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Use of the [extension] tag
Where should the extension tag be used?
Does it refer to browser extensions?
This question has both google-chrome-extensions and extension tags, and this question has both firefox-extensions and ...
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Please clean up the USB drive tags?
I'm currently updating the Tag wiki for usb and found some irregularities:
usb-drive x153 – the most commonly used one, also mentions in the excerpt: "especially devices known otherwise as ...
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retag-request: [videostreaming] -> [video-streaming]
Retag videostreaming to video-streaming. Same as https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18601/retag-streaming-to-streaming, but for Superuser.
Only 8 questions so far https://superuser.com/...
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Tag rename request for spelling of TrueType
There is a standard for fonts named TrueType. There is no space, no hyphen, the same as with, say, JavaScript.
However, there is a tag true-type-fonts instead of truetype-fonts.
Please could the tag ...
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Retag [Windows-2012] into [Windows-Server-2012] or [Windows-Server-2012-R2]
windows-2012 contains 54 questions. All of them appear to actually be about Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2.
Shall we re-tag these questions?
What do to with the windows-2012 tag?
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Rename [XBMC] tag to [Kodi]
XBMC was renamed/rebranded to Kodi: http://kodi.tv/introducing-kodi-14/
I'm not too clear on the right way to propose this.
Proposing:
new Kodi tag
make tag synonym for XBMC to point/resolve to ...
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Rename the [usergroups] tag to [user-groups]
The convention with tags here is to replace spaces with hyphens: windows-7, wireless-networking, graphics-card.
By convention, then, the usergroups tag really ought to be user-groups, as user is an ...
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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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Merge [external-display] and [external-monitor]
There's
external-display, 121 questions
external-monitor, 13 questions
As the two are obviously synonyms, and the first one is much more widely used, I suggest to:
Merge external-display and ...
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Tag Nuke Requests [comcast] and [verizon-wireless]
The comcast and verizon-wireless tags are on 16 and 24 questions respectively. As they are typical US-only ISP's could the tags be removed?
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A bunch of tag rename/synonym requests
(See related chat discussion here)
NOTE: Most are small, so doesn't need special moderator attention, just update my post when you help.
Proposed tag renames/synonyms: (old tag --> new tag)
.net -->...
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Burninate the [raw] meta-tag
Prior to an intervention, the raw tag was used for two different things:
Questions involving the camera RAW format. All of these questions that weren't closed were retagged with the camera-raw tag.
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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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Help clean up the Mac Office tags
Office for Mac uses versions like 2008 and 2011, which makes it different from Office for Windows (2003, 2007, 2010).
The word tag wiki suggests that for Mac there should be:
word-2004
word-2008
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SU Retag request: bootup & booting -> boot
It seems kinda redundant to have booting and boot separate; although one is a verb and one is a noun, it seems like it would be simpler to keep them under one tag (for organization's sake).
I'm ...
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SuperUser retag request: [macosx] -> [mac] + [osx] (diamond mods only!)
There are only three [macosx] questions on Super User at this moment. All of them are closed (migrated from SU to elsewhere), so I can't retag them, nominate them for deletion, or even flag them for ...
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Merge [screen] [display] [monitor] and [resolution] [screen-resolution]
I really think we should merge 2 tags out of these 3:
screen x 544
display x 564
monitor x 1032
because they're too similar. There are even 11 questions tagged with all of them.
I also think we can ...
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Merge [tag:windows-nt] → [tag:windows]
Microsoft no longer produces 9x versions of Windows, and I’ve seen lots of questions tagged windows that apply to NT-based versions (2000, XP, Vista), so the windows-nt tag seems a bit redundant. I ...
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Merge [radeon] into [ati-radeon]
radeon (x13) should be merged into ati-radeon (x94). It should also be a synonym of the latter.
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Merge [benchmarks] into [benchmarking]
benchmarks (x6) should be merged into benchmarking (x73).
Additionally, there should be a new synonym benchmarking ← benchmarks.
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Merge some .NET tags
There are questions that are tagged .net-framework (110), and other questions tagged .net-framework-3.5 (7), .net-3.5 (4), .net-2.0 (2).
