Indicates that a feature request has been implemented, a bug has been fixed, or another type of request has been processed.
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Is the [help] tag helpful?
The help tag seems a little pointless, but there are 23 questions tagged as help, don't you agree?
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FAQ Rewrite - Round 3
The Words and links below have been incorporated into the FAQ
The proposed FAQ has been officially rejected by the power that be. They had an interesting choice of words for the previous edit. The ...
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“ca” vs. “certificate-authority” tags
It appears that ca and certificate-authority are redundant. How about a synonym?
It doesn't appear that any ca questions are referring to "Computer Associates".
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1answer
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Destroy tag 2003
Up until a few moments ago there were three questions tagged 2003. Now there are none. I can't image any reason to have tags consisting of just years, so can it please be destroyed?
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lost user + how to get my user back in serverfault site
please advice
I ask this question
shell script (KSH) + set file to param & perform test between param and string
but from some reason my user not apears in the serverfault site
so I cant back ...
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1answer
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Rename [route53] to [amazon-route53]
All the other tags that fall under the Amazon Web Services umbrella follow the convention of starting with 'amazon-', this appears to be the only remaining exception.
As per Amazon's description:
...
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FAQ Rewrite edit round 1
Since the FAQ as-written was not accepted, we get to have an edit round.
The below is a grammar/spelling/punctuation checked version of the FAQ.
The edit process:
Proposed edits will be submitted ...
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1answer
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Question migrated to superuser and then deleted
Why was the question How to access setup of this router? migrated to super user? I mean, doesn’t network equipment belong here?
EDIT: The question was closed as offtopic at superuser, and then ...
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Some more tag maintenance
These can (and should) probably be nuked:
oddities, down, up, free-hosting, cheap-hosting, what-is.
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Do we need [slow] and [fast] tags?
http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/slow
http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/fast
Seems like these are quite generic. Many things are slow or fast - they provides no real useful information.
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2answers
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Typo in flagging suggestions - “not a real question”
From the flagging summary:
It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overy broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its ...
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2answers
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Vote: Do we want code highlighting?
Currently, code highlighting is turned off (see balpha's comment here). It is possible to turn it on, if we want so.
I think this would be nice to have, maybe on a per-tag basis, but turning it on is ...
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1answer
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The [cent] tag needs to go
I'm not fly like @WesleyDavid, so no fancy WoW references.
The [cent] tag looks like it's a typo and the only question under it got migrated to Unix & Linux already.
I'm thinking it needs to get ...
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Tag reorganisation kvm*
This is related but it doesn't look like it was fully resolved.
Tag kvm has (at least) two potential uses. Some work was done as per the link above to split it into kvm and kvm-switch. However, as ...
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1answer
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1answer
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Where's the upvote for primary
Where are the upvote buttons for primary ? Is this a bug or do we need to wait ?
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2answers
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Formally changing the #4 migration target
Whereas, the migration statistics as discovered in this meta post show a demonstrated and ongoing trend of mod-only migrations to dba.stackexchange.com, and
Whereas, Webmasters has not resided in the ...
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1answer
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1answer
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Tag synonym suggestion: [win] -> [windows]
I noticed we have a win tag. It is full of fail.
All 4 questions under this tag appears to be from people trying to avoid RSI by not typing the whole word windows, so let's help these poor souls out ...
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2answers
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Kill it with adamantine gauntlet: [fun]
As Splattne mentioned in this answer, there is a tag called fun. Who are we kidding? This is IT.
fun has 18 questions, 17 of which are closed and one of which is locked. Many of the closures may or ...
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1answer
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1answer
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Kill it with enchanted lava: [offtopic]
Only three posts with offtopic and all are closed. Can we bannish the tag for good never to be used again? How about its hyphenated Siamese off-topic that doesn't yet exist, but could?
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2answers
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database-adminstration tag should be synonym of database-administration, not other way round
database-administration is currently a synonym of database-adminstration:
http://serverfault.com/tags/database-adminstration/synonyms
It should be the other way round.
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1answer
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Tag synonym: hg -> mercurial
could we please have a synonym from hg to mercurial like we have on SO? I'm too new here to create it myself.
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1answer
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certificate and certificates tag merge request
Can someone please merge the tag certificates to the tag certificate?
There is likely many more tags that differ merely by plurality indication.
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1answer
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ad-lds and active-directory-lds tag merge request
Can someone please merge the ad-lds and active-directory-lds tags please?
ad-lds is the preferred tag to remain.
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1answer
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frs and ntfrs tag merge request
Can someone please merge frs and ntfrs tags? They both refer to the same component. I.e. NT file replication service.
frs would be the preferred tag to remain.
