Questions tagged [retag-request]
Use for Meta Questions related to changing tags on existing questions (merge, manual changes, anything basically).
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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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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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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 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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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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"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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Need help removing [ie] tag from migrated questions
I have just gone through and removed the ie tag from a few posts replacing it with internet-explorer. Since there were only 11, I did them manually.
Now I'm stuck because the following 2 questions ...
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Merge tags wol and wake-on-lan on SF
The tags [wol] and [wake-on-lan] in Server Fault should be merged. They are clearly referring to the same topic and wol is just a short form of wake-on-lan.
wake-on-lan has 15 questions whereas wol ...
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SF Tag merge- tape and tapedrive?
On ServerFault, there are tags [tape] and [tapedrive]. [tape] has 40 questions, [tapedrive] has 3. It seems that [tape] is being used for all aspects of tape backup, including questions specific to ...
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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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Suggested tag replacements for linux-networking, windows-networking
I think that instances of [linux-networking] should be replaced with [linux][networking] and [windows-networking] with [windows][networking]
I think doing this would be a good idea because having 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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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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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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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 [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 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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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
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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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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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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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Mass retag: windows home server
It was pointed out that we have three tags for this particular product, whs (26), windows-home-server (8), and windowshomeserver (40). Considering how all the other Windows products are tagged, ...
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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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Splitting vs. combining tags eg. [ubuntu], [windows]
The trend in tagging is towards merging tags and tag synonyms, so I imagine this will be quite contentious.
Given the different default behaviours and configurations of different Ubuntu releases (6....
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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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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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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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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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Retag or Synonym pxe & pxeboot
The tags pxe (89) and pxeboot (15) are the same thing. Could we create a synonym for these?
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Please merge SQL Server Profiler related tags and add synonyms for them
I had edited in a couple of these before this post was migrated from Meta SO to Meta SF, but now there's an additional tag representing the same thing.
Here are the tags involved:
[sqlprofiler] (2)
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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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Tag synonym request - Office 365
I would like to see the following tags set as synonyms of MS-Office-365 :
Exchange-Online
MS-Exchange-365
While Exchange Online could be considered a separate offering by Microsoft from Office 365, ...
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SF Retag Request: [Exchange-Server] -> [Exchange] or the other way
There are currently around 400 questions tagged Exchange, and 16 tagged Exchange-Server. Obviously we don't need both, and I would say we get rid of Exchange-Server as there are less questions.
That ...
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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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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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I've just noticed a bunch of questions tagged with [2008]
If you check out https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/2008 there are about 10 or so.
There were more, but I retagged the obvious ones (the ones tagged [windows] [server] [2008]).
There are also ...
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serverfault retag webhosting -> web-hosting
On serverfault
web-hosting has 226 questions vs. webhosting with 21 questions.
Please retag webhosting -> web-hosting.
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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 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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[ios] matches Cisco's IOS and Apple's iOS
Apple had the wonderful idea to name its mobile operating system iOS, which was already used by Cisco Internet Operating System.
There are hence 94 questions tagged ios, but only 82 of them contain ...
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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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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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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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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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Merge tags rsyslogd and rsyslog
Can the following tags be merged please:
rsyslogd: 6 questions
rsyslog: 5 questions tagged
Will this make rsyslogd and rsyslog synonyms?
(My first request. Let me know if I'm not doing this right.)
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