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The bad tag collection
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Ok, we have a lot of bad tags. I found at least half a dozen without trying over the weekend. Some of these tags have hundreds of questions in them, meaning that it will take a dev so that we ...
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Merge the subdomain and subdomains tags
subdomains seems to be a little-used and description-free tag for stuff which subdomain fits well (ie, DNS subdomain-related issues).
I would propose merging subdomains into subdomain.
Edit: OK, it'...
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Synonym request: [segfault] + [segmentationfault] into [segmentation-fault]
The term of segmentationfault is often shortened to segfault.
So, let's create new tag segmentation-fault (for better readability) and make it synonym of two tags above.
Any thoughts?
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Duplicate tag [vms] and [openvms]
We have these two tags with the same description:
vms with 7 questions
openvms with 6 questions
One question even has both tags.
Suggestion: Make openvms the synonym of vms.
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Cleanup duplicate tags: different by hyphenation and pluralization
Inspired by bad-tag-cleanup project by our awesome mod, here I suggest the idea to cleanup duplicate tags:
Different by one or hyphen, for example port-forwarding vs portforwarding and mod-security ...
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What is this [blocking] tag?
The blocking tag has 113 questions, covering
Firewall blocking (probably redundant with ip-blocking)
Undeliverable e-mail
blocking IO
resource limits
There is no tag wiki at all.
What should be ...
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What bad tags in need of burnination do we still have hanging around?
Similar to the old "bad tag collection" thread, I'm looking for suggestions/submissions of tags we still have hanging around on Server Fault, that we would be better off not having in ...
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Merge 500 and 500-error and rename
I see that we have a http-status-code-403 tag. It is quite clear what 403 is referring to in that tag name.
We do not have a http-status-code-500 tag. Instead we have 500 and 500-error, which are ...
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Should remoting tag be renamed to powershell-remoting?
I found a tag called remoting which seems to uniformly refer to questions about PowerShell Remoting. Therefore, I suggest changing the remoting tag to be named powershell-remoting. Why?
When somebody ...
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Apache tags - a bit of a mess?
So, we've got apache, which is the second most popular tag on the site.
It's a superset of the versions of it - apache2, apache2.2, apache1.3; and apache2 is essentially a superset of 2.0, 2.2, and ...
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Reboot is a stupid tag. There, I said it
Whenever I see a question that has reboot as the only tag, I want to punch a baby. Let's get rid of it. Do it for the kids.
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Should [leopard] be [os-x-leopard]?
We don't have 7, but rather we have windows-7. By the same token, there seem to be a lot of "cat name only" tags out there that, I believe, should be prefixed with os-x, making it os-x-leopard instead ...
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PoE vs. Power over Ethernet
I noticed there are both poe and power-over-ethernet tags. They should be merged or linked, right?
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Which tag should be used for restoring backups?
Apparently we have two almost equally used tags that are being used mostly for the same purpose. Lets pick one, merge, and setup an alias. I like the backup-restoration choice a bit more, because it ...
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Retag whmcpanel to whm?
I just saw a question tagged whmcpanel for cPanel's WebHost Manager (WHM). I vote that whmcpanel (with 75 questions) be retagged whm (which has 239 questions)
Arguably both could be merged into ...
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Merge 64 bit tags
I've just noticed there are currently 128 64-bit tags and 89 x64 tags. While that's a fair few of each I really think they should be merged before it gets much messier.
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Tag cleanup required
Apache 2.4 is sufficiently different from earlier releases that a new tag apache-2.4 has recently been created for it. There are a number of questions that have already been asked about Apache 2.4 ...
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Bad Synonym for APT
I think that the apt tag shouldn't have been set to a synonym of apt-get but it should have been the other way around. apt is the technology, apt-get is one of many ways to use apt.
Probably we ...
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SF Retag Request: [windows2000server] -> [windows-server-2000]
(EDIT: changed the request based on Eric's answer)
To align to the convention we've created on SF.
12 questions currently tagged with [windows2000server]
15 tagged with [windows-2000-server]
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Retag request: APC (Alternate PHP Cache) and APC (American Power Conversion) the power supplies.
There are lots of questions about uninterruptible power supplies that are improperly tagged as apc
There also questions about web application performance and the Pecl PHP opcode caching package, APC, ...
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Whence the [language] and [languages] tags?
Generally, the Stack Exchange software prevents the creation of tags which differ in plurality. Either the tags language and languages are old enough to predate that restriction, or someone with ...
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Tag Cleanup, *core*
While searching for some information related to Windows Server Core, I went to the tag search and searched for core.
There are many takes which seem to overlap related to multi-core processors. ...
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Is it usefull to have both tags 'datastax' and 'datastax-enterprise'?
On questions related to tag cassandra, people tag often datastax and datastax-enterprise (example). I wondered if there a real difference between those two tags, and if one of them should be dropped.
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Duplicate tag windows-service and windows-services
The tag windows-service has 195 questions, windows-services got 25.
