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General questions about tag usage on the main site
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Should the [headers] and [footers] tags be merged?
People can feel free to tweak it to create a list of the specific tags needed. …
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Consolidate reverse-dns and dns.ptr?
Possibilities:
Keep separate tags and provide usage guidance in the wiki excerpts. This will result in some dual tagging, which might attract additional answerers. … It will also result in blurred usage, which will eventually dilute the value of the tags and need cleanup.
Synonomize the tags. …
8
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2
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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 an …
7
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The scope of the [windows] tag
If the problem is known to be limited to a couple of versions (say an issue started with Win8 and continued in Win10), use those two tags. … In cases where other users know that the question is more restrictive or less restrictive than the OP's tags suggest, we can, and do, use editing. We can modify the tags. …
3
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Accepted
New tag request: "elinks"
I created the tag and tagged your question. I also created a barebones wiki entry since I'm not familiar with it. You might want to propose an edit to it once mine goes through the review process.
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Alias nvidia to nvidia-graphics-card
See Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again. … There are seven nvidia-related tags, and the resulting search on nvidia would exclude roughly a third of the nvidia questions. So the results would be misleading. …
10
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Accepted
Alpine and Alpine-Linux tag
I cleaned up the tag assignments, so all alpine questions are now about the email client and all alpine-linux questions have only that tag. I added clarification to the alpine wiki excerpt (pending r …
6
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Do we really need multiple [ubuntu]s?
However, we would still be left with pretty much the same collection of tags.
We could reduce the number of tags by leaving at least the recent LTS tags (say the last few major versions. … Bottom line: We probably don't need every single current Ubuntu tag, but we benefit from some number of differentiating tags. …
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1
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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 new site. …
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Accepted
How should we cleanup tags on migrated posts?
The system deletes migrated questions 30 days after they have been migrated away. So worst case, the residual tag cleanup will take care of itself if we simply wait (and clean up any added stragglers …
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1
answer
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Should we remove general tags (in favour of specific tags) immediately, or create a Meta for...
Both tags are undefined. network-interface is unambiguous but interface covers a lot more territory. …
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1
answer
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Blocklist Google?
google (the manufacturer meta tag, see Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again), was cleaned up a little over a year ago. … It's hard enough getting rid of the old manufacturer tags without continually having to repeat the work. Can we PLEASE blocklist this problematic tag? …
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The monster that can't be killed
If we don't blacklist the seriously problematic tags (i.e., this one and google, see also Blacklist Google?), we're just wasting our time doing any cleanup. …
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The monster that can't be killed
Tags can be added as a synonym whenever one is discovered to be a problem. … This will also encourage the OP to fix their own tags instead of creating work for the community. …