Questions tagged [tag-cleanup-request]
Questions that deal with our cleaning up unwanted junk tags.
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I think we should remove the [windows-10-final] tag synonym
Previously, [windows-10-final] referred to non-preview Windows 10 builds (i.e. "final" meaning Windows 10 after its official release, when the preview period was over), and served as a tag ...
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Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again
We don't like company-only tags, and there's been various crusades in the past to purge them:
Can we get rid of the company tags?
Company tag necromancy: The zombie apocalypse!
What should the [...
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Burninate [diagnostic], [troubleshooting], and [debugging]?
diagnostic is used on 190 questions. A few are about diagnostic software, a few are about some specific display of diagnostic information, a few are on questions asking how to troubleshoot a problem, ...
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Rename .net-core to .net and fix past synonyms
In November 2020, Microsoft released .NET 5.0 and the "Core" branding was removed.
Alas, 2011's Merge some .NET tags request messed up present times by doing the opposite - removing the word ...
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The tag [variables] is too similar to [variables]
When creating the [variables] tag, the following dialog pops out:
After clicking "Yes, I'm sure", the system throws:
So does the [variables] tag exist or not?
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Let's [bypass] usage of this tag
I saw the bypass tag a few moments ago. I think it is redundant. It has no tag wiki.
I saw it when a question was asking how to bypass school controls. The tag seemed totally useless in that question.
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Should we remove the [android] tag?
Recently there's been some contention regarding whether or not android questions are on-topic. Actually, It seems this topic has come up a lot in the past.
As we're on a bit of a tag-cleaning bender, ...
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Block the [hp] tag
The hp tag has been removed repeatedly as a generic company tag.
Since the previous major effort to clear out the company tags, this tag has been recreated and removed again four additional times, ...
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What is the difference between the file-types and filetype tags?
What is the difference between the file-types and filetype tags?
Is it best to leave them as two separate tags or merge them together?
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Let's part ways with [computer-parts]
computer-parts appears to be a useless meta tag. Nobody is an expert on all computer parts and there is no reason to search for questions using that tag that I can think of.
Should we remove this tag?...
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Blacklist 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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I speak [spanish], and [english] too… [duplicate]
The tags spanish and english seem to not have a very clear purpose. Looking through those questions, it seems like most of them could be retagged to translation or localization.
They also don't have ...
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Clean out our [container]
The container tag appears to be too broadly scoped to be useful in its current state. With its oldest question being from 2010, it is used for many different areas of expertise including but not ...
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Drop kick [dropout]
Is dropout useful?
A long time ago it was identified as a tag that should never be the only tag on a question...a good sign it's a meta tag.
There are only 4 questions tagged as such so I get it's ...
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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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Unsynonomize [synaptic] and [synaptics]
Synaptics is a company that makes human interface devices like touchpads. Synaptic is a Linux package manager that works with Apt. At some point in the past, these two tags were incorrectly ...
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Is there any difference between the tags "windows-server-2003" and "windows-2003-server"?
Discovered a few semi-related tags:
windows-server-2003
539 questions, 10 this year
this has a good excerpt, but no tag wiki
windows-2003-server
19 questions, 2 this year
this has nothing... no ...
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Rename Tag: [attachments] into [email-attachments]
I would like to suggest to rename the attachments-tag into email-attachments, analogue to the email-signature-tag.
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I recommend tossing [hardware-rec]
Subject says it all. Just posted a question and noticed the hardware-rec tag. This site specifically flags items on a regular basis that are hardware recommendations since they are too broad, so why ...
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Vampyric tags: [design] won't die
design didn't die like we wanted it to.
The answer to life, the universe, and everything may be among the questions tagged with it, but these still cover such a broad swath of computery experience ...
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Don't give us static about deleting [dynamic]
dynamic is meaningless. Seems like it mostly attracts Excel-related question for some reason. There are also some questions on random topics, like folder binding, task scheduler, DDNS, dynamically ...
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Should [clock] be split up into 3 tags?
I was writing a question about how the clock changes between Linux and Windows, and noticed the clock tag. However, after looking over the questions, it seemed broad - or, at least, had multiple ...
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Cue the removal of [queue]
I came across the queue tag and found that just about every use had a different definition. There's no tag wiki excerpt.
Proposal:
asterisk queue => asterisk asterisk-queue
printer queue => Is it ...
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Rat's nest of tags
Raystafarian recently posted a number of tag cleanup requests:
Be done with [gtd]
What to do with [to-do]
It's time we managed [time-management]
and a tag synonym request: Tag Synonym request: [tag:...
