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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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Should the "certificates" and "trusted-root-certificates" tags be merged?
On SU there are these two tags dealing with certificates:
certificate
trusted-root-certificates
I'm wondering, are they too close to each other to have meaningful difference? I mean, should we just ...
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Find the tags with the most/least answered questions
Is there a way to view this?
I know that by clicking on the tag will show the number of questions that are answered overall, in the last 30 days, and the last 7 days.
Is there a broader list that ...
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Tags are not appearing properly in Tags Field
Why this tags are not displaying properly on IE8?
Whether this is an known issue?
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Should virtualization questions be tagged as both virtualbox and vmware?
Should virtualization questions be tagged as both virtualbox and vmware?
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Possible to suggest tag(s) after scanning through the question?
Is it possible to add this feature - after user enter his/her question into the question text area, the website will auto insert some suggestive tags for the question and insert them automatically in ...
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Do not automatically expire single-use tags
There is an automatic job that deletes single-use tags after 6 months. No attempt is made at determining whether the tags are good and should remain, or whether the tags are a variant name of another ...
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Merging or Linking Tags [duplicate]
There are very strong rumours that Apple will be rebranding OSX to macOS in June 2016.
Would it be a good idea to merge osx tags with macos ahead of time? Or at the very least link the two terms ...
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Is there any way to see all the questions that are tagged with my favorite tags?
I want to visit http://superuser.com and I want to see just all the asked questions or all active questions that are tagged with my favorite tags.
I know I can search with one tag, but I want to ...
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Doesn't the "untagged" tag defeat the purpose?
Today, I noticed a new tag called "untagged." Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the tagging system? How do you flag a tag for removal?
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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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Should the [windows-8.1] tag be a synonym of [windows-8]?
Windows 8.1 is due for release very soon, and I recently noticed the windows-8.1 tag. I wanted to bring two questions up for consideration:
Should the tag windows-blue also exist, and be made a ...
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Burn the stackexchange tag on the main site
Personally, I cannot think of a single question that would be on topic that uses that tag, and the questions currently tagged with this tag reflect that.
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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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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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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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Rename tag [tortoise-svn] to [tortoisesvn] to be consistent with other stack* sites
I world like to propose tha the tag tortoise-svn is renamed to tortoisesvn, because that is the tag that is used on stackowerflow.
That makes the cross site feature tagging better.
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Need help with Watch Tag Issue
I was in a post, I put my mouse over an item to click, I clicked and at the same instant a Watch Tag popped up and I clicked it instead. How do I clear Watch Tags - that is, how do I reset them?
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RSS feed for favorite tags?
I noticed that every tag has its own RSS feed, it's a handy feature to follow particular subjects.
I wonder of there is something similar for own favorite tags: I know that I can individually ...
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Create Tag for BHO on SU
Like google-chrome-extensions, please create a tag for browser-helper-objects (BHO) on superuser.
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Add the URL to a site recommendation question from Meta SE about Wordpress to [wordpress] tag excerpt
Tl;Dr: Is it OK to add the url to Where should I ask WordPress questions? (Question from Meta SE) to the wordpress tag excerpt?
The reason is that while some questions about Worpress might be on topic ...
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Which sorting superuser use for displaying reputations of users in one page
I have come across this page https://superuser.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=week and most of the elements look like in sorted order, but some elements are not in sorted order.
Is it supposed to ...
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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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Why is a tag too similar to itself? [duplicate]
I wanted to tag this question with variables. When I typed "vari" the only suggestion was environment-variables. Since the description says "system-wide" and my question concerned ...
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How to use redundant tags (eg microsoft-excel, excel-2007)
I think I'm not using tags correctly I was always going for the "how to ask" rule: "be as specific as possible". This edit here: https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/775074 the rejection ...
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there is no telegram tag
I was going to ask some question about telegram app and I noticed that there is no telegram related tag!
Please add "telegram" and telegram related (such as telegram-desktop and such) tags.
