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Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again

We don't like company-only tags, and there's been various crusades in the past to purge them: Can we get rid of the company tags? Company tag necromancy: The zombie apocalypse! What should the [micro …
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Concept of "conditional" downvotes?

I like the concept that you're raising, but not the implementation. I feel its a bit counterintuitive to have two types of downvotes - we've already had instances of people using Close votes as a "Sup …
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Let's bring [tables] to the table

tables is a very broad tag, which currently has no tag wiki and encompasses everything from questions about Excel, SQL tables, tables in Microsoft Word, and a whole host of other things. In other word …
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Time to be LESS organised

organization is a pretty big meta-tag. It's uses include, Organisation charts Sorting data Windows Explorer functionality Email organisation and many more. Should we burn it?
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Reverse the [vlc] synonym direction?

Currently, vlc-media-player is synonymised to vlc. I think it would be better the other way around. Doing so, we would: Reduce the ambiguity of the tag. It would then be obvious, even to people wh …
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Clean out our [container]

The container tag appears to be too broadly scoped to be useful in its current state. With its oldest question being from 2010, it is used for many different areas of expertise including but not limit …
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Burn [version-number], [updates] and related tags

BUMP: I started to write a new question about version, then discovered that it had been raised 5 yrs ago, when there were 47 questions, but not resolved. Then I found this question from 2 yrs ago, wh …
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Do we really need the [executable] or [exe] tags?

We have two tags representing 'executable programs': executable An executable is a fully compiled program that can be run without further processing. exe (tag was merged into executable) …
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Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again

I thought I might give an overview of what was done with logitech, as the list in the question doesn't do it any favours, and I hope it serves as an example of what we can do and get some feedback as …
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Let's change our [background]

There are actually a few 'background' tags floating around in the... background. ...Ok, that one was terrible. In all seriousness: Updates These tags have been removed: background - used generi …
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Potential Tag Merge/Synonym: [msiexec] -> [windows-installer]?

msiexec is used by 7 questions to denote msiexec.exe, which is the actual executable of Microsoft's Windows Installer program. Seeing as we already have a tag for windows-installer, and the fact that …
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Audio tags cleanup

There are a bunch of audio-related tags. In a quick search, I found 5.1, surround-sound, stereo, audio, mono, audio-output, static and clicking-sound. As per it's tag description, mono is meant for au …
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I need some [Output] [Technology], can anyone help?

Here are some really ambiguous tags: output - Used for everything from Command Line output, Logging output, TV/monitor output etc. technology ...Really? ಠ_ಠ Questions using these tags are already …
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We've hit some [traffic] and need to merge

traffic seems to be the same tag as network-traffic (some questions even use both at once). Should they be merged & synonymised? Furthermore, there is also traffic-filtering and traffic-shaping, I …
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Burning [books]

books is a very ambiguous tag. It's use is varied, although generally it is used by questions looking for book recommendations. It heralds from the era of '09 A lot of the questions are closed and ha …
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