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Can the hardware and software tags be obliterated?
Do we really need the hardware and software tags?
Looking at the tags into detail:
They don't group all the questions that should belong to them.
Their statistics don't make sense, they are both less ...
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Blocklist Google?
google (the manufacturer meta tag, see Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again), was cleaned up a little over a year ago. It stayed dead for almost a year, but starting in July of this year, ...
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Are "error" and "problem" meta-tags?
From http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/:
If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag.
Clearly, error and problem fit this criterion.
If ...
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The monster that can't be killed
The microsoft tag is like something from a sci-fi horror movie. This manufacturer meta tag was cleaned out in March of this year, but people keep using it. I just fixed the third question in the ...
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Have a prompt when a tag is created
When a tag is created, a prompt should be raised, just so that people know they they are creating a tag, and are doing it intentionally.
I think that should solve address the answers to my previous ...
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"mono" tag as in "vs .net" and as in "vs. stereo"
There seem to be two uses of the tag "mono", one for questions related to audio and one for questions related to the Mono framework.
Wouldn't it be better to create a tag "mono-framework" and retag ...
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What is the standard term for a USB flash-drive/pen/thumb/stick?
There are several questions, particularly on Super User, which refer to the use of these drives but there isn't a standard term in use nor a standard tag. Though SU has 'thumb drive', it is not ...
mas
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The [filter] tag is ambiguous
See list of questions tagged filter: some of them are about ffmpeg filters (used for resizing videos and such), some are about filtering data in MS Excel, some are about organising emails... none of ...
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Split off [split]
The tag split is used for lots of things and not used consistently for anything.
It has been planned to make it go since 2014. Can we burn it now?
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Consider blocklisting the [microsoft] tag?
As per Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again, microsoft as a tag is not wanted: we have more specific tags to use for microsoft products (microsoft-excel, windows-10, etc).
It has been ...
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Send out [newsletters]
newsletters has no usage guidance, there are 14 questions tagged with it, mainly about format of newsletters, or sending newsletters in e-mail.
I see it from time to time as a favoured tag of spam ...
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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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Super User - Suggest adding an operating system tag
When asking a question on Super User, add a suggestion for users to include their "operating system" when adding tags.
It's such a common omission in questions on Super User, I think an extra ...
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Merge firefox-related tags?
Now that Mozilla is rolling out Firefox releases so quickly, does it really pay to keep creating separate tags for each new version? We currently have tags for firefox 3-6 including several ...
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Should we delete the [homework] tag?
The homework tag is a meta-tag, which is explicitly discouraged. Should we delete the homework tag from all questions? Although a question may be about homework, there's nothing useful gained by ...
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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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Tag rename request: [excel] -> [microsoft-excel] & [powerpoint] -> [microsoft-powerpoint]
This question has been superseded by Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?.
At the time of writing this, there are 722 questions tagged as excel & 161 questions tagged as powerpoint
I ...
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Is there a way to block the recreation of the [bug] tag on the main site?
I've been editing out the bug tag from threads on the main site because I've noticed that there were just a few questions tagged with it and that it doesn't improve the post in any way that can't be ...
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What’s up with the volume tag? [closed]
The volume tag is a mixup of partitioning questions and audio questions.
Could someone sort it out? (FYI it's the same mistake done by Polish Windows translators: translating "volume manager" like it ...
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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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Difference between CD tags
There are currently 239 questions tagged with cd and no distinction between Compact Disc and Change Directory. Additionally, there is no [chdir] tag. My thoughts are that there should be a chdir tag ...
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Why is Windows XP tag showing zero questions ?
I noticed this while retagging a question, a search for questions tagged [windows-xp] returns 12 questions, so why is the tagging area indicating that there are no questions tagged [windows-xp] ?
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Lotus tag cleanup
While looking through some questions on lotus-notes, I found that some of them were also tagged with lotus, which has 34 questions. Looking through the lotus, many of them are just about Notes, one ...
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