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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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There are 189 questions tagged [belongs-on-superuser] on Server Fault
Update 7th June 2010
These are all gone on Stack Overflow and Super User. ServerFault is a different story:
https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/belongs-on-superuser - 189 questions
https://...
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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 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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Retag request: SQL Server tags on SF
Should the SF tag [sqlserver] be retagged to be the same as SO tag [sql-server]?
As a DBA I use both sites, but often find myself typing the wrong thing!
Edit (Jon): Here's what currently needs ...
Kev Riley
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AS400, iSeries, and IBM-i are all the same system
I started this on StackOverflow meta, but we decided it needs to be over here as well.
IBM has had a identity problem for their midrange system over the past decade. There are several names for the ...
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SF: Merge/Re-tag [windows] [xp] to [windows-xp]
ServerFault:
[windows][xp] -> [windows-xp] (24)
[xp] -> [windows-xp] (57)
There's also
[vista] (297) -> [windows-vista] (48)
so I guess [vista] should win, but this is inconsistant with [windows-...
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Please merge svn and subversion tags (again)
Is it time to merge svn and subversion tags again? Below are tag counts for both tags on the trilogy sites.
Stack Overflow:
svn 4523
subversion 9
Server Fault:
svn 260
subversion 161
Super User:
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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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Loads Tags Merger
uploadsfile-uploadlarge-file-uploadfileupload=>upload
downloadsfile-downloadsdownloadinglarge-file-download=>download
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Please Convert media-centre to media-center on Server Fault
The tag media-centre on ServerFault is spelled incorrectly, it should be changed to media-center.
Edit
When I made this post I did not realize that "center" was spelled "centre" outside of the US. ...
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Please burninate the [server] tag
On Server Fault, we have the server tag with 2283 questions as of this post. The general consensus is that it's a useless tag and it doesn't help to sort questions, but the sheer number of questions ...
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Serverfault Tag Merge network/networking
I don't see logic behind a network and a networking tag, does anyone else? Can they be merged into Networking if that is the case?
[network] (425)
[networking] (1211)
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Tag Merge Request - Mac related tags
macosxserver -> mac-osx-server
osx-server -> mac-osx-server
osx -> mac-osx
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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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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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Retag: snowleopardserver => snow-leopard-server
Serverfault Retag Request:
snowleopardserver x6 to snow-leopard-server x13
The latter is already favored by the community and is correctly formatted.
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Retag request: opensource -> open-source on ServerFault
Please change all instances on the tag [opensource] to [open-source]. This is an issue on SO, SU, and SF (on SF the open-source tag hasn't even been created!).
"Open source" is two words, so it ...
Zifre
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Tag merge request for mysql
The mysqld and mysqladministrator tags are entirely superfluous. Unfortunately, there's 14 and 25 tags respectively. I would like to request that they be merged with the mysql tag.
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Request to merge or synonym tags: [mongo] and [mongodb]
Please merge or synonym these tags:
mongo
mongodb
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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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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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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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TFS - Team-Foundation-Server Synonyms
tfs should be a synonym for team-foundation-server (or Vice Versa).
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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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Windows 7 Tagging
Right now there are 3 Windows 7 tags, plus a synonym:
Windows7 (synonym for Windows-7)
Windows-7 (1265 tags)
Windows-7-64 (43 tags)
Windows7-32 (6 tags)
Should we merge the 32bit and 64bit tags into ...
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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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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: 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 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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Windows Server 2003 tags on ServerFault
There are probably a few others but saw these while searching for an issue I have.
win2k3 (16) -> windows-server-2003 (1580)
windows-server-2003-r2 (10) -> windows-server-2003 (1580)
windows-server-...
MrStatic
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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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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-...
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Retag request: change [sharedfolders] to [shared-folders]
Retagging a question on SF, I noticed the tag sharedfolders, and it should have a hyphen in between, as they are two separate words, right?
Can we retag all sharedfolders to shared-folders?
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Tag merge and synonym or blackhole - Cisco-asa & ASA
The ASA tag has 109 Qs, the Cisco-ASA tag only has 79.
Please merge ASA into the more formal Cisco-ASA.
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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 synonym: subnets -> subnet
There were four questions with the subnets tag; I've edited them all to be subnet.
wombleMod
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Tag merge: 'ssi' and 'server-side-includes'
Seems like a good candidate for merger. Only one question in each. Or should it be handled with a simple re-tag?
sysadmin1138Mod
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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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Multiple tags about 'blocking', pick one and make all others synonyms?
When you go to:
https://serverfault.com/tags
and type block, you will get 3 tags that are all pretty close to each other. Specifically:
block x 27
blocking x 45
blocked x 25
So, which one should ...
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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 ...
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Request to merge tags: datacenter and [data-center]
Please merge these tags:
datacenter
data-center
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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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Server Fault retag: gpo to group-policy
These guys: https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/gpo
go here: https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/group-policy
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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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Merge postgres, postgres-8.4, postgres-8.3 into postgresql
Just noticed that there's a bunch of questions that are tagged postgres, or postgres-8.4, postgres-8.3; all need to by synonyms of postgresql
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Delete tag and blackhole - slowness
https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/slowness
Please kill it with fire. Thank you!
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