Questions tagged [status-completed]
Bug reports marked resolved or feature requests filed as done and live.
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Difference between CD tags
There are currently 239 questions tagged with cd and no distinction between Compact Disc and Change Directory. Additionally, there is no [chdir] tag. My thoughts are that there should be a chdir tag ...
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PDF tag wiki uneditable
There is no link/button that will allow editing of the pdf tag wiki. Improve this tag wiki pink just redirects back to the tag wiki page.
What is going on?
(Note DanielBeck also has this problem, so ...
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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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Migrated questions are shown as {closed} on user profile pages
Migrated questions are shown as closed on a user's profile.
In the question list:
On the user profile:
This affects both meta and main sites and is inconsistent and confusing.
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How do I log out of all Stack Exchange accounts at once?
So far I've started using Super User, Stack Overflow, Ask Ubuntu and Photography on the Stack Exchange network. Every time I log into one of them (with Google ID) and go to another one of these four ...
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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?
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Get rid of the [annoyances] tag
I was surprised to see that we have a tag called annoyances (99 questions). Really?
Burninate it, fast! Trogdor, I summon you!
It is obvious that this is a useless meta-tag, that adds no valuable ...
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Request to un-merge Question 386376
@Synetech has pointed out that Can't add a new search engine in Chrome is not a duplicate of Custom Chrome Search Engine for site with frames does not work. At the time of the merge, it may have ...
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Retag request X and x11
Please merge tags x, x11 and xorg See Daniel Beck’s comment. They seem to refer to the same thing.
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Make syntax highlighting possible to enable with prettify language codes
On Super User syntax highlighting is turned off. But there are questions on Super User where syntax highlighting can be helpful. Therefore I suggest that syntax highlighting is made possible to enable ...
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Inconsistent handling of downvotes for reputation cap between site and /reputation page [closed]
From my reputation development yesterday, I believe there is an inconsistency between how the site treats downvote reputation loss, and how it's treated in /reputation.
Because of migrated and ...
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Rollbacks are not shown as revisions in a user profile's responses view
This post has been edited, and afterwards was rolled back:
Revision 3, the rollback of the previous edit, does not show up in my user profile's responses » revisions list:
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Remove the [tweaks] tag
The tag tweaks (x60) is very broad and does not really serve any good purpose.
It never adds value to any given tag combination, since you mostly want to "tweak" a certain thing – and we already ...
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<!--Oops--> Less-than and greater-than characters are not being handled properly in Stack Exchange inbox email notifications
Less-than and greater-than characters are not being handled properly in Stack Exchange inbox email notifications.
This is troublesome when a post title contains HTML tags, as they will be sent as HTML ...
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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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Burninate the [tag:region] tag [closed]
region tag seems to have a mixup of unrelated questions.
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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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Nicer <kbd> style
Apple.SE has a much nicer design for kbd tags:
It works much better for embedding it in other text (e.g. an explanation) as it contains a sans-serif font and a more subtle border. The style currently ...
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Proposed change to the Services tag wiki
The services tag wiki excerpt states:
Services are processes running regardless of users logging in. They provide access and features to different programs or processes
The terminology is clearly ...
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Merge questions
Mea culpa. I posted a question here a while ago, didn't get any responses, so I posted again over at stackoverflow. However, that post was migrated back here, so now I have two pretty-much identical ...
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Question of the week #36
Now we're into week 36 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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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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Unable to talk in chat despite enough reputation
I am no longer able to participate on chat. Starting today (between 2AM and 1PM CET), something got broken.
It clearly recognizes me, as clicking the avatar produces:
But the chat user profile says ...
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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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Inconsistency between reputation and badges earned "today" in user profile popup
I'm pretty sure neither of the badges is awarded for 0 reputation gained today. The badges were actually awarded Dec 31, so the earned today line is wrong.
Apparently earned today looks up badges ...
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Can we block [bigasoft.com] from spamming our site?
I'm sure I've flagged at least five answers from spam users trying to promote bigasoft.com. They post nothing useful per se, but include links that look like tutorials, but in the end they always tell ...
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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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Merge the tag "test" with the tag "testing"
It seems that test and testing should be set as synonyms.
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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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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 ...
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Review pane in the meta page
It seems odd that after an item is reviewed in the pane, it does not go away, and it stays in the pane (after refresh).
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SU Tag merge request [wi-fi] to [wireless-networking]
wi-fi (60) --> wireless-networking (2507)
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What’s 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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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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Markdown formatting of tag wiki excerpts in /review
Tag wiki excerpts are plain text. The description when editing tag wikis states:
The tag wiki excerpt is a brief plain text introduction to the topic that the tag represents. It is shown at the top ...
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The [failure] tag, a story of fail?
Please look at the 226 questions under failure.
We are a site for computer problems. Tags such as "error" often don't add any additional value. The same goes for "failure", and it's probably a bit ...
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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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Page Not Found when clicking on non-existant tag in chat room
In the Ask a Super User Moderator chat room, when someone clicks on tag:moderator*, a page not found error is reached.
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What could we do with the [error] tag?
Well, we have a tag called error. Its description says:
Please use a more specific tag instead.
Awesome. So what do all these 547 questions have in common? A non-descriptive tag. On Oct. 10, @...
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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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Three free video cards for Valued Community Members(tm)
I've been doing some upgrading, so this means I have some extra PCI Express video cards. They are not too shabby, either.
ATI 5870 1GB
ATI 5870 1GB
ATI 5770 1GB
Now, the two 5870 cards are still ...
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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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Unable to edit the body of a particular answer
I make a large number of edits across Super User every week, but I've not seen this issue before.
If I try to make any edits to this answer, the text available for me to edit is trimmed short - only ...
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Empty editing description of post's first revision
When viewing a specific revision, the description entered by the user is displayed. Even if it's revision 1, the original post, with no editing description.
Depending on the site style used, this ...
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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 ...
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Dark hacking? My account name got changed from "Randolf Richardson" to "Complicated see bio"
My account name is "Randolf Richardson" but somehow my account name was changed to "Complicated see bio." The description was also changed (it used to begin with "I am a spam-fighter ... I'm also ...
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Question of the Week #33
Now we're into week 33 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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