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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 )?
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Delete tag 14.04.1
The tag 14.04.1 seems useless, as there is already a 14.04 tag, and the questions involving the tag do not seem to be related to 14.04.1 but could be migrated to 14.04.
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Tag Synonym Request: [lense] -> [lenses]?
I think this tag was just created by Pablo maybe as a mistake for the lenses tag.
So I'm not sure if it should just be deleted, or synomized with lenses (Wikipedia says "lense" is an appropriate but ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Can we remove the [ubuntu22.04] tag?
We already have a 22.04 tag. I guess someone accidentally created the ubuntu22.04 tag. Shall we delete it?
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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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Do we need the [bootup] tag?
Looking at the questions tagged with bootup, I concluded the tag is synonymous to boot. Unlike boot, it has no description and is much less used and mostly by low-rep (assuming: new) users. Is it ...
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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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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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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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Please reopen sshuttle question 935144
My original question posted at Can I use expose remote server ports via sshuttle? was a bit confused and made a half-attempt at answering itself. I've made it simpler so that it can be re-opened.
And ...
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Can we kill the ubuntu14.04 tag?
the ubuntu14.04 tag has been used 16 times and it shouldn't even had been created. It should be linked as a duplicate to 14.04 or just burned from the system.
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Unicorn tag - potential conflict
The unicorn tag could mean one of two things: the U-series codename for 14.10, or the prefork server that can be used in conjunction with other webservers.
It looks like there's edits in the tag ...
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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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Tone down the grey for formatting code/commands?
This answer is really brutal on the eyes however I think it's key to have filenames and commands with that kind of formatting.
Maybe perhaps toning it down a bit? Similar in shade to the blockquote ...
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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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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.
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'games' or 'gaming' tag?
Is there any reason to have both gaming and games tags?
IMO the games tag should be used instead of gaming. Should we replace all gaming tags with games or vice versa, or use tag synonyms instead?
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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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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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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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Shouldn't this question about working around Ethernet problems be reopened?
The question we are talking about:
How to get around NVM Checksum error (PXE-E05) to make the ethernet work?
I had cast the first vote for closure on this question on 31st March as it was unclear ...
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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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Why was my "obsolete" flag declined?
After having edited the question and created an appropriate answer I flagged the comment
"Don't give the solution in your own question" as "obsolete" - the answer part had been removed from the ...
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Ad crap is causing browser errors, is this acceptable?
This sort of ad stuff that tries to execute gifs and pull do all sorts of shady stuff is a big red flag for me and is making me feel uneasy using this platform. What can be done and/or how to reassure ...
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Synonymize tags [secure-erase] and [secure-delete]
Well, secure-erase and secure-delete simply mean the same, so we should synonymize them.
Here some stats about those two:
secure-erase:
13 questions
0 followers
Excerpt: none
Wiki: none
secure-...
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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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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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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 ...
Thomas WardMod
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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 ...
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Should we add OSS ads (targeted at users)?
There is this question "Should we add the SE network OSS ads?" about whether to re-use the SE ads which aim at gathering new developers. One of the comments is that those ads aren't a good match for ...
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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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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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Tag Synonym Request: [monitor-resolution] -> [resolution]?
Seems like monitor-resolution should be synomized with resolution.
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Tag Synonym Request: Asus-Related Stuff
Recently, Asus tags have been getting created left and right. I'd like to propose the following synonyms:
asus-pc -> asus
asus-laptop -> asus
The ASUS tag seems good enough to cover almost any ...
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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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Consider reopening question 113235
Question 113235 is closed, being considered an exact duplicate of question 43174.
Now, I got the answer I needed before the question was closed, so I won't suffer much from it being closed, but I ...
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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?
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Merge php and php-5.4 tags into just php?
We have a php tag, and we also have a php-5.4 tag.
Ultimately, they're both PHP, and I see no reason to have separate PHP tags for each version (the same reasoning was the primary drive, as far as I ...
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Can we undo the libvirt -> virtualization tag synonym?
Currently, libvirt is a synonym of virtualization, and is mentioned in some ~800 questions (plus its client tool virsh is mentioned in some ~200 questions that don't mention libvirt). The synonym has ...
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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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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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What is the [packages] tag useful for?
We have .deb or was deb, well, we have that. We have package-management as well. Why do we need yet-another-tag without someone that can be actually be an expert of all aspect of the "packages" topic?
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Should these two questions about running/installing .exe files be merged?
The two questions I am talking about are:
Why does Ubuntu fail to run .exe files? / How do I run .exe?
How can I install Windows software or games?
They are different but they both try to achieve ...
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