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1answer
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Merge filesystem and filesystems
filesystem and filesystems should be merged, 135 on filesystem and 565 on filesystems . I guess keep filesystem to prefer the singular, but I don't feel strongly.
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1answer
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DFSR and DFS-R tag merge request
Can someone please merge these tags? People use both terms to ask/answer questions on DFS Replication.
Thanks
M
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1answer
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Tag Cleanup - Microsoft System Center Suite
scom, sccm, and scvmm all follow the same naming convention. DPM should as well.
dpm => scdpm
dpm-2010 -> scdpm
scom-2007-r2 -> scom
system-center-essentials -> sce
I haven't seen any questions ...
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1answer
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Merge [exim] and [exim4] tags
We don't have a lot questions tagged exim, but there's an arbitrary split between those tagged exim and exim4.
Can/Should these be merged?
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1answer
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Marking old “useful command line commands” question as historical
Does anyone else think its worthwhile locking Useful Command-line Commands on Windows as historical significance only?
I know its community wiki but its still a time sink, and is the sort of ...
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Modifying the faq, shopping edition
The 'product recommendation' question occurs here a lot. I propose we modify the existing FAQ language:
and it is not about …
Networking outside the professional workplace
Running ...
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1answer
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What's the difference between “balancing” and “load-balancing” tags?
What's the difference between balancing and load-balancing tags?
Should they be merged and made synonyms?
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2answers
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Flag window dimming
While flagging an answer that already had a few down-votes to it, I noticed that the text that appears dims as much as the answer has.
References:
--------------VS--------------
I guess the ...
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1answer
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Tag synonym request Apache to Apache2
Since we did the work to rid ourselves of apache we have had to 'clean it out' on at least 5 occasions as it keeps getting recreated.
Please synonym apache to apache2
while we wait for it to be ...
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1answer
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Rename [elastic-ip] to [amazon-elastic-ip]
We did it for all the amazon-related products but it looks like this one fell true the cracks:
elastic-ip should be renamed to amazon-elastic-ip.
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2answers
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Powershell tags
I reccomed a synonyms for the Tags Powershell and Powershell-v2.0.
Formerly people speak about the first version of Powershell like Porwershell and about the second version like Powershell v2.
But ...
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Weren't lmgtfy.com links blocked?
How to install a vnc server on ubuntu
In case of modify or delete, the full text of the answer is as follows:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vnc+ubuntu+installation
How'd that happen? Aren't lmgtfy.com ...
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4answers
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New email settings dialog broken in IE8
I don't understand the new email settings dialog:
Very confused whether that sends me emails every three hours (as per the drop down) or not at all (as per the checkbox). I'm unable to uncheck the ...
5
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1answer
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Tag merge passenger and phusion-passenger
I think that passenger and phusion-passenger need to be merged - they refer to the same technology.
passenger is listed on 50 questions and phusion-passenger is on 181.
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1answer
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Tag merge: amazon-web-services & amazon-aws
I believe the tags amazon-web-services and amazon-aws should be merged. amazon-web-services has more questions, currently. AWS stands for "Amazon Web Services", so they're both the same thing.
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1answer
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Loads Tags Merger
uploadsfile-uploadlarge-file-uploadfileupload=>upload
downloadsfile-downloadsdownloadinglarge-file-download=>download
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1answer
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tag merge: utf-8 and utf8
Suggest we merge utf8 into the correct tag utf-8, and make former a synonym of utf-8.
Maybe there's a more general fix you could make in the StackExchange code - when creating a new tag, save the ...
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What should we do with “coolest server names”
So this question... The Coolest Server Names
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (it's already been deleted once by the ...
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1answer
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Windows Deployment Service tag synonymous to WDS tag
Window Deployment Service is a technology include in Windows 2008 R2 for deployment microsoft operating systems using the LAN.
It's often shortened as WDS.
windows-deployment-services and wds are ...
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Delete tag: 2008
I think tag "2008" is not neccesary.
All the questions in tag 2008 reffer to windows server 2008 or sql 2008. Both of them already have their own tags.
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1answer
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Office, Forefront and whatever else I find
microsoft-office-2010 -> ms-office-2010
microsoft-office -> ms-office
microsoft-access -> ms-access
threat-management-gateway -> ms-ftmg
tmg-2010 -> ms-ftmg-2010
forefront -> ms-forefront
...
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1answer
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Synonyms for DNS Tags
I've just been around filling in some tag wikis for a bunch of DNS related tags, and I noticed the following:
a-record
cname
ptr
a-record doesn't fit the same naming scheme as the rest. Probably ...
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Tag synonym: webfilter web-filtering
Hope this is the right place for such things.. is there an easier way to propose a synonym?
Also synonyms of contentfilter?
