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Should we create a wish-list tag?
I know that its not the scope of this forum, but I see some answers being provided by developers of the said applications, and it would be a good place for the average user to post them, and another ...
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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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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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Terminal vs. Command-Line
What is the difference between terminal and command-line? Is it a big enough difference to make a distinction at all?
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The future of the applications/software tag(s) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Applications, application and software tags must die!
To my mind applications, application and software is useless - there is no clear meaning to them. Some questions should ...
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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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'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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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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Remove [subjective] [duplicate]
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Please can we destroy the subjective tag?
The [subjective] tag should be removed and blacklisted from Ask Ubuntu for the same reasons it was removed from other sites.
For ...
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merge tags: repository and repositories
These two tags both have roughly the same number of uses (10 and 8, I believe) so we can't just wait for the weaker one to atrophy. Perhaps they should be merged?
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Tag for questions like "What _____ are available?"?
There are a lot of questions like What native games are available? and What docks are available?. Do you think we should make a tag for them? The first thing that comes to mind is available-software, ...
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Tag pages not rendering properly
The tag pages are not rendering the list of questions when using Firefox 4.0b8pre or Opera 11.00 alpha build 1029. It does render properly with Google Chrome 8.0.552.5 dev.
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What is the difference between the 'sound' and 'audio' tags?
Is there a technical or functional difference between the sound and audio tags?
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Why am I unable to use “ubuntu+1” as a tag
I'd like to tag this question with “ubuntu+1”, which has traditionally been our way of describing the current development focus which will become the next release. Although the interface suggests ...
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Network or networking?
I went to tag a network-related question with one and ended up with:
network x 37
networking x 26
There is also indicator-network and network-manager, which I think are useful to keep around. But ...
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How to tag the Ubuntu editions and derivatives
[ The previous revision of this question didn't get much response and was incomplete because it did not include the derivatives, at least one of which also has editions. I have revised it to hopefully ...
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Retag request: 10.4 instead of 10.04
Would someone please retag this question with 10.04 instead of 10.4.
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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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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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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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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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Should we have a consistent naming scheme?
This is very much related to this question about merging tags.
This goes one step further to assume that we SHOULD.
What should the naming convention be?
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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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Discouraging "Ubuntu" tags
Figured I might as well be the first to bring this up...
Some relation to but not the same issue as: What ubuntu versions are covered?
At time of writing, there are currently nine instances of the "...
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