Questions tagged [retag-request]
Use for Meta Questions related to changing tags on existing questions (merge, manual changes, anything basically).
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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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Merge sge into gridengine
The tags sge and gridengine should be merged as they both refer to the family of cluster batch schedulers descended from Sun Grid Engine. I suggest making sge an alias to gridengine. While the Son ...
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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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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 [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 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 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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"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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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 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 windows-service and windows-services
The tag windows-service has 195 questions, windows-services got 25.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"ca" vs. "certificate-authority" tags
It appears that ca and certificate-authority are redundant. How about a synonym?
It doesn't appear that any ca questions are referring to "Computer Associates".
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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Loads Tags Merger
uploadsfile-uploadlarge-file-uploadfileupload=>upload
downloadsfile-downloadsdownloadinglarge-file-download=>download
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frs and ntfrs tag merge request
Can someone please merge frs and ntfrs tags? They both refer to the same component. I.e. NT file replication service.
frs would be the preferred tag to remain.
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ad-lds and active-directory-lds tag merge request
Can someone please merge the ad-lds and active-directory-lds tags please?
ad-lds is the preferred tag to remain.
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certificate and certificates tag merge request
Can someone please merge the tag certificates to the tag certificate?
There is likely many more tags that differ merely by plurality indication.
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Synonymizer badge not showing in my profile
I suggested a tag synonym several days ago which was accepted, but I haven't yet been awarded the Synonymizer badge. When will this badge appear in my profile? I thought it would have appeared by now.
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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 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
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