10
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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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10
votes
Accepted
Merge tags windows-10 and win10
Done.
win10 has been merged into and synonymised with windows-10.
MokubaiMod
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7
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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 ...
randomMod
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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
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MokubaiMod
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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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4
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Accepted
Should we pair [unifying-receiver] with other [logitech-*] tags?
Done.
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MokubaiMod
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4
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Accepted
Merge [transparent] and [transparency]
Merge done.
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MokubaiMod
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4
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Accepted
Retag [Windows-2012] into [Windows-Server-2012] or [Windows-Server-2012-R2]
I've gone ahead and merged windows-2012 into windows-server-2012
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MokubaiMod
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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 ...
4
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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 ...
4
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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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4
votes
Accepted
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
DavidPostillMod
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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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3
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Unmerge [msi] from [windows-installer]
status-completed
The msi -> windows-installer synonym has been removed.
We can now organise a proper cleanup of the windows-installer tag to remove any MSI-branded hardware questions.
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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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2
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Rename microsoft-one-outlook to outlook-for-windows
For now I've removed microsoft-one-outlook from the three questions it was used on.
"One Outlook" appears to be a company project or initiative rather than an actual product or software tool....
MokubaiMod
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2
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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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2
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Accepted
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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1
vote
Should we keep stretching the meaning of [stretch]?
status-completed
All stretch questions have been retagged - either to debian-stretch, or to other tags as required.
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1
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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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1
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Deprecate product version preview tags - just use new version tag straight away
I think we can call this status-declined: The windows-10 -> windows-10-preview synonym was removed, but windows-10-preview was kept for the beta/pre-release versions of Windows 10.
If further ...
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