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Can we please disambiguate or discourage the 'mobile' tag?
I've decided to branch off my mobile concerns from Do we need a new “ubuntu-for-phones” tag?.
In my opinion 'mobile' is too ambiguous and broad in its name being an adjective. Yes, we may have a ...
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Is emulator emulating emulation?
We have two tags emulator and emulation, each with around 130 questions. The questions seem to me to be covering the same range of topics.
Should one be a synonym of the other (I prefer emulation ...
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I created a new tag "csm" and someone changed it to "bios"
I created a new tag, csm, but it was replaced with bios on one of my questions. I'd like to challenge this, and propose the creation of the csm tag for things related to CSM under the UEFI spec.
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Rename "blogs" tag to "blog"
I have no idea why we need the blogs tag to be plural.
We have terminal, not terminals.
We have shell, not shells.
We have scanner, not scanners.
For consistency's sake, can we please make the tag ...
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Merging the "ati" tag into "amd-graphics"
This tag merge will affect a lot of questions, so I think we should discuss it here before doing it.
To be clear:
all ati questions will be tagged amd-graphics after the merge.
the ati tag will be a ...
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Cleanup 2014: A tale of tags
There are quite a few tags on Ask Ubuntu that are basically fall into one of the following categories;
meta tags
Tags that describe the problem and are largely pointless (since the question describes ...
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Do we need the `setup` tag?
Do we need an actual setup tag? I mean, for all intents and purposes, installation should suffice for setup questions related to Ubuntu, no?
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Should tags be edited out from a question if they appear irrelevant?
See Off Wi-Fi LED in Ubuntu for an example:
While it's ideally better to ask posters if, in this case, lubuntu and syslinux are indeed relevant to the question, suppose posters doesn't respond or, ...
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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.
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Why does it take 300 rep to create a new tag?
I hope it's ok to provide my feedback for just now signing up and asking my first question in Ask Ubuntu. This post isn't my question but feedback. I'm really impressed how when you create a ...
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Can software recommendation still be used?
I need a free vpn that works on Ubuntu 16.04 and connects to UK. The old questions about that subject are obsolete.
I'd like to ask the question on this site, since it has a big community, definitely ...
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Maybe [hdpi] is not high enough, add [hidpi] as a synonym?
I have seen posts tagged with hidpi twice or thrice in the past, and each time I replaced it with hdpi, whose tag info reads:
High DPI (dots per inch) screen resolutions, e.g. 4k/UHD/QHD screens
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Deprecate the ubuntu-desktop tag?
This first came up when SE introduced displaying the most common tag at the start page s for SEO reasons.
Commenting on the following two questions and their new titles
ubuntu desktop - What native ...
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Is [top-bar] just another [panel]?
Today I noticed while reviewing suggested edits that someone had helpfully suggested a tag wiki and excerpt for top-bar.
I improved (er, in my own biased opinion) the suggestions, and I wrote in both ...
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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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Why do we have so many usb tags?
There are four tags which I would like to focus upon:
usb-drive
usb-storage
usb-c
usb-device
Do we really require these many tags?
I feel usb-c tag is not good one. It sets a precedent that we can ...
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Should the uegt tag be removed?
The question Top Ubuntu Download manger with bandwidth limiter and is tagged with uegt.
From the context I'd say the OP should have used the tag uget instead.
The mentioned question is the only ...
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Merge the tags "schedule" and "scheduled"?
Both the tags schedule and scheduled exist, but usage is fully identical. It seems inefficient, could they be merged into schedule (which is used slightly more often)?
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What is wrong with the command-line tag?
A user is removing command-line tags from posts.
I'm a user who depends upon favorite tags to answer questions, and command-line is one of them. If the tag gets removed, I miss questions that I may ...
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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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Do we need a tag for every Apple product?
I was editing a Mac related question, and noticed we had a macbook, mackbookpro, macbookair and mac-mini tags.
Do we really need all these tags for Apple products? I'm not sure anything needs to ...
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Should the [purchase] tag be burninated?
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
No, this tag can refer to users attempting to (a) purchase Ubuntu itself (c) buy software on Ubuntu (c) ...
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scanner/scanning: Duplicate?
Why do the tags scanner and scanning both exist? Are they exact duplicates? If not, the scanning tab could do with a tag wiki to resolve the ambiguity. (The scanner tag already has one.)
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How should we tag Dash (the shell)
I went to ask a question about Dash (/bin/sh) in Ubuntu to find that "dash" is being used to describe problems with Unity's Dash interface.
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Tagging Xubuntu when Ubuntu is meant
I'm basically doing limited patrol for Xubuntu Team to keep an eye on questions and have done a couple tag edits relative to the xubuntu tag. While I am aware of the prior discussion of tagging ...
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There's more than one type of multipath
I edited this question today as I monitor all the "multipath" tagged questions.
Concurrent Multipath Transfer over SCTP
multipath tag has always referred to the storage domain, even says so in the ...
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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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Should we delete blocklist tag?
The blocklist apparently is misused, out of 11 questions where it's used , it's used for block devices, on other - for blocking specific websites. There's also no usage-guide for that tag.
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Should we do something about the [lowgraphics] tag?
A while ago I noticed that we have a tag lowgraphics.
This seems like a suboptimal situation. Lowgraphics isn't a even a word. If we really need a tag for that, shouldn't it be low-graphics-mode? ...
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Can version tags be removed if a question can be modified to be general to all versions?
The question Are there any good programs to learn Dvorak? has a 10.04 tag, but this is a general question that really shouldn't be specific to a particular version of Ubuntu. Can questions like this ...
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Let's spin the [wheel] for ideas on how to handle this tag!
On AU, there is a wheel tag, with no usage guidance. From looking at the 14 questions tagged with it, the tag seems to refer to
The wheel group - a group used on some *nix systems to give a user ...
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Is the off tag really needed?
I suddenly came across a question which had the off tag. The tag itself has no explanation and I asked myself what the purpose of this tag is. From my perspective this tag is somehow confusing. Would ...
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A custom filter for excluding posts with specific tags?
I don't have a dual-boot setup, so I will not be able to help much to people with related difficulties; yet this topic makes up a very large percentage of incoming posts.
I have never had an Nvidia ...
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Replace 'zoom' tag with 'magnification' (synonymise + merge)?
Six months ago, SurvivalMachine asked Should “zoom” tag also apply to the videoconferencing software? At the time, it seemed that relatively few questions about the Zoom meeting app used the zoom tag. ...
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What's the tag for Ubuntu Edge?
Is it edge or ubuntu-touch? I guess it should be the first one, but it has no description and also was used before for screen edges.
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Is the ubuntu-desktop tag immortal ?
As of 2011-01-18, Jeff Atwood deleted the ubuntu-desktop tag.
One day later there are already new ubuntu-desktop questions.
Considering all askers are relatively new to askubuntu, I suppose they were ...
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Burninate the meta tags {help} and {features}?
I found two tags here on meta that might be considered meta tags and, thus, should be burninated. What is your opinion of the following?
help
features
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What is meant by the phrase "first tag wiki edit"?
I find this badge tip extremely confusing: tag editor. What is meant by the text provided?
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Is there a way to see only questions related to my favourite tags?
From time to time I middle click all my tags to open them in new tabs and go look for some questions that I might be able to answer. I know that outside of this tags it is almost impossible for me to ...
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What is the [office] tag for? Can we clarify?
On a routine purge of useless new tags I found and attempted to destroy msoffice. This led me to office which has a significant number of questions but no wiki or usage guidance.
From the questions it ...
ZannaMod
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Websites tag is worthless, should we kill it?
websites doesn't really mean anything. Should we get rid of it?
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Should the "package" and "packages" tags be merged?
The package and packages tags seem to be used in an identical matter. Should we merge them?
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Do we need [safety] when we have [security]?
Just saw that there's tag for safety, with no usage guidance, and questions mostly about how "safe" something is. Seems like it should be a synonym of security. Or nuked altogether.
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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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"card" tag is too meta, time to kill it?
card makes no sense as a tag, it should be killed as we have video for video stuff and the various wireless tags for wireless.
Perhaps synonyming it to hardware?
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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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How can I create a new tag for an existing question?
Having gained "create tag" privilege I noticed tags are created when asking a new question. I can't seem to find how to add a new tag to an existing question. Is this possible ?
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Do we really need or want the "post" tag?
I stumbled across a review of the "post" tag edit which appears to be driven by this post and voted to reject it as lacking usage instructions, but while the definition appeared to be one accurate ...
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What is the "learn" tag good for?
Could someone tell me the pro's of having learn? Some questions are closed (as dupe, 1 NARQ). The others are very subjective (where do I start?), or too broad (asking for "good" books), instead asking ...
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Blacklist the linux tag?
I don't see any use for the linux tag.
It would seem to me that the only valid uses are when it is used instead of the kernel tag.
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