Questions tagged [status-completed]

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Reasked/rewrote my question over a year ago but still banned

How can I get unbanned? it seems crazy that I can not ask questions on the serverfault site when I have a positive rep overall.
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Merge the subdomain and subdomains tags

subdomains seems to be a little-used and description-free tag for stuff which subdomain fits well (ie, DNS subdomain-related issues). I would propose merging subdomains into subdomain. Edit: OK, it'...
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Merge the registry and windows-registry tags

The description of registry indicates that it's supposed to apply to the Windows Registry, there's a more descriptive windows-registry as well though. I would propose to merge registry → windows-...
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Tag merge: p2v and physical-to-virtual

The p2v and physical-to-virtual tags are virtually (and physically!) the same thing and have both been used interchangeably. I propose merging them together into p2v would suffice.
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Request to add visual difference between blockquotes and code blocks

It has always irked my inner aesthetic nazi that code blocks are indistinguishable* from blockquotes at first glance. See my recent answer for an example. I'm picturing something like this: *Yes, I ...
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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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Inadequate Review Audit Test

Going through the close votes review queueueueueueueueue I ran into this audit. Given that I can already see the question had been closed it seems less than useful as an audit.
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How can I delete my serverfault profile?

Is there anyway I can delete my server fault profile and it shouldn't effect my profile on SO.
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Are there really over 270 first posts today?

I came back today, at my usual time, to run through the review sections in the ServerFault SE. Today I noted that over 270 first posts were indicated as being in the first posts queue. I am ...
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Review problem?

I press review and see 3 items needing reviewing: 2 close votes, and 1 new post. When I try to enter either one, I get the message There are no items for you to review. What is the problem?
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User Deleted, but Question remains and user would like to re-associate

In reference to: How to analyse data/voice ratio within a network I can't tell what happened here, but the user account doesn't exist anymore. The user just asked the question yesterday, it wasn't ...
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Should Server Fault be removed from Stack Overflow's migration list?

At the end of October, Shog9 said: If SO migrations are truly a problem, then you get removed as a migration target completely. No user migrations, period. as a response to this m.SO question ...
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Changing the site subtitle

There has been some disquiet and discussion recently about the number of poor inbound migrations to Serverfault. One suggestion is that our subtitle Q&A for system administrators and desktop ...
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Can't reject an edit

I was reviewing some edits today and went to reject one (which one is irrelevant). After clicking on the reject button I selected the custom option and typed in my reason. I then clicked the reject ...
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Vote: What level of automatic code highlighting do we want?

Now that have code highlighting enabled, we need to determine how 'automatic' it should be. The code highlighting engine works in two ways: Automatic inference of the language in use via the tags on ...
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Formally changing the #4 migration target

Whereas, the migration statistics as discovered in this meta post show a demonstrated and ongoing trend of mod-only migrations to dba.stackexchange.com, and Whereas, Webmasters has not resided in the ...
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No editing toolbar

It appears something has broken, for me at least. The editing toolbar is currently not visible when posting a question or answer, yet if I edit an existing one it's fine. I tried FF, IE and Camino on ...
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What's going on with tags on profile pages on SF?

Owww, my eyes. (10/12/10, 15:09pm, Windows 7 32-bit, IE 8)
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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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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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Too much focus on Stack Overflow?

As a user who only came onboard with Server Fault (haven't done any programming in years), I can't help but feel left a little bit cold when it comes to meta and the blog. You see, they're hosted on ...
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Serverfault cut off/truncated on long post?

Hi All, I was reading a Jeff Attwood post on ServerFault here (quite a long one, but not obscenely long) and saw that the last part of the question got cut off: Cut off text http://www.41085.org/SF-...
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What Server Fault-specific advice should we give folks asking questions here?

As of a few weeks ago, the "unclear what you're asking" close reason now links to a page in the help center: The moderators here can edit this page to customize it. So my questions are, Should they ...
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Merge [supervisord] tag and description into [supervisor]

Supervisor is "a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems". The daemon that runs the service is invoked with supervisord. ...
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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 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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Clarifying "Novice questions are off-topic"

One of our close reasons reads as follows: Questions must be relevant to professional system administration. Server Fault is a site dedicated to professionals; novice questions are off-topic. ...
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Should folks have to click through an interstitial page to ask questions on Server Fault?

A few weeks back, Jay and I had a nice conversation with voretaq7 and Chopper3 where we discussed and debated the various items raised by the community here in http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/...
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Burninate "cheap"

Currently there are 17 questions (including this gem) which are mostly shopping related, and I would wager that any new questions created on that tag would be similar. I move that we torch cheap
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Extra word in help document

I had cause to post text from https://serverfault.com/help/closed-questions in a comment today, and there's a section that reads too broad - if your question could be answered by an entire book, ...
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Add-comment box placeholder text ends mid sentence

When the add-comment box is not focused it has a placeholder text, which ends mid sentence: "Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like " Screenshot
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Add webmasters and networkengineering to our "on-topic" help page

From https://serverfault.com/help/on-topic: We also have sister sites that cover specific topics in more detail: Stack Overflow for Programming Super User for general Networking, Hardware, and ...
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How to move a question that was closed for being off-topic to the correct site (and unlock it so more answers can be posted)?

I posted a very popular security-related question on Server Fault yesterday. Barely 12 hours (but 650 views) later, and it had already been locked from receiving any more responses- as it was off-...
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This question appears to be off-topic because it is about <end>

When voting to close, it's possible to select a custom close reason. The default text is: This question appears to be off-topic because it is about I've seen a number of comments auto-added to ...
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Cannot re-open from mobile site

Tapping the re-open button when on the mobile site just throws a JS error and jumps you to the top of the page.
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Interpretation of Off Topic

I'm seeing a fair number of questions that are getting closed as off topic on a regular basis, I'm trying to understand why this is the case. The type of questions are those that involve desktops or ...
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Review bug: I pick "leave closed" and it pops up "Nominate for re-opening?" [duplicate]

I don't have screen shots, but it's happened twice now, so there must be a bug related to the new close reasons being activated on SF... When reviewing re-opens, after reading the question and ...
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What's the question title doing over there?

Probably from a change to all.css, which seems to have just changed 20 minutes ago? Last-Modified: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 02:19:21 GMT
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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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why my question got closed?

I asked a question yesterday and it got closed with 2 negative votes, I am not sure why it has been closed and how can I improve it, https://serverfault.com/questions/510940/what-should-my-ip-address-...
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Why was my rsync filter question regarding a business merger closed?

i asked rsync not removing single quotes around array of strings --filter list on ServerFault, but it was closed as off-topic without explanation. i am trying to automate a safe way to move files ...
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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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serverfault main formatting has a problem in Chrome Browser

Looks like there is some type of problem in the site forwarding for some reason. Could this be some type of missing style sheet or something because in my browser, it renders nothing like the other ...
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Request for a Question to be Reopened

My question was closed as vague. I have edited it and think it's now readable. I really need some help on this, and the question fits the scope of the site.
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Deleting the `default` tag?

I'm still a bit new about reviewing posts on SE/SF, but after reading some guidelines, I'd like to suggest the deletion of the default tag. In the recent posts I've reviewed, I felt this tag was not ...
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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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Request to merge tags: [php-fpm] and [php5-fpm]

I noticed recently that some FPM questions are tagged php5-fpm and others php-fpm. I'm not sure there's any useful distinction here, should probably be merged.
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My question was locked as off topic. Where should I take it to

I made a question, and I was starting to get some good information on it, but it wwas closed as off topic without even a recommendation of where to take it. This is not a trivial question every IT ...