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Old monthly tag cleanups [closed]
This post is no longer active. It is preserved for historical reasons only. For more info on our new tag cleanup procedure, see:
Help us clean up tags!
A new way to clean up tags
The following tags ...
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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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Ongoing community task: ensure there are no [untagged] questions
The tag untagged is applied to questions which either have all their tags burninated, or to questions migrated from other sites (when tags from the origin site do not match any tags here).
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Banned Tag Proposal: Hackintosh
Due to the legal gray area that exists with regards to building or running Hackintosh machines we have always discouraged these question on SU since it would attract unnecessary attention to the site ...
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Super User mid 2012 tag/question cleanup [closed]
During my course of reviewing, editing & general janitorial cleanup, I ran into a few tags that were pretty much useless. Since there's too much for me to take action up, I'm posting the list here....
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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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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This question has been superseded by Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?.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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Make [arch] a synonym of [arch-linux]
The tag arch has 14 questions compared to arch-linux's 209 questions. We could manually retag those few questions.
But Arch is a popular shortcut for Arch Linux and it is possible that this would ...
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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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Consider removing the [windows-10-final] tag synonym from [windows-10]
windows-10-final is currently a synonym of windows-10. Previously, windows-10-final referred to non-preview Windows 10 builds (i.e. "final" meaning Windows 10 after its official release, ...
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How do I turn off the pop-ups that appear everytime I mouse-over a tag?
Title says it all, I find it incredibly distracting and it's frequently difficult to get them to go away once they've appeared.
Doubt if it's relevant, but I'm using Firefox on Windows.
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The tag [variables] is too similar to [variables]
When creating the variables tag, the following dialog pops out:
After clicking "Yes, I'm sure", the system throws:
So does the variables tag exist or not?
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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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What is the [what-is] tag for?
what-is seems like the very definition of a meta tag.
Should we whack it?
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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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Why votes on question don't change the tag vote count in the User Profile?
When you ask or answer a question the tags of such question appear in your profile, as people vote your answers the tag score on your profile increases/decreases.
Why doesn't it do the same for when ...
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Can we have icons for tags the way Stack Overflow has?
Stack Overflow has images/icons on a lot of tags like for Android and CUDA.
Can we incorporate this on Super User as well?
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Tags that should never be the only ones on a question
It seems to me that there are some tags that if they are the only ones on a post (or even if they are mentioned at all) pretty much make the question off topic. Perhaps these tags should have a ...
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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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New tag request: "elinks"
For questions about the elinks text-mode web browser. There are several elinks-specific questions in existence already.
[edit: ...and I'm about to post another.] I would like to tag this question.
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We need to kill the [domain-registrar] tag
The tag, domain-registrar is pretty useless and out of topic, it needs to be killed.
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Why no tag for AnyDesk, and can it be created?
There are currently 35 questions that contain the word AnyDesk, however there's no tag to it.
I thought maybe it's a global "no commercial tags" policy, but there is a teamviewer tag.
So ...
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How should we cleanup tags on migrated posts?
google is one of the manufacturer meta tags we're cleaning up. Many of the posts with this tag have been migrated away (e.g., to Web Apps), and the tags then get changed to appropriate tags for the ...
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Can we get a description for the [ole] tag?
Could we ask for the description of the ole tag or its removal?
I used the tag in the sense of Object Linking and Embedding in How to compare TIFF files with tags 37680 (0x9330)?, but see http://...
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Ignore Windows related questions?
I've been active on Android Enthusiasts mostly so far and answer more than ask questions there. I guess it'll be the same over here so here's my question:
I'm not a huge Windows expert and thus would ...
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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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How to remove a "frequented" tag?
Edit: Found a exact duplicate over on meta.StackOverflow: How do I remove a frequented tag?
In the upper right corner of the main page (below Ask Question) it says:
Frequented Tags
[firefox]
This ...
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How do I remove the selected tag filter when searching for Unanswered questions on Superuser?
I've been looking for unanswered questions trying to build some reputation here. Once I select a tag filter in the sidebar, I'm shown all of the questions with that tag. Choosing more tags makes the ...
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Can we get a Monarch tag?
I just created this question. I tagged it excel, because the formulas are roughly analogous.
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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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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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Can somebody of rank create a tag #albert for me?
I am the author of the app albert launcher and want to redirect users in the support channel to this site to ask or find questions. Can somebody please add the #albert, #albertlauncher or #albert-...
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Is Zoom video conferencing tool on-topic for superuser?
I saw a tag but only linked to 4 questions. If not this site, where please? I am trying to find out more to help connect older and more vulnerable people in our village during isolation!
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How can I completely hide all questions with a certain tag?
Now that Windows 8 is out, my questions feed is overrun with Windows 8 questions. At this moment in time, 31 out of the 50 questions on the main page are about Windows 8.
I've got no experience with ...
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Edit tags on migrated question
This question has been migrated to Stack Overflow (you'll probably have to search on [macro] to see the stub), and now because of the bad decision to link it directly to that question on SO, it can't ...
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What does the recovery tag mean?
What does the recovery tag mean, if anything? Or is it one of those overly broad tags whose questions haven't yet been recategorized into sub-categories?
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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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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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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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Do accepted answers count as a "point" towards associated tags?
I know +1 votes count towards your score for associated tags, but I wanted to know if that is true for accepted answers too.
If so, I assume its considered 1 point? Also, if the asker +1 votes the ...
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Please make an Autodesk inventor tag and tag the inventor questions with it
I want to ask an Autodesk Inventor question, but there is no such tag. Can someone please create a [autodesk-inventor] tag?
These two questions would need it:
Installing Autodesk Inventor 11 Pro on ...
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Make [procmon] a synonym of [process-monitor]?
The tag description for process-monitor is:
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity.
while procmon is:
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Question on hold not notified
One of my questions was put on-hold, yet I wasn't notified. Is this the expected behavior?
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Merge [multi-user] into [multiple-users] [closed]
Merge the tag mutli-user into multiple-users. They refer to the same concept and the term multiple users is a little more clear than multi user.
And to convince you, I have dragged up the relic that ...
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Tags problem for Superuser
Uservoice was discontinued, so I come here with this.
The concept behind superuser is somewhat different than that of Stackoverflow and Serverfault.
Questions about software are often limited to a ...
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Tags like 'Windows' should be more general in its filtering
There are a few windows tags which includes
windows
windows-xp
windows-vista
windows-7
etc
Now, I don't use Linux / Mac / Unix etc, I'm 100% Windows. So when I select the windows tag (under ...
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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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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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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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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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