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The "recovery" tag

Just now, I saw recovery. I'm not sure what to do about it, but it seems it needs to go, because it isn't specific enough. File recovery? Recovering a system to a usable state? The tag has a variety o …
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Why are we marking these UEFI questions as duplicates of the wrong question?

I see many, many questions written by users having trouble installing Ubuntu in a dual-boot configuration on their UEFI-enabled PC, that are being marked as duplicates of Installing Ubuntu Alongside a …
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Is it normal to post someone's email in an answer

I would say it might be discourteous to post anyone's email online without their permission. There are spam bots that go around looking for email addresses and the project manager may not want any ext …
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Chewed out for saying thank you to an Ubunu answer?

I would suggest doing a little bit more research on this site's philosophy in order to understand why certain policies have been put in place and how they help keep the site useful, relevant, and clea …
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What do we do with existing questions about the Ubuntu Development Release on or after the f...

Come the release of the development release of Ubuntu, there will be lots of existing questions about the Ubuntu development release that were off topic for several good reasons, including the fact th …
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Can we delete/migrate 425730 question that is about Mint?

Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. This is a site about Ubuntu, plain in simple. If we have questions that are clearly Mint-specific, we become a Mint site …
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Is there a way to deal with people who repost other people's comments as answers?

Since these answers are just comments posted as answers, the solution should be to just flag the answer as "Not an Answer". Then it will be deleted as such.
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

I am searchfgold6789. I welcome your votes at my nomination. You can view my profile here, which contains links to all my activity on the site. Ask Ubuntu currently has the lowest Percent Answered of …
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Blacklist the "connection" tag

What kind of connection? Internet connection? USB connection? Asdfghjkl connection? It should be blacklisted, I think.
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What's wrong, Ask Ubuntu?: The "Tech Support" Impression

A lot of the questions asked nowadays are purely tech support questions - people dump a crash log or error message on us, give us little information about what they are even trying to do, and then ex …
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Why are the moderator elections only self nominations?

Am I correct in my reading that the election is self nomination only? Yes, at this time the only way to get nominated for being a mod is to nominate yourself. If so, why? it seems to me that …
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Synonym request: [software-uninstall] to [uninstall]

I don't see any reason for moving a group of questions about a specific topic (software uninstallation) into a more general category (the uninstall tag). If your goal is to make a more fitting tag for …
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What specific things should I include in my question if I have a problem connecting to wirel...

I might have been using Ubuntu and Linux in general for only a little while now. I am relatively new to AskUbuntu. I have a problem with my wireless internet and wanted to ask a question on AskUbunt …
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What specific things should I include in my question if I have a problem connecting to wirel...

If you kindly take the time to follow these steps, it will help people looking at your question determine what wireless hardware is built in to your computer. This is necessary to know because each wi …
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Do we need the soundcard tag?

It seems, at least to me, that every question tagged soundcard would properly also be marked sound, and vice versa. Therefore, soundcard should be a synonym of sound.
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