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We should cleanup/remove the [combine] tag
There are around 100 questions with the tag combine. Some of them are related to combining or merging items, and for others, I don't know why they're tagged with it at all.
I don't think this tag adds ...
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Notify a rejected or accepted edit
I would like to propose to somehow notify a rejected edit.
Meanwhile the accepted edit give a +2 and it is somehow notified in the Recent Inbox Messages, the rejected one is difficult to find [1,2] ...
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Managing user who edit only tags of several questions
In the recent few days I've reviewed dozens of tag edit proposals made by a single user.
Some of his edits really improves the quality of the question. Although majority of them, despite adding ...
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Burninate "knowledge-base"
The knowledge-base tag seems useless, for lack of a better word. Five questions, different topics (mostly not related to Microsoft's "Knowledge Base"), no tag description or wiki, ...
Let's get rid ...
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Poke a hole in "Pinning"
My apologies for not moving on this in some direction. I don't know what that direction should be, so I think I should defer to users who are more regular on the site.
The pinning tag does not have a ...
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What to do about tag [oneget]?
There was recently a question regarding the Windows 10 package manager built-in to PowerShell. It was called OneGet during the preview and so there is a [oneget] tag that exists.
The official name ...
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tag [remote-access] vs. [remote-control]
As of the writing of this, there's 225 questions tagged remote-control and 537 tagged remote-access.
The description on the "tag info" page for the latter seems much more complete than the info for ...
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How Boolean operators fit with tags?
I'm aware that if I want to search for a tag, I just type "[~~~]" in the search bar (just replace the tildes with the tag you want). But what if I want to include other things with it? How would the ...
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What to do about the Windows Insider Program?
There have been a few questions about the tags for windows-10 and windows-10-preview, and whether such things are even on topic, similar to the same issue last time with Windows 8. I have noticed a ...
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Get rid of [scaling]
scaling is a tag that covers multiple disparate areas. Some would be better retagged as display-scaling, while others deal with image and video scaling (and even things like PDF zoom!) and perhaps don'...
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Highlight tags that have a planned tag-cleanup on Meta
This may be pie-in-the-sky, but it would be useful if there were some way to connect Meta status-planned tag-cleanup posts to the related tags on the main Super User page.
For example, cleanup of ...
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Deprecate product version preview tags - just use new version tag straight away
(Related to What will happen to the Windows-8-Preview tag once Windows 8 goes live?)
I notice windows-10 is synonymous with windows-10-preview. What's the rationale here?
In theory having the two ...
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Merge tags trusted-root-certificates and trusted-root-ca
I can't really tell the difference between trusted-root-certificates and trusted-root-ca. There are some minor technical differences, like in PKIX, a CA requires basicConstraints=critical,CA:TRUE. But ...
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Rename [XBMC] tag to [Kodi]
XBMC was renamed/rebranded to Kodi: http://kodi.tv/introducing-kodi-14/
I'm not too clear on the right way to propose this.
Proposing:
new Kodi tag
make tag synonym for XBMC to point/resolve to ...
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Let user specify main tag for a question
I observed that a web page title for questions asked here is generated by the first tag + full question. However the ordering for the tags is fixed once added, unless one removes all tag and re-add ...
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Should we merge tags `sublime-text`, `sublime-text-2` and `sublime-text-3`?
Whenever I ask a question regarding sublime text, I always include all three of these tags in order to attract the attention of anyone who has any one of them subscribed. This is because the programs ...
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What's the ports tag for?
Please add missing documentation of the ports tag. It might be interpreted as related to multiple network ports, FreeBSD ports or else.
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When should the operating system be included in questions and tags?
On a question I recently asked regarding passwords on PDFs, a comment was made that the OS should be included in the description and a tag for it used. When is it a good idea to include the OS? It ...
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Adding 'language-highlighting' tag to a question, necessary?
Consider this question.
I provided an answer with a bash script. I did remember to add embedded Prettify language hints. The highlighting didn't get turned on. Then I found this post on Meta SE ...
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Should we remove general tags (in favour of specific tags) immediately, or create a Meta for review first?
In many cases, questions will be tagged with both a specific tag and a general tag. For example, network-interface and interface on a question dealing with network interfacing. Both tags are ...
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Zero Question Tags (Zombie Tags)
All right, this is a little bit embarrassing. What happens when a tag has zero questions?
I always thought that by removing questions from a tag, the tag will get purged. But, I was unsure about how ...
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Remove [asus-g73jh] tag
asus-g73jh has two questions. It is obviously too specific, I believe in both cases just asus would fit better.
I am new to the whole tag cleanup/merge/remove concept and I am still trying to figure ...
