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We need to modify [mod]
mod has no definition, but 19 questions where the tag has varying meanings:
modification of various and sundry things
what appears to be a reference to MOD format recording
the Excel function
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Clean it up, and [diy]
diy has many, many questions, that could be closed. This tag is also EXTREMELY meta. I propose we get rid of it, quickly... And with a can-do attitude
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"blocking" is too generic
blocking includes questions about all kinds of software and problems, from Make computer lock itself after 30 minutes of continued usage to Block ONLY Google Ads and Block outgoing connection to a ...
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The external question of these [external] tags
So I went on a mini-tag cleanup for external-drive since it had about 36+ items. And many of them fit perfectly into the external-hard-drive category.
A few still are there, but they are just two ...
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Is a tag named [messaging] relevant
As the title says messaging as a tag is confusing.
Here is a question that I just saw:
How to disable Messaging on Windows 10?
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Tab Tab Tab, is this browser on
We currently have multiple tab tags open on our site:
tabs Tabs are a graphical user interface feature that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single window.
browser-tabs
The tag ...
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Tags related to time and clocks
I believe that questions marked with time-zone should be re-tagged with time, and time-zone should then be made a synonym for time.
Mentioning the phrase "time zone" in the title and/or body of the ...
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Do we have any experts on "applications"?
The applications tag has suddenly been added to a lot of posts by an enthusiastic tagger. There are now over 400 questions. I didn't do an exhaustive review of these, but for the ones I looked at, ...
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No [news] is good news
The news metatag is old news. It only has 7 questions, including one that's spam, and is a candidate for speedy deletion.
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Eliminate results
Meta tag results has four questions, zero followers, and zero utility. Can we nuke it?
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Potential Tag Merge/Synonym: [msiexec] -> [windows-installer]?
msiexec is used by 7 questions to denote msiexec.exe, which is the actual executable of Microsoft's Windows Installer program.
Seeing as we already have a tag for windows-installer, and the fact that ...
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Should the [signature] tag be removed?
There are two tags on my radar today: signature and digital-signature
digital-signature is obvious and clearly defined (though, it still needs a description).
It's signature that is ambiguous. ...
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Any arguments for [command-line-arguments]?
command-line-arguments is a classic meta-tag. Any arguments for keeping it?
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Audio tags cleanup
There are a bunch of audio-related tags. In a quick search, I found 5.1, surround-sound, stereo, audio, mono, audio-output, static and clicking-sound.
As per it's tag description, mono is meant for ...
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Tag cleanup: Delete the tag [collecting]
There are currently five questions with the tag collecting, some of them has some relation to collection, list...
I don't even understand the meaning of this tag, neither can imagine an expert of ...
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Tag cleanup: [interface]
interface is an undefined, ambiguous tag that appears to be unnecessary as a stand-alone tag. It is used to mean:
network interface (existing specific tag)
user interface (existing specific tag)
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MokubaiMod
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Remove "binary"
I heard computers use binary. My question is about computers, so I tagged it "binary".
binary
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modprobe -r [modules]
60 questions tagged modules. Most of them are dealing with kernel-modules. Others talk about Apache2/Perl/Python/Puppet/Drupal/Slax modules. There's even one about memory modules.
The [modules] tag ...
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Remove the [Glitch] tag
The glitch tag has no use. The top five questions don't relate at all. In order:
Glitch detection in MP3 files
Glitchy GPU output
Office 2013 drawing oddly
Mouse moving on its own
Sound card ...
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Too many [options] to choose from
There are a lot of questions tagged with options. It's extremely meta, and there are no "options" experts that would benefit from a tag like this.
I suggest burninate, and black list.
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Tag cleanup suggestion: [copy]
Description of copy is "Questions about copying in the context of file managemenent and backing up."
Okay we have another tag file-copying which serve more or less the same purpose; we have xcopy ...
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Let's stop [chat]ting about it
There are 3 followers and 136 questions for tag chat.
The tag itself is very broad and seems to be useless.
Thus, let's get rid of it.
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DROP [columns] FROM tags;
There are 103 questions tagged with columns, and they are all over the map: several Excel questions that involve a column of data somehow (i.e., Excel questions), some questions about manipulating ...
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Dump the [dump] tag off
dump is useless. Most questions are about memory dumps, and are tagged memory already
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Don't postpone fixing the [delay] tag
The delay tag is undefined and used in several ways. Many of the questions are about processing delays. Some are about postponing activity. Some are about external delays (like emails not being ...
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Merge or synonymize [indentation], [indent], [autoindent]
indentation exists with 60 questions. The content is pretty uniform; all about indentation issues in text editors, so I think it's a useful tag.
That said, there are a couple of variations of the ...
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Clean off the [Dashboard] tag
dashboard looks pretty meta to me... It does not describe one single product, or even one company. Is there an expert on every dashboard available to answer all the questions?
I think we need to get ...
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Beating the beta tag
Considering we already recommend having a sub-tag for betas and RCs, beta is redundant. Can we get rid of it?
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Split the [dolphin] tag
dolphin is currently used for both the file manager and the Dolphin emulator.
The tag info says:
File manager for KDE
As there are only 13 questions tagged with dolphin, and as I don't have ...
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Let's put [preview] in the rear-view
The tag preview has an ambiguity problem. It has no tag wiki and is often misapplied in place of better, more specific tags.
For example, about half of the questions tagged with it are about Preview, ...
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Do people still use a [downloader]?
Nice useless meta tag. downloader is only a useful tag when people tell you just what downloader they are using. On its own it serves no purpose.
Only a few questions tagged with it so it's an easy ...
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Batch and batch-file tags
There are batch and batch-file tags. Their description is pretty much the same:
batch
the execution of a set of commands or software programs without user intervention. A batch file is a text file
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We're in the [same-state] as a messy tagged site
Does anyone know how to be an expert at same-state? Who are the experts that would benefit from this tag?
Get rid of it!
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What's the [code] for Tag Cleanup?
Stumbled across another one... The code tag. Again, who is an expert on everything that a "code" could encompass? Too meta, too broad... Get rid of it
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Close down the [small-business] here!
The small-business tag seems quite meta, and I don't see how an "expert" in small business would profit from using this tag.
Thoughts? Should we keep it or get rid of it?
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What could lead to [troubleshooting] tag cleanups?
What is the point of a troubleshooting tag? It's a process, but it does not gain "troubleshooting experts" anything, and the questions are all different areas of Super User. It's way too meta, since ...
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You're fired: Burn the [position] tag
position seems quite meta - no useful description, and no consistency, and it will not help experts in "positioning" find questions, in my opinion. I vote to fire it
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Should we keep the [front-panel] tag?
While questions tagged with front-panel seem to be really about it, is this tag useful for anything?
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Please make [amazon] stop hurting my brain
I started to write a tag cleanup request for amazon, listing the different ways in which the tag is used. I got writer's cramp. Basically, if you can create an anagram that spells "amazon" from ...
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Is [crowd] needed?
crowd is undefined. It has one question which never received an answer. The question appears to be about basic functionality which would seem to indicate that there is not much familiarity with it ...
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Burninate or clean up the tags [open-source] your help is much appreciated
Since the last request did work perfectly,
could we burninate or clean up the tag open-source?
It's a meta tags without explanation about the topic, usually used for off topic searches for software or ...
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Burninate or clean up the tags [freeware] and [shareware]
Could we burninate or clean up the tags freeware and shareware?
They are meta tags without explanation about the topic, usually used for off topic searches for software or licence issues.
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Is the [ethics] tag appropriate?
ethics is an undefined tag. It has two questions, both closed. Comments on both go to the issue of whether ethics is an appropriate topic for this site. I would think the existence of the tag would ...
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Memory channel tangle: Clean up [single-channel], [dual-channel], [triple-channel], and [multi-channel]
There's a bunch of different tags related to multi-channel memory architecture, including single-channel, dual-channel, and triple-channel. However, we happen to have multi-channel as well.
Can ...
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Go green with environment-related tags
There are three overlapping environment-related tags: environment, work-environment, and physical-environment, none of which are defined, plus desktop-environments, which does not overlap. I did some ...
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Normalize [database]
database is largely a meta tag. Unlike the spreadsheet tag, its definition doesn't cover a non-meta usage, although there is some non-meta usage among the questions. It looks like the vast majority ...
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Get to the core of [dual-core], [quad-core], and [multi-core]
I suggest merging dual-core, quad-core into multi-core. I propose this because there is no reason to have multiple tags on one topic.
Uses for multi-core
Virtualbox
Some OS have problems with multi ...
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The [helpdesk] tag isn't helpful
If you look at helpdesk, most of the questions have nothing to do with helpdesks, or they are denoting a "helpdesk"-style question. I recommend that this tag be deleted because it does not have a ...
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Let's bring [tables] to the table
tables is a very broad tag, which currently has no tag wiki and encompasses everything from questions about Excel, SQL tables, tables in Microsoft Word, and a whole host of other things. In other ...
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