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Time for [wake-up] to go back to [sleep]
The tag wake-up is used mainly to describe the process of waking up from sleep.
I think that the process of system sleep/wake-up are too similar, (and ultimately about the same process) to warrant ...
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Do "unrar" and "unzip" deserve their own tags?
Do we really need rar and unrar, zip and unzip?
Please note that unrar, unzip and gunzip are command line utilities.
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Tag Merge/Synonym: [copy-paste]->[clipboard]
The copy-paste tag is used for the clipboard actions Copying and Pasting.
This should be merged with the existing clipboard tag, and synonymised so that future users can find the right tag.
Thoughts?...
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Rename [printer-scanner] tag?
Suggest broadening the printer-scanner tag to multifunction-printer. Many of these devices include fax and the more generic term would be a logical one that wouldn't cause confusion. There is an ...
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The DOS tag is ambiguous
As it is, the dos tag is ambiguous. Even the tag wiki excerpt is split:
DOS is an acronym for "Disk Operating System." DoS is an acronym for "Denial of Service." Do not use this tag for questions ...
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Should we Merge/Synonymise [button-remapping]/[remapping] -> [keyboard-layout]?
button-remapping and remapping are the same thing, and keyboard-layout's Tag description says to use it for remapping keys.
I'm for merging both of the former into the latter. Does this seem sensible?...
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Merge [email-rules] and [email-filter]
email-rules has 1 follower and 61 67 uses:
Actions performed automatically on incoming or outgoing messages, based on conditions that you specify.
email-filter has 0 followers and 48 51 uses:
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Should [whs] be a synonym for [windows-home-server]?
Seems like whs and windows-home-server tags are the same topic.
I do not have the privilege to formally suggest this synonym myself.
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Tag Synonym Request: TSV → CSV
Tab Separated Values tsv should be a synonym to csv as one of the Character Separated Values as it is a delimiter that can be used as an alternative to the comma ,.
I know csv states it is for comma ...
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Merge the tags [windows-live-movie-maker] and [windows-movie-maker]
windows-live-movie-maker and windows-movie-maker are the same thing, at least according to the questions.
Shouldn't these two be merged (if possible) / made synonyms?
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Merge [sleep] and [suspend] tags
The exact same same (as far as I can tell) operation is named sleep on Windows systems, and suspend in Ubuntu (those are the only two systems I can verify myself).
Would it be appropriate to merge ...
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Are cloud-storage and online-storage synonyms?
cloud-storage and online-storage seem like tag synonyms to me.
I would prefer online-storage to be the master (19 questions), because it is more generic, though cloud-storage has more questions (...
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Make [hardware-selection] a synonym of [hardware-rec]
All hardware-selection questions are actually hardware-rec. It's only 6 questions, but hardware-rec has just 192, so hardware-selection makes 3% of the total - I think it's popular enough to be ...
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Merge metro tags [duplicate]
The tags metro and modern-ui are duplicate. The proper term is neither; it’s “immersive”. (Confirmed in Windows 8.1)
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Should "multi-boot" and "dual-boot" tags be synonyms?
Should the multi-boot and dual-boot tags be synonyms? If not, when should I use one over the other?
I recently asked this question and wasn't sure which tag would be the best.
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Sorting out Chrome-related tags
Someone's muddled the chrome-related tags!
Chromium is an open-source web browser. Chrome is a closed-source derivative of Chromium made by Google. Chrome OS is an operating system based on the ...
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Unify the `http-status-codes-nnn` tags under `http-status-codes`
I just asked this question, which I wanted to tag with http-status-codes. However, no such tag exists, and I don't have enough rep to create the tag. I think the tag would nicely unify the existing ...
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Synonym Request [stickies] to [sticky notes]
stickies has 3 questions and sticky-notes has 17. Sticky notes can be any operating system including OS X, while stickies seems to only be OS X.
stickies should be a synonym of sticky-notes
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Bad name for [modern-ui] tag
modern-ui was AFAIK never the official name from Microsoft. It was always either knows by the codename “Metro”, by the internally used name “Immersive” or by the moniker “Windows Store apps”
Request: ...
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Retag request: Should duplicate-files be aliased to deduplication?
