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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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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 – ...
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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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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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"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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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?
ale's user avatar
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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 ...
Arseni Mourzenko's user avatar
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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 ...
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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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SU retag request : driver to drivers

Updated: driver(180) to drivers(131)
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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 [encoder] → [video-encoding]

Questions currently tagged under encoder (x8) all are about video-encoding, and therefore should be merged.
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Retag request: on SuperUser, rename external-harddrive to external-hard-drive

HDD-related tags on SuperUser: hard-drive (291) external-harddrive (91) internal-harddrive (6) network-hard-drive (1) hard-drive-failure (28) hard-drive-image (2) I think the dash-enabled hard-drive ...
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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 ...
tempy's user avatar
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Please burninate multiple tag

multiple does no good and brings in multiple! problems. Please burninate it.
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The msi tag is ambiguous

Currently we have the msi tag which (according to the description) is supposed to be used for tagging questions about Windows .msi installer files. However, there are quite a few questions (about a ...
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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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Retag Request/Tag Merge Request for Super User: 'windows7' and 'windows-7'

The 'windows-7' tag has 1752 questions, while the 'windows7' tag has only 2. Keep: 'windows-7'
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Please burninate the [problem] tag

We've had it before and way before that, and also on SO, but the "problem" (which is problem) seems to be reappearing. Can we please get rid of this meta-tag again? By the way: There are a few ...
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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 ...
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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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Retag request: rdp->remote desktop

I see a lot of questions which are tagged both rdp and remote-desktop. I have yet to see any where the question refers to the remote desktop protocol specifically; in every case, just remote-desktop ...
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Burninate the [service-rec] tag and delete its questions

The service-rec tag, aside from likely being a meta-tag, has 22 of its 23 questions closed for being off-topic and not constructive. As I don't believe that this tag, or its questions for that matter,...
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SU retag request: [wireless-network] --> [wireless-networking]

Retag wireless-network(28) to wireless-networking(349). Also, there is also the more general wireless(222), but this one may not be an exact match on all questions.
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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 ...
tempy's user avatar
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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?
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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Burninate the [unlocking] tag [closed]

The unlocking tag seems too generic.
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Related or synonymous tags: [monitor] and [screen] [duplicate]

The tag screen appears to be a mix of the same topics as monitor GNU Screen (which has its own tag gnu-screen) Should something be done about this? Perhaps separating the two into monitor and gnu-...
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Is [data] an useful tag? Do we need it? What should we do?

How to cancel hard disk from wanting to format and how to get my files back? This question is tagged data but you know it's about data from hard-drive-recovery. Best Light Software to Manage Large ...
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
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SU Tag Merge Request: [monitors] to [monitor]

Really just a cosmetic thing, I think [monitors](19) should be merged into [monitor](290). It makes sense not to fragment the tags based on a plural. I guess, as well, this should be added to the list ...
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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 merge - [disconnect] and [disconnects]

Seems like more or less the same thing, 3 questions on one and 10 questions on the other. I can manually merge if no one objects.
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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 ...
nc4pk's user avatar
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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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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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The [xps] tag... What is it intended to refer to?

I just noticed that the xps tag seems to refer to two different things: the Dell computer series, and the .xps file type. Which was it intended to refer to, and if one, should the tag be removed from ...
Nate Koppenhaver's user avatar
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Merge [search-and-replace] and [find-and-replace]

There are: find-and-replace (56 tagged) search-and-replace (17 tagged). I'd propose to merge them. There's no difference between these two. Then, create a synonym for search-and-replace → ...
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