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Do we have any experts on "applications"?

This is clearly a meta tag – no reason to have it really. This is Super User, a site for questions about computer hardware and software. Applications are software, so the tag really makes no ...
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What do a writer, taxi, and horse have in common?

It seems to have three primary uses: The poster thinks they've been hacked, and they want to undo what the bad software/entity did. Example. The poster is trying to break into something and needs ...
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Let's part ways with [computer-parts]

Considering that Super User has a seperate tag for nearly all computer parts, (ram, cpu, power-supply, hard-drive, motherboard, graphics-card just to name some), I think this tag can safely be removed....
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Don't hate the [player] hate the tag

Yes, player is too meta. What to do about it? On many questions, it's just decoration, duplicating a specific player tag. Delete those. On some other questions, separate word tags are used in place ...
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Does [bricked] need to be bricked?

Yes, since it's currently applied to many different things (routers, BIOS, SSDs, even Windows), nobody can be an expert in all things bricked. It's kind of like saying something's broken - not helpful ...
Ben N's user avatar
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I am getting a “You are currently banned from flagging…” message but no clear end for this ban is given

After the next build, the ban message on your flag summary page will indicate how long you must wait before flagging again: Fair warning: flag ban durations are calculated on demand. If more ...
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Disconnect the [intermittent] tag

Yeah, it gives no useful information at all. And its small enough not to flood the front page. I'd be inclined to wait a day or two, and if no one has a good reason to keep it, nuke it.
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Cannot ask question with Korean in it?

This is due to a rather nasty spam influx a couple of years back which resulted in a blanket ban on korean: Sudden influx of Korean spam I've spoken to a member of the team and they have pushed out ...
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Can the review system be fixed?

Sorry about that; this was completely broken for a few days, but it should be all good now.
Shog9's user avatar
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Clean it up, and [diy]

Done. All remaining diy questions are closed; the others have been edited to remove that tag and fix other minor issues. (I also did my best to remove the hardware recommendation aspect when it ...
Ben N's user avatar
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Potential Tag Merge/Synonym: [msiexec] -> [windows-installer]?

Agreed. Since the msiexec tags should have windows-installer tags in any case, I've gone ahead and started tagging them as such too.
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Merge [bugcheck] into [bsod]

TLDR: burninate bugcheck, retag to bsod Being a WinDbg user (see my profile on Stack Overflow), I totally agree that these are synonyms. As Ilmari Karonen pointed out already, this is defined on ...
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Is application-error an error?

I say burninate application-error. Super User has a long-standing tradition of burninating error-related tags. I see no reason to break this tradition now. error: What could we do with the [error] ...
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Remove [Windows-10] synonym

I have done the following: Removed tag synonym for windows-10 > windows-10-preview Merged windows-10-final into windows-10 and created synonym
nhinkle's user avatar
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Popping the [party] tag

We had a party tag. It was unambigiously a meta tag, and only had 3 posts using it. One was grossly off topic. The other two did not suffer from lack of it. The party is over.
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What do a writer, taxi, and horse have in common?

Just to close the loop on this question, the tag has been cleaned up. The majority were simply decoration, others were retagged as appropriate, following suggestions in the answers and comments.
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Please merge [tag:extended-desktop] [tag:multiple-desktop]

Although extend-display would be the most correct in my opinion, I feel like a lot of people would use extend-desktop if they didn't think about it. But the tag usage frequency seems to prove me wrong....
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elections.stackexchange.com doesn't like SuperUser

Maybe some preliminary changes related to this have stuffed something up? Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Emergency fix in and deployed now. There are several other related and unrelated issues that I will get ...
Tim Stone's user avatar
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Windows Features?

The deed is done. And now the answer meets the 30 character minimum.
fixer1234's user avatar
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5 votes
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Is there a reason why the tag "slackware" cannot be edited?

According to the edit history, the post was deleted "by the community": I guess you can't edit a tag wiki that has been deleted. Turns out what happened here was that the original wiki was suggested ...
allquixotic's user avatar
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No [news] is good news

No news is good news I've taken the liberty of cleaning up that tag
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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4 votes
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Tag cleanup: Delete the tag [collecting]

While we typically wait for community consensus on tag cleanups, meh, there's only 4, and its not quite right on most of them. The tag has been properly mauled. Let me know if I missed any
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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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 ...
Mokubai's user avatar
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Cannot ask question with Korean in it?

The restriction on what characters are no longer allowed has been relaxed. You should be able to post Korean characters now and the error message has been updated to be more helpful.
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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 ...
Mokubai's user avatar
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4 votes
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HTTP status 404 for image on Meta's 404 page

If you can’t find a page on Meta Super User, you will no longer find a page that can’t find the image to show (it is now using the same image as SU). Load page, then not found Error image also gone?? ...
Yaakov Ellis's user avatar
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4 votes
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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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Is this text on a help article a bug (or something else)?

It is possibly a bug, and that the site parser is supposed to evaluate thisSite.Settings.Site.StyleCodeByDefault to write either Code blocks will be highlighted using highlight.js. In many cases, the ...
Mokubai's user avatar
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Add expand functionality to images

Cannot agree more. This would be a major improvement. Let's see if this gets picked up by the development team. Would it be more applicable to global meta.stackexchange.com then to just meta....
Art Gertner's user avatar
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3 votes
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The accepted answer styling makes 'votes' invisible in search

This seems to be fixed now
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