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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 ...
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Should the `windows` tag be used in conjunction with a tag of better specificity?

Good Practice When Writing a Question The tag wiki is accurate. Version-specific tags are for issues that don't apply to all versions, or questions about a specific version. In those cases, the ...
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Merge tags windows-10 and win10

Done. win10 has been merged into and synonymised with windows-10.
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Proposition to add a tag for "high refresh rate"

No. refresh-rate is good enough to cover the questions currently there. And there are only under 80 questions using it. Plus refresh-rate is not as intuitive as high-refresh-rate, and only adds to ...
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Alpine and Alpine-Linux tag

As the tags have effectively been cleaned up and split by fixer1234 I have gone ahead and merged alpine into alpine-mail Merge Results updating post history, 29 rows affected (pipe delimited) ...
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Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again

While going through the google questions I came across one with a konica. Konica are a manufacturer of printers, scanners, etc. (I think they have a heavy industry division as well). There are only ...
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Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again

Even after we destroy tags, they can be recreated. I just re-torched asus; it had accumulated four questions in a couple weeks. You can see a list of newly invented tags on the "new" tab of the tags ...
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Rename [XBMC] tag to [Kodi]

Proposing: new Kodi tag make tag synonym for XBMC to point/resolve to Kodi maybe migrate all xbmc tags to kodi + synonym pointer? All these are done. xbmc wiki was pretty good, I've ...
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Should we pair [unifying-receiver] with other [logitech-*] tags?

Done. updating post history, 26 rows affected (pipe delimited) updating posts, 19 rows affected (pipe delimited) Target tag 'logitech-unifying-receiver' doesn't exist, renaming to 'unifying-receiver'...
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Merge [transparent] and [transparency]

Merge done. updating post history, 49 rows affected (pipe delimited) updating posts, 34 rows affected (pipe delimited) updating PostTags associations, 32 rows affected updating Documentation tag ...
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Retag [Windows-2012] into [Windows-Server-2012] or [Windows-Server-2012-R2]

I've gone ahead and merged windows-2012 into windows-server-2012 updating post history, 55 rows affected (pipe delimited) updating posts, 54 rows affected (pipe delimited) updating PostTags ...
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Can we unload [load]?

From a quick glance over the remaining 20 questions with that tag, it looks like all or nearly all of them are using "load" to mean "CPU load." I propose that they be re-tagged to "cpu-usage" or "...
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I speak [spanish], and [english] too…

I agree, but you only found the tip of the issue. We also have tags for german, chinese, korean, japanese, farsi, arabic, and hebrew that I found in a quick search (there's likely more). I think any ...
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Tag rename request for spelling of TrueType

Please could the tag name be corrected This is now status-completed true-type-fonts has been renamed to (and is now a synonym of) truetype-fonts
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Suggestion to retag Microsoft Store

Looking at the two tags I'd say don't retag, but there's a few blockers to what to do Having a good tag wiki for the one we're keeping seems essential, and include the fact that it was called the ...
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kvm tag should be re-synonymized to linux-kvm

I half suspect that kvm to most people here means kvm switch, rather than linux KVM. The smart money might be to fix that quarter of those questions that're wrong. Knowing our target audience - it ...
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Can we empty out [null]?

I don't know who did most of the retagging, but I just nulled the null tag from the last six questions that had it. RIP null: 2010-2016.
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Let's retire the [sysadmin]

Since this question got over forty upvotes without a single downvote, and considering that there were only a few dozen questions with the tag, I went ahead and destroyed it over the past couple days. (...
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Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again

I posted a solution to mikrotik here, which has received two upvotes and no downvotes. I started retagging, and then someone pointed out that being under 2k rep, my retagging uses 4x the effort of ...
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Should we merge the encoding and character-encoding tags?

I don't think so encoding can be about encoding any binary data stream. For example encode a JPG file using Huffman encoding, or encode a video file using some codec. There are a lot of questions ...
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Sketchup tag rename needed

Done. sketchup now has all those questions. Feel free to provide a short tag wiki.
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Show the [guest] the door

The guest has been escorted out of the building.
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Make a [conversion] to proper tags

We should break the tag into more specific subcategories I agree with your proposal. The conversion tag somewhat broad and borders on being too meta. Breaking the tag into more focused areas would ...
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Merge [product-key] and [license-key]

No. Product could be subsystem of Licence (if Licence covers few Products).
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Compare [comparison] and [file-comparison]

Let's we make them synonym [1]. Why not to delete This is a general point of view about the tags change/renaming: there is people that distinguishes among similar answers through the tags (Similar, ...
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Deprecate product version preview tags - just use new version tag straight away

In the case of Windows 8, it was enough to break the synonym, and manually close or retag questions based on relevance. However, we have a new problem in with Windows 10 - the insider program is ...
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Get rid of the [hack] tag

I say we burninate it again...
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