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Pummel [panel]?
panel is an undefined tag with 42 questions. Even if it was defined, it begs misuse because it can apply to so many different kinds of things, and people don't read the wiki excerpts. Should we beat ...
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Time up on the [trial]?
I have recently discovered the trial tag. The questions in it all appear to low quality. Is it worth retiring this tag?
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There should be no [untagged] questions
The tag untagged is applied to questions which either have all their tags burninated or to questions migrated from other sites whose tags from the origin site do not match any tags here. According to ...
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Delete redundant [microsoft-dynamics] tags
Note: The question has been revised since Mokubai posted the comment below. It originally looked like all of the microsoft-dynamics tags referred just to CRM, and the question suggested synonomizing ...
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How far should we take manufacturer meta tags?
We have tags for a number of companies that make only one type of equipment or software, like synaptics, wacom, aptana, and mikrotik. There are also companies like apc that make a range of products, ...
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Make a [conversion] to proper tags
I couldn't think of a pun for the title that wouldn't sound more forced than witty, so the current title comes courtesy of Canadian Luke.
Looking at the conversion tag, the vast majority of the ...
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Recovery tag needs to stop recovering
I think that the recovery Tag is far too broad as there are so many different types of recovery (which also have tags for them) such as data-recovery, password-recovery, partition-recovery and so on. ...
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[hardware-combination]: lock it away
hardware-combination decorates questions about anything that contains two or more non-identical components.
mixing RAM of different speeds
how to orient the fan on a computer case that contains a ...
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Ship [shipping] to /dev/null
We have six questions tagged shipping. The tag has no description and there seems to be no clear usage for it.
I would like to remove it completely.
Opinions please.
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Should we keep stretching the meaning of [stretch]?
This is about stretch. It's the code name of the current stable Debian release, and it's also a tag on the main site.
Most of the usage seems to be about debian-stretch -- there are 19 questions ...
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Is application-error an error?
We have a tag, application-error, with 79 questions. Since a good percentage of software questions could be labeled "application error", it is not only meta, but does nothing to differentiate ...
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Image modification tag cleanup
We have a number of tags relating to image modification:
image-editing (189 Q)
image-processing (85 Q)
image-manipulation (25 Q)
image-transparancy (10 Q).
None of the tags have a definition, and ...
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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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Is [numbering] tag useful or too vague?
I am looking at the tag on SU, called numbering. It appears to be very broad and not useful at collecting similar questions. Should it be there, or removed?
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Disconnect the [intermittent] tag
The intermittent tag has 7 questions. It seems too meta to be useful.
Should we keep it around? Or is it time to end the connection?
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Don't hate the [player] hate the tag
The player tag feels like a classic meta tag, and one likely to be misused. I saw it in use for a question what seems to be a glorified cd player but could refer to audio, video or other software that ...
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Time to be LESS organised
organization is a pretty big meta-tag.
It's uses include,
Organisation charts
Sorting data
Windows Explorer functionality
Email organisation
and many more.
Should we burn it?
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The [corruption] tag is corrupted
I've checked out some of the questions with corruption, and the more I read the more I'm convinced it's unhelpful as it is.
Corruption of files, of streams, of download, upload, screen, filesystem, ...
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Let's change our [background]
There are actually a few 'background' tags floating around in the... background.
...Ok, that one was terrible. In all seriousness:
Updates
These tags have been removed:
background - used ...
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Shred and wail on the [tab] tag
My question involves a web browser, a spreadsheet, a keyboard or a sweet guitar riff..
tab
In a twist of fate tabs exists - https://superuser.com/tags/tabs/info
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Drop dropdownlist?
dropdownlist:A drop down list is a list with predetermined options that expands when clicked to reveal the options available.
Do we have experts on drop-down lists?
Does this tag helps clarifying ...
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Usage of "external" tag - burninate?
I just removed the external tag from a question regarding viewing of source code for a browser, and it got me thinking that this is somewhat a meta-tag.
There exists tags such as external-hard-drive ...
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Burninate the [ssid] tag
All of the questions tagged with ssid are related to wireless-networking. There are only 4 followers of ssid. All experts on wireless-networking should be experts on ssid. I see no purpose of the ssid ...
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Remove [micro-sd-card] tag
This tag is redundant, as [sd-card] exists. There aren't many things specific to micro SD cards that aren't shared traits with SD cards.
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