Questions tagged [retag-request]
Use for Meta Questions related to changing tags on existing questions (merge, manual changes, anything basically).
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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 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 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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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 ...
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Powershell tags
I reccomed a synonyms for the Tags Powershell and Powershell-v2.0.
Formerly people speak about the first version of Powershell like Porwershell and about the second version like Powershell v2.
But ...
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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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Tag merge for switch and ethernet-switch
switch (396 questions) and ethernet-switch (16 questions) should be merged with switch being the primary.
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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.
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Loads Tags Merger
uploadsfile-uploadlarge-file-uploadfileupload=>upload
downloadsfile-downloadsdownloadinglarge-file-download=>download
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Tag merge request: 4kb-sector into advanced-format
4kb-sector is a duplicate of advanced-format and should be merged into the latter - perhaps retaining 4kb-sector as a synonym of advanced-format, as some people may not know the Advanced Format term.
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Windows Deployment Service tag synonymous to WDS tag
Window Deployment Service is a technology include in Windows 2008 R2 for deployment microsoft operating systems using the LAN.
It's often shortened as WDS.
windows-deployment-services and wds are ...
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