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This question relates to tags, the words or phrases which describe the topic of a Server Fault questions.

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Why don't we use the windows-server tag?

The main reason for that was that the tag popped up in the new tags overview and as EEAA explained it doesn't really improve upon the well-used version specific tags such as windows-server-2012 windows-server …
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create "self-hosting" tag

Since questions regarding the polar opposite, shared web hosting, are usually already off-topic and there are already specific tags for most of the large cloud service providers such as amazon-web-services … When people manage web servers usually tag the question with the relevant specific apache-2.2, apache-2.4, iis, iis-8.5, nginx and such tags which is usually sufficient that to indicate what stack they …
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tag confusion with [ghost]

Since the majority of the existing questions with the ghost tag appear to be about the Symantec disk cloning and backup software, I have only created a single new ghost-blog tag for the newcomer Ghos …
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How to edit a tag?

Different Stack Exchange communities grant privileges at different levels, but currently for ServerFault they are as follows: 300 create tags - Add new tags to the site 2500 create tag synonyms - Decide … For instance the relatively new SLES15 tag https://serverfault.com/tags/sles15/info currently shows Once I hit the Edit Pending button I see the review option and your suggested edit: in the "tags
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Is it usefull to have both tags 'datastax' and 'datastax-enterprise'?

Users with sufficient reputation can are encouraged to propose and create that synonym here: https://serverfault.com/tags/datastax-enterprise/synonyms and it will pop-up in the review queues, allowing … remapping 0 synonyms 2 favorite and ignored tags remapped! 0 tracked tag badges were remapped! Tag Synonym datastax -> datastax-enterprise was approved! …
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