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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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Shouldn't [boxes] be [gnome-boxes]?
Today I untagged the one and only question with the newly created gnome-boxes tag with the usual destructive intent.
Someone in chat told me I shouldn't have done that, and someone else noticed that …
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Should we do something about the [lowgraphics] tag?
A while ago I noticed that we have a tag lowgraphics.
This seems like a suboptimal situation. Lowgraphics isn't a even a word. If we really need a tag for that, shouldn't it be low-graphics-mode? An …
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Are any of these tags [remote]ly useful?
A few days ago I asked this question, and this answer by Kaz Wolfe pointed out that remote-login is only one of several tags about remote stuff. … remote-x-session, 46 questions (no usage guidance)
remote-assistance, 5 questions (no usage guidance)
Should some of these tags be synonymised (or got rid of)? …
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Does the [remote-login] wiki need an update?
I have asked a follow-up question about what to do with the various remote- tags so I know what to best re-tag these questions with. …
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Can [maintenance] be kept in good working order?*
Tasks intended as maintenance can be described more precisely by tags relating to the action itself, such as package-management, its context, such as a particular piece of software, and/or perhaps its …
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What is the [office] tag for? Can we clarify?
On a routine purge of useless new tags I found and attempted to destroy msoffice. This led me to office which has a significant number of questions but no wiki or usage guidance. …
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Is the rtorrent tag useful? If so, should we retag these posts?
I noticed a new tag rtorrent.
It only has one post, but I did my usual thing of running a search which turned up ~40 questions mentioning rtorrent.
Is this a tag we need? If so
should old posts m …
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Does the [remote-login] wiki need an update?
I just reviewed this helpful edit suggestion and realised that Ubuntu 14.04 is the only currently supported Ubuntu the advice in the wiki is relevant to. What happened to remote-login-service, I wonde …
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Troubleshooting the tag: can we diagnose it as unnecessary?
We have a tag troubleshooting.
At best, troubleshooting describes a type of activity, though not a very specific one, and not one in which people would be likely to have a particular interest or exper …
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Usage of image-viewer tag is somewhat inconsistent - what's the best solution?
In the process of removing the images tag, one of the tags I added to was image-viewer. … Another idea I had was renaming it to image-viewers and explaining in the usage guidance to use specific tags (eg eog) for questions about a particular image viewer. …
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Maybe change the tag description for [uninstall]
Generally I use the tag software-uninstall rather than uninstall, but there is no reason for us to have both of these tags. …
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Should the [software-recommendation] tag be deprecated?
Overlap in scope between Stack Exchange sites is not generally considered a problem. Literally every (on-topic) question on our site would be on topic on Unix and Linux Stack Exchange, for instance. S …
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Should we ditch [glitch]?
Seems we have a tag glitch.
This seems to me equivalent to having a tag bug. It could apply to issues of various types and with various causes. It seems unlikely that anyone will be especially intere …
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Can we fix this tag or should we just [uninstall]?
What should we do with these tags?
Should we merge software-uninstall into uninstall and clean it up? … Anyone interested in following these tags? …
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Should we put [wallpaper] to the [background] (or vice-versa)?
Let us make the main tag desktop-background so as to be as unambiguous as possible, and let background and wallpaper be synonyms of that.