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We need to improve the [system]
What's a system? Objectively speaking without context, anything can be a system. From biology, ecology, astronomy, computer science, specific programs, etc. There's no bounds to what you can call a ...
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What to do with the silverlight tag?
So Moonlight development stopped in 2011, and the Moonlight plugin is mostly useless today. (It is even not possible to install it to Firefox without modifying the plugin.) So I think we could say ...
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Tag for unity webapps?
webapps makes sense to me, but this seems to have other uses. Perhaps unity-webapps would be best?
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Redundant voting meta tags
Currently there are various meta tags for voting:
voting× 8
down-votes× 4
vote-to-close× 3
up-votes× 3
votes× 3
downvoting× 2
There seems to be no reason to have so many different tags for voting. ...
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Why do certain tags also go in tab title?
I am asking a question extending from this one: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/6224/how-are-tags-ordered-and-why-only-the-first-one-is-included-in-the-question-titl:
Why for instance in this ...
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Add "Minix" tag proposal
I asked a question (Use Minix Filesystem on Ubuntu 13.04 (Kernel 3.8)) concerning the Minix filesystem. Would it be a good idea for someone to add a "Minix" tag, or should we wait for more Minix-...
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Method for removing tag synonyms
In case two synonymed tags end up becoming unrelated (e.g. through separating software development, etc), what would the proper method be for removing said synonym? I am asking for future reference.
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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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home-server tag makes no sense
From looking at home-server there's nothing there that can't just go in server
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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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Clarification on twinview vs dualview tag
I was tagging a multimonitor question and initially chose dualview, although it does not exist currently I have used/seen this often.
I did a little searching and came across this thread so decided ...
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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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What is the purpose of unknown-device tag?
I am unable to understand the use of unknown-device tag.
Please explain about the purpose of the tag and also explain if it is needed right now or useless.
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Should this tag be transformed in a [flicker] of light?
We have the flicker tag. Its usage guidance says:
When something flickers it flashes repeatedly. Flickering in the Ask Ubuntu forums is generally referring to screen issues, or to describe an LED, ...
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Should there be a new tag "legacy-bios"?
I'd like to propose the creation of the tag "legacy-bios", as I believe it was relevant to a question I just asked. It seems like it could be relevant to a forum dedicated to an OS. And there is ...
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How to install a downloaded .deb file along with its dependencies in a system with an internet connection (offline?)
Despite the teaser in this Meta question's title, the title of the question that was closed is How to install a downloaded .deb file along with its dependencies in a system with an internet connection,...
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(virtual-terminal): redundant and confusing [duplicate]
Most questions tagged with virtual-terminal actually refer to virtual-console, the famous Linux feature. But some of them, such as this one, assume such GUI terminal emulators as gnome-terminal and ...
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Why do we have [updates]?
Updates can happen in almost any piece of software. Update this database (engine) or this database (entry). Update the (package) list or update the (file) list. It has very well-defined meaning but ...
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Is there a tag for "single user mode"?
Just created a tag for a question that was specifically about single user mode, and searched for a tag about it, but didn't see one. Just want to correct my mistake if it already exists.
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Make numeric only/composed of just numbers tags that should only be created by moderators
Everyone knows I hate with burning passion version specific tags. The reasons are explained here and elsewhere, but that's not what I'm going to ask about.
Today, I again removed the 14.04.1 for ...
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Can we add a rEFInd tag?
REFInd is a commonly used boot manager developed by Rod Smith. I think that it should be added due to its eminence. I can't add it myself because I don't have the rep. I'd like if someone added the ...
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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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Tag synonym request: [preferences] -> [settings]
I think settings and preferences should be synonyms.
"Settings" is a more general term that applies to driver settings, program settings, system settings, etc. "Preferences" is a term that usually ...
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Numlock, capslock and led tag (I'm surprised I didn't find PrntScr... yet)
Trogdor must be fed with these:
numlock
capslock
key
led - DONE
something (this one still does not exist, still)
More to the list:
corruption
mp3 / mp3-tag (irony?)
files
money transfer
music -> ...
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Oh God! Troubleshooting tag!
Yeah, there's a troubleshooting tag... OMG... I don't have anything else to say :(
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Review mac tag and rename to Macintosh
As said by Takkat in his previous question the mac tag is prone to be misused to ask about mac addresses so I propose:
Review that all the use of mac are about... Macintosh.
Rename the mac to ...
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Nuke away "Do not use this!" tags!
I found troubleshooting has a very interesting tag excerpt:
Do not use! This is a very general tag - please use a more specific tag to describe your problem.
