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Let's refine and clarify our off-topic close reasons
Recently I have noticed, both as a user and a moderator, a good number of questions either being closed as end-of-life or as a development release when they probably don’t need to be.
Just a few ...
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Make the on-topic section more explicit
Since there is often confusion on this site as to which Ubuntu derivatives are actually on topic, why not explicitly list them on the Help page? Instead of:
We welcome questions about:
Using and ...
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Would a off-topic tag warning be a good-idea? [duplicate]
Here on Ask Ubuntu we have quite a lot of tags for various Linux distributions/Operating Systems/things that could be off-topic if specific about them:
debian, mint, fedora, crunchbang, windows, ...
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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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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 ...
jokerdinoMod
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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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I need some [help] getting rid of this tag from Ask Ubuntu Meta!
This tag is fully useless IMO. We don't need it.
So... we have a help tag on Meta Ask Ubuntu (NOT the main site). IMO, it is useless. Let's go through the criteria to get rid of it:
Does it describe ...
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Merge [resolution] into [something-resolution]
This was a mistake. Resolution should have never been the main tag for all screen/display/monitor resolution issues. This is more evident when you get exactly 4 tags for all these issues, created by ...
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Can we *please* blacklist the error tag?
The tag has reappeared two more times again.
The error has reappeared after at lease 2 purges. Can we please blacklist this tag?
Reasons for this have been discussed several times already:
The '...
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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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imgur.com is deleting images
I've seen a few questions and answers with images like:
The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available.
Obviously, that's not good for the use of this website.
What's wrong ...
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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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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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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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Notifying users about the policy on AU concerning AI-generated content
We have an opportunity to increase awareness of the Ask Ubuntu prohibition on AI-generated content. Currently we have only two active notification areas:
AI-generated content is not permitted on Ask ...
andrew.46Mod
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Please undo tag synonymizing: gnome-shell -> gnome
GNOME Shell is, ultimately, just one component in the GNOME DE. I can use it without many of the other trappings of GNOME, like GDM or Nautilus. It seems very weird that gnome-panel - a thing of ...
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Can we warn new users that questions about Kali Linux, Pop OS and so on are off topic when they attempt to ask a new question?
We get a lot of questions about Linux Mint, Kali Linux, Pop OS, and other distributions. Most likely, new users do not read all the rules in the help center before asking their first question.
Can we ...
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Should we add the SE network OSS ads?
Stack Overflow offers free, vote based ads for open source projects. They seem to refresh them regularly, here's the latest thread for this iteration.
I tried 2 experiments when they opened this time ...
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Merging codenames with versions
Should we merge all codename tags with the version tags? Already there are tags like lucid and 10.04 which are identical.
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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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Can these VMWares be un-merged?
In 2012, a question was asked about the installation of VMWare player. Some months later, fossfreedom merged that question into How do I install VMware Player?. But in the latter one, the questioner ...
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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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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 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
jokerdinoMod
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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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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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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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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: [monitor-resolution] -> [resolution]?
Seems like monitor-resolution should be synomized with resolution.
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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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