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I can't find a tag called windows-8. Would such a tag be useful?

Actually, we already have a windows-8 tag with 183 questions posted in it.
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Do we need a tag for every Apple product?

I was editing a Mac related question, and noticed we had a macbook, mackbookpro, macbookair and mac-mini tags. Do we really need all these tags for Apple products? …
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Can I create and maintain a tag to support unity-tweak-tool?

We already have tags for ccsm, gnome-tweak-tool and gnome-tweak. I don't see where a tag for unity-tweak-tool would be any different. …
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Can we kill the "bounty" tag?

Yesterday a question about Ask Ubuntu was asked (by a user with more than 300 rep) on the main site. It was eventually migrated, but the tag the OP created (bounty) is still around. Can a moderat …
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Do we need the `setup` tag?

I don't think we need setup. It's too ambiguous.
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Should 'sharing', 'copy' and 'text' be burninated?

I've come across the following tags: sharing copy / paste and text It is my opinion that these tags should be completely removed from the system as they are too ambiguous. …
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Tag cleanup request [aliased]

I agree, this tag is very ambiguous, and probably meta as well. I've removed the tag from the 3 questions that had it, it should be removed within the next 24 hours.
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Do we need the e1000e tag?

Nope. We don't need a tag for every network driver, that's meta information. I've gone ahead and removed the tag. Note that the edit in question was made to the tag wiki excerpt, not the wiki itsel …
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Tag cleanup list

We still need feedback on these tags! Esp. the "Not Sure" ones. I have started a list of tags that need some cleanup per request. Please contribute. … When tags have no questions associated with them, they eventually get killed off. No one seems to know how long that takes however (Discussion on that in When do tags finally die?) …
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Can we merge the 'dev' and 'devices' tags?

Jorge Castro has added dev as a synonym of development. Users with a score of five in the development tag can vote for it here While this isn't the answer everyone would like, (seeing gertvdijk's …
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Tags: Messaging-menu and memenu

Maybe we are supposed to kill old obsolete tags. …
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Is the off tag really needed?

Nah, just kill it. The off tag is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, and rhetorical and cannot be reasonably used. I've added it to of Tag cleanup list.
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Add "Minix" tag proposal

done.
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Remove [desktop--envoriment]

Since the tag has no questions, it will die automatically at 3:00 UTC when the tag cleanup scripts are run.
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Cleanup 2014: A tale of tags

Tag: split Action: Remove. Why: Information like this should be in the post itself.
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