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Ongoing community task: ensure there are no [untagged] questions

The tag untagged is applied to questions which either have all their tags burninated, or to questions migrated from other sites (when tags from the origin site do not match any tags here). According ...
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Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?

Tags for Microsoft products are currently a mess. Office: office, microsoft-office office-2007, office-2010, office-2010-beta, ms-office-2007, office-2008, microsoft-office-2010, office-2010, office-...
nhinkle's user avatar
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Can we get rid of the company tags?

I don't think any of the following tags have questions that benefit them: microsoft, apple, acer, samsung, sony, asus, ... And thinking in the meta tag way, a question that's only about those tags ...
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
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Oh noes... [pc] Trogdor? You there?

Hello citizens of the Super User Ville! As our website is all about these beloved personal computers, it appears to me that pc can be applied to almost any question. As so, I don't think that it is ...
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
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Company tag necromancy: The zombie apocalypse!

Just when we thought we finally got rid of them all they appear to have been resurrected. adobe x 200 — about 100 software and service products, PDF, Flash, Flex, graphics and video editing, web ...
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Retag request: torrent -> bittorrent

15 questions tagged 'torrent' on superuser 48 questions tagged 'bittorrent' on superuser (Only 'bittorrent' is used on SO and SF.)
Ether's user avatar
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Tag [general] is so meta

Trogdor? Please burninate the tag general. No explanation necessary...
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
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Tag for burnation - [new]

I've just noticed we have a new tag. I can't see any benefit for such a tag - so it needs removing. There's at least one question where this is the only tag so it has to be a manual process. There ...
ChrisF's user avatar
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Putting heat on the cooling/heat/overheat/thermal tag synonyms

The tags cooling, heat, overheat, and thermal seem to be synonymous. Personally, I would set cooling as the master tag, but I wanted to leave that up for discussion. For all I know it would be ...
Kevin Reid's user avatar
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Retag windows-7-x64 to windows-7 and 64-bit?

Probably, but since there are already 12 questions tagged windows-7-x64, I figure I should ask first.
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Tag rename request: [excel] -> [microsoft-excel] & [powerpoint] -> [microsoft-powerpoint]

This question has been superseded by Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?. At the time of writing this, there are 722 questions tagged as excel & 161 questions tagged as powerpoint I ...
Sathyajith Bhat's user avatar
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Tag deletion request: unknown

It's unknown to me what this tag is supposed to mean. Unrecognized hardware ("unknown device")? Default file editor, or file type associations ("unknown file types")? What is this file? ("unknown ...
Daniel Beck's user avatar
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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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SkyDrive is now OneDrive

OneDrive for Everything in Your Life Today we are pleased to announce that SkyDrive will soon become OneDrive. We have a good bunch of questions about skydrive. Please re-tag them as onedrive and ...
ale's user avatar
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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: ...
Lance Roberts's user avatar
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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
Karan's user avatar
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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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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 (...
alex's user avatar
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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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Please burninate multiple tag

multiple does no good and brings in multiple! problems. Please burninate it.
Sathyajith Bhat's user avatar
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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'
Maxim Zaslavsky's user avatar
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Disambiguating or burninating the [movies] tag

Another update – went through the tag three times now. We're down to 50 questions left. If you still see anything that'd be left tagged poorly, please don't hesitate to fix it. Update after 4/0 on ...
slhck's user avatar
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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 ...
Deltik'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.
kinokijuf's user avatar
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6 votes
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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 ...
squircle's user avatar
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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.
dsolimano's user avatar
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Tag for blacklisting - for

As a follow-up to https://meta.superuser.com/questions/6059/tag-for-removal-for and as suggested by slhck ♦, am requesting for the for tag to be blacklisted.
Karan'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 ...
slhck's user avatar
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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
Hello71's user avatar
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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/...
hyperslug's user avatar
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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 ...
Andrew Morton's user avatar
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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 ...
nc4pk's user avatar
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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. ...
nc4pk's user avatar
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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 ...
Karan's user avatar
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Tag removal request

The following tags are have wikis submitted but aren't valuable imo - each have only one question: catalina - a tomcat startup script, the tomcat tag is sufficient aafp - a connector on Asus ...
Paul's user avatar
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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 ...
avpaderno's user avatar
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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 to Windows-XP × 2027 2,189
Unfundednut's user avatar
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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).
Mehper C. Palavuzlar's user avatar
5 votes
1 answer
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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.
user avatar
5 votes
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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 ...
soandos's user avatar
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CD-related tags

Why do we have both compact-disc and cd-rom? UPDATE: Please vote on options below.
kinokijuf's user avatar
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4 votes
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Please help wade through the meta tag [tips-and-tricks]

The tag tips-and-tricks (x33) really feels like a meta tag to me, you can't ask a single question about it and a question that would be polling for tips and tricks is off topic anyway. Can people ...
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
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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 ...
Karan's user avatar
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4 votes
1 answer
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Fixing the [run] tag

run It's often about the Windows run dialog, and often it isn't. Therefore it's pretty useless.
Daniel Beck's user avatar
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4 votes
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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?
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
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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. ...
Edgar's user avatar
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More for burnination and synonyms

Burnination: first function general hardware-selection (the two questions with this tag are closed, and hardware combination seems better anyway; might be better to make them synonyms though) home (...
3 votes
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Could someone be nice enough to add windows-phone-8.1 as a tag to superuser.com?

I haven't enough rep. The windows-phone-8 tag exists but 8.1 not.
Andreas Furster's user avatar
3 votes
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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: ...
nixda's user avatar
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