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Merge the tags "schedule" and "scheduled"?

I would tend to agree. A brief look at the questions involved indicate that the existing schedule tag could easily be used for the questions using the scheduled tag. I don't believe there is a downsi …
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What hardware recommendations are okay to ask?

It's no longer true that "Hardware or more accurately shopping recommendations are off topic in all SE sites". For example I suggest reading this Meta post
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Let's delete the remove tag and remove the delete tag

I think the current practice of remove being a synonym of uninstall makes sense. As far as the delete tag goes, I have to concur with your assessment. There are at this moment 99 unanswered questions …
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Do we need the e1000e tag?

Against my better judgement I actually approved this edit and I wasn't given the option to edit it further. It was my intent to add "Intel Linux Base Driver for Gigabit Ethernet controllers" to at lea …
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install tag bug?

Unfortunately while editing this question I discovered this error: I thought it was a minor hiccup so I removed all the tags and put the appropriate ones back with the same result. …
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Cleanup 2014: A tale of tags

See: Blacklist the [installation] tag Why: Blacklisted - split into the above tags. Statistics: 4,531 unanswered questions tagged installation out of a total of 11690 5532 asked this year …
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Do we really need or want the "post" tag?

As it seems to me that tags are used to locate questions within ones area of expertise and there doesn't appear to be a common thread linking any of the questions utilizing the word post or any of it's … think that tag and anything similar to it is just providing an opportunity to dilute the usefulness of the tagging system (which I am against for reasons that are likely abundantly clear to those who use tags
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Make [recording] a synonym of [record]

If you have a score of 5 or higher in the tag please request it here: https://askubuntu.com/tags/record/synonyms …
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[warning]: questionable tag detected

I would agree that the warning is pointless and while I don't follow specific tags personally I don't see warning as being useful to anyone. …
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Should [messages] be sent to /dev/null?

Since /var/log/messages doesn't even exist by default in Ubuntu (14.04 & 16.04 checked) I don't think the log argument is a relevant reason for retaining this tag. The only possible use for this tag …
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Re-keying [key] to be more useful

IMHO it seems that the recent edit of key info by Tim should do the job of steering people away from using this tag. At last check there were only about 60 questions using it. Editing to remove/replac …
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How do I respond to my question being marked as a duplicate when it clearly isn't?

This is the appropriate place to discuss such issues. Yes, your question CAN be a duplicate even if none of the answers available solve your issue. Marking such a question as a favorite will insure th …
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Should we remove the "tag with Ubuntu version" advice from the help center?

Some questions are clearly not version specific, for others it's not immediately clear. I'd rather see an unnecessary tag (that I can easily delete) than not see a tag that might drive an expert to fi …
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Do we really need or want the "post" tag?

I stumbled across a review of the "post" tag edit which appears to be driven by this post and voted to reject it as lacking usage instructions, but while the definition appeared to be one accurate ass …
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Maybe [hdpi] is not high enough, add [hidpi] as a synonym?

I would tend to agree due to the recent popularity of the hidpi acronym. I don't think it matters too much which is master and which is synonym, but I would agree having both and having one a synonym …
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