, etc.
Personal Identification Number
Connector configurations
Anchoring an application, folder, etc.
Deskpins
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Tag for blacklisting - for
As a follow-up to https://meta.superuser.com/questions/6059/tag-for-removal-for and as suggested by slhck ♦, am requesting for the for tag to be blacklisted.
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Scan related tags
I think we need to sort out the following scan-related tags:
scanner x 155
scanning x 87
printer-scanner x 9
document-scanning x 5
scan x 1
The rest are barcode-scanner, scan-disk and overscan which ...
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Do we need [privileges] and [permissions]?
I don't think we need either, but at the very least, privileges should be merged into permissions (or the other way around).
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Screen Recording and Screen Capturing tags
I would merge desktop-recording (x8) and screen-recorder (x18) into screen-capture (x122).
After that, should we — per Daniel's suggestion — try to split up screen-capture into more precise tags, i.e....
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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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Retag [mikrotik] to [mikrotik-routeros] or [mikrotik-swos]
mikrotik is a manufacturer meta-tag. Mikrotik makes a variety of routers, but for all intents and purposes they have two main products: RouterOS and SwOS (their operating system for switches). I ...
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[internet], [connection] and [internet-connection]
First of all, there are 91 questions tagged with internetconnection (both) that should be retagged with internet-connection.
Second, what's the difference between internet and internet-connection? ...
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What should we do with [diy]?
The diy (do it yourself, x22) tag covers
computer-building in the sense of assembling your own machine
repair in the sense of doing the repair yourself
"DIY" alone doesn't really have a purpose. ...
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Time to [exchange] with [microsoft-exchange]
In 2011, Microsoft products were retagged to include Microsoft in the tag title. (See 'Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?')
Because of this, we have consistently named tags for microsoft-...
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Cleaning [gigabyte] tag
I saw that the gigabyte tag said "Use this tag for questions concerning gigabyte technology, a hardware manufaturer - not filesize." (I also submitted a suggested edit for the typo in the tag wiki - ...
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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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Proposed resolution for [ide]
Every few years, we do a cleanup of ide tags, for example:
Many questions tagged "ide" should be tagged "pata"
Old monthly tag cleanups
Someone just anonymously cleaned up ...
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differentiate tags text-editors text-editing and text-manipulation, add automated-text-manipulation
Currently, questions tagged as text-editing fall in two categories: 1. with visual text editors, 2. with parametrised programmes.
I here suggest the removal of the text-editing tag. More questions ...
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Request to rename [label-printer] tag
Previous question remove-the-label-tag discusses cleaning up the label tag. One aspect of that is pulling out questions that deal with label printing and putting them under a specific tag. There was ...
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Let's steer clear of [Navigation]
navigation is currently undefined. It is not necessarily a bad tag. The vast majority of questions relate to moving around in the user environment of the computer. There are a few exceptions. Some ...
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Tag deletion request: register
As shown on https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/register
There are only 16 questions tagged with register.
Within them, I found the following "meanings" for register:
register as Registry
CPU ...
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High Definition tags
I think we can merge / rename / remove some of the following HD tags:
hdtv x 93
high-definition (hd) x 57
hdvideo x 51
What do you think?
hd-dvd x 5
fullhd x 2
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Burninate [tiles]; Retag as [live-tiles]
A majority of the questions tagged with tiles (27 questions) appear to be about the live-tiles (42 questions) introduced in Windows 8.
I don't think the tag should be added as a synonym, since "Tiles"...
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Bad name for [modern-ui] tag
modern-ui was AFAIK never the official name from Microsoft. It was always either knows by the codename “Metro”, by the internally used name “Immersive” or by the moniker “Windows Store apps”
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Merge [laptop-repair] into [repair]
repair x 247
laptop-repair x 81
I think these laptop-repair should be merged into repair - just like battery and laptop-battery - (link).
Questions about laptop repair can be tagged with laptop and ...
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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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Duplicate tags about duplicate files
deduplication
duplicate seems to be used for deduplication but some are about how to create duplicate files.
duplicate-files
duplicating
I suggest merging into deduplication for most of those ...
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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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Tag cleanup: Delete / merge [function] tag
function has no description, but it has cc 130 questions.
In most of the cases it's used as synonym of worksheet-function (with or without it), and sometimes referring to functions in scripts or ...
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Get rid of product-rec tag
product-rec looks to be a good candidate for deletion, or do we keep it around as a match for software-rec and hardware-rec?
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Make [blue-ray] a synonym of [blu-ray] and [bluray]
bluray is already a synonym of blu-ray, so why not make blue-ray a synonym as well?
(Hope no-one creates blueray!)
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