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 or delete learning & guide-related tags

I'm referring to: tutorial x 67 learning x 43 guide x 10 guidelines x 7 troubleshooting x 739 Now, obviously they can all be merged (and if so we should also synonymize), but maybe they should be ...
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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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Combine SSMS and sql-management-studio tags

ssms and sql-management-studio tags both refer to the same application: SQL Server Management Studio. As a result there's no need to keep both tags around. While 21 questions in each here doesn't ...
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Speed-related tags

We have both speed: Questions about optimizing your computer to take up less boot time, application launch time, download time, etc. and internet-speed. I think we can either merge them, or ...
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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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Suggest a Corel Painter tag

I´m learning Corel Painter. Very nice software, but a little overwhelming for new users, I have a few questions, but Super User doesn´t have the proper tag, it has only CorelDraw, wich is no useful. ...
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Grouping various tags regarding energy efficiency

I've recently gained the rep to retag, so when I saw this question and didn't think the energy tag made sense (yes it's about energy, but really something like "energy efficiency" would be ...
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Merge ram and memory?

[ram] has 277 questions; [memory] has 296. Should we: Merge the two into [ram]? Merge the two into [memory]? Leave both of them alone? Retag [memory] questions that aren't about RAM into another tag, ...
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14 questions tagged superuser

And some of these aren't even meta questions... I'd retag them all myself, but I don't want to fill the front page with old questions. superuser
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SU retag request: hdd, bluescreen, karmic, torrent, ...

Tags in need of automated retagging: [xp] (31) to [windows-xp] (1987) [vista] (57) to [windows-vista] (1239) [hdd] (37) to [hard-drive] (493) [bluescreen] (33) to [bsod] (65) [*] [karmic] (47) to [...
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Merge tags driver, drivers, and device-driver on SU

This is a simple retag request: Merge driver, drivers, and device-driver. driver is the most common, so they should probably be merged into that. Actually, as a few people have pointed out, ...
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Let's remove the "change" tag

change is an absolutely meaningless tag. With 43 questions tagged, it should be easy to get rid of. All that's needed is a handful of users who want to go through these questions and remove the tag, ...
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Merge connection & configuration related tags

configure & configuration should be merged (although I think they both should be removed). Some of the following should be merged: connect connection connectivity disconnects disconnection ...
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merge [shortcut], [shortcuts] and [keyboard-shortcuts] on superuser

On superuser we have [keyboard-shortcuts] x 34 [shortcuts] x 4 [shortcut] x 2 I was thinking of changing the 6 ones labeled shortcuts and shortcut to keyboard-shortcuts as this would be the least ...
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What is the standard term for a USB flash-drive/pen/thumb/stick?

There are several questions, particularly on Super User, which refer to the use of these drives but there isn't a standard term in use nor a standard tag. Though SU has 'thumb drive', it is not ...
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Please merge the excel and spreadsheet tags on SuperUser

As I just asked a question on Excel, I saw that the tag spreadsheet had 3 questions (which are also about excel) and that excel has 50 questions. It feels redundant.
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Change virtualmachine and virtualdesktop to virtual-machine and virtual-desktop

I've seen many multi-word tags without hyphen in superuser. The last ones being virtualmachine and virtualdesktop. Should they be changed this way?: virtualmachine => virtual-machine ...
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Microsoft related Retagging

I've noticed some alternate tags that should be cleaned up. The first one listed for each of these should be correct (unless I don't know of some other naming convention). windows-7 windows7 windows-...
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Tag clean up request - [repeating]

There is a repeating tag. It doesn't seem to be very useful, almost a meta tag. It's only on 16 questions (at the time of writing) so should be easy to clean up.
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Remove bugs tag on Main site

Is there any point keeping bugs on the main site around? Related: Is there a way to block the recreation of the "bug" tag on the main site? (where soandos even commented about and drew ...
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Do we need "warning" and "alert"?

Similar to error-message, which we just got rid of, there are also: alert × 26 warning × 37 Neither of these are really specific. They don't add meaning to the questions. Sometimes, ...
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Merge password tags

These are the password tags: passwords x 730 password-management x 127 password-recovery x 90 password-protection x 52 password-generation x 11 password-prompts x 4 Do we really need all of them? I ...
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Merge [utf8] and [utf-8]

Can we merge utf8 and utf-8 & synonymize? They're obviously identical. I would merge utf8 into utf-8, since it's usually written with a hyphen (Wikipedia).
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Let's nuke the "error-message" tag

We have a tag named error-message, with now 220 95 49 questions tagged. This is quite the meta tag, because it doesn't mean anything and adds no value to a question. Most problems result in some kind ...
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Tag for cleanup - finger

finger - Usage seems to roughly equally divided between the *nix command and the digit of one's hand. Perhaps we can break this up into 2 separate tags? Or even remove the references to physical ...
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Tag for removal - heater

heater - Stupid tag used by a single closed question. I think we can safely get rid of it.
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List of tag merge requests (Dec 2012)

Merge: merge php-ini x2 => php.ini 10x merge autofill x1 => auto-form-fill 3x merge dos 2x => ms-dos 91x (checked their posts. They mean ms-dos) synonym mainboard 2x => motherboard 954x Split: ...
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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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Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?

Tags for Microsoft products are currently a mess. Office: office, microsoft-office office-2007, office-2010, office-2010-beta, ms-office-2007, office-2008, microsoft-office-2010, office-2010, office-...
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Merge [mic] into [microphone]

mic obviously refers to microphone. Can we merge mic into microphone and synonymize?
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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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Merge [laptop-battery] into [battery]

battery x 373 laptop-battery x 69 I think that instead of having 2 separate tags, questions about laptop batteries should be tagged with laptopbattery instead of having a special laptop-battery tag....
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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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Merge [web-crawler] [webcrawling] [crawler] [spider] tags

web-crawler x 20 spider x 12 webcrawling x 6 crawler x 5 They're all identical and refer to Web crawler: Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, Web spiders, Web robots,...
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Merge [advanced-format] and [4k-sectors]

Advanced Format, at least in its current state, specifies sectors of 4096 bytes in size, but questions involving 4K AF drives have been tagged as both advanced-format and 4k-sectors. Can someone ...
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Design, cleanup, recycling tags

There are 3 "design" tags: design x 75 web-design x 26 graphic-design x 20 The problem is that according to the design tag wiki, it already covers web-design and graphic-design: Questions ...
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Merge [email] and [email-client]

Half of the questions tagged with email-client are also tagged with email (62 / 130) . About email (tag wiki): Questions about email clients, mail transfer agents and email software ...
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Merge [xbox] and [xbox360]

Can we merge xbox and xbox360? I think all of the questions tagged with xbox refer to Xbox 360.
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Do we really need the [recursive] tag?

I recently found a question tagged with recursive, and my first immediate thought went to recursive function calls in programming. Then my thoughts went to the -r option you can specify with most ...
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Merge [hard-disk-space] and [storage-spaces] into [disk-space]

disk-space: The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive. I think we can merge hard-disk-space & storage-spaces into disk-space
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Merge [dual-monitor] and [triple-monitor] into [multiple-monitors]

I don't really know a lot about dual-monitor, triple-monitor or multiple-monitors setups, but it seems logical to move dual-monitor and triple-monitor into multiple-monitors since "multiple" refers to ...
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Merge [tips] into [tips-and-tricks]

Can we merge tips into tips-and-tricks (and maybe even synonymize)? They're identical.
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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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Merge [packet-sniffers] and [sniffer]

Can we merge and synonymize packet-sniffers and sniffer (probably sniffer into packet-sniffers)? It's not like there are non-packet sniffers; "sniffer" refers only to a packet-sniffer. Also, should ...
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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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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 [spoof] and [spoofing]

spoofing - 21 questions tagged. spoof - 6 questions tagged. They're obviously identical. Can we merge them (I guess spoof into spoofing?) and synonymize?
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Merge [vbs] into [vbscript]

Can we merge vbs into vbscript and synonymize?
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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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Merge [process] and [processes]

I guess processes refers to multiple process, but I don't see why process can't refer to both single / multiple processes so I don't think we really need processes. I think processes should be merged ...