Questions tagged [tags]
General questions about tag usage on the main site
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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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Handling general plus specific tags in a question
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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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