Questions tagged [tags]
General questions about tag usage on the main site
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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 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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Most tag searches appear to result in no questions if last tab was "Featured"
If the user was browsing Featured questions from the home page, and then searches for a tag, it appears to the user that there are no questions of any kind for that tag.
Repro:
Navigate to the main ...
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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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Tags go totally nuts on hover
There's a certain area around tags where they will flip constantly between their normal and hover states. Please see the following video for an illustration of the issue:
This is in Chrome stable in ...
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Tag display wraps across lines
The list of tags at the bottom of a question is wrapping after the left border of a tag (view this question in Opera(perhaps other browsers also) and look at bottom tag list.
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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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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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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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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 ...
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What's the proper tag for questions about differences between software editions?
If somebody asks what are the differences between two editions of the same application, how should the question be tagged? For example Difference between resin and resin pro is currently untagged and ...
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Questions about beta/pre-release software. Why are there still 73 questions tagged [Windows-8.1]?
Questions about bugs in pre-release/beta software or prototype hardware are off-topic. Bugs in pre-release products are common and even expected, and are often fixed before the final version is ...
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Bottom border of tags is cut off when editing or creating posts
I first noticed this in the review queue on the main site, but it also occurs on both the main site and the meta site when asking a question.
Main site, review queue
Meta site, asking a new question
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Can we have all ICS questions re-tagged?
Why is it that ics is used for questions relating to iCalendar? Can we have iCal or even iCalendar instead? I don't know if upper casing is allowed in tag names, but this could also be ical or ...
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Tamil tag... why?
Continuing my rant on chat, let me rephrase why I don't think is needed, addressing each question problem:
Free tamil word processors: Is about a word processor, not something that critically depends ...
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Make the edit tags button not bump a post
Four to five times a week I find my self answering a 2-3 year old question on the front page that I do not realize is a old (potentially abandoned) question that Hennes edited to do tag cleanup on (...
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Isn't it better to remove Linux and Windows tags?
Every time i see a question related to linux, i have to ask the user what distro are you using? Same applies to Windows.
I think a linux tag is appreciated on unix.stackexchange.com since some users ...
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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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Sorting out Chrome-related tags
Someone's muddled the chrome-related tags!
Chromium is an open-source web browser. Chrome is a closed-source derivative of Chromium made by Google. Chrome OS is an operating system based on the ...
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Shouldn't the hardware tag be enabled?
Currently, the "Hardware" tag is disabled:
However, things such as "Hardware-failure" are allowed.
The reason the tag was closed (based on my research) is that it lead to quite a bit of shopping ...
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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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Merge [pen-tablet] into [graphics-tablet]
Both pen-tablet and graphics-tablet appear to describe a computer input device that enables a user to hand-draw images and graphics.
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Since we don't need two tags describing the exact same ...
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Are there Badges for all Tags?
I just received my first "Tag" Badge (Microsoft-Excel, yeah!). When I looked into the Tags that had badges, I didn't notice any particular system for which Tags had Badges (at any level).
Are ...
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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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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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plasma tag itself is too generic, should be compounded and split into TV and workspace
As things stand right now, plasma is ambiguous. Questions labeled with it refer both to plasma TVs and to the KDE graphical environment, and this doesn't seem correct to me.
I suggest deleting the ...
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Poppin Tags - or an idea anyway
Why are new Tags not treated like first posts from a new user or suggested edits, but a bit more stringent?
My thought:
If a new tag is created, why does it not go to the review bin for voting by ...
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How to fix a problem with no rep
After finding a problem with something, what is the most appropriate way to alert a moderator if you do not have any reputation? Would it be a good idea to post the problem at all even if it is not in ...
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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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How do we keep dead tags dead?
We killed off this tag some time ago - I noticed it in use during the current cleanup, and it has been used 360 times since then (at least). I suppose that there's a perfectly good reason, other than ...
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The [xps] tag... What is it intended to refer to?
I just noticed that the xps tag seems to refer to two different things: the Dell computer series, and the .xps file type. Which was it intended to refer to, and if one, should the tag be removed from ...
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Rename [extreme] tag to [extreme-conditions] or remove it
There are currently 3 questions tagged with extreme:
One relates to extreme temperatures, the second to extreme tabbed browsing (massive pressure on the computer), and the third to temperatures and ...
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The khanacedemy tag - yay, nay or burninate?
I just rejected a tag wiki and tag wiki excerpt edit for the khanacademy tag.
The reason I gave was "Tag is for a website, as opposed to hardware or software. Rejected as per FAQ. Feel free to bring ...
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Please add a tag for elliptic curves [closed]
Here. My carma doesn't allow to do this.
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Rename [tab] tag to [tab-key]
Can we rename tab to tab-key (and synonymize), so people won't tag questions about a single tab (e.g browser tab) with tab instead of tabs?
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Tag prefixes (like wireless-networking and networking)
I know that there are easy ways to deal with tags like windows and windows-7 (specifically, windows-7 includes windows). What happens with tags like wireless-networking and networking?
It seems like ...
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Should we be getting rid of unversioned tags where there clearly is a version?
I don't really see a point in questions being double tagged as brand-product product-version, can we please change these to brand-product-version as this would cover both tags? What do you think?
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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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Suggest a Corel Painter tag
I´m learning Corel Painter. Very nice software, but a little overwhelming for new users, I have a few questions, but Super User doesn´t have the proper tag, it has only CorelDraw, wich is no useful.
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Grouping various tags regarding energy efficiency
I've recently gained the rep to retag, so when I saw this question and didn't think the energy tag made sense (yes it's about energy, but really something like "energy efficiency" would be ...
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SU tagging conventions: [videocard] vs [graphics-card], general PC component tags
The burning question I need the Super User community to answer is:
Which tag should Super User keep?
[videocard] (173) (if kept, should it be renamed "[video-card]"?)
[graphics-card] (142)
[gpu] (...
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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 ...
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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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Could anyone create a tag called "program-like"?
Could anyone create a tag called "program-like"? It would be for questions that try to find a programs with the defined features (It´s a way I used to use this website, I define the features of an ...
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System tag looks suspiciously like a meta tag
What exactly is the system tag? It doesn't even have a wiki. Looks like a meta-tag to me.
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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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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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How do I make pretty "tag"s in-question?
I know about using backticks to make code blocks, but how do I get pretty, clickable tag-things in questions?
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