Questions tagged [tag-cleanup-request]

Questions that deal with our cleaning up unwanted junk tags.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
93 votes
7 answers
4k views

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 [...
58 votes
2 answers
1k views

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 ...
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.5k
46 votes
1 answer
841 views

Let's retire the [sysadmin]

The sysadmin tag has a different meaning almost every question, and it never seems to refer to the actual role of a system administrator. It seems to be used for questions that have to do with the ...
Ben N's user avatar
  • 40.9k
45 votes
0 answers
304 views

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 ...
user49740's user avatar
  • 3,260
42 votes
3 answers
752 views

What do a writer, taxi, and horse have in common?

Answer: we don't yet have questions with the hack tag covering these, perhaps the only common uses of the term not included. hack and its synonym hacking are undefined and have 44 questions. The ...
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.5k
40 votes
0 answers
290 views

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 ...
Jon's user avatar
  • 9,305
29 votes
1 answer
953 views

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, ...
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.5k
29 votes
1 answer
284 views

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 ...
Excellll's user avatar
  • 12.7k
28 votes
1 answer
422 views

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, ...
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.5k
28 votes
3 answers
464 views

Show the [guest] the door

The guest is unwelcome and would benefit from clarification. As it stands "guest" is simply too vague to be useful. We have guest-additions, but this tag might do with being split into guest-...
Mokubai's user avatar
  • 92.6k
27 votes
1 answer
201 views

Get rid of "text"

My question is about text, so I tagged it with "text". text
Oliver Salzburg's user avatar
27 votes
0 answers
165 views

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.
Canadian Luke's user avatar
26 votes
8 answers
742 views

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:...
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.5k
26 votes
1 answer
505 views

Girl, you're a mess: [images] needs a makeover

This is a plea to add images to the tag-cleanup agenda. It was discussed tangentially in the comments on this meta question from over two years ago, but no firm plans were made to attack this massive (...
Excellll's user avatar
  • 12.7k
25 votes
1 answer
830 views

Are we [licensed] for all this?

I think license-key and product-key should be synonyms. There's also software-activation. I also don't see why the 12 volume-license questions aren't just tagged with license given you can get volume ...
Raystafarian's user avatar
  • 21.7k
25 votes
1 answer
428 views

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 ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
  • 129k
24 votes
3 answers
524 views

There's no point in running

run is absolutely useless. We should get rid of it.
Oliver Salzburg's user avatar
24 votes
1 answer
244 views

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
Canadian Luke's user avatar
24 votes
0 answers
272 views

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 ...
user's user avatar
  • 29.9k
23 votes
2 answers
256 views

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. ...
ThunderToes's user avatar
23 votes
2 answers
236 views

Split up the [split] tag [duplicate]

split is all over - it's about splitting files, DVDs, splitting windows/screen into two, Excel formula to split contents - I propose that we kill split
Sathyajith Bhat's user avatar
  • 61.8k
23 votes
0 answers
230 views

Should we put a limit on [limit]?

limit is a meta-tag used for a bunch of totally different purposes. Scanning the first page of questions I find questions about limiting screen resolution number of files downloaded amount parallel ...
Jens Erat's user avatar
  • 17.9k
21 votes
1 answer
3k views

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 ...
JonathanDavidArndt's user avatar
21 votes
1 answer
282 views

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 ...
Robotnik's user avatar
  • 2,408
21 votes
1 answer
265 views

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?
Robotnik's user avatar
  • 2,408
21 votes
0 answers
342 views

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 ...
gparyani's user avatar
  • 1,835
20 votes
4 answers
439 views

Could we finally get rid of [software-rec]?

I know that this has been covered before (for example here), but communities evolve constantly and our current view on this matter can be different. In my humble opinion, software-rec should be ...
gronostaj's user avatar
  • 57k
20 votes
3 answers
3k views

aria2 vs. aria2c?

