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How to edit a tag?
(I don't have tag edit privilege yet)
In the "tags" context when hovering over a tag, there is a link like "improve this tag" that allows me to edit the "tag wiki".
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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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How do I create a new tag?
I have an idea for a new tag. I think adding this tag would improve Server Fault. How do I add this tag? I am not finding documentation of how to do this.
Topics I would like to know about creating a ...
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merge [gnu-screen] and [screen]
AFAICT, screen and gnu-screen cover the same topic, GNU Screen. Can we please merge them?
screen has more followers and is the simpler name, so I suggest keeping that. But gnu-screen is also fine if "...
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Merge the tags about Linear Tape Open: lto, lto-3, lto-4
Linear tape open is a famous tape drive technology.
The LTO Consortium defines the new generations LTO-1, LTO-2... from time to time. It makes sense to merge all tags to lto, because the the version ...
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Some tag changes needed related to Google Kubernetes Engine
So this has just happened, which necessitates some tag changes here.
Could someone with the appropriate permissions (I don't yet have enough rep to do so) kindly create tag google-kubernetes-engine, ...
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Tag badge mouseover: factor-of-ten error?
I just moused over a gold tag badge, and saw the popup
Earn at least 1000 total score for at least 200 non-community wiki answers in the linux tag
But my understanding was that one needed at least ...
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Could oom, oom-killer and outofmemoryerror be merged to oom?
Could oom, oom-killer and outofmemoryerror be merged to oom?
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What's the best way to migrate a tag from StackOverflow to ServerFault?
I'm asking a new question related to [tidal-scheduler] in ServerFault but the tag doesn't exist here yet. The tag exists in StackOverflow but the question doesn't fit there. I would like to migrate ...
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Who is removing a tag I use?
There was an hpsa tag, until a few days ago, that I was tagging my questions about HP's Server Automation Software suite with. Someone went through and replaced it with hp.
Today, (~7 hours ago) I re-...
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Suggested edits on duplicate tags
I was asked to review an edit on a tag which has only a single question. Turns out it is a duplicate tag because both regex and regexp exist. Should I approve an edit to create a description on a ...
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Will someone please add this tag? tickzoom
Can someone add the tag tickzoom at stackexchange?
I don't have enough reputation yet to add the tag.
Why? We developers at tickzoom want to track the specific tag tickzoom so we can watch for ...
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What's going on with the recommendation tag?
Just spotted this question on the front page which has been tagged with recommendation, yet when I click on the tag, it appears as though no questions have this tag.
What's going on here? Note the ...
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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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Are the rg tags getting out of control on ServerFault?
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legitimate ways for users to protest irrelevant sponsorship of tags
Ok, fine, Redgate has tools for Exchange and SQL Server, so maybe it makes sense to have the annoying ...
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no tag appear on the right side of the screen when reviwing
When reviewing suggested edits, no tag appear on the right side of the screen. What should I do? Will tags disappear?
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Tags for "fedora": Need "fedora20" tag (maybe)
Fedora 20 has hit USB sticks (so to say) and it could be the time to add the "fedora20" (sic) tag.
Reminder: the following tags currently exist.
It's kinda uneven, but indicating the Fedora version ...
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Set ignored tags from their popup
Hovering on a tag allows us to subscribe to it or see the RSS feed. Can we also have a link in there to ignore it? That would make it much more efficient to filter a view (e.g. unanswered) for only ...
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The bad tag collection
Summary
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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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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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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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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Burninate 'legal'
Seeing this question revealed that we have a legal tag. As legality is and always will be a local matter there can be no legitimate use for such a tag.
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What does the RS mean?
Seen on the scalability tag:
I assume it's an advertisement, but I can't quickly find anything that tells me what it's an ad for or if it's something other than an ad.
So that leaves me assuming ...
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Let's put [version] in a rocket and send it to the Sun
version seems like a worthless tag. Let's kill it. Ya dig?
sysadmin1138Mod
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Death to the homework tag!
On the basis of the answer my previous question (and the SO blog post linked to therein), I've bulldozed all homework tags from questions on serverfault. Anyone with the appropriate mod bits want to ...
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Please burninate the [local] tag
local needs to die.
There are currently 55 questions with this tag. All of them have at least 1 other tag. Can't see any possible reason to keep it.
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delete tag ad-cert
I accidentally made a tag I didnt intend (ad-cert). I intended to retag as ad-certificate-services that already exists. Can someone please delete ad-cert? Or will it disappear on its own accord from ...
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Please (re?) burninate the [apache] tag
The apache tag seems to have risen from the dead and is attracting new questions - I think it may have gotten missed in the burnination requests from Apache tags - a bit of a mess? .
(Per the ...
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Can we black hole the "errors" tag?
It's worthless, IMO. Can we get it black holed, or at least discuss the possibility?
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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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Die, [multiple], die! *stabstabstab*
I've just noticed this tag float across (as the only tag on a question, which was what brought it to my attention). I've skimmed over the list of questions with the tag (66 at current count), and I ...
sysadmin1138Mod
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Death to [newbie]!
Not to newbies themselves, of course...
As part of the continuing war on metatags, I've cleaned up all 36 or so questions that were tagged 'newbie', and would appreciate an SE employee blacklisting ...
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MS Access tag merge/alias
We've got:
msaccess - 31
ms-access - 4
microsoft-access - 2
I'd say that ms-access or microsoft-access would be the better tag, but the people have spoken, and msaccess is the most common option.
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Please block the amazon tag
We did some work to remove the plain amazon tag recently but yesterday 2 questions appeared with the tag. Can the amazon tag be blocked please?
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Kill [sysadmin] tag on SF with fire
I humbly request that the sysadmin tag on Serverfault be killed with fire.
Currently 384 questions tagged with it. I expect quite a few of them may have been migrated to SF.
EDIT:
Any other ...
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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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Please delete [tag:fusion]
I noticed earlier that there was a fusion tag. The tag had been used 6 times and was used exclusively to reference VMware Fusion. I have changed all occurrences of fusion to vmware-fusion to make it ...
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Please delete [tag:tweaking]
tweaking has been recently created - please burninate it before it picks up too many uses.
sysadmin1138Mod
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tags with plus (+)
The tags help box (shown when editing tags) says tags can contain +, but when I type a tag like "lost+found", it tries to use two tags, "lost" and "found".
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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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Delete 'server' tag
I don't think the 'server' tag serves any purpose at all on a site that's all about servers. Might as well have a 'Programming' tag on StackOverflow.
Perhaps it would be better to have tags linux-...
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