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Tag synonyms: config, configuration and configure

I would say that all those tags are all meta tags (configuration of what?) and are not actually useful. That said, there are over a thousand questions tagged with it and even 19 followers (really?), s …
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Burninate [repair]?

repair seems like a meta tag to me (repair what? the RAIDs? the LAMPs? TomTom's phone?). Should it be killed, and if so, how?
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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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Editing posts to change bare URLs to meaningful link text

I often edit posts (by other people) to change links from something like this1: I'm ne to lxc, but have 2 instances now happily using these instructions: http://blog.foaa.de/2010/05/lxc-on-debia …
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Choosing the appropriate close reason

So I recently gained the vote-to-close privilege, but I'm often not sure what the most appropriate close reason is. NARQ and Not Constructive seem very similar, and I see a lot of questions being clos …
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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 b …
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