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The monster that can't be killed
The microsoft tag is like something from a sci-fi horror movie. This manufacturer meta tag was cleaned out in March of this year, but people keep using it. I just fixed the third question in the ...
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Skip the [skipping] tag?
skipping has no wiki definition and is used in various ways:
failing to process fragments of audio or video
intentionally ignoring items when processing a list like a playlist
searching for the ...
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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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Remove the [Glitch] tag
The glitch tag has no use. The top five questions don't relate at all. In order:
Glitch detection in MP3 files
Glitchy GPU output
Office 2013 drawing oddly
Mouse moving on its own
Sound card ...
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DROP [columns] FROM tags;
There are 103 questions tagged with columns, and they are all over the map: several Excel questions that involve a column of data somehow (i.e., Excel questions), some questions about manipulating ...
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Too many [options] to choose from
There are a lot of questions tagged with options. It's extremely meta, and there are no "options" experts that would benefit from a tag like this.
I suggest burninate, and black list.
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Are we [licensed] for all this?
I think license-key and product-key should be synonyms. There's also software-activation.
I also don't see why the 12 volume-license questions aren't just tagged with license given you can get volume ...
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Should we put a limit on [limit]?
limit is a meta-tag used for a bunch of totally different purposes. Scanning the first page of questions I find questions about limiting
screen resolution
number of files
downloaded amount
parallel ...
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Split up the [split] tag [duplicate]
split is all over - it's about splitting files, DVDs, splitting windows/screen into two, Excel formula to split contents - I propose that we kill split
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Time to be LESS organised
organization is a pretty big meta-tag.
It's uses include,
Organisation charts
Sorting data
Windows Explorer functionality
Email organisation
and many more.
Should we burn it?
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Is there any difference between the tags "windows-server-2003" and "windows-2003-server"?
Discovered a few semi-related tags:
windows-server-2003
539 questions, 10 this year
this has a good excerpt, but no tag wiki
windows-2003-server
19 questions, 2 this year
this has nothing... no ...
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Send out [newsletters]
newsletters has no usage guidance, there are 14 questions tagged with it, mainly about format of newsletters, or sending newsletters in e-mail.
I see it from time to time as a favoured tag of spam ...
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aria2 vs. aria2c?
A proposed tag wiki edit raised a question about two tags: aria2 and aria2c. The first has 5 questions, the second has 8, and a number of these questions have both.
I'm not familiar with the program,...
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Usage of "external" tag - burninate?
I just removed the external tag from a question regarding viewing of source code for a browser, and it got me thinking that this is somewhat a meta-tag.
There exists tags such as external-hard-drive ...
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Don't give us static about deleting [dynamic]
dynamic is meaningless. Seems like it mostly attracts Excel-related question for some reason. There are also some questions on random topics, like folder binding, task scheduler, DDNS, dynamically ...
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Burninate or clean up the tag [dual]
We currently have 48 questions tagged dual.
There questions are on different subjects:
Dual ISPs
Dual dual mail accounts
Dual monitors
Dual graphics cards
Dual boot
Dual OS installations (...
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Do we really need the [executable] or [exe] tags?
We have two tags representing 'executable programs':
executable
An executable is a fully compiled program that can be run without further processing.
exe (tag was merged into executable)
An ...
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Tag cleanup: Delete tag [rows]
rows
A row is a horizontal line of something within a program. It can be a row of cells in excel, or a row of text in a text document. Rows are horizontally positioned and are generally read left-...
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Nuke the [damage] tag
The tag damage is too vague, and people use it for very different things. Please block it.
user33758
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Time up on the [trial]?
I have recently discovered the trial tag. The questions in it all appear to low quality. Is it worth retiring this tag?
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Size doesn't matter
It's not the size that matters; it's how you use it. That being said, I have no use for these size-related tags:
size (155)
resize (207) (merged into size)
filesize (96) (merged into size)
folder-...
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Drop kick [dropout]
Is dropout useful?
A long time ago it was identified as a tag that should never be the only tag on a question...a good sign it's a meta tag.
There are only 4 questions tagged as such so I get it's ...
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Get rid of Microsoft tag [duplicate]
microsoft shouldn't exist, as it does not help find pertinent questions. I vote to get rid of it
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Tags beyond saving
save (merged into saving)
save-as (merged into saving)
saving
These tags need to die.
- 88.4k
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Should we delete the [homework] tag?
The homework tag is a meta-tag, which is explicitly discouraged. Should we delete the homework tag from all questions? Although a question may be about homework, there's nothing useful gained by ...
