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Let's tag our questions properly
I'm just posting this as a proxy for jokerdino. He can't post because of internet problems, but we both agree this needs to get out now.
Also, special thanks to N.N for asking jokerdino to write ...
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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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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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Too many images!
We have 3 quite similar and somewhat ambiguous tags:
image, images, and image-processing.
Only images contains an ounce of info. But only an ounce:
Questions about opening / editing / saving ...
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STD Tag information
I was doing some tag editing and found the STD tag: https://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/std
It only has 1 question associated with but the tag can be many things, for example:
STD - Standard ...
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Is there a URL to ask a pre-tagged question?
I'd like to say, on another web site, please ask a question on AskUbuntu tagged foo, and make that a link to the 'ask' form here with the tags already populated, so that it's more likely the right ...
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Tag untagged: He's dead, Jim
It is useless and should not exist in the first place! Kill it please!
Who, oh who has enough time to remove that nasty tag out of all those questions?
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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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Keyboard shortcut tags are messy
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keyboard-shortcuts which is weird, as we symlinked keyboard-shortcut to shortcut-keys a while back. This one not only is dupe but ended up with a tag wiki, woo!
key-bindings
keybindings
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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 suggestions
For future suggestions, make a separate post so we can keep track of how well we are doing with tags, as well as facilitating discussion on a specific tag. Thanks
I don't have enough reputation to ...
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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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Do we want to burninate the move tag?
I noticed that the move is rather useless, do we want to destroy it? We need to reach a community consensus before Stack Exchange can do it.
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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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Should we have have IF or ELSE type statements in tags?
In this tag wiki, we have the following:
Refers either to Microsoft's Windows operating system(s), or application windows.
emphasis mine
Is that kind of thing "allowed" or not? Or should we have ...
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Request: Burnination and Blacklisting of [error] tag
One of the most overly used tags in the site is error. In almost every case, there are many other tags which are far more descriptive.
All 303 questions using that tag aside, I believe the tag ...
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Please burninate speed tag
speed has the perfect quality of a meta tag
can’t work as the only tag on a question (I see speed on network, bootup, video playback & so on)
means different things to different people (is it ...
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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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Should the [background] tag be burninated?
Apparently people are using the background tag for two totally different topics. Some refer to their desktop background and others refer to running a process in the background.
It seems rather ...
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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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manager tag is horrible, I have killed it
I ran into manager and realized that people weren't really using it properly, instead it was people doing things like network and manager instead of just network-manager.
Ditto for file-manager, ...
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When does a component of a larger project require its own tag?
When does a component of a larger project require its own tag? Example:
We have unity, dash launcher - dash and launcher are components of Unity, as well as separate packages.
So the question is, do ...
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I can't see suggested synonyms unless I'm logged out?
When I go to this page I don't see any suggested synonyms.
But when I log out, I can see several listed there
Is there any particular reason for it? I'd like to be able to see what synonyms have ...
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merge tags: tab and tabs
Very recently a new tag "tabs" was created.
From the one linked question, it looks like it could have been tagged "tab".
Maybe "tabs" should be merged with "tab"?
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Could somebody please create the [router] tag?
I just submitted a question with regards to networking. A router is involved. Unfortunately, there is no router tag, only a route tag.
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what the difference between system-tray and panel?
the tag system-tray refers to the upper panel, and the panel refers to the upper panel.
So why do they both exist?
like this question: it has system-tray listed and not upper panel?!
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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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Can misspelled tags be deleted?
I just re-tagged a question with a misspelled tag. From these two search results, it looks like tags are dropped after a period of inactivity. Can misspelled tags be deleted instead, so the error is ...
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How to retag a question without making it go to the top of the question list?
I want to retag posts that have to do with dv6 laptops by HP with the new dv6 tag. I can do this by searching for "dv6" and going down the list and retagging each question with the dv6 tag. The ...
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Is it appropriate to suggest tag synonyms on Meta?
There are currently no tag synonyms on the Ubuntu StackExchange site, and only a few users with the required reputation. It seems unlikely that I will have enough reputation to suggest synonyms ...
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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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Tag organisation - reputation reward inconsistency?
I'm quite new on Ask Ubuntu but have been getting stuck in, mostly answering, some editing, some retagging.
I noticed that while I was at low reputation and needed approval to tweak tags, I would get ...
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What to do with useless new tags?
Tags are quite helpful when searching for question on a specific topic, and they are also used for Google searches. Therefore a nice base of tags like we have is precious and should not be spoiled by ...
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Should tags without description be allowed?
I just earned the create new tag privilege and this made me curious to check out the current NEW tags created. For my surprise I noticed that there are quite a few tags without description.
I know ...
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Adding a tag is a minor edit?
I edited (or rather, suggested an edit) on a question about Chuck montages on Planet Ubuntu, to add the tag 'planet-ubuntu'. It was rejected with the following reason:
This edit is too minor; ...
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Why separate "torrent" and "bittorrent" tags?
Why do we have torrent and bittorrent as separate tags on main?
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What is the dual tag for?
Someone's comment in this question led me to realize there's a dual tag.
This tag is pretty silly. It looks like most of the questions are about dual booting, but some of them are about dual monitors....
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Troublesome tags that need cleaning up
We've got a ton of incoming questions and I've realized some tags really do need some love, so I'm going to make a list of the worst ones:
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Software tag too meta, delete? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The future of the applications tag(s)
I ran into software today and it's pretty meta/worthless. I've gone through and retagged the ones that should be software recommendations ...
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Ayatana, linux and tips tags becoming too meta?
As we add things under the umbrella ayatana project it's becoming too meta and doesn't really mean anything anymore.
tips also appears to be not useful.
linux isn't being used for the kernel, but ...
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Tag Synonym Request: [processes] -> [process]?
The tag processes is just a pluralization of the process tag. Seems like they could be synomized.
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Delete Tag: 4096
A new tag called 4096 has been recently created.
It is linked to only one question.
I personally don't see future questions using this tag and I don't see any value why the one linked question ...
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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: [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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Tag Synonym request: [keybindings] -> [key-bindings]?
I haven't earned sufficient privileges here to make a proposal -- would it be reasonable for keybindings to be a synonym of key-bindings?
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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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What is the proper usage of the windows tag?
I noticed this question today. The question is apparently about workspaces, but is a bit unclear on that. In any case, it used the "windows" tag with a different meaning than the other questions using ...
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What is the purpose of two topics in one tag: windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the proper usage of the windows tag?
I am curious. Why does the windows tag cover both the Windows OS as well as application windows? shouldn't those be two separate ...
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Purpose of the firefox-4 tag
Jorge Castro brought this up in chat a few days ago so I'm opening a discussion: Do we need the firefox-4 AND firefox tags? I don't think firefox-4 offers any additional data that couldn't be derived ...
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When should we use the versions tags?
For example, when someone asks a question and he is saying I am using Ubuntu 11.04. Should the question also be tagged 11.04 or not ?
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