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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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What's the best way to migrate a tag from StackOverflow to ServerFault?

You can't migrate tags at all and you can't create them here without enough rep points (300 are required). … Just create a question with appropriate other tags and leave a comment or flag asking to create this new tag. Before doing so, make extra sure the question you post is on-topic here. …
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Could oom, oom-killer and outofmemoryerror be merged to oom?

I don't think oom and oom-killer should be synonyms. The first one describes a specific situation and the second one a mechanism to handle said situation. They are of course closely related, but not t …
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Is there benefit to a Windows-Identity-Foundation (or related) tag here?

I've created a new tag windows-identity. Unfortunately, using windows-identity-foundation was impossible due to the tag length restriction of 25 characters. Also, I am reluctant to create a synonym ta …
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create "self-hosting" tag

I would consider this as promoting bad practice (in most situations these days, self-hosting is not a good idea) and a quick look to the questions you linked shows that many of them are quite bad.
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What to do with the gameserver tag?

I agree with your reasoning and I think the best thing we could do is to edit the tag wiki to make it clear that only game servers in a business context are valid here. This will likely be a very smal …
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How about creating a tag for Powershell JEA (Just Enough Administration)?

I've created the tag powershell-jea by adding it to this question. If you have enough reputation for this, feel free to propose edits to the tag wiki.
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Merge mod-pagespeed and page-speed or change tooltip

Those tags are not optimal, but they are not synonyms. …
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Merge the tags about Linear Tape Open: lto, lto-3, lto-4

There are enough differences between LTO generations to warrant different tags. With the same argument, you could merge all Windows server variant tags into one. …
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