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Remove the (mv-command) tag as all questions got edited to be tagged with (mv) instead
There are the tags mv and mv-command.
UPDATE:
Please do not make mv-command a synonym of mv, but just delete it.
As suggested by @Braiam, I edited all 9 questions tagged with mv-command and removed ...
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Make [architecture] a synonym of [cpu-architecture]
I propose to make architecture a synonym of cpu-architecture and retag all questions.
Although architecture is the bigger tag, it is not as unambiguous as cpu-architecture which I would favour as ...
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Can the [charset] and [character-set] tags be made synonyms?
The charset tag and the character-set refer to the same thing. One is simply the abbreviation. I don't see any reason for them to be seperate. Can they be made synonyms, please?
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Can [spam] handle [spam-handling]?
Here on meta, we have separate spam and spam-handling tags. They are not even synonyms. A few questions are even tagged with both of them.
Since only seven questions in total are currently tagged ...
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Replace ati with amd-graphics tag
At present not many people remember that AMD graphics used to be ATI sometime.
Now amd-graphics is a synonym of ati that seems to be wrong. It should be vice versa, so amd-graphics should be ...
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Tag synonyms: [gnome-shell-extension] and [gnome-extensions]
I just found out there's a gnome-extensions tag.
I think it's just a synonym of the older and well-documented gnome-shell-extension tag. So gnome-extensions should be merged with gnome-shell-...
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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 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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Tag Synonym Request: [armv8] [aarch64] -> [arm64]
I would like to request that the following tags:
armv8
aarch64
be made synonyms of:
arm64
The official name for the technology in question would by either ARMv8 (with the 64-bit platform being ...
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Tag Synonym Request: Dell Tags
Right now, we have dell (1643), dell-vostro (60), dell-mini-10 (17), dell-studio-xps-16 (10) and dell-mini-9 (8).
Since those tags, except for the dell tag, barely have any questions, it doesn't ...
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Meta tag-synonym request: [tags]->[tagging]
While tag is synonymed to tagging, tags is not synonymed yet. Could tags be synonymed to tagging?
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Tag synonym request: [persistent] to [persistence]
Remap persistent to persistence
Both deal with persistence issues on Live USB. While persistent has more posts I propose to make persistence (or persistance??) the main tag anyhow.
Suggestion for a ...
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Should [edits] and [editing] be tag synonyms on meta?
I think the edits and editing should be the same (on Meta). I guess there is a small difference (one being the action and one being the edit itself). But the tags are used interchangeably, so I think ...
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Merge [picasa] into [google-picasa]
There are two tags for Picasa by Google, there should be one, preferably [google-picasa], since people interested in all sorts of Google software can follow them easily using [google*].
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The plethora of power management tags - what to do?
We have a large number of power management related tags:
power-management
suspend
standby
hibernate
There is also tag shutdown which is used in conjunction with power management but should be ...
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Can we remove the synonym link between tags ‘appmenu’ and ‘applications-menu’?
The appmenu tag is for the global application menu AKA appmenu-indicator, that allows screen real estate to be conserved in desktop environments (DE's, AKA ‘graphical shells’) that support it. The ...
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Tag synonym request: duplicate -> [duplicate-files]
duplicate's wiki says:
Two or more files that exactly same.
... which is pretty much what duplicate-files says right in the name. Either way would do, but one of them must go.
Aside: Ah. We can't ...
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Unsynonimyze cups and printing
I can print without CUPS and I can ask a CUPS question without asking about printing. They are closely related tags but separated enough to be on their own. There are several CUPS related tags in the ...
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Reverse the synonym of indicator-power tag to indicator and rename it to power-indicator
Today I killed the battery-indicator tag. Why, well, because I know there's a tag that already covers that topic, [indicator-power] but checking out several questions I knew why the user that created ...
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Tag Synonym Request: [dual-monitor] -> [multiple-monitors]
This is relatively short...
It seems unnecessary to have both dual-monitors AND multiple-monitors. The latter tag should be able to cover every question including the former as it's still more than a ...
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Why is man synonymized to manpage?
Correct me if I'm wrong but:
I can ask for help writing a manpage
I can ask about using the man command
I can ask how to install specific manpages
I can ask how to install man
These questions are ...
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Tag synonym request: [gnome3] -> [gnome3.4]
Is there a real changes gnome3 and gnome3.4 for to be tag synonyms?
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Add tag synonyms for [tag:community]
There are a bunch of ways to say the concept behind community. I was tagging a question and typed what I thought were plausible ways to express it (project, management, ubuntu-project, governance, ...
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