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Do we support [language-support]?
We have a language-support tag which has the following guidance:
Questions related to the language support provided by Ubuntu.
We also have a language tag which has the following guidance:
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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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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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I think [trackpad] and [touchpad] should be tag synonyms
The description for trackpad is:
an input device commonly found on laptops, used in place of a mouse. Also called a touchpad.
And the description for touchpad is:
Questions related to the ...
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Someone made a meta tag [review-audits] - is that a better name than [audits]?
Yesterday I removed the recently created tag review-audits from a post here on meta. We have a preexisting tag audits for that subject, so to keep all the audit-related questions together they should ...
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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 ...
ZannaMod
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Synonymize tags related to partitioning
I discovered recently that apart from the well-known tag partitioning (10,271 questions currently), there is also the tag partitions with 771 questions.
Even funnier thing is that the tag partition ...
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Should apache2.4 be a synonym of apache2?
I'm at fault here, as I first created that tag. However, I agree with @terdon's answer on another question that, separate tags for separate versions of a tool aren't helpful unless there was a big ...
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Can we just add [helpfile] to [documentation]?
According to tag excerpt of documentation:
For questions regarding written documentation such as manuals, help files, policies, instructions, or guides.
But there exists helpfile too which in my ...
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Tag synonyms for [window-buttons]
I found two similar tags for referring to the "close, minimize, and maximize buttons".
window-buttons with 106 posts (6 asked this year). Tag info:
Window Buttons are the buttons at the top of the ...
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These two tags could get [compressed]
Currently we have both:
compression × 185 (19 asked this year)
the process in which a file or folder's size is reduced by using an algorithm to encode the same information using fewer bits.
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Are [dual-monitor] and [dualhead] the same?
There are two tags:
dual-monitor (currently 128 questions):
For questions about using multiple monitors on a computer system.
dualhead (currently 47 questions):
Dualhead describes multi ...
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Make 18.04 and bionic synonym
When I add tags to the question and type xenial, it suggests me to add 16.04 but when I type bionic, no suggestion is given.
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Make [desktop-recording] a synonym of [screencast]
screencast and desktop-recording almost mean the same thing.
I say almost, because there may be some subtle differences. But I don't believe they are enough to keep the tags separated.
For example, a ...
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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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How should we tag the Dash?
The dash tag is currently a synonym for the unity-dash tag, so all questions that are tagged with dash are automatically retagged with the unity-dash tag instead. Ubuntu 17.10 and later also has an ...
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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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Merge squid and squid3 tags
Should we merge squid3 and squid, and make squid3 an alias of squid?
Currently there's 74 questions tagged squid3, and 117 tagged squid. Of those tagged squid, a large portion appears to be tagged ...
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Tag synonym request: [soft-link] -> [symbolic-link]
Could I ask for another tag synonym for symbolic-link, that is soft-link. Reference Wikipedia Symbolic Link. I don't have enough reputation to work with tags yet. I came across this because I am new ...
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Tag synonyms: [17.10] and [ubuntu-17.10]
I just found out there's a ubuntu-17.10 tag with two questions currently.
I think it's just a synonym of 17.10. I have suggested a tag synonym.
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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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Combine [vi] and [vim] tags
We should combine the [vi] and the [vim] tags.
From the [vi] tag wiki:
Questions about the text editor "vi" or "vim"
I am not sure whether to keep the [vi] tag or the [vim] tag, but I don't think ...
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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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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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Do we need the [bootup] tag?
Looking at the questions tagged with bootup, I concluded the tag is synonymous to boot. Unlike boot, it has no description and is much less used and mostly by low-rep (assuming: new) users. Is it ...
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These tags are [virtual-]ly the same!
Right now we have separate virtual-console and virtual-terminal tags. One should be made a synonym of the other, but which one should be the master tag?
We have another question on meta about this, ...
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Make [recording] a synonym of [record]
We have two tags, one called recording and one called record.
I propose recording become a synonym of record.
recording has a few questions but no description or anything, while record is more ...
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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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Request to merge multiple scripting-related tags
There are the similar tags:
scripts and its synonym script (1940 questions)
Excerpt:
Script is series of instructions written in plain text file. The script interpreter (i.e. shell, Python, Ruby, ...
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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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Should the 'on-topic' and 'offtopic-questions' tags become synonyms?
I think that the tags on this site called on-topic and offtopic-questions should be made synonyms of each other, and yes, it may be argued that they are actually complete opposites of each other, ...
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Tag Synonym Request: [scanning] -> [scanner]
Since,
I would argue that these tags have no difference in meaning (this thread has a +9/-1 score),
scanning has no wiki, while scanner does,
the tag synonym suggestion mechanism is fundamentally ...
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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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What should we do about XBMC's new name?
XBMC will be called kodi in newer versions, what should we do about it? People will still refer it to XBMC for several years to come, but some users will use the new name kodi.
I suggest that we make ...
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Tag synonym request: [window-placement] -> [window-managment]
The two tags window-placement and window-management are essentially synonyms. Since it has only been used 7 times, window-placement should probably be deleted, especially since the description for ...
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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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When should I use the command-line tag?
There have been a few edit wars recently concerning the command-line tag. This question is an attempt to reach a community consensus on the usage of this particular tag.
So, what exactly is this tag ...
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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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Synonym request: [software-uninstall] to [uninstall]
We have two tags:
uninstall - lots of questions
software-uninstall - handful of questions
Both of these tags are for questions relating to uninstalling software.
Can we merge the contents of ...
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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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Can we synonymize the `apache-openoffice` and `openoffice.org` tags please?
Since the tags apache-openoffice and openoffice.org tags are for the same topic, can we please synonymize them?
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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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Can we merge/synonimize all the game related tags?
Gaming.SE have an active monitoring of all the games tags in all the SE network. They are several times more knowable in Minecraft servers installation and Game performance issues (since they get ...
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'livedvd' should be a synonym for 'live-cd'
livedvd:
a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system.
live-cd:
Questions related to live CDs, which allow you to test drive Ubuntu without installing it.
I'd suggest to have ...
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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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What should be done with the 'edge' tag?
There has been a discussion about it on the comments of this answer but that is another question.
I think that this tag (edge) is used for several case, such as mentioning a computer model, network ...
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Merge the Space and Disk Usage tags
The space tag seems dubious at best, given it's current tag wiki:
A space is a spot that is occupied or not occupied by something.
However the usage of the tag makes it pretty clearly a synonym of ...
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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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Renaming a misspelled tag? / Rep requirement for synonym suggestions?
Currently there is a tag hp-pavillion aimed at HP Pavilion laptops; this tag is actually misspelled. I've tagged my question Regular audio corruption when listening to music with hp-pavilion, but can'...
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Unable to tag question using libvirt
I have a question asked recently here:
Unable to start libvirtd
which I am unable to tag with libvirt If I tag it, it disappears when the question is up on AU. What is going wrong here?
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