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What, in summary, are we supposed to do to clean up tags?
I know it's not a good question title...
I'd like to have a question and short answer here on meta.SF that explains what - if anything - people can or should do to clean up tags. I've seen blog ...
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Duplicate tag [service] and [services]
I wanted to report a tag that seems a duplicate;
service with 276 questions tagged, and
services with 433 question tagged.
I think that is similar to this meta question Q: Duplicate tag windows-...
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Major retag projects
Our top three tags:
linux
apache
windows
Each of those three arguably has some kind of more meaningful version breakdown, and are in effect meta-tags defining which world the question resides in ...
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SF retag: "esx" and "esxi" to "vmware-esx" and "vmware-esxi"?
At time of writing, there are questions tagged thus on ServerFault:
178 in "esx"
124 in "esxi"
48 in "vmware-esx"
45 in "vmware-esxi"
901 in "vmware":
115 also have "esx"
63 also have "esxi"
17 also ...
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Retag 'registrar' and 'domain-registrar'
Personally I like 'domain-registrar' better but it seems as though 'registrar' gets used much more. Either way I don't think we need both tags.
Also up for discussion:
domain(213)
domains(28)
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einstiien
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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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Retag [backupexec] to [backup-exec]?
On Server Fault, there are 56 tags [backupexec] and no [backup-exec] tags.
This seems odd to me, as you would say it as Backup Exec (2 words), much like you would say Windows Server 2008 R2 as ...
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Merge the registry and windows-registry tags
The description of registry indicates that it's supposed to apply to the Windows Registry, there's a more descriptive windows-registry as well though.
I would propose to merge registry → windows-...
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Retag request: serverfault hard-disk -> hard-drive
hard-disk (46) seems to be a less-commonly used synonym for hard-drive (157). I think it'd be worth merging the former into the latter, for cleanliness.
Unknown Yahoo
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Virtual Hosting tags [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tag synonym/merge: virtual{host,hosts,-hosting,-hosts}
I am not sure if i should post this kind of things here.
Should I?
I recommend that the tags: virtualhosts, virtual-...
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Retag: sunsolaris10 → solaris-10, sunsolaris → solaris
I suggest adding sunsolaris10 as an synonym to solaris-10.
As well, add sunsolaris as an synonym to solaris.
The bare name is more correct.
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Merge Request for trio [dnsbl] [dnsrbl] [rbl]
These three tags should be merged
rbl (30) a.k.a Real-time Blackhole List
dnsbl (5) a.k.a. DNS-based Blackhole List
dnsrbl (3) a.k.a. DNS-based Real-time Blackhole List
RBL and DNSBL was ...
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Retag or Synonym Script(s)(ing)
I'm not sure how all the retag or synonyms work, so if I'm barking up the wrong tree, could someone explain the difference between the two?
I noticed that there is a tag for scripts which has 26 Qs, ...
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Retagging for new products: terminal-services vs. remote-desktop-services
As I recently had experience with, Microsoft changed the name of terminal-services (Windows Server 2003) to remote-desktop-services (Windows Server 2008). At time of writing, these tags have 111 and ...
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Tag synonym request: chroot and chroot-jail
chroot and chroot-jail seem to refer to the same thing. A lot of questions are tagged with both.
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Q: Merge Request [mappeddrive] and [drivemapping]
I can see how they might be a little different: 'DriveMapping' might refer to the actual act of mapping/mounting a drive while 'MappedDrive' may refer specifically to drives already mapped, but people ...
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"sync" vs."synchronization" tags
The sync and synchronization tags don't seem to be differentiated in any way.
Should they be merged?
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Do we really need a backup-exec-2010 tag when there's a perfectly good backupexec tag?
Is the rather recent spate of retagging of questions around Backup Exec with backup-exec-2010 by user KCotreau strictly necessary?
We've already got a perfectly servicable backupexec tag, and my ...
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How do I submit a tag synonym?
I notice that Squillman has entered some tag synonyms into the system that are currently pending.
How does one do this?
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Merge [p4] and [perforce] tags
The title says it all. p4 has been used to either tag a question regarding the perforce revision control system or, in one case, to indicate a hardware platform. As p4 was less widely used, apparently ...
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Merge tags tunnel and tunneling
As per the title. There doesn't seem to me to be enough difference in meaning to have both tags.
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Alias throttle to throttling
Right now both throttle and throttling exist, with the larger batch of questions tagged with the throttle. They seem to be be about the same general thing, and throttling seems like a better choice to ...
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Server-2008 tag synonym
I hope I'm not bypassing the synonym process - IMO the tag server-2008 should be added as a synonym of windows-server-2008, and/or the existing 4 questions should be retagged.
Thoughts, or will ...
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Duplicate tag basic-authentication and http-basic-authentication
basic-authentication 63 questions, 1 follower, no wiki
http-basic-authentication 10 questions, no follower, no wiki
Gotta say I would have expected the tag to be http-basic-auth.
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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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