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Someone made a meta tag [review-audits] - is that a better name than [audits]?
I believe review-audits is a better tag name than audits. The main reason is what you say: it is less ambiguous. But there is another, minor reason.
review-audits will be easier to find and, for users ...
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Synonymize tags related to partitioning
I agree. Some even have both; seems overkill to me.
And it is 767 :=)
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Are [dual-monitor] and [dualhead] the same?
Update: synonyms were added. Thanks to everyone who voted
Considering that the tag multiple-monitors has 3096 questions tagged right now, we may want to make all of those synonyms of this tag.
Back ...
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Maybe [hdpi] is not high enough, add [hidpi] as a synonym?
I vote that we make hdpi a synonym of hidpi, as the latter is easier to read and seems to be the "official" name, at least according to the Arch Wiki and regular Google search results. Note the ...
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Tag synonyms: [17.10] and [ubuntu-17.10]
We don't seem to have tags like that for other Ubuntu release numbers. No ubuntu-16.04, for example, just 16.04. Since there were only two questions tagged ubuntu-17.10, I've just retagged them to 17....
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Make [recording] a synonym of [record]
I don't think either of those tags are useful.
We want tags to be used consistently to define the subject of questions, IMHO. The usage guidance for record currently says:
Questions about software ...
ZannaMod
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Do we need [safety] when we have [security]?
There are commands that are unsafe (variations on chmod and rm come to mind) but not exactly insecure (they don't expose the system to an attacker). So perhaps not really a synonym. However, the tag ...
ZannaMod
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Tag synonym request: [soft-link] -> [symbolic-link]
This seems like a reasonable request. If you were confused by this, presumably others might be as well. I've now created the soft-link as a synonym of symlink.
If you now try to tag something with ...
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Tag change: [cut-command] -> [cut]
I'm not in favour of this. The command names of cp and mv are sufficiently different from their actions (copy, move) that the -command suffix is not needed to make it unambiguous. But this is not true ...
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Combine [vi] and [vim] tags
vi and vim are two different applications that share the same name.
By default, Ubuntu ships with vim-tiny, which does not have the same full feature set of true vim.
The tags are similar, yes, but ...
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Tag change: [watch-command] -> [watch]
This answer from muru on another tag change/merge proposal posted around the same time is also relevant here, as the same reasoning is also applied to the watch tag in their answer/reasoning:
I'm ...
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Is emulator emulating emulation?
As emulation has at least a sensible excerpt while emulator has none I agree with your proposal to keep emulation and make emulator a synonym.
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Make [desktop-recording] a synonym of [screencast]
For me, both are synonyms to be specific and not go around the bush. Anything mentioned about one will still land on the other one. What can both do:
Record small videos
Record long videos
Record ...
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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 ...
OliMod
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Tag Synonym request: [.bashrc] -> [bash]
If any action is taken, .bashrc should be made a synonym of bashrc, not of bash.
It's true that we don't need a separate tag .bashrc. That tag is hardly used (surely some question has at some point ...
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Merge squid and squid3 tags
I've merged squid3 into squid and created a squid3->squid synonym.
Any new question tagged with squid3 will be tagged with squid instead.
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How should we tag the Dash?
I never heard anyone referring the "screen that appears when you click the "Show Applications" button" as "dash" in respect of GNOME.
Only the side-bar thingy which appears in "Activities" overview (...
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Is [top-bar] just another [panel]?
I'm not really comfortable with the idea of merging top-bar with panel. Here's why:
"Top bar" in the context of GNOME 3 means something specific (analogous to menu-bar in Unity), not exactly same as "...
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Someone made a meta tag [review-audits] - is that a better name than [audits]?
I guess I was the first one to use the review-audits tag. (https://meta.askubuntu.com/revisions/19292/1)
The reason why I used the review-audits tag was because the Meta Stack Exchange has a tag named ...
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Is [top-bar] just another [panel]?
Usage of top-bar and panel is a little bit confusing either way whether they are linked together as synonyms or not, but in my opinion it would be less confusing if top-bar was made synonymous with ...
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How should we tag the Dash?
As far as I can tell, the dash isn't that prominent a feature for GNOME Shell. It's only visible in the activities overview. I don't think GNOME ever call it "GNOME Dash", or even "Dash" with a ...
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Maybe [hdpi] is not high enough, add [hidpi] as a synonym?
I would tend to agree due to the recent popularity of the hidpi acronym. I don't think it matters too much which is master and which is synonym, but I would agree having both and having one a synonym ...
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These two tags could get [compressed]
As I now got elected as a moderator since I suggested this, and the community feedback was overall positive, I just carried the proposed changes out myself.
decompress no longer exists, I renamed it ...
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I think [trackpad] and [touchpad] should be tag synonyms
They already are synonyms
Technically trackpads and touchpads are two different things that serve a similar function.
https://anydifferencebetween.com/difference-between-touchpad-and-trackpad/
I ...
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Is emulator emulating emulation?
Beside what you have proposed is completely logical, if we look up other sites on the network we can see others are taking the same approach.
Stack Overflow: emulation main tag. emulator synonym.
So......
RavexinaMod
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Can we just add [helpfile] to [documentation]?
Of the 55 questions currently tagged helpfile, 13 of them are somewhat related to documentation.
The remainder are questions about all kinds of things, for example:
I can't open nautilus after ...
ZannaMod
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These tags are [virtual-]ly the same!
virtual-console is less confusing than virtual-terminal if for no other reason than that it looks more like a console than a terminal. The virtual console looks like a server login which looks like a ...
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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 ...
OliMod
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Is [top-bar] just another [panel]?
The top-bar tag makes sense because it's specific.
Top bars, like in case of Budgie, Unity, or GNOME, are all used to do what exactly ? Have a few indicators, display time, connection, calendar, ...
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