Questions tagged [tags]
General questions about tag usage on the main site
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Is a preview of [preview-pane] enough?
We have a new tag preview-pane on a question about the Windows Explorer preview pane, and would like to get community input on the tag. I thought we had either this tag or preview-panel previously ...
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Please create a tag for "graphpad-prism"
Please could you create a tag on Superuser for "graphpad-prism"?
Here's a description:
A statistical graphing program widely used in Academia and the Biotech and Pharma industries.
Two questions ...
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Who can I contact if I want to create a new tag, but I don't have the reputation points?
I would like to create a new tag "graphpad-prism" on Superuser to flag questions on Graphpad Prism (a statistical program commonly used in biotech and pharma companies). Superuser appears to be the ...
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Please merge [tag:extended-desktop] [tag:multiple-desktop]
Those 2 tags are exact duplicates : extended-desktopmultiple-desktop isn’t it ?
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Consolidate reverse-dns and dns.ptr?
We have 12 questions tagged reverse-dns (the tag, itself is undefined).
We have a new tag dns.ptr, with a wiki excerpt. This tag has only been applied to two questions so far. There are 132 ...
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Should Windows users be allowed to comment on *nix tagged questions?
It can be generally observed that there is a difference in aptitude and attitude between Windows users, and Linux/BSD/OSX (*nix) users.
I would suggest it would be beneficial for questions tagged ...
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Google Apps is now called G Suite
Google has renamed Google Apps to G Suite:
We created Google Apps to help people everywhere work and innovate
together, so organizations can move faster and achieve more. On
September 29, 2016, ...
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Clarification on [mac] and [osx]
Relevant tag information
mac:
Hardware related questions of computers sold/made by Apple. Use [osx]
for the operating system, and use [mac-address] for MAC addresses
instead.
osx:
A Unix-based ...
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Tag clean up tools
I'm sorry I couldn't think of a witty title.
I've been helping a lot recently with the ongoing tag clean up and I had a couple of ideas on how how to help further and speed up the process.
Firstly, ...
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Take away the chinese tag
While working on Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again I have come across the tag chinese. There are quite a few questions on there of varying quality.
What is it for, why do we have tags ...
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How can I create a new tag, vsts, for Visual Studio Team Services?
How can I create a new tag, "vsts", for Visual Studio Team Services?
Tried to create, but got told "vst" already exists, and ask in Meta ...
... so here I am ...
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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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Flash is peppered with ambiguity
Update: Looks like pepper flash is adobe flash-player and should be made a synonym when it shows up.
This was addressed once, but this time it's different.
See Tags flash, adobe-flash and flash-...
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New Tag Request: "IIS-8.5"
We have a tags for "IIS", "IIS-7.5", and "IIS", but not for "IIS-8.5".
IIS 8.5 is included in Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1.
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Why did I earn reputation because of a tag?
I've been reading all over the site to find the answer but can't find it. I don't see what I did to earn it, but thanks anyhow!
It says: "Reputation gained on this tag..." when I hover over the tag "...
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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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SharePoint questions
We have https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/ (currently nearly 60,000 questions compared to less than 300 here).
Should we edit the various sharepoint tags to suggest asking on sharepoint....
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How to avoid posting on the wrong site when a tag tells me it's on topic but the mods tell me otherwise
I recently posted this question on SuperUser: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/90176/conditionally-format-data-in-spreadsheet-column-but-only-when-it-changes
I did this because the ...
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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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Should the tag [format] exist/be split/clarified?
The wiki currently states - The arrangement of data for storage or display, also used as a term to empty a partition.
This alone gives it two different definitions and indexes, and clicking the tag ...
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Should we write information already in the tag in the body of our questions?
Just reading What is the purpose of [64-bit] and [32-bit]? made me think...
Should we include information in tags in the body of our text?
Tags like the question still get people to comment whether ...
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What is the purpose of [64-bit] and [32-bit]?
What is the purpose of 64-bit? I'm not suggesting we do away with it -- it has 80+ followers and over 2,000 questions -- but I'm genuinely unsure of when it should be used.
I see it (and 32-bit) used ...
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Compare [comparison] and [file-comparison]
We have:
comparison 201 questions
File comparison is the process of comparing the contents of files, finding their common contents and their differences, usually using an automated tool
And:
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Is a tag named [messaging] relevant
As the title says messaging as a tag is confusing.
Here is a question that I just saw:
How to disable Messaging on Windows 10?
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r e n a m e spaces
We have two tags which seem to be text based: tabs & spaces.
However, tabs is defined for the graphical user interface feature that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single ...
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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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What is the tag “optical” used for and what is “optical-drive” used for?
Aren't those two, optical and optical-drive the same?
If not, could somebody please add a text to both of them which explains the difference?
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What is the tag "external" used for and what is "external-drive" used for?
This might be a language problem, but aren't external and external-drive two the same?
If not, could somebody please add a text to both of them?
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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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When using filter the question are not ordered correctly
I just answered a question asked in 2013. I used a filter to filter out a certain tag and then the unanswered questions. So I took the first in the list thinking it is a recent question.
Why not sort ...
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Are these Fail2Ban, Munin and “Failed password” related questions more appropriate for Server Fault?
While I spend a good chunk of time here on Super User, my day-to-day/work-a-day head is in the Linux server administration world. A lot of times there’s overlap between “power user” needs and server ...
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Should the [headers] and [footers] tags be merged?
While browsing this question, I noticed that it included both the [headers] and [footers] tags. This seems to me to be unnecessary duplication - in the context of word processing and documents, ...
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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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