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Please (re?) burninate the [apache] tag

I think we can consider this "completed" with the synonym Apache -> Apache2
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Define tag integrated-authentication

I believe they're referring to Integrated Windows Authentication (WINDOWS ADMINS! WINDOWS ADMINS! Tell me I'm not talking out my posterior here? Maybe propose a tag wiki?) We might want to consider r …
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IT Certification tags used in questions

Personally, I think these tags should go away. … TL;DR -- My vote is to kill these tags with fire. If they stay around we're going to be endlessly saying "Just because there's a tag doesn't mean your question is on topic". …
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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 conversation on that thread, apache is better off split into apache1 , apache2, and possibly future version-specific tags as needed so we can give version-specific help) …
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Please burninate the [local] tag

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Useless, [shutdown] is

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Should [leopard] be [os-x-leopard]?

I'm all for this, but I would synonym the cat-name tags: You don't normally say "I'm running OS X Lion", or "I'm running MacOS 10.7.2" (unless you need to be very specific about the patch level for some … reason), you say "I'm running Lion" -- we'd be forever cleaning up tags... …
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We've always been at war with [standby]

This is another one where I can see some argument for its existence ("primary server, standby server", "hot standby", etc.), but it seems entirely meta. If nobody comes up with a good reason to save i …
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Deleting the `default` tag?

I have no objection on principle to eliminating the default tag - the 35 questions that were in it when I looked all had better tags (or should have had better tags and now do). … Unless they're REALLY bad tags with LOTS of questions in them (in which case we bribe the Stack Exchange community team folks with unicorn products) the general method of handling bad tags is to discuss …
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Burninate "cheap"

There are no longer any questions tagged cheap. The tag itself will be eaten by grues shortly.
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Can we black hole the "errors" tag?

Agreed - errors and many of its friends (like error-message) need to die...
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