Timeline for Someone is removing the history tag. Was that discussed and should the edit be accepted or rejected?
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| Feb 27, 2016 at 1:49 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | @kasperd That would be a ♦-only function. And even then, they can't rename tags, so much as create a new one with the desired name, and merge into it. And doing that has been blamed for at least one outbreak of acute drama in the not-so-distant past... so yeah, leaving it for a mod to do is as good as ensure it won't happen. (Not that I care either way, but, ... FYI. | |
| Feb 24, 2016 at 10:07 | comment | added | kasperd | @Iain I'll leave that for somebody with privileges to rename the tag to something a little more descriptive. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 21:06 | comment | added | user9517 | That's easily fixed @kasperd here's a link serverfault.com/edit-tag-wiki/597 get weaving. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 21:03 | comment | added | kasperd | The name history is very generic and could cover a number of different things depending on who you ask. Since the tag also doesn't have any description of its usage, I don't consider it to be useful as is. If an explanation of what the tag is supposed to be used for is added, then it might be useful. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 15:56 | comment | added | user9517 | @Daniel I don't have any DOS to hand but I'm fairly sure it didn't have a history command and related environment variables etc. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 15:31 | comment | added | Daniel |
Oh didn't know that. And a perhaps bad example anyway. But on the other answer, Sven made a valid point in my opinion. Maybe some tags are more useful when combined. I guess in the end everything I complained about the history tag was not so bad.
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| Feb 22, 2016 at 14:57 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | @Daniel Oh, we have an "operating system" tag too. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it does seem to have some meaningful uses for theoretical questions or questions that relate to operating systems in general, rather than a specific OS. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 14:47 | comment | added | Daniel | Yes, it is accurate. But so would be a tag named 'operating system'. It is too broad and does not help narrowing things down. Someone with an interest in helping with questions regarding an 'operating system' would specify what operating system he can help with or has an interest in seeing on the front page. The tag 'history' could be a linux shell, a powershell shell (that sounds odd) or even a DOS box. It's too voluminous to be of real help narrowing things down. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 14:43 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | Link to the user's edit history, for anyone wishing to reapply that tag. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 13:52 | history | answered | user9517 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |