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The Great [tag-cleanup-request] status-tag cleanup of 2024

Following on from the Great CM status tag cleanup of 2024, we lost our "status-planned" tracking of ongoing cleanup tasks. That's because the planned tag is now considered a process tag, ...
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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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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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Consider blocklisting the [microsoft] tag?

As per Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again, microsoft as a tag is not wanted: we have more specific tags to use for microsoft products (microsoft-excel, windows-10, etc). It has been ...
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We should cleanup/remove the [combine] tag

There are around 100 questions with the tag combine. Some of them are related to combining or merging items, and for others, I don't know why they're tagged with it at all. I don't think this tag adds ...
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Blocklist request for [move], [removal] and some other unneeded tags

Following the tag cleanup for March 2013, I have cleaned up the move meta-tag so there are no more questions with move. Most of the questions tagged move referred to moving files - I have replaced ...
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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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Blocklist Google?

google (the manufacturer meta tag, see Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again), was cleaned up a little over a year ago. It stayed dead for almost a year, but starting in July of this year, ...
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Let's deal with the [if] tag, else it'll become a problem

The if tag exists, most notably on questions about the IF functionality in Microsoft Excel, but it has been used for all sorts of conditional and branching questions. Is it worth keeping separate? ...
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Can we get a Monarch tag?

I just created this question. I tagged it excel, because the formulas are roughly analogous.
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Is there a reason why the tag "slackware" cannot be edited?

Normally, when looking at tag information, at the bottom of the screen, there is a button labeled "Edit Tag Info". However, when looking at slackware today, there is no way to suggest edits. Problem ...
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Are "error" and "problem" meta-tags?

From http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/: If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag. Clearly, error and problem fit this criterion. If ...
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Please merge [tag:extended-desktop] [tag:multiple-desktop]

Those 2 tags are exact duplicates : extended-desktopmultiple-desktop isn’t it ?
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New Tag Request: "IIS-8.5"

We have a tags for "IIS", "IIS-7.5", and "IIS", but not for "IIS-8.5". IIS 8.5 is included in Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1.
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Split off [split]

The tag split is used for lots of things and not used consistently for anything. It has been planned to make it go since 2014. Can we burn it now?
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there is no telegram tag

I was going to ask some question about telegram app and I noticed that there is no telegram related tag! Please add "telegram" and telegram related (such as telegram-desktop and such) tags.
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r e n a m e spaces

We have two tags which seem to be text based: tabs & spaces. However, tabs is defined for the graphical user interface feature that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single ...
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Are these Fail2Ban, Munin and “Failed password” related questions more appropriate for Server Fault?

While I spend a good chunk of time here on Super User, my day-to-day/work-a-day head is in the Linux server administration world. A lot of times there’s overlap between “power user” needs and server ...
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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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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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Remove [asus-g73jh] tag

asus-g73jh has two questions. It is obviously too specific, I believe in both cases just asus would fit better. I am new to the whole tag cleanup/merge/remove concept and I am still trying to figure ...
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The DOS tag is ambiguous

As it is, the dos tag is ambiguous. Even the tag wiki excerpt is split: DOS is an acronym for "Disk Operating System." DoS is an acronym for "Denial of Service." Do not use this tag for questions ...
2 votes
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Un-referencing the [reference] tag

It only has 7 questions, but I can't imagine reference is specific enough to be useful. I didn't want to just clear this out without asking others if it could be useful.
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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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Merge [email-rules] and [email-filter]

email-rules has 1 follower and 61 67 uses: Actions performed automatically on incoming or outgoing messages, based on conditions that you specify. email-filter has 0 followers and 48 51 uses: ...
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Do we need the [crapware] tag?

This question brought to my attention the [crapware] tag, in this context being used to refer to IE9. In fact there are 6 tagged questions this way, so it's hardly a widespread issue, but it's better ...
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Do we need the "fastboot" tag?

The Super User homepage just turned light blue for me, due to lots of hard-drive tags (which I have marked as a favourite). The reason was that a user had added the fastboot tag to a bunch of posts. "...
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Have a prompt when a tag is created

When a tag is created, a prompt should be raised, just so that people know they they are creating a tag, and are doing it intentionally. I think that should solve address the answers to my previous ...
10 votes
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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 ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Can the 'logo' tag be killed?

The logo tag is currently used by a grand total of three questions: A no-background favicon for my website? Windows 8.1 start-up logo replaced with ASUS logo after BIOS update How to change the BIOS ...
2 votes
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Tag Request: TAILS

I am unable to add this tag For the OS (see image below). It's an acronym for the Linux distro known as "The Amnesic Incognito Live System". This is an example question referring to TAILS and the ...
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Enable Non-Mods to edit meta questions with "protected" tags:

I was updating the Top Question of the Week 1 question for the blog and wasn't able to make any changes due to the fact that some of the tags used were "protected". Is there a way that we can enable ...
7 votes
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Tag name not viewable when doing search on superuser

When doing a term search on superuser.com and it switches the term to a tag. If the tag is a tag you are following, you can't read the tag text unless you hover over the tag. The tag get places under ...
7 votes
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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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How can the spelling of a tag be changed?

I recently wrote my first tag wiki for the namedranges tag because I noticed several questions had been applied the tag, and there was no information about the tag. I would really like to change ...
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Tags go totally nuts on hover

There's a certain area around tags where they will flip constantly between their normal and hover states. Please see the following video for an illustration of the issue: This is in Chrome stable in ...
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Bottom border of tags is cut off when editing or creating posts

I first noticed this in the review queue on the main site, but it also occurs on both the main site and the meta site when asking a question. Main site, review queue Meta site, asking a new question ...
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Tamil tag... why?

Continuing my rant on chat, let me rephrase why I don't think is needed, addressing each question problem: Free tamil word processors: Is about a word processor, not something that critically depends ...
2 votes
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Merge [pen-tablet] into [graphics-tablet]

Both pen-tablet and graphics-tablet appear to describe a computer input device that enables a user to hand-draw images and graphics. (source) Since we don't need two tags describing the exact same ...
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plasma tag itself is too generic, should be compounded and split into TV and workspace

As things stand right now, plasma is ambiguous. Questions labeled with it refer both to plasma TVs and to the KDE graphical environment, and this doesn't seem correct to me. I suggest deleting the ...
5 votes
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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 ...
2 votes
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Rename [extreme] tag to [extreme-conditions] or remove it

There are currently 3 questions tagged with extreme: One relates to extreme temperatures, the second to extreme tabbed browsing (massive pressure on the computer), and the third to temperatures and ...
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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 ...
4 votes
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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. ...
3 votes
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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 ...
10 votes
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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 ...
7 votes
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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?
2 votes
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Meta questions missing required tags

There's an even dozen older posts on Meta Super User that lack any of the required tags (i.e., bug, feature-request,discussion, or support). It used to be that Moderators could post questions without ...
5 votes
1 answer
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We need to kill the [domain-registrar] tag

The tag, domain-registrar is pretty useless and out of topic, it needs to be killed.
4 votes
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Lotus tag cleanup

While looking through some questions on lotus-notes, I found that some of them were also tagged with lotus, which has 34 questions. Looking through the lotus, many of them are just about Notes, one ...