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AskUbuntu: how do I filter in questions which have both tag1 and tag2?
A query like the following should work:
[graphics] [drivers] answers:1
(I get about 500+ results.)
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Merge the tags "schedule" and "scheduled"?
According to the list of top users for schedule, you are capable of suggesting a synonym for it, and there are more than five other users with a score of 5. The top user is Mitch♦, and I guess his vot …
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Can version tags be removed if a question can be modified to be general to all versions?
Personally, I remove those tags if the question's answers now cover multiple versions of Ubuntu, and people have shown an inclination to add answers for versions yet-to-be-covered. … If any of those is true, nuke the tags.
The tags only make sense when the a solution must work for that tag - and if that's been handled, there's not much use for it. …
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I created a new tag "csm" and someone changed it to "bios"
As for changing all tags to computer, we have some pretty ridiculous tag synonmizing: Please undo tag synonymizing: gnome-shell -> gnome, so don't rule it out. …
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Useless tag of the day: local
This tag is no longer locally available.
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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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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 Language …
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Does the [unreadable] tag make sense?
Every now and then, somebody will go and type parts of some error they're seeing into the tag box, and if the have more than 300 reputation, the tag system will gladly create tags out of each individual …
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Should the 'on-topic' and 'offtopic-questions' tags become synonyms?
I think the sane solution is the one adopted by Meta Stack Overflow: use a scope tag, of which offtopic-questions and on-topic are synonyms.
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Request to merge multiple scripting-related tags
I propose that we merge shell-scripts as well. shell-scripts by itself is not much more specific than the others. Most, if not all, scripts contain some amount of code run by another language: Awk, Pe …
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Is it possible for beginners to suggest tags?
Tags are for classifying questions, and thereby allowing people who are interested in a particular topic focus on that topic. … If a tag is too broad, people will pick narrower tags.
No one is interested in the xfce-desktop package ... because there is no such package. …
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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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How should we tag the Dash?
Why should every component of the same software get tags? Even if it does need a tag, looking at GNOME Shell's design docs, it's not even at the same level as say, the top-bar. …
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Is [top-bar] just another [panel]?
I'd like to suggest that the top-bar tag be done away with. I propose the following criteria:
if the "thing" can be used by itself, or customised by itself, it might make sense to refer to it with t …
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Should we blacklist the freeze tag?
I feel this is similar to the bug or error tags, both of which were blacklisted:
http://meta.askubuntu.com/q/5888/158442
http://meta.askubuntu.com/q/3386/158442
On a related note, we have a frozen …