Questions tagged [tags]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize a question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for users to find and answer a question. Use this tag for proposing actions upon tags (such as merging, synonymization, removal, etc.), or other tag-related questions.
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Summer cleanup, feedback wanted, etc
Basically, what I'd like to do is get community 'permission' to do the following over the next few weeks (for whats left of June, and then thereafter whenever I have time):
Completely destroy and ...
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Can this tag be [repair]ed or should we throw it away...?
I came across the tag repair today:
112 questions tagged
Excerpt:
Questions about repairing Ubuntu can be tagged here (after a fatal error, looping kernel panics, etc.)
Wiki: none
Followers: 0
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Give [recovery] the [installation] treatment
Let's talk for a minute about the recovery tag, again.
There are many different kinds of recovery, including (but not limited to):
data-recovery, for recovering lost data,
password-recovery, for ...
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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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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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Useless tag of the day: local
The local tag has no usage guidance and it has been applied to questions without any consistent sense (from package management to networking, wherever people think some meaning of the word "local" can ...
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Do we need the Adobe, Microsoft and Apple tags?
On Ask Ubuntu we have several companies represented as tags. There are adobe, microsoft and apple. I don't think these tags are useful, and perhaps they should be removed. We don't have experts on any ...
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Thoughts on a history-of-ubuntu tag?
Other sites I frequent have a tag related to history (not your command history):
Unix & Linux: history
Vi and Vim: history-of
Science Fiction and Fantasy: history-of
And others:
English ...
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Do we need "support"?
As of now support has 137 questions tagged. There is no proper information about its usage on the site. The existing information looks vague. So, should we re-tag all questions and remove support from ...
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Do we need a new "ubuntu-for-phones" tag?
I see Jorge Castro has been replacing ubuntu-for-phones with mobile here and here. (Hi Jorge!)
Shouldn't those two tags be kept distinct?
ubuntu-for-phones is the newly announced project with the ...
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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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[warning]: questionable tag detected
We have 57 posts tagged warning. Should they be retagged to remove it?
warning is not as bad as the banned error tag. error roughly meant "Something happened!" There are just a few common meanings ...
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Please blacklist the 'bug' tag
In regards to this, http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/3343/summer-cleanup-feedback-wanted-etc?cb=1 the jrg has eliminated questions tagged with bug.
I would like to request blacklisting of this tag,...
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We should put these tags under [lock] and [keys]
(The only reason these are the same question is for the pun. If they should be split, I can split them.)
Neither of these have tag wiki entries. As of now, lock has 182 questions, keys has 82.
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I need some [help] getting rid of this tag from Ask Ubuntu Meta!
This tag is fully useless IMO. We don't need it.
So... we have a help tag on Meta Ask Ubuntu (NOT the main site). IMO, it is useless. Let's go through the criteria to get rid of it:
Does it describe ...
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How often is [frequency] useful?
We have 51 questions tagged frequency. This seems like an extremely general, cross-cutting concept that isn't useful as a tag. However, most questions tagged frequency are questions about CPU ...
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Discussion about tag: uninstall
The uninstall says:
Questions about uninstalling software in Ubuntu, or uninstalling Ubuntu from a computer.
And software-uninstall says:
for questions about uninstalling software on Ubuntu.
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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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Does the [unreadable] tag make sense?
The unreadable tag makes very little sense in my opinion, as it encapsulates multiple, technically unrelated concepts. The usage guide reads as follows:
This can describe a file or any output that is ...
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Should we ditch [glitch]?
Seems we have a tag glitch.
This seems to me equivalent to having a tag bug. It could apply to issues of various types and with various causes. It seems unlikely that anyone will be especially ...
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Can we make some low quality tags synonyms, and outright remove some others? [duplicate]
Credit goes to jokerdino for making me aware of almost all of these tags. He sent me a list of tags he considered low quality, and asked me to post on meta about the ones I think we should take action ...
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Version tags are being used improperly -- what to do?
Tags like 12.04 and 13.04 are being used almost every time even if the question isn't version-specific, and even if the tag description explicitly says:
You should only use this tag if your ...
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Prevent misuse of the ".desktop" tag
I recently noticed that the tag .desktop (notice the dot before desktop) being used as a tag for questions concerning the Desktop Environment in general (most likely because desktop is gone):
Ubuntu ...
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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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Are any of these tags [remote]ly useful?
A few days ago I asked this question, and this answer by Kaz Wolfe pointed out that remote-login is only one of several tags about remote stuff.
remote-desktop, 761 questions
Questions that refer to ...
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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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Desktop tag must go!
desktop is something we all use, unless you want to specifically refer to server (as in, I dont have a desktop, this is a server) most questions will be directly related to it.
That renders the tag ...
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Purpose of the "split" tag
I noticed there is a tag called split without any description. The list of 49 questions tagged right now includes all sorts of questions: splitting text files, splitting large archives, splitting ...
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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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Can we *please* blacklist the error tag?
The tag has reappeared two more times again.
The error has reappeared after at lease 2 purges. Can we please blacklist this tag?
Reasons for this have been discussed several times already:
The '...
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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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Can we burninate shared?
shared is useless. Just completely and utterly useless.
It doesn't refer to anything currently, is used all over the place (shared folders/shared libraries/shared memory), and has no definition for ...
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Can we burninate [hardware-recommendation]?
The help center says:
Questions that you should avoid:
Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Backtrack, Gnome-Remix (prior to 13.04), budgie-remix (16.04 and 16.10) and other Linux distributions (try our ...
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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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Can we increase the minimum reputation requirement for creating new tags?
Currently, you only need 300 reputation to create new tags. If you couple that with the 500 reputation required to retag questions at your will, you can easily end up with lots of tags that should ...
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Do you really need "burning", "dvd-burning", "cd-burning" tag?
I have seen that we have several tags on the burning CD/DVD topic. One tag burn has wiki, but there are three more tags on the same topic. These are burning, dvd-burning , cd-burning.
Do we really ...
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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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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 [groovy] tag became ambiguous
Ask Ubuntu has a groovy tag that is dedicated to “a dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine”.
However, Groovy (Gorilla) is the name of Ubuntu 20.10 and users started to (mis)use the tag for ...
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Should we take [pictures] and [images] out of the picture?
There's images tag, which has as description:
Questions about opening / editing / saving images using image-editing applications.
And then there's pictures with no description.
IMHO:
As far as ...
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Can we remove this [virtual]ly useless tag?
The tag virtual covers so many rather unrelated things:
Questions related to virtualization, virtual devices, virtual terminal emulators, etc.
It's of little use for searching or following. Can we ...
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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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Can we [safely] remove this tag?
We have a safely tag. I don't really like it and think we should burninate it.
Burnination criteria:
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
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YELP! Old-computer tag!
old-computer excerpt says:
Questions about Ubuntu on old computers
What exactly is an "old computer"? Where to draw the line? How I know my system has a problem because is old (btw, mine is ...
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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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Troubleshooting the tag: can we diagnose it as unnecessary?
We have a tag troubleshooting.
At best, troubleshooting describes a type of activity, though not a very specific one, and not one in which people would be likely to have a particular interest or ...
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Should we blacklist the freeze tag?
The wiki of freeze says:
Do not use. This tag is in process of removal. If your software is
freezing then you likely need to file a bug, as freeze problems are
usually off topic here and will ...
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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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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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Do we need the soundcard tag?
It seems, at least to me, that every question tagged soundcard would properly also be marked sound, and vice versa. Therefore, soundcard should be a synonym of sound.
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