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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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How can I create a new tag for an existing question?
Create tags abilities come at 300 rep. This allows you to create a new tag. You can add existing tags to questions through suggested edits.
It's in the reputation section of the FAQ. …
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2
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Ayatana, linux and tips tags becoming too meta?
I've checked the affected questions and they all have proper tags to the subprojects, which is better anyway, so safe to remove those tags. …
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0
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Keyboard shortcut tags are messy
Completed:
keyboard-shortcuts which is weird, as we symlinked keyboard-shortcut to shortcut-keys a while back. This one not only is dupe but ended up with a tag wiki, woo!
key-bindings
keybindings
ke …
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Accepted
missing is meta/worthless, time to remove it?
Yes
This tag sucks, it should be removed.
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missing is meta/worthless, time to remove it?
No
I like meaningless tags that add no value to the site and just create noise for people. …
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Websites tag is worthless, should we kill it?
Yes
meta tags are bad! This tag doesn't describe anything to do with the questions. …
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1
answer
56
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Network or networking?
I went to tag a network-related question with one and ended up with:
network x 37
networking x 26
There is also indicator-network and network-manager, which I think are useful to keep around. But fo …
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Tag for questions like "What _____ are available?"?
I've just been lumping them under application
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Software tag too meta, delete? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The future of the applications tag(s)
I ran into software today and it's pretty meta/worthless. I've gone through and retagged the ones that should be software recommend …
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When should we use the versions tags?
In addition to what Lekensteyn I use the following ideas myself:
If something changed a ton, like say unity, I tag those with the versions so that it's obvious which major release people are using, …
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1
answer
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Troublesome tags that need cleaning up
We've got a ton of incoming questions and I've realized some tags really do need some love, so I'm going to make a list of the worst ones: …
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Troublesome tags that need cleaning up
broadcom - specifically questions having to do with BCM4311 need de duping.
boot - IMO our worst tag, these are hard because they're "my computer won't boot"
software-center - A bunch of these seem l …
6
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Accepted
Tag organisation - reputation reward inconsistency?
I'm not an authority on the SE software but it seems to be that it's there to encourage you to try something else to improve the site. Basically, it looks like you've graduated tag wiki school and are …
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1
answer
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"card" tag is too meta, time to kill it?
card makes no sense as a tag, it should be killed as we have video for video stuff and the various wireless tags for wireless.
Perhaps synonyming it to hardware? …
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missing is meta/worthless, time to remove it?
I don't know who would subscribe to a missing tag. I'd be happy to clean up untagged ones afterwards.