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Questions that are asking to have some questions retagged, usually for a misused tag, or generally removing a tag
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Disambiguating or burninating the [movies] tag
Another update – went through the tag three times now. We're down to 50 questions left. If you still see anything that'd be left tagged poorly, please don't hesitate to fix it.
Update after 4/0 on …
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What should we do with [diy]?
The diy (do it yourself, x22) tag covers
computer-building in the sense of assembling your own machine
repair in the sense of doing the repair yourself
"DIY" alone doesn't really have a purpose. S …
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Disassembling the "assembly" and "disassembly" tags
Here's a very tricky ambiguous tag. We have assembly (x16) and disassembly (x8). Both are a perfect mix between:
Assembler code, architectures and whatnot
Computer building
Proposal:
I suggest …
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Disassembling the "assembly" and "disassembly" tags
Affected questions have now been MOV ed into computer-building, where they should have been all the time.
Tag wiki for disassembly created.
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What can we do with [restart] and [reboot]?
Problem:
We have these two tags:
restart (x100)
reboot (x187)
"restarting" could mean anything, e.g. services, applications, daemons, and computers. "rebooting" only affects computers (the tag wi …
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Combining the "recovery" tags
Here's a list of tags related to "recovery":
recovery (493)
data-recovery (464)
password-recovery (63)
hard-drive-recovery (56)
file-recovery (37)
system-recovery (10)
partition-recovery (5, this wa …
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Design, cleanup, recycling tags
I removed recycle and created a tag wiki for recycling, recycle-bin and trash in the meantime.
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We need to disambiguate the [wds] tag
wds stands for:
Windows Desktop Search
Windows Deployment Services
Wireless Distribution System
All of these are used here, so we need to figure out how to split up the tag.
Suggestions?
To get …
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Merge [remote-desktop] and [terminal-services]
Don't merge anything.
Remote desktop is a more generic concept than Terminal Services.
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Do we need "warning" and "alert"?
Similar to error-message, which we just got rid of, there are also:
alert × 26
warning × 37
Neither of these are really specific. They don't add meaning to the questions.
Sometimes, alert refers …
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Do we need the [slow] tag? [closed]
slow …
Something that is not fast or moving at a slow pace.
276 questions tagged. But does it add any value? Seems like a classical meta-tag to me. If something is slow, then we already tag it w …
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Burninate the [tools] tag
Similar to Kill the [software-tools] tag, I don't see the point in keeping tools around.
Typical meta tag. It doesn't explain what the question is about. If you're looking for a tool to do something, …
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Tag removal request
Just go ahead and remove them from the questions. Giving a reason why in the edit summary is preferred.
As a 10k user, we trust you to look over the newly created tags yourself. Simply go to:
https: …
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Ambiguous Tag: "atom"
Current status:
The tag atom in its current form is used for both:
The Intel Atom CPU architecture
The Atom standard for XML-based web feeds
Resolution:
There already is an intel-atom tag. I've …
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Please clean up the USB drive tags?
I'm currently updating the Tag wiki for usb and found some irregularities:
usb-drive x153 – the most commonly used one, also mentions in the excerpt: "especially devices known otherwise as flash dri …