A proposed tag wiki edit raised a question about two tags: aria2 and aria2c. The first has 5 questions, the second has 8, and a number of these questions have both. I'm not familiar with the program,...
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.5k
20 votes
0 answers
106 views

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 ...
Máté Juhász's user avatar
20 votes
0 answers
363 views

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 ...
Graham Wager's user avatar
  • 11.8k
19 votes
1 answer
336 views

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?...
DavidPostill's user avatar
  • 157k
19 votes
1 answer
218 views

Delete [delete]

I don't even know what to say about deleteā€¦ but I don't like it.
Oliver Salzburg's user avatar
19 votes
1 answer
495 views

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 ...
Mokubai's user avatar
  • 92.6k
19 votes
0 answers
176 views

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 ...
gronostaj's user avatar
  • 57k
18 votes
1 answer
356 views

Files and folders everywhere

I hate to see these perfect examples of our tag problem go, but, oh well. Please help clean up the tags: file 1407 - 679 141 questions folder 1129 - 857 319 questions
Oliver Salzburg's user avatar
18 votes
1 answer
242 views

Burn [version-number], [updates] and related tags

BUMP: I started to write a new question about version, then discovered that it had been raised 5 yrs ago, when there were 47 questions, but not resolved. Then I found this question from 2 yrs ago, ...
Robotnik's user avatar
  • 2,408
18 votes
1 answer
174 views

Burnination Request - Invisible

invisible is absolutely useless! Top three questions mean 3 completely different uses. I suggest getting rid of it.
Canadian Luke's user avatar
18 votes
0 answers
181 views

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 ...
Robotnik's user avatar
  • 2,408
18 votes
0 answers
113 views

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 ...
Dessa Simpson's user avatar
17 votes
1 answer
484 views

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 ...
Hennes's user avatar
  • 65.1k
17 votes
3 answers
631 views

Do we really need the [executable] or [exe] tags?

We have two tags representing 'executable programs': executable An executable is a fully compiled program that can be run without further processing. exe (tag was merged into executable) An ...
Robotnik's user avatar
  • 2,408
17 votes
1 answer
298 views

Can we empty out [null]?

Seriously, I have no idea what null is for - null characters, null processes, errors, null strings, nil, nada, nothing, blank, empty? I really don't see the point of null when it's not specific ...
Raystafarian's user avatar
  • 21.7k
17 votes
2 answers
124 views

No excuse for [odd-behavior]

odd-behavior doesn't seem to be very meaningful. It's very vague as it just means something is acting oddly, failing to denote any cohesive topic. I suggest that this tag be deleted.
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.1k
17 votes
0 answers
117 views

Lets turn the blinking off ... on .. off.. on ... PERMANTENTLY OFF

The blinking tag is used in 18 questions. Mostly about blinking LEDs, cursors and monitors which turn on and off. I suggest we permanently blink it out of existence.
Hennes's user avatar
  • 65.1k
17 votes
0 answers
93 views

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 ...
Excellll's user avatar
  • 12.7k
17 votes
0 answers
124 views

Burninate or clean up the tag [dual]

We currently have 48 questions tagged dual. There questions are on different subjects: Dual ISPs Dual dual mail accounts Dual monitors Dual graphics cards Dual boot Dual OS installations (...
Hennes's user avatar
  • 65.1k
16 votes
1 answer
121 views

Tag cleanup: Delete tag [rows]

rows A row is a horizontal line of something within a program. It can be a row of cells in excel, or a row of text in a text document. Rows are horizontally positioned and are generally read left-...
Máté Juhász's user avatar
16 votes
1 answer
171 views

Kill the overutilized [utilization] tag

13 questions are currently tagged utilization (I removed the tag from one other question). How to find maximum amount of requests for a file with a certain utilization percent? elasticsearch + kibana:...
user's user avatar
  • 29.9k
16 votes
2 answers
443 views

Tags flash, adobe-flash and flash-player

flash: Adobe Flash is a cross-platform multimedia runtime used to embed animations, video, and interactive applications into web pages. According to Adobe, Flash delivers over 75% of online video ...
Karan's user avatar
  • 56.5k
16 votes
1 answer
178 views

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, ...
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.5k

1
2 3 4 5