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Only manufacturer and company tags are problematic, specific products are not.
There are two tags, intel-cpu and intel-graphics, that are okay for all CPU and graphics card products made by Intel Corporation.
Nvidia is also kind of a special case. Nvidia's only products (or at least their most popular products, since I haven't heard of anything else) are ...
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TL;DR: Get rid of all of them. Even Apple.
I think there might be questions for which these vendor tags might be useful
about the integration of different technologies by the same vendor, like e.g. iTunes/iPod/iOS/Mac OS X (combined e.g. with sync?) for Apple; that would exhaust the tag count limit too easily. The same with very few other vendors, such as ...
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We could just ball up all the speed related tags into the performance class and be done with it.
Which leads us to this:
fast was removed from 23 questions
slow was removed from 307 questions
Both now map to performance.
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My first two thoughts when reading this title were "What the heck does that mean?" and "Why would we ever need those two words?"
Burninate!
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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 to whether it was the right way to go:
The tag logitech-mouse already existed, so retagging logitechmouse questions seemed a good place to start.
Based on ...
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AFAIK, PC originally meant the line of IBM Personal Computers, and then also the compatible devices. This transformed to computers running Microsoft Windows using an Intel CPU, i.e. "Wintel" computers.
But today, AMD is a strong competitor to Intel, and Windows isn't the only OS, especially not on a site like Super User, where questions of all computer ...
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I say we...
Burninate IT!!!
And then:
Smash IT!!!!
INTO OBLIVION!!!!
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I can see nothing wrong with the proposal. Would merge+synonymize.
dual-monitor
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Yes, mono contains 39 questions, so it should be easy to just retag those about the Mono framework to mono-framework and leave mono for audio.
If these are more than 10 questions, you shold probably consider not editing them all at once to avoid cluttering the front page.
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Split the tag to:
for various media: audio-filter, image-filter, video-filter
ffmpeg-filter (make synonym of video-filter)
email-filter
internet-filter
file-filter (can also be used for some questions tagged with search and file/folder)
Remove the tag for other cases, since they don't appear to be significant enough to justify their own tags.
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I'm willing to add the tag but first I wouldn't mind knowing whether your question is relating to interfacing Windows Phone with a computer or if it is solely to do with mobile phones.
Per the help centre mobile phones are off topic
it is not about:
electronic devices, media players, cell phones or smart phones, except insofar as they interface ...
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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 version-specific tag is important information about the nature of the problem. If the problem is version-specific, adding the version-agnostic tag is just ...
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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 review), but concur that the alpine tag should be renamed alpine-mail, consistent with how it was handled on the Unix & Linux site.
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There are 5x as many tagged compact-disk as cd-rom, so I'm just going to merge cd-rom into compact-disk. I'll go through and manually retag the ones which mean cd-rom as in the device to add optical-drive.
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Points 1 & 2 are very much preferred. Since each question will have to be looked at, there isn"t any automated way of doing this.
I suggest taking the questions in batches and spacing out the edits to prevent edit flooding of front page
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Questions referring to the Windows Installer packages (.msi files) should be tagged windows-installer.
The tag msi should be merged (and synonymized) into windows-installer as company tags aren't very helpful and people will use the tag to refer to Windows Installer packages anyway.
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Didn't we have a previous question on this? I'm for dropping versions completely & merge everything to Firefox.
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Agreed, it is now burninated.
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Make it a synonym of recursive.
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Regex seems like the far more commonly used tag (142 questions, vs. 1 of regular-expressions). Most people say "regex", so personally I think the other two should be merged with regex. If anyone has any comments on this, let me know, otherwise I'll perform the merge later today.
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We should disambiguate it and use the following tags:
Use computer-building (x231) for everything related to building PCs on your own. In our case, these are only 9 questions (of which 2 are closed and probably to be deleted). – done.
Doing so, also make a synonym system-building → computer-building. - done
Keep build for everything related to software ...
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status-completed
The struck out tags below have been made tag synonyms and merged with firefox.
firefox-3.6 x33
firefox-4 x129
firefox-5 x33
firefox-6 x15
firefox-7 x8
firefox-10 x4
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I agree with removing these. There's only 12 questions with this tag, would anyone object to me just removing them from these questions? (Will also clean the questions too, of course)
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This tag has been burned and blacklisted:
Please help to clean up untagged
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How about tagging the deployment questions simply as windows-deployment and letting wireless distribution keep wds since it seems to be the most common/popular?
Windows Deployment Services is also a bit specific. That refers to the role installed on the server which responds to PXE boot requests and serves up the images. Other than that, it doesn't really ...
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I'm very much in favor of this.
plasma-tv sounds fine. For the KDE workspaces, I'd prefer kde-plasma-workspace or even just kde-plasma.
It's done. I went with kde-plasma-workspace. plasma is now a synonym for plasma-tv.
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As the tags have effectively been cleaned up and split by fixer1234 I have gone ahead and merged alpine into alpine-mail
Merge Results
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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 splitting it up for the sake of splitting it up.
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tag remapping of [find-and-replace] and [search-and-replace] complete!
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Agreed, these 3 are all burninated.
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