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What should we do about XBMC's new name?

What should we do? Nothing special. Use xbmc for XMBC and kodi for Kodi. People know what they're using (the branding has historically been quite strong) It'll be a while before XBMC stops existing. …
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Synonymize tags [secure-erase] and [secure-delete]

Done. Merged secure-delete into secure-erase and created a synonym between the two. updating post history, 12 rows affected (pipe delimited) updating posts, 11 rows affected (pipe delimited) updatin …
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Should gpg be a synonym of gnupg?

Yes, that's a good spot. I have merged the gpg posts into gnupg.
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Do we need the [bootup] tag?

Tada! updating post history, 31 rows affected (pipe delimited) updating posts, 24 rows affected (pipe delimited) updating PostTags associations, 23 rows affected updating Documentation tag proposal …
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Are [vsftp] and [vsftpd] dupes?

Yes, I'll nuke vsftp because that's not its name.
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Tag synonym request: [user-accounts] -> [users]

Agreed and done. But thanks to the minimum character limit, I have to write an essay before I can post this reposnse. Good day to you sir.
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Merge python with python-2.7

I am fairly strongly against changing the current situation. It allows users to be specific if they mean Python 2 or 3, but also for them to talk generically when the Python version is irrelevant (as …
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Tag merge: internet-radio into streaming

No. They're not synonyms. They don't mean the same thing. I agree they're definitely related (internet-radio is likely a subset of streaming) but I don't think they're close enough to warrant just do …
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Should the tags "sync" and "synchronize" be synonymized?

I'm onboard... But which way? sync has 449 posts and synchronize only has 91. I'm going to munge things down to "sync" for now because it seems people are naturally lazy.
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I need the shell tag, and terminal tag.... please, remove the synonym

I'm not yet convinced. I'm familiar with what each of the three terms mean but I'm struggling to see why they should all exist as separate tags here. What does shell (or cli-shell shudder) add that …
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Tag Synonym Request: [respin] -> [remastersys]

I'd be slightly against this because respin isn't just the name for a bit of software, is its own word that has been used around Linux for a long time to mean a re-imagining or at least a re-imaging …
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Can we undo the libvirt -> virtualization tag synonym?

You're right, we shouldn't synonymise specific tech to generic terms unless they are they only way of doing that. I don't believe that was the case even back in 2012 when this was first done. Fixed th …
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Method for removing tag synonyms

You start a post here suggesting it. If the mods agree, we nuke the link between the two tags.
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Boot related tags, should we synonymize them all?

Not into boot but maybe one tag to describe all multiple-boot scenarios. I think dual-boot covers it. What do you reckon?
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Found An Orphaned Synonym Tag

The historical order of events: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/34/discouraging-ubuntu-tags ubuntu was merge-synonymised into ubuntu-desktop because it was implied. http://meta.askubuntu.com/qu …
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