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General questions about tag usage on the main site

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Do [missing] and [disappeared] constitute as meta tags?

Yes, I think this is a meta tag based on the criteria of Jeff Atwood and his blog post: 1) could you have a question with ONLY this tag I don't think so, [missing-files] and [data-loss] are be …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
3 votes
3 answers
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Should we be getting rid of unversioned tags where there clearly is a version?

I don't really see a point in questions being double tagged as brand-product product-version, can we please change these to brand-product-version as this would cover both tags? What do you think? …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
2 votes
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Please make an Autodesk inventor tag and tag the inventor questions with it

Done, autodesk-inventor made and tagged three questions with it.
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
6 votes
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Correct tag(s) for Mac OS Classic (version 9 and earlier) questions

Using mac-os-x doesn't either, because then you are going to have issues having long tags like mac-os-x-snow-leopard. … Note that I did most of this tagging before this meta question came, which mods allow us for tags that contain a very low amount of questions and that would make sense to retag. …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
5 votes
1 answer
162 views

When to use [printer] vs [printing]?

Just came across printer and printing. Is it useful to keep both? When to use which one?
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
0 votes

Create Tag for BHO on SU

Tags that have existed for a long time and have only yielded a low amount of questions risk the chance of being pruned over time, whether automatically by some cleanup of the system as well as manually … by some monkeys who decide to go on a round of killing off some tags... …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
9 votes
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System tag looks suspiciously like a meta tag

System File / Folder, use system-file or system-files (same for folder tags)? System Disk, used to refer to first / main drive, use system-disk? …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
5 votes
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Isn't it better to remove Linux and Windows tags?

The trick here is to not remove the tags, but rather to guarantee they are properly used. Same story for Windows, a lot works amongst all supported versions; so, why force restriction? …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
4 votes

How should one use the home tag?

If a tag is ambiguous and it's not possible to correct that in the excerpt, it should be burninated. To fit the uses: Should be retagged to home-folder or to another tag that already fits that purp …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
5 votes
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Could anyone create a tag called "program-like"?

See the existing software-rec and its information.
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
5 votes
1 answer
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Can the hardware and software tags be obliterated?

Do we really need the hardware and software tags? Looking at the tags into detail: They don't group all the questions that should belong to them. … So, can the hardware and software tags be obliterated? The problem is that these "meta" tags cover "all" questions on the site, while there isn't a single question that needs such a tag. …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
6 votes

What’s up with the volume tag?

We have to find two tags that better fit the purpose, one of them should be logical-drive. … I don't think that the volume tags have any benefit while searching, and I think that a question that's only about the tag audio-volume can't exist. …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar