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Chromium vs. YouTube questions closed to a dead end
Fortunately it still is easy to find the solution for non-playing YouTube content on Chromium from the relevant questions here but closing of these questions led to an unfortunate constellation:
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Boot related tags, should we synonymize them all?
I've seen that more often that most, multi-boot, triple-boot, dual-boot are usually about the boot process. Shouldn't we synonymize them all?
OliMod
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Should gpg be a synonym of gnupg?
Recently I saw that there are several PGP/GPG related tags:
openpgp
pgp
gnupg
gpg
According to my knowledge gpg is the short form of GnuPG. The executable file is also called gpg. So I think gpg ...
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Gmail & Google Mail Are Linked to the same account for Virgin Media customers causing Ask Ubuntu to create two accounts
Virgin Media use Google Mail as their email client and because of this my toby[dot]whaymand [at] googlemail [dot] com account defaults to mytobywhaymand [at] gmail [dot] com account which has caused ...
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Can we synonymize sleep and suspend?
Can we synonymize sleep and suspend?
Sleep tag excerpt:
A power-saving state, basically same thing as "Standby mode", that allows a computer to quickly resume full-power operation (typically ...
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Reopen one of my questions - Invalid Duplicate Marked
Related: How do I disable the boot splash screen, and only show kernel and boot text instead?
Okay, so this was marked as a duplicate, apparently, but I only noticed this now. Is the marked ...
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Ubuntu spying in Empathy? why closed?
Once the question was closed
But why closed ?
This is a very important question!
To work Empathy Ubuntu asks permission to collect information about me.
Why when I do not wish to collect information ...
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Re-open my message and Give me solution if you can
https://askubuntu.com/questions/289391/xubuntu-13-04-mobile-broadband-can-not-be-enabled
My question was closed, I would like to see it re-open.
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Should the tags "sync" and "synchronize" be synonymized?
I asked in the chat and there was unanimous agreement, but none of the present had the permissions to even suggest a tag synonym, since the requirements are a rep of over 2500 reputation and a total ...
OliMod
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Tag synonym request: [user-accounts] -> [users]
Both tags cover the same area. [users] already has a tag wiki entry so I suggest keeping it as the master.
OliMod
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Blacklist the ubuntu-desktop tag?
Is it possible to blacklist that tag? I don't see it go away without a little extra help.
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Why do we have an "error" tag?
I note that we have a error tag in the main site and it doesn't mean anything on its own. When last checked, it has over 280+ questions tagged as such. Manually editing them out of all of those ...
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The 'error' tag should be blacklisted
The error tag:
is general
is ambiguous
describes over half of the questions on Ask Ubuntu
is misleading
could mean boot errors, graphical errors, errors seen in the terminal, etc.
If the error tag is ...
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What to do with black-screen tag?
I just came across the black-screen tag that has about 81 questions tagged against it. A quick look at the questions seem to suggest that they are either graphic problems or boot error. I am not sure ...
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What tags should we use for tablets?
Which tags should we use for the upcoming tablet releases? We didn't really talk about the classification when the phone was announced which led to some confusion, so I figured I would ask early.
OliMod
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Need a canonical answer for repository versions
We need a canonical answer for "Why do the repositories not have the latest versions of software".
Anyone who can write one (if one does not already exist) will be rewarded with a +100 Rep bonus ...
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Let's reopen this Wubi question that Microsoft Windows thought was off-topic
In this question posted yesterday, the OP has a Wubi system that will not start, because the Windows boot loader (which loads Wubi--in a Wubi system you select Ubuntu from the Windows boot menu) has a ...
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Could we get a better example question for the new /about?
As some have already seen, the /about page on main has changed dramatically. It's fancy now with all the moving parts and visual examples, but there is one thing that feels kinda odd about it.
The ...
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Can a moderator please symlink x11 to xorg?
x11 has a number in it, so the system assumes it's a version number and won't let me submit it as a proposed synonym.
Can someone make it a synonym of xorg?
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Can we feature the style guide for new reviewers/editors?
It would be nice to highlight the site's style guide for a bit on the sidebar doohicky on the main page:
Style guide for questions and answers
I for one am finding a bunch of edits that tend to ...
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Why my account is not deleted yet?
I did the needed steps to delete my account but til now it still active. Why?
fossfreedomMod
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This question about Paypal for contributions should be open
Will I be able to contribute to Ubuntu in the future through other services in addition to PayPal?
This has been getting asked a bunch on the internet and it's answerable, it should be open.
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Should [encrypted-home] be a synonym of [ecryptfs]?
Should the tag encrypted-home be a synonym of ecryptfs? While there are other ways to encrypt a home directory, Ecryptfs is the official method under Ubuntu. All three questions tagged encrypted-home ...
