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Why does it take 300 rep to create a new tag?

Tags are intended to be many things, least not useful and descriptive. … The reputation requirement is there to ensure that the people creating tags have at least a minimum amount of activity on the site. …
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Do we need "brand/manufacturer" tags?

No - when thinking about creating additional tags, ask yourself the following; Who would filter using it? Who would think this is an expertise area? … Nobody is going to filter using these tags and therefore they're pointless tags. …
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Cleanup 2014: A tale of tags

Most of the worse tags band together, take note of other possible bad tags while you are cleaning. … Update the list below to indicate which tags have been burned. completed tags Tags burned: access adaptor import export Tags cleaned: example-tag-1 example-tag-2 example-tag-3 example-tag-4 …
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Cleanup 2014: A tale of tags

Related Tags suspend × 28 laptop × 18 12.04 × 11 power-management × 9 13.10 × 7 12.10 × 6 shutdown × 6 11.10 × 4 … There's also possibly buggy tags like freeze and several version specific ones. …
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Cleanup 2014: A tale of tags

Related Tags networking × 9 internet × 8 wireless × 8 downloads × 7 11.10 × 5 download-manager × 4 12.04 × 4 12.10 × 3 updates × 3 … There isn't a good cohesion of all the tags. The version specific tags doesn't play any role when downloading stuff, since most depends of the network bandwidth and protocol implementation. …
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Can we merge/synonimize all the game related tags?

The best way to handle this would be to synonimise all gaming related tags to games. From what I can see, this has already been done. … (both gaming and game are synonyms of games) If there are any other additional tags that you would be considering creating synonyms to games you should probably list them before a community consensus …
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Cleanup 2014: A tale of tags

Tag: offline Action: remove completely Why: this tag's meaning is inconsistent depending on the question it has been used on so should either be completely removed (and the information portrayed in …
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Cleanup 2014: A tale of tags

Tag: interface Action: remove completely Why: this tag's meaning is inconsistent depending on the question it has been used on so should either be completely removed (and the information portrayed i …
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Cleanup 2014: A tale of tags

Tag: restore Action: remove completely Why: this tag describes an action and wouldn't really ever be used as a filter. It's tagged against a large number of questions from various different subjects …
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Cleanup 2014: A tale of tags

Related tags compiz × 25 11.10 × 12 gnome × 11 nvidia × 8 unity × 7 11.04 × 6 12.04 × 5 graphics × 5 drivers × 5 vmware … Later is plagged of version specific tags and a mix of kde, video, virtual machines, and windowing stuff. Can't be seen a real connection between all these tags. …
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Tag merge request: log and logging

The following tags need merging together: log logging These tags are both being used for questions about logging. …
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Cleanup 2014: A tale of tags

Tag: unlock Action: delete Why: It's a meta tag used to describe an action taken in a wide variety of different applications.
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Tag merge request: accounts and users

We have two tags: users - For questions related to users, user accounts, user permissions or guest accounts. accounts - Questions that relate to an area (or home directory), in which a user can store … files pertaining exclusively to that user's activities Since these tags both cover the same thing, we should really merge them. …
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Can the tag suggestion help-text be changed?

The list of tags shown in your screenshot is generated from the popular tags available in the database. It doesn't get manually updated. …
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Cleanup 2014: A tale of tags

Tag: merge Action: Delete Why: Same reasons as import, export, restore, etc
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