Would not to keep .net-framework as general tag, and use tags ...
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Retag request Xp -> Windows-XP on Super User
Over on Super User the grass keeps needing a trimming. Requesting a retag on
XP × 30 0
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Windows-XP × 2027 2,189
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SU tag merge request: [install] related
Can the following tag groups on SuperUser be merged?
[install] (x239), [installation] (x393),
[installing] (x4), [installed] (x1).
[installer] (x48), [installers] (x2).
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virtualpc --> virtual-pc
virtualpc: 1 question
virtual-pc: 31 questions
There is no reason to have two tags. They mean the same thing.
Jim G.
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Burninate error, errors, fatal error [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What could we do with the [error] tag?
I know this has been brought up already (the error tag anyway), but it has still not been acted on, so I thought I would bring it up ...
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The [touch] tag is ambiguous
touch has 24 questions and no wiki. Some of these questions are obviously talking about touchpad (175 questions) or touchscreen (52 questions), but some are talking about a device with touch in the ...
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Difference between [shutdown] and [system-shutdown]
What's the difference between shutdown and system-shutdown?
1/3 (16/43) of the questions that are tagged with system-shutdown are also tagged with shutdown, so I don't think the difference between ...
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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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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 [omnibar] into [address-bar]
As far as I know omnibar relates either to the Safari Omnibar or to the Google Chrome omnibar / omnibox.
As for the Safari Omnibar, it's basically a tweaked location bar ("Search directly using ...
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Renaming/Merging App Store tags
I'm referring to these 4 tags:
windows-store
windows-apps
windows-store-app
app-store
I think app-store should be renamed to something like apple-app-store because the term "App Store" is no longer ...
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Retag request: [case] <--> [computer-case]
The tags case and computer-case look like they are duplicates of each others.
Which one should we keep? Or are there any more specific uses to case?
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SU Retag Request: [tools] <--> [utilities]
tools and utilities are the same thing, right? I think they should be merged under tools.
What do you think?
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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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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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Retag + synonym [systray] => [notification-area]
Could we have systray (4 Qs) made a synonym of notification-area (19 Qs)?
At least according to Raymond Chen, the correct name is "(Taskbar) Notification Area", so the systray tag is ...
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Get rid of the "Broken" tag
Its basically the same as having a problem, issue, or other tag thats says they have a problem.
59 questions with it though, so its a little big for a manual de-tag (or not? not really sure).
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SU retagging: [mail], [apple-mail], [mail.app]
The various email tags caught my attention and I started looking to see if the [mail] tag can be gotten rid of. It seems to have a few uses:
generic stand-in for [email] or [mail-server];
specific-...
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Please burninate tag fx-8350?
fx-8350 was created here
It's a specific model number so I don't think it belongs.
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Merge [vaio] into [sony-vaio]
vaio (x11) should be merged into sony-vaio (x93) and be made a synonym thereof.
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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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SU tag merge request: [microsoft-word] and [word]
Can these tags on Superuser be merged into [microsoft-word] ?
[microsoft-word]: 358 tags
[word]: 39 tags
[msword]: 1 tag
EDIT: Can a moderator, please, add "Status-completed" tag to this question? ...
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The [desktop] tag is ambiguous
desktop (x119) has questions that deal with either:
desktop (as opposed to portable) computers
an operating system's desktop environment
The tag wiki primarily concentrates on the former meaning, ...
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Merge [video-conversion] → [video-converter]
video-conversion (x13) needs to be merged into → video-converter (x94), and a synonym needs to be created.
I would actually propose to do it the other way round, focusing on the "conversion" ...
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Please align the Excel tags
We lost the battle on excel already, so now it's labeled microsoft-excel, but I see there is still confusion with the version specific tags.
microsoft-excel-2002
microsoft-excel-2003 excel-2003
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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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Merge [sdd] and [ssd] into [solid-state-drive]
I noticed that the tag sdd (7 questions) is for solid-state drives, according to the questions. However, the tag ssd (1,775 questions) is the actual tag for that concept. The tags should be merged ...
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