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Un-referencing the [reference] tag
It only has 7 questions, but I can't imagine reference is specific enough to be useful. I didn't want to just clear this out without asking others if it could be useful.
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Could we have a Windows 10 tag?
I just asked a question about Windows 10, and I noticed there isn't a tag yet. Could it be worth setting one up now, so it's in the correct format etc?
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Could someone be nice enough to add windows-phone-8.1 as a tag to superuser.com?
I haven't enough rep. The windows-phone-8 tag exists but 8.1 not.
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Create tag for Java-8 on SuperUser
I don't have 300 rep, but I'd like the java-8 tag to be created, for the same reason that the java-7 exists.
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Should There Be A Tag For ReactOS?
I posted a question today about ReactOS, and discovered there's no tag for it yet. I did a search for "reactos", but only a couple pages of results came up and many of them were for answers not ...
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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 we be having periodic, full throttle cleanups?
Right now, we have a whole load of tags we need to kill off, but it's an uphill struggle.
We try not to flood the front page (and with awesome moderator powers, we could actually do that), but ...
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Is the `windows-8.1-preview` tag really needed?
As the title says, is the windows-8.1-preview tag really needed, especially as we're near the release of the Windows 9 Developer Preview (or beta, whatever it is).
The Windows 8.1 Preview is over a ...
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Ongoing community task: ensure there are no [untagged] questions
The tag untagged is applied to questions which either have all their tags burninated, or to questions migrated from other sites (when tags from the origin site do not match any tags here).
According ...
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Would Altap Salamander deserve a tag of its own?
Would Altap Salamander (also known as Servant Salamander) deserve a tag of its own or is it not notable enough?
Another two-pane file manager, the free (as in beer) Total Commander currently has 52 ...
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Reduce Tag Ambiguity by Requiring Objects for Transitive Verbs
It's all in the title I'd say...
In short, I'm suggesting that we add 'object' validation for single-transitive verb tags without object qualifiers... For instance ... 'split' would require the ...
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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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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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Raise the minimum rep needed to create new tags
Super User has a tag problem.
Due to many users who are not acquainted with the site barely reaching the rep threshold to create new tags, many such users misuse it, and that causes a problem as ...
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Help us clean up tags!
Tags on Super User are meant to categorize posts to help people with specific expertise or interests to quickly discover posts that are relevant to them.
Over time we've collected quite a few ...
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Add google-cloud-platform, google-compute-engine tags
Can someone please add the following tags to Super User:
google-cloud-platform
google-compute-engine
I noticed several questions with these tags on Stack Overflow are being closed or put on hold ...
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A new way to clean up tags
This is the proposal. Please see Help us clean up tags! for the result.
Let's face it, we have tons of horrible tags.
In the past, we used Old monthly tag cleanups to keep track of what needs to be ...
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What happens with Server tag
Currently I'm trying to add Server tag to this question.
But when I add it, something strange happens. Here are the screenshots:
Adding tags:
Clicking "Save Edits" tells that "Server" tag does ...
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Can the 'logo' tag be killed?
The logo tag is currently used by a grand total of three questions:
A no-background favicon for my website?
Windows 8.1 start-up logo replaced with ASUS logo after BIOS update
How to change the BIOS ...
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Tag Request: TAILS
I am unable to add this tag For the OS (see image below). It's an acronym for the Linux distro known as "The Amnesic Incognito Live System". This is an example question referring to TAILS and the ...
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Some tag edits cause a demand for body edits
Usually, when editing the tags on a question as part of a tag cleanup simply editing the tag is accepted by the system.
Most recently: here and here
Occasionally, a popup appears demanding 6 ...
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How should command line related questions be tagged?
This question/problem has come up multiple times in the past:
Is command-line a meta tag?
Retag cmd, cli, terminal, and terminal.app into command-line
SU Retag Request: [cmd] --> [command-line]
I ...
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How can the spelling of a tag be changed?
I recently wrote my first tag wiki for the namedranges tag because I noticed several questions had been applied the tag, and there was no information about the tag.
I would really like to change ...
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Different Categories of Windows
Should we break up the Windows version tags into categories?
Sometimes when I ask a question about Windows 8, I'm afraid more people have Windows 7 than 8, and so more people with Windows 7 would ...
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Tag Editing - Process?
There was a tag that I thought was a meta tag here on Super User. I clicked on it, then looked through the questions. Some are tagged properly with it, but others (many others) are using the tag ...
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Removal of html tag because HTML questions are off-topic
I recently had a html question put on hold here and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say although the questions are seen to be put on hold, the fact that there is a tag for html suggests to ...
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Can we rename "window" to "gui-window"?
When I was looking around in the windows tag (while waiting for an answer...) I noticed that many people when they were talking about the Windows OS, they tagged it both with windows and window.
I do ...
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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 ...