Questions tagged [tags]
about tags and tagging
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Would a off-topic tag warning be a good-idea? [duplicate]
Here on Ask Ubuntu we have quite a lot of tags for various Linux distributions/Operating Systems/things that could be off-topic if specific about them:
debian, mint, fedora, crunchbang, windows, ...
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What does it mean to "Blacklist" a tag and when should I request it?
More and more I see requests for blacklisting tags. However, I'm not sure what a tag blacklist is - or when it's appropriate to request one. On what cirucmstances should this be requested and how ...
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Should the copy.com tag be removed?
It currently has no watchers. At this time, there are 13 questions tagged with copy.com.
copy.com has been discontinued.
I saw it in this recent question: compare and move a file from one directory ...
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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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Re-keying [key] to be more useful
Recently, I discovered the existence of key.
This tag is currently being used for both cryptographic keys (SSH/GPG/RSA/etc.) as well as keys on one's keyboard.
A tag that functions like this has, in ...
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Merge tags [video-driver] and [gpu-drivers]?
I think the tags video-driver and gpu-drivers basically means the same thing.
I suggest we merge one of the tags into the other.
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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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Ambiguous tag: blocking
The tag blocking is ambiguous. It contains stuff about blocking websites, unblocking hardware, email, and more.
I wanted to use it for blocking websites, but given the ambiguity I doubt about it. I ...
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Tag synonym request: [gksudo] -> [gksu]
While they can behave differently (mostly on non-Ubuntu systems), gksu and gksudo are not really separate topics. They're provided by the same package (gksu). They're even the same executable (which ...
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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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Is the "permissions" tag really just about filesystem permissions?
Currently, the description of the permissions reads:
Short for "file system permissions" - access control based on user, group, or global access.
But is it true? If I ask why doesn't strace -p 1 ...
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PSA: When reviewing, remember to think of the future!
I've been reviewing a ton lately and the version tags are becoming worse and worse.
Note to selves, Jeff warned us about this:
When should we use the versions tags?
Version tags can be dangerous ...
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Tag cleanup list
We still need feedback on these tags!
Esp. the "Not Sure" ones.
I have started a list of tags that need some cleanup per request. Please contribute.
Burniate:
bits
z475 vm-guest-files
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Should we remove the "tag with Ubuntu version" advice from the help center?
There have been many discussions on meta (here and here for example) about using the Ubuntu version tags (12.04 etc). Mostly, they support the position that these tags should be used when the version ...
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How can we help make developer.ubuntu.com better?
The Ubuntu App Developer website makes use of Ask Ubuntu questions for its "Cookbook" feature. The App Developer Cookbooks are:
a collection of short examples, how to’s and answered questions from ...
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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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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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Get rid of the Windows-application tag?
Why I think that the windows-application tag should be deleted:
It's about Windows software, but this site is for Ubuntu. The only circumstances I could see it
relating to Ubuntu would be if the OP ...
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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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Need a few >2k people to help with the merge of the Recovery tag
I would like to merge recovery into data-recovery.
A good ~90% (at a glance) of the ~500 questions tagged recovery are about data-recovery.
The other ~10% are about things like password-recovery or ...
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Let's delete the remove tag and remove the delete tag
I will shamelesly copy the same argument of derobet in UL:
Questions can indeed be about (as Gilles mentions) deleting something.
But that's not about "deleting" because they're all different.
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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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Should tags also used for adding extra information
I saw an this post. The author describes a problem but uses the tags to define the version of Ubuntu, to give extra information. He doesn't mention the version in his text. I know that tags should be ...
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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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What should we do when encountering wiki excerpt suggestions on useless tags?
In review I got a suggestion for a wiki excerpt, the proposal in itself was not bad (https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/511060) but the tag bible is quite useless, it has only one question ...
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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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output tag needs some community input
The output has 149 questions tagged across wide range of topics - command line output, audio output, monitors - and no wiki nor usage guidance as to what this tag is all about. We already have ...
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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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Tags and tagging questions
A question about tags
When you ask a new question on Askubuntu, you are usually adding tags to your problem. However, i've experienced that when i am tagging videos on YouTube, or tagging pictures on ...
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Applications, application and software tags must die!
Originally discussed here:
The future of the applications/software tag(s)
Needs to be discussed again as an effort to ban the tags permanently
applications, application and software are useless - ...
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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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Do we really need "release-upgrade"?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/release-upgrade
This tag makes no sense to me, it looks like it's just a subset of what should just be in "upgrade" anyway, should we just merge/symlink it?
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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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How are we going to deal with Qt 5.0 questions?
Now that Qt 5.0 is released, we can expect to see a number of questions popping up on the site relating to the new release.
We already have a tag: qt5
So my question is thus: are we going to merge ...
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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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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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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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'format' tag has a broad scope. What should we do?
The tag wiki excerpt of format states that format has a broad scope.
For questions regarding file formats, or formatting hard drives.
We can ask questions about file formats or formatting hard ...
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In [comparison] to [diff]
So we have the comparison tag, with 38 questions which does have a few highly voted posts, but overall is spread out over a broad range of topics, ranging from comparing DVDs to text files, to Ubuntu ...
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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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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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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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Can [maintenance] be kept in good working order?*
*Credit to Eliah Kagan for the title
We have a tag maintenance which currently has 38 questions in it.
The questions relate to a miscellany of topics, since "maintenance" is a very broad category of ...
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Rename the atom tag
The atom tag is currently being used for questions about GitHub's Atom editor and Intel's Atom CPU. I would favour a new tag for either.
Maybe the best practice is to follow Stack Overflow and ...
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How should I use the tags in Meta.AU?
I've found recently that people that ask questions in meta do not correctly tag their questions, and when the community reacts unexpectedly or their issues don't rise awareness to the developer team, ...
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Should "zoom" tag also apply to the videoconferencing software?
Currently "zoom" tag description is
Questions related to desktop zooming effect
Now, during Covid-19 lockdown many people are using the tag for Zoom videoconferencing program. Should we ...
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How do I respond to my question being marked as a duplicate when it clearly isn't?
I have a question about my Ask Ubuntu post: apt-get upgrade fails
I'm posting about this problem because my question was marked as a duplicate when it clearly isn't a duplicate of the linked question....
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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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Can we please disambiguate or discourage the 'mobile' tag?
I've decided to branch off my mobile concerns from Do we need a new “ubuntu-for-phones” tag?.
In my opinion 'mobile' is too ambiguous and broad in its name being an adjective. Yes, we may have a ...
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