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Merge [tag:copy] and [tag:copying]
The tags copy and copying seem synonymous. Let's merge them?
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SSL and TLS synonyms should be reversed
I tagged my question tls but it appears to be a synonym of ssl. Considering TLS is over 25 years old and has long since replaced SSL, I think that ssl should be a synonym of tls and not the other way ...
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Please silently tag rocky-linux
I just created rocky-linux and can see 16 questions searching rocky linux with only one noise result dated 2018.
Given overall project support, I speculate this will increase, thus the tag.
Can ...
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Let's patch up the [patch] tag!
I think the patch should be split into two tags: patch-panel and something to refer to patching a computer, perhaps software-patch would be a good name (I'm open to other options, though). Or, patch ...
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Is [filter] about [filtering]?
Are filter and filtering the same thing? The former has the following tag except while the latter has none:
Usually related with text filtering of some kind, like logs. This may also refer to email ...
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Rename tag [parse] to [parse-server]
The parse tag refers to Parse Server and I suggest to rename it to parse-server to
make the tag consistent with the parse-server tag on StackOverflow
prevent using the tag for parsing related ...
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Should the Tag #ansible-playbook be merged into the Tag #ansible?
It seems reasonable to have distinct tags for ansible, ansible-tower, and ansible-galaxy, as they are fundamentally different features/areas of the Ansible family.
The Tag ansible-playbook by itself ...
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Restructuring Atlassian tags
I just noticed that there is a tag atlassian which doesn't really servera purpose, since Atlassian isn't a single product, they produce a lot of products. There are tags for some products:
fisheye: ...
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Duplicate tags [graylog] and [graylog2]
We have these tags with the same description:
graylog with 14 questions
graylog2 with 71 questions
The version history of Graylog is a bit confusing: It started as Graylog, then came Graylog2 (up to ...
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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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Proposal for rename of tcp-offload-engine tag
The ServerFault stack exhange site has a tag named tcp-offload-engine: https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/tcp-offload-engine
Practically all of the questions, however, are about partial forms ...
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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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Are these essentially the same tags?
I've noticed a lot of edits for microsoft-office-365 some of which I voted to accept some I didn't for various reasons. I've now noticed a few edits for exchangeonline and reviewed them in the normal ...
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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 [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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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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Create [hostgator] tag?
I see there is a [dreamhost] tag. That's useful: I like to see what issues of [mediawiki] users are host-specific, because certain shared hosts can be quite painful.
I notice there are 200 questions ...
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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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Merge [tag:hacking] into [tag:security]
hacking isn't substantively different from security in context, and it should be made a synonym. Shall it be done?
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Proposal to merge Instances tag into instance
The instances tag seems to be a duplicate of instance. The proposal is to merge instances into instance and subsequently remove the instances tag.
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Synonym request: [tcpip] --> [tcp]
tcp and tcpip are the same thing, right?
Can we make tcpip a synonym for tcp, for clarity?
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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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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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Tag Merge Requests: [request(s)] ---> [http-request]
These two tags: request (62 questions) and its twin requests (19 questions) have ambiguous meaning. It can means certificate request, HTTP request or perhaps my boss request.
Almost all question ...
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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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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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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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Does unzip (and un-other-compress) deserve its own tag?
Do we need both the tags zip and unzip?
Or more generic: should we clean the un-$compress tags to $compress?
Our should we even consolidate some of these tags into compression?
Inspired by this ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tag cleanup - permissions tag
I noticed this today and wasn't sure if a Meta question was needed or not. Not sure on the procedure/care for consolidating tags such as this.
It would seem to me that we could combine permissions, ...
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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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Tag synonym: glacier -> amazon-glacier
There were only five questions tagged with glacier, so, going with the AWS tag convention, I created amazon-glacier and re-tagged these five questions.
Please synonymize glacier to amazon-glacier.
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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 [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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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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Can the tags x and x11 be merged?
x has 42 questions
x11 has 60 questions
Interestingly, just today someone added a tag wiki for x11; my personal thought would have been that x should be used despite it having fewer questions.
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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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Duplicate tag windows-service and windows-services
The tag windows-service has 195 questions, windows-services got 25.
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Tag merge tsql and t-sql
As per the title, the tsql and t-sql tags should be merged, synonymed or otherwise brought together.
Hmmm, while trying to post this with just the above line, which is all the question needs, I got
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Tags for specific software versions
What's the policy on tags for specific versions of a piece of software? For example, the php tag has the most use, but php4 and php5 are also being used, and there's even php5.3. Should any of these ...
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HTTP result code tags
Thanks to Lucas Kauffman's wikitag activity I've noticed a number of HTTP return code tags like 404, 402, 302, 303, 500 and probably a whole number of others. They seem to be at least ambiguous to me, ...
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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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Rename scdpm tag
Quick: what does "scdpm" mean?
If you guessed System Center Data Protection Manager, you're better with acronyms than I am. I found the tag through this question:
Why does co-locating data use so ...
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The bad tag collection
Summary
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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