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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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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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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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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Retag windows-7-x64 to windows-7 and 64-bit?
Probably, but since there are already 12 questions tagged windows-7-x64, I figure I should ask first.
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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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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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The [howto] tag seems barely useful, please burninate
I call the mighty Trogdor to burninate ā¦
howto
ā¦ 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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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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alternative vs software-rec tags
Do we really need alternative when we have software-rec?
Not only is alternative vague in meaning, but most of the questions that use it are looking for software recommendations.
Also, given this ...
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Tag rename request: [excel] -> [microsoft-excel] & [powerpoint] -> [microsoft-powerpoint]
This question has been superseded by Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?.
At the time of writing this, there are 722 questions tagged as excel & 161 questions tagged as powerpoint
I ...
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Merge 'eee', 'eeepc' with the 'eee-pc' tag on Super User
The trademark is "Eee PC", so I assume the one with the hyphen is the best candidate to be the canonical tag. There are only three affected questions, so this one should be easy.
All glory to Joakim ...
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The [filter] tag is ambiguous
See list of questions tagged filter: some of them are about ffmpeg filters (used for resizing videos and such), some are about filtering data in MS Excel, some are about organising emails... none of ...
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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 ...
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Whatās 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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SkyDrive is now OneDrive
OneDrive for Everything in Your Life
Today we are pleased to announce that SkyDrive will soon become OneDrive.
We have a good bunch of questions about skydrive. Please re-tag them as onedrive and ...
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We need to disambiguate the [wds] tag
wds stands for:
Windows Desktop Search
Windows Deployment Services
Wireless Distribution System
All of these are used here, so we need to figure out how to split up the tag.
Suggestions?
To get ...
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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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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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Merge [transparent] and [transparency]
I propose merging transparent (34 questions) with transparency (79 questions). I think it's pretty clear to see why they should be merged.
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... yeah, that pun was pretty terrible, even by retag ...
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Should [charts] and [graphs] tags be merged?
charts - 205 questions tagged / 77% answered.
graphs - 148 questions tagged / 79% answered.
Both charts & graphs - 27 tagged with both / 74% answered
I think the real difference between charts ...
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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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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 Port tags, Report tags, Portable tags
I found these 3 groups of similar tags that I think can be merged and synonymized:
Port related tags:
port x 377
ports x 61
Report related tags:
report x 20
reporting x 18
bug-report x 6
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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 ā ...
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Booting and friends
We have:
boot x3901
reboot x310
boot-failure x76
boot-time x6
startup x846
restart x201
I would merge all of them into boot (or booting, or boot-process) and be done with it.
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Do we need the tags [3g] [4g] [lte]?
There is only one post with the tag 4g and one for lte. Seems most of the questions tagged with 3g was related to mobile data applications - probably it is appropriate to merge these tags into one, ...
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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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'google-chrome' and 'chrome'
On SuperUser I'm trying to clean up google tags, and I noticed that there are 266 tagged 'google-chrome' and 58 just 'chrome'.
Could some please do a batch retag of chrome to google-chrome?
Edit: ...
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SU Tag merge request
I propose that we merge regex & regexp with regular-expressions
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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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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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Is there a way to block the recreation of the "bug" tag on the main site?
I've been editing out the bug tag from threads on the main site because I've noticed that there were just a few questions tagged with it and that it doesn't improve the post in any way that can't be ...
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Blacklist request: [Move], [Removal] and some more
following the tag cleanup for march 2013 I have cleaned up the move meta-tag. No more questions with move.
FYI, most of these questions referred to moving files - I have replaced these mostly with ...
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"not-recognized" - not-required?
Do we really need the not-recognized tag? There's unrecognized which needs to be killed too
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Compare [comparison] and [file-comparison]
We have:
comparison 201 questions
File comparison is the process of comparing the contents of files, finding their common contents and their differences, usually using an automated tool
And:
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Disassembling the "assembly" and "disassembly" tags
Here's a very tricky ambiguous tag. We have assembly (x16) and disassembly (x8). Both are a perfect mix between:
Assembler code, architectures and whatnot
Computer building
Proposal:
I suggest we ...
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Can [pc], [programs] be obliterated? And [hardware], [software] again?
Reference 1: SU Retag Request: [tag:applications] --> [tag:software]
Reference 2: Can [tag:hardware] and [tag:software] be obliterated?
Can we obliterate pc and programs as well?
On the same par: ...
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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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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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SuperUser tags: [nas] vs [network-attached-storage]
I've asked a couple questions on SuperUser that I originally tagged with [nas]. There were a few other questions out there with that tag already. After awhile, one of my questions got the [network-...
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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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Please retag multiple SU tags
There are currently quite a lot of tags that have alternatives on SU. Would it be possible to trim them down a bit? I'd do it manually, but there's way too many of them:
vista (37) -> windows-vista (...
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Why are people making up tags when we have one?
People are making up new tags to mean the same thing. There needs to be a definitive tag for each meaning.
Search for "multi" in Tags. Find:
multiple-monitors x12
multiscreen x3
multi-monitor x2
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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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Please change the commandline tag to command-line
There are 15 questions tagged command-line and 33 tagged commandline. I think command-line is clearer, but the two tags should be rolled up either way.
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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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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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Please merge the ms-access tag into microsoft-access on Super User
On Super User, microsoft-access has 13 questions while ms-access has 6. No questions have both tags.
Also, two questions are tagged 'access' when one of the above would be more appropriate (access is ...