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The next [selection] for burnination
The selection tag has 131 questions and 0 followers. Questions with this tag cover the entire scope of the site. The tag serves absolutely zero purpose and should be wiped from the face of Super User ...
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Pummel [panel]?
panel is an undefined tag with 42 questions. Even if it was defined, it begs misuse because it can apply to so many different kinds of things, and people don't read the wiki excerpts. Should we beat ...
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The theory tag may be redundant
theory has 15 questions. Some are low quality but out of scope. Its also a classic meta-tag, and considering our close reasons contain a mention of practical problems, I propose we nuke this
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Unsynonomize [synaptic] and [synaptics]
Synaptics is a company that makes human interface devices like touchpads. Synaptic is a Linux package manager that works with Apt. At some point in the past, these two tags were incorrectly ...
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Replace the `Surface` tag?
Users having a Microsoft Surface Computer/Tablet are using the microsoft-surface tag. But I also find some questions having just surface, which does not have a lot to do with the Microsoft Surface ...
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Archive the outlook-archive
We have 23 questions tagged outlook-archive and 113 questions tagged pst.
Both are about .pst files used by Outlook.
We do not have any special -archive tags for other programs. E.g. no thunderbird-...
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Pew Pew the Laser Tag
While working my way through the manufacturer tag clean up list I came across the tag laser.
It has no description and the questions listed all appear to refer to laser-printer. Am I ok to remove ...
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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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Replacement needs a replacement
replacement
Questions range from file replacement to find and replace text to hardware replacement
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Tag cleanup: Delete the [bug-report] tag
The bug-report tag doesn't specify any cohesive topic. Instead, there are questions under this tag about:
how to report bugs to developers;
issues caused by specific bugs, whether identified by the ...
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Time to change [pop] flavor(s)
I see 12 questions using this tag.
25% of the questions are related to pop-ups.
75% are related to the Post Office Protocol.
So (at the time I'm making this question) we really have two separate ...
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Can we [design] a better tag?
design: "Questions relating to software used for graphic design, web design, computer-aided design, et cetera." It appears to have been intended as a catch-all tag for software that didn't have a ...
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Burninate or clean up the tags [freeware] and [shareware]
Could we burninate or clean up the tags freeware and shareware?
They are meta tags without explanation about the topic, usually used for off topic searches for software or licence issues.
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We're not a bank, get rid of [audit] (or replace it with less ambiguous tags)
audit isn't useful as it refers to a whole bunch of different topics, including license auditing, security auditing, and software auditing.
Can we get rid of it, or perhaps retag questions with less ...
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Let's expel [native]
native is undefined and has 12 questions, pretty much each about something different. Does anyone object to nuking this tag?
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Cleanup up [organization] tag [duplicate]
Most of the 98 questions with the undefined organization tag refer to providing structure, and that is probably the appropriate usage. There are some exceptions that should be retagged. A number ...
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Glitch tag cleanup now completed
Similar to yesterday's question: Looking at the planned tag cleanup requests, the tag glitch has now been cleared. No questions remain.
So, can the question: Remove the [Glitch] tag now be set to ...
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Options tag cleanup now completed
Looking at the planned tag cleanup requests, there is one, options, that now has no tagged questions.
So, shouldn't the question: Too many [options] to choose from now be set to status-completed?
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Sonicwall: Is it a manufacturer tag?
As part of the ongoing manufacturer tag clean up I came across this question:
L2PT VPN ports are not opening
Which is tagged with sonicwall, I was wondering if this is considered a manufacturer or ...
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Possible Tag Merge: [toshiba-satellite] into [toshiba-laptop]
As part of the Manufacturer & Company tags cleanup, I'm removing toshiba and replacing it with a more topic/product-centric toshiba-laptop (for laptop-related questions anyway).
However I've just ...
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tag cleanup: [editor]
I was looking for an example for my question on tag definitions and came across editor, which isn't the best example because it obviously needs tag cleanup. So this is a tag cleanup request. In ...
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Split the [manual] tag
manual usage is evenly divided between people referring to documentation and people referring to doing things by hand. Recommend splitting it into two tags that each have a consistent meaning. ...
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Clear up the [clear] tag
clear is another undefined tag that is used is multiple ways:
the "Clear" command in a number of command languages
To empty various lists like history, cache, or cookies
Clear (TM) brand hardware
to ...
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Let's dellete [dell] [duplicate]
There are currently 1002 questions tagged dell.
According to Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again:
We don't like company-only tags, and there's been various crusades in the past to ...
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Document or shred [manual]?
manual is an undefined tag that originally had 20-some motley questions. I cleaned up the ones where the tag was just decoration, or should have been a more accurate existing tag, like [command-line] ...
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