If the tag is "too general" then ...
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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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My favorite tags are empty [closed]
I am searching for unanswered questions on my favorite tags (mysql, lubuntu, virtualbox, and etc.)
But all of them are empty (zero unanswered) is this right? Or I'm having some kind of trouble?
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Is [date] a tag that needs some fixing?
I've noticed something about the date tag. It has questions regarding the date/time indicator, getting date/revision info from a file/folder metadata, and has been included on questions regarding "...
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Tag synonyms needed [duplicate]
I noticed that there are two nearly-identical tags: script and scripts. One should be made a synonym of the other, but I don't have enough rep to do so. Would someone else like to handle this?
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Tag Wiki Edits on Ask Ubuntu Mobile
Ask Ubuntu mobile does not let you make tag edits, you have to switch to the full site, make the edits, and switch back. And the editor is temperamental on my mobile browser, sometimes working and ...
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Version tags on questions involving upgrades
On questions where the person posting had upgraded their Ubuntu version (for example, from 11.04 to 11.10) prior to / while experiencing an issue, how should the version tags be properly handled? ...
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I want to burn the [internet]
If you had read my own MSO question about this tag maybe the following wouldn't be new to you. I will highlight where it's different.
Internet, depending who you ask, means different things in ...
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What hardware recommendations are okay to ask?
I've looked at the original question from a while back. But that is too early to give a definitive answer. I want to know when it's OK to ask about hardware recommendations if it's OK at all.
For ...
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Why do some of my tag [suggestions or creations] get rejected?
Please, I will really like to know why some of my tag suggestions or tag creations keep getting rejected for (my personal opinion) nothing?!
Meanwhile, it seems some could be needed and of important ...
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Merge python with python-2.7
Currently there are three tags for Python questions:
python
python-2.7
python3
Whilst I see the reason for the existence of python3, I can't see how python-2.7 could be useful. I guess it has been ...
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Why the ccsm has duplicated tags?
The Compiz Config Settings Manager or ccsm have two tags:
compiz used 1169 times
ccsm used 25 times
Why don't include the cssm tag into the compiz one?
No one of both could be deleted?
Or no one ...
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Add the retag button back after getting the edit question privilege
After I got the Edit Questions and Answers question privilege the retag button is gone in questions.
I have used it for a long time and liked it. Maybe add it back?
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Please burninate the "untagged" tag
untagged does not mean anything. Any question should at least belong to one tag, so this is useless. It should be burninated.
Note: I had retagged the questions that had untagged to their ...
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Is application-development a useful tag?
It seems a bit of a meta tag to me.
But I can also see some desire to keep it (I have used it myself!)
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Is the scope of [hard-drive] tag and [drive] tag similar?
While reviewing posts, I noticed these two tags: drive and hard-drive.
I feel both these tags have similar scope. So should we merge these tags?
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AskUbuntu: how do I filter in questions which have both tag1 and tag2?
For example, what if I want to see questions that have both tags: graphics and drivers. How do I do that?
Or, how do I see only posts that have the "graphics" tag, "drivers" tag, and have an answer? ...
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How to see the list of users with most reputation from foo tag
Is there any way to see the list of users who have the most reputation from specific tag?
For example I want to know the list of top 20 users which have the most reputation from command line tag?
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Odd tags... well, rather keyboard keys tags
I've found a couple of odd tags, starting with alt which I believe would have more sense if used keyboard instead (yeah, 101 tags for each key in the keyboard is overkill) but the funny thing is that ...
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Tag: when are they useful, when they are not and when they harm
Ok, someone might remember in chat that I asked what is the tiling useful for? I still don't find any use but being merged/changed to window management (don't confuse with window managers, which are ...
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Official canonical questions list
Could there possibly be a [canonical-answer] moderator-only(or otherwise officiated) tag on the main site to single out good canonical questions? Currently, a list of canonical questions is hidden ...
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PHP, PHP5 tags merge
I know PHP5 is very different from previous versions and that all (its a new version!) but do we need a split between the tags php and php5?
Are not talking about the same thing in the end? Can you ...
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Missing tags, will someone with a reputation >= 300 create tags for pyRenamer and Krename
In question regarding batch rename, the tags pyRenamer and Krename don't exists (and should). I don't have the need rep of 300+ to create them. Will someone here - with the capacity to create tags do ...
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Rhythmbox tags: retag or synonym?
On the parent site there are currently 3 questions tagged with rythmbox and 3 questions tagged with rhythmbox. In general, I would say that the former questions should be retagged in favour of the ...
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