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Tagged with tag-synonyms discussion
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Why are safety and security synonyms?
In the first lesson in my information security class I learned how bad the German term "Sicherheit" is, which can be translated to either security or safety, which makes it hard to distinguish between ...
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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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Do we really need multiple [ubuntu]s?
As of now we have:
ubuntu-8.04× 23
ubuntu-8.10× 8
ubuntu-9.04× 104
ubuntu-9.10× 433
ubuntu-10.04× 904
ubuntu-10.10× 252
ubuntu-11.04× 206
ubuntu-11.10× 131
ubuntu-12.04× 798
ubuntu-12.10× 94
ubuntu-...
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Replace the `Surface` tag?
Users having a Microsoft Surface Computer/Tablet are using the microsoft-surface tag. But I also find some questions having just surface, which does not have a lot to do with the Microsoft Surface ...
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On file removal, deletion, erasing and friends thereof
delete ×196
remove ×47
rm ×19
secure-erase ×18
deleted ×3
secure-delete ×3
erase ×1
Surely we can give those poor tags some synonym love? I don't think they should all be merged into one master tag, ...
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kvm tag ambiguity
The kvm tag is used for both Keyboard-Video-Mouse switch and for Linux Kernel-Virtual-Machine infrastructure.
There are tags kvm-switch and linux-kvm
Is it worthwhile changing all 'kvm' tags to one ...
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Related or synonymous tags: [monitor] and [screen] [duplicate]
The tag screen appears to be a mix of
the same topics as monitor
GNU Screen (which has its own tag gnu-screen)
Should something be done about this? Perhaps separating the two into monitor and gnu-...
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Tags: google-desktop and google-desktop-search
I believe the two tags, google-desktop and google-desktop-search should be synonyms as they are one and the same product: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop
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Call to vote: Synonyms
I have found synonyms to all these tags, please vote up or down if you are eligible on to do so (2000 rep), 4 votes creates the association -2 votes kills it.
bittorrent
colors
shell-script
virtual-...
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Suggested tag synonym: blogs/blogging
blogs and blogging seem to be basically similar in content. In principle, the former could be about reading blogs and the latter writing them, but I doubt that distinction would survive. Also, blog is ...
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Can a synonym be made for the [windows-phone] tag?
The tag windows-phone-7 should be retagged windows-phone. While there are a few more instances including the 7 bit, the questions listed all apply to every current version of Windows Phone, including ...
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Fixing .NET tag names and synonyms to reflect the current official naming convention
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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Consolidating & adding synonyms for cron, crontab & cronjob tags
There are 145 questions tagged with cron, 61 with crontab & 17 with cronjob.
Should these be consolidated into a single tag with appropriate synonyms? If so, would:
cron ← crontab
cron ← ...
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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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Synonymous meta tags about tagging
There are some meta tags about tags that seems to be synonymous:
retagging is a synonym of retag-request.
tag-synonym-request is a synonym of tag-synonyms.
tag-wiki-suggestion is a synonym of tag-...
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