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Please rename freenas tag to truenas

There is an existing tag [freenas]. This refers to "FreeNAS", a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) software product which has been around for many years. Over the course of 2019-2021, the ...
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Help with mass retagging of FTP related posts

As discussed here, I've been going through posts tagged with "ftp", and adding FTP server-specific tags (e.g. "proftpd", "pureftpd", and "vsftpd") where relevant. There are many such posts, and the ...
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rename elastic-search to elasticsearch

The tag elastic-search should be renamed to elasticsearch. The software tagged is Elasticsearch. The tag is correct on other SE sites (notably SO).
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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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Tag Removal Request: cram-md5

cram-md5 was a worthless tag with 1 question. It is now a worthless tag with 0 questions. Please remove this tag.
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Retag request: [keytab] -> [kerberos]

keytab is a worthless tag and should be merged into its obvious parent kerberos both now and in the future. It's possible, though unlikely, that keytab will take on some other meaning in the future. ...
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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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Rename [openerp] to [odoo]

The OpenERP project has been renamed to Odoo, so I propose to rename openerp to odoo. The tag wiki should also be updated accordingly mentioning the old name(s).
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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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Tag synonym: [rt] -> [request-tracker]

Five questions have rt tag but actually they can be tagged as request-tracker too. Source: https://www.bestpractical.com/rt/
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Tag merge: SaltStack

These two tags are for the same product: salt: https://serverfault.com/tags/salt/info salt-stack: https://serverfault.com/tags/salt-stack/info How about a unique one: salt-stack? IMO, salt is not a ...
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Tag Deletion Request

Was moving too fast and create a tag with a typo on accident. Please delete the tag mimedefant as it is not needed.
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tag merge: fold socks-proxy into socks

There's two redundant tags: socks and socks-proxy. I propose merging the latter into the former as it's shorter and there's no collision of the name with another term.
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Merge [rdp] into [remote-desktop]

There are 2 very similar (equal imo) tags: remote-desktop ×845 rdp ×522 Please merge and synonymize one into another.
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Tag synonyms between node.js and nodejs

I do not have the reputation on this site to create a tag synonym, so I am suggesting one here between: node.js nodejs
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Tag merge: OWA + Outlook Web Access

owa and outlook-web-access overlap a bit. Should we merge them? Bumping this again, as I just encountered both a owa and outlook-web-access wiki edit review with nearly identical content. Do tag ...
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synonymize tags: 'dhcpd' & 'dhcp-server', and 'isc-dhcp' with 'isc-dhcpd'

Please merge the following tags: Make dhcpd a synonym of dhcp-server. Make isc-dhcp a synonym of isc-dhcpd. I just manually cleaned up some posts.
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I think I broke the SBS-2008 tag

OK, so after discussions in chat about the future of sbs-2008, I created a tag synonym the wrong way, from sbs-2008 <-- windows-sbs-2008 . Realising I made the wrong one, I went to the mod tools ...
Mark Henderson's user avatar
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Merge DNS record tags for consistency

I just asked a question involving DNS MX records and noticed that there are two separate tags that appear to both concern MX records: mx and mx-record. Do these need to be merged? Are there other tags ...
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Tag merge: 'bsod' and 'bluescreen'

bluescreen and bsod are duplicates as far as I can tell.
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Request to merge tags fedora13 and fedora-13

Please merge tags fedora13 and fedora-13. Only a small number of questions are tagged with either of these and they clearly point to the same release of fedora.
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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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How to get rid of a synomym

Having just gone past the 2500 mark I took a look at the existing tags. To my astonishment suse is mapped to sles. This is not correct (SuSE has two branches - OpenSuSE and SLES). So General ...
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Tag Syn: Operating Systems

Synonym request: operating-systems -> operating-system
Chris S's user avatar
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Please synonym vbs to vbscript

Please synonym vbs to vbscript.
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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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Tag Merge - FreeBSD

The additional tags just aren't necessary and should be symlinked. freebsd8 -> freebsd freebsd7.1 -> freebsd freebsd-ports -> freebsd
Chris S's user avatar
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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: https://serverfault.com/tags/database-adminstration/synonyms It should be the other way round.
Nicolas Kaiser's user avatar
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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.
Martin Geisler's user avatar
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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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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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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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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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Tag merge for switch and ethernet-switch

switch (396 questions) and ethernet-switch (16 questions) should be merged with switch being the primary.
Aaron's user avatar
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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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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.
Andrew Maiman's user avatar
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Loads Tags Merger

uploadsfile-uploadlarge-file-uploadfileupload=>upload downloadsfile-downloadsdownloadinglarge-file-download=>download
Chris S's user avatar
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Tag synonym: subnets -> subnet

There were four questions with the subnets tag; I've edited them all to be subnet.
womble's user avatar
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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 forefront-...
Chris S's user avatar
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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?
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Tag tidy and synonym request

To tidy things up please Rename debian6 to debian-6.0 then synonym it to debian-squeeze Synonym debian-5.0 to debian-lenny Synonym lenny to debian-lenny Synonym etch to debian-etch
user9517's user avatar
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Tag synonym: datacentre -> datacenter

"Two countries separated by a common language", indeed...
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Tag synonym: compare->comparison

I've whipped up a little tag wiki for [comparison], and untagged the four questions that were [compare]. I'd "suggest a synonym" for [compare], but I don't have 5 votes in it (neither, for that ...
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Tag synonym/merge: virtual{host,hosts,-hosting,-hosts}

These tags all seem to refer to the same things, and people are using all of them interchangeably. Personally, I'd have picked the one that nobody seems to have gone for virtual-host but I guess I'm ...
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Tag synonym request

Please synonym virtualisation to virtualization.
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Cisco ASA tags (again)

I'm posting a new one, since the other one got marked as completed. Please merge the following tags into cisco-asa cisco-pix pix asa5505 asa-5510 PIX and ASA are essentialy the same hardware, only ...
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Delete tag - Home-Use

home-use <-- Kill with fire?
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merge or synonym lvm and lvm2 tags

Please can we merge or synonym the lvm and lvm2 tags? On Linux, LVM1 is now obsolete so all questions will be about LVM2 in any case, and LVM is the general concept across operating systems. https://...
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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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Retag or Synonym SCVMMR2 -> SCVMM

The R2 release of SCVMM isn't different enough to warrant it's own tag. Also, it's the 2008 R2 version, so the tag name isn't even accurate to start. The scvmmr2 tag has more questions than scvmm, so ...
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