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Tag synonym request: [gksudo] -> [gksu]
While they can behave differently (mostly on non-Ubuntu systems), gksu and gksudo are not really separate topics. They're provided by the same package (gksu). They're even the same executable (which ...
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Merging scripting related tags
It looks like there is no difference between shell-scripting, script and scripts tag. Should we merge those and add tag synonym from script to scripts or vice versa?
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Do you really need "burning", "dvd-burning", "cd-burning" tag?
I have seen that we have several tags on the burning CD/DVD topic. One tag burn has wiki, but there are three more tags on the same topic. These are burning, dvd-burning , cd-burning.
Do we really ...
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Tag synonym request: [library]->[libraries]
library has 15 posts, and libraries also has 15 posts. They should be merged into libraries, as both tags have fairly similar questions about missing libaries.
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Synonimization of singular/plural tag pairs
There are a few [foo]/[foos] tag pairs on Ask Ubuntu. Such tag pairs are usually the singular and plural of the same word and should be synonyms. Occasionally.
Only moderators can create [foos] when [...
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Can we merge driver and drivers tag?
Before it gets too much to handle, can we merge driver and drivers tag?
driver x 1243
drivers x 6
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Can we merge distro, distribution, distributions and linux-distro tags?
I think they are inherently the same thing and don't deserve multiple tags.
Breakdown of the tags:
distro x 15
distribution x 40
distributions x 3
linux-distro x 14
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Time to merge the GNOME tags?
I don't know how we ended up with version specific gnome tags but we should probably merge gnome-shell and gnome3 into gnome now.
It's been long enough and all it does is cause confusion, perhaps ...
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"Avconv" tag does not exist!
I just asked a question related to "avconv" and I was surprised that the tag for it did not exist. I do not have enough reputation to create a tag. I posted the question with "ffmpeg" tag instead.
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Tag synonym request: [upgrading] -> [upgrade]
I think the new tag upgrading should be made a synonym of upgrade.
I've proposed the tag synonym.
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This closed question just got 10k views, we should fix it
This looks like it's getting a bunch of views since it's probably a common problem for people with Optimus cards.
Nvidia driver cannot be installed with jockey for old hardware
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Tag synonym request: [winxp] -> [windows-xp]
winxp was created yesterday. We already have windows-xp, which is used extensively. But "winxp" is a pretty common abbreviation for "Windows XP." Therefore, I recommend making winxp a synonym of ...
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Applications, application and software tags must die!
Originally discussed here:
The future of the applications/software tag(s)
Needs to be discussed again as an effort to ban the tags permanently
applications, application and software are useless - ...
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We now have control of @askubuntu on Twitter - what should do with it?
These are all related:
Help spread this site....
Improving our presence on Twitter
Should we target Social Media?
Thanks to Robert at Stack Exchange, Jorge and I now have access to @askubuntu on ...
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game tag needs to be cleaned up
game needs to be merged into games. I've taken care of merging in ubuntu-games already.
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Make [vista] a synonnym of [windows-vista] and merge the two
There are two tags
vista with 29 questions
windows-vista with just 5
I know it is not much significant , but a cleanup is never bad.
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Are questions about design decisions considered constructive?
This question was closed as nonconstructive, which seems wrong to me. (The creator of the question also did not think it was right for it to be closed.) It's a question about a design decision (or ...
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Tag Synonym Request: [script] -> [scripts]?
The tag scripts is just a pluralization of the tag script.
Also, I don't know if these should be synommized with the shell-scripting tag. I suppose there are scripts that aren't shell scripts, ...
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Tag Synonym Request: [file] -> [files]?
I don't see any difference between file and files.
Alternatively, blacklist? They don't seem particularly descriptive, and I doubt anyone considers themselves an expert on the topic of files and ...
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Plugin should be merged into plugins
plugin should be merged into plugins, there shouldn't be a need for two of them.
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indicator-sound should be a synonym of sound-menu
I did some clean up in VLC today and noticed that these should be synonymed, unfortunately no one I can find in chat has enough rep to vote on the tag:
indicator-sound <- sound-menu
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Precise needs a tag synonym
I can't synonym precise to 12.04, the popup says a moderator is needed to make the synonym.
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Kill the grub-error tag
Why do we need a grub-error tag?
It will not fit both grub and grub2 at the same time and its a useless tag to follow.
Normally if someone is good at solving grub and grub2 issues he will also know ...
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Is there a way to merge my previous questions on askubuntu.com with my registered account ( i use the same email address )
Is there a way to merge my previous questions on askubuntu.com with my later registered account ( i use the same email address )?
OliMod
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Make bugs a synonym of bug?
What about making bugs a synonym of bug since the former is just the plural of the latter?
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