In tagging a question I noticed duplicate-files (24) and deduplication (38).
The tag wiki for the latter seemed like the right thing for my question, but most of the questions filed under duplicate-...
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Duplicate tags for "USB stick" never closed
This question is still in action:
What is the standard term for a USB flash-drive/pen/thumb/stick?
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I have found 4 usb drive tags:
usb-flash-drive
usb-drive
usb-stick
usb-storage
Perhaps there ...
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Tag synonym request: [mac-os] to [osx]
The mac-os tag has four questions, all relating to OS X (one is even tagged with both).
Following the lead of Apple.SE, I suggest that the tag (and its synonym macos) be merged into osx.
An ...
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Can we merge the tags speech-to-text and voice command into "speech recognition"?
I've just created a tag wiki for speech-recognition (should be under review by now).
I propose that we merge speech-to-text and speech-recognition into speech-recognition because it is the most ...
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"Key-combination" synonym for "keyboard-shortcuts" tag
I think there should be key-combination synonym for keyboard-shortcuts tag.
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Make [network-attached-storage] a synonym of [nas]
Can network-attached-storage be added as a tag synonym for the nas tag?
Currently, when typing the full name of NAS in the tags field, which is Network-attached storage, you don't get any tag ...
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Request to merge or cleanup tags related to "system-monitoring"
I have recently added a tag wiki excerpt for system-monitoring and found out that there are several tags that might be related to it and therefore might be considered as tag synonyms.
Such tags ...
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Cleanup of tags with similar names
Gilles was nice enough to share a Data.SE query with us identifying tags with similar names, prime candidates for cleaning up and possibly synonym creation.
I consider the following to be false ...
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Add tag synonym: "preferences" -> "settings"
Add preferences as a synonym of settings.
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Screen Recording and Screen Capturing tags
I would merge desktop-recording (x8) and screen-recorder (x18) into screen-capture (x122).
After that, should we — per Daniel's suggestion — try to split up screen-capture into more precise tags, i.e....
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Duplicate tags about duplicate files
deduplication
duplicate seems to be used for deduplication but some are about how to create duplicate files.
duplicate-files
duplicating
I suggest merging into deduplication for most of those ...
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drive -> hard-drive tag synonym suggestion
Currently there are 110 questions tagged with drive. I suggested making drive a synonym for hard-drive. I realize that drive and hard-drive it is not exactly the same (some drives are not hard-drives),...
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Make [unity] a synonym of [ubuntu-unity]
unity (×21) refers both to:
ubuntu-unity (×21), Ubuntu's new default desktop
vmware-unity (×12), a special display mode in VMware
I've already mapped all "unity" questions that ...
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Tag merge/synonym request: [touchpad] and [trackpad]
These two tags mean the same thing: The pointing device usually built into laptop computers.
The tags for these should be merged.
touchpad x 177
trackpad x 52
Vote on the answers below for your ...
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Do we need both [website] and [webpage]?
Seems like one would be plenty:
website (376)
webpage (61)
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CD-related tags
Why do we have both compact-disc and cd-rom?
UPDATE: Please vote on options below.
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Synonym Request
I was reviewing some questions and came across toc and wondered what it was, so I clicked on it. Mostly I'm writing this to meet quality standards
toc (6 questions) should be a synonym of table-of-...
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Synonym: [comparison] and [file-comparison]
The comparison (162 questions) and file-comparison (9 questions) tags seem to be synonymous.
The tag wiki for comparison specifically mentions file comparisons, so since it has more questions, I ...
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Tag Merge Requests
bootable - 29 questions tagged
bootable-media - 84 questions tagged
disk-utility - 82 questions tagged
diskutility - (2) 0 questions tagged - retagged with above.
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Should something be done about the anonymity and anonymous tags?
anonymity
anonymous
Feels like anonymous & anonymity could be folded to privacy. I can't propose it as I lack the rep.
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Make [standby] and [sleep] and [suspend] synonyms
I believe standby and sleep and suspend are three names for the same thing. Currently questions are split between the tags.
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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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Can I get a few Office for Mac synonyms?
I finally fixed our Office for Mac tags, and I managed to do it without a posse!
Now, the office-for-mac tag has 44 questions, and there are several subtags for the individual programs and Office ...
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