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It is ok to to edit posts to add tags that are related to answers rather than questions? [duplicate]
I'd like to know if it is ok to add a tag to a post that help categorizing it but it is more related to the answer rather than to the question.
This doubt is related to this question How to create an ...
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How should be approach Windows 8 Store apps tags?
There are times where users have specific question about specific apps within Windows 8. How should we tag these specific questions?
I propose we do the following:
Have a general windows-8-store-...
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Is it okay to create a tag for a specific class of problem?
I've recently noticed 4 different questions that come down to "I've noticed that I get full speed from my Linksys Wi-Fi AP right after I reboot/reset/reconfigure it, but after a few minutes it goes ...
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What is the difference between the "unzip" and "extract" tags?
I understand that unzip is referring to decompressing a file that has been previously compressed, but I don't understand the difference between unzip, and extract, considering also that, for example, ...
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Favorite tags in Chrome isn't displaying correctly [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SuperUser bug: badge border is cut off in Chrome, fine in Firefox
Chrome displays Favorite Tag on home page like this:
I have confirm this on Chrome v12, v13, and v14 on ...
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How specific should tags get? e.g., [3tb-hard-drive] vs [hard-drive]
Been doing some tag cleanup recently and noticed this oddity:
Boot utilities for 3 TB hard drives
Now, in this case it almost makes sense since this is very specific to the potential problems that a ...
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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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Color valid tags differently from invalid tags
I have an interesting idea for how tags work. No, it is not the new and improved tag, or a total tag makeover. In fact, it is a small change in how tags work that I think could help out a lot of ...
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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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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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How is this question about resolution off-topic?
I have asked a question about Upschaling and Pixel Replication
I have frequently heard that it is better to have a display resolution
with the resolution of the content you want to display on the ...
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Is the "microsoft" tag of any use? [duplicate]
I have found a tag named microsoft which was created August 26 with 10 questions. Does the tag have any use, or should it be removed?
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How do we handle Windows 10 (Threshold 2) Questions?
So the release of Windows 10 on July 29th 2015 was known as Threshold 1. The current release is the Threshold 2 build. It was released on November 12th 2015.
Threshold 2 bring several specific ...
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Tag order on the user profile page
As a feature, can the tags be ordered first by score, then alphabetically? As it is, it is hard to find a particular tag.
It would also be nice to be able to just sort alphabetically.
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Could you create the "miller" tag
Miller is a great cli tool to work with structured text data file.
The tag description could be:
Miller is an open source command line utility: it is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-...
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Microsoft-Forms tag needed
While researching a problem, I was looking for a tag for Microsoft Forms, I didn't find one; there is a [forms] generic tag, with 778 topics. If I search without any tag term, for
https://superuser....
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Would the [desktop-shortcut] be the same as the [file-shortcut]? [closed]
Would the [desktop-shortcut] be the same as the [file-shortcut]?
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InCopy tag creation request
My Super User question here involves Adobe InCopy. I would like to request the creation of a tag about Adobe InCopy. Could we please create such a tag? Thanks!
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Difference between tags virus, malware, trojan, infection,worm
From most used to least used (including related tags):
virus x 501
anti-virus x 453
virus-removal x 56
malware x 256
malware-removal x 37
malware-detection x 13
anti-malware x 11
trojan x 70
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Tags Taking out the trash Or Creating a bigger mess?
There are hundreds of tags that do not even need discussion, and
never should have been created. They are at the Far end of the tags,
and they are not magically dissapearing. And many of them do not
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How to know correct or suitable tags to my question?
It will be good always to see quick response in the form of answers and comments from the community. But how to know correct or suitable tags to my question for quick and suitable people attraction to ...
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Add tag for drive-file-stream and for google-backup-and-sync
As the old Google Drive application is being depreciated on all platforms, I vote that we need new tags for its successors Drive File Stream and Google Backup and Sync in order to distinguish between ...
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