Questions tagged [tag-synonym-request]
A request to add one tag as the synonym of another tag. Please be specific about which tag should be a synonym of which. Bidirectional synonyms and cycles are implicitly disallowed, so suggest wisely.
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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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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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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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Make [mint] a synonym of [linux-mint]
The tag mint is described as "Mint is a GNU/Linux desktop distribution." and has 39 questions.
The tag linux-mint has a much more complete tag wiki and has 203 questions.
They mostly refer to the ...
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Merge [Crashplan] and [crashplan-central]
TROGDOR!!!!
Both crashplan and crashplan-central refer to the same product. crashplan should be the root.
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Merge [multi-user] into [multiple-users] [closed]
Merge the tag mutli-user into multiple-users. They refer to the same concept and the term multiple users is a little more clear than multi user.
And to convince you, I have dragged up the relic that ...
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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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Suggested tag synonym: gnupg/gpg
The tags gnupg and gpg seem to be synonyms, its Wikipedia page also says that:
GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a [...]
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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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Tag synonyms for denial-of-service
Since the DOS tag is ambiguous, I've just created the denial-of-service tag. I already started retagging a few questions.
The problem is that denial-of-service won't appear as a possible choice when ...
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Make [arch] a synonym of [arch-linux]
The tag arch has 14 questions compared to arch-linux's 209 questions. We could manually retag those few questions.
But Arch is a popular shortcut for Arch Linux and it is possible that this would ...
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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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SU Tag merge request [wi-fi] to [wireless-networking]
wi-fi (60) --> wireless-networking (2507)
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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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Create a synonym [osx-10.7] -> [osx-lion]
Our OS X tags usually use the version names instead of the numbers.
osx-10.7 should therefore be a synonym for → osx-lion, just like lion is.
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Burnination and Synonyms Part III (hopefully the last one)
For burnination:
sell
simple
solidworks (rare misspelling)
student
stuck (worthless as used now)
superuser
subjective
support
system (burned, but replaced with system.exe for those who need it)
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Make timetracking a synonym of the time-tracking tag
I think tags time-tracking and timetracking should be synonyms because their difference is only hyphen
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Please align the Excel tags
We lost the battle on excel already, so now it's labeled microsoft-excel, but I see there is still confusion with the version specific tags.
microsoft-excel-2002
microsoft-excel-2003 excel-2003
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