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Should "sysadmin" and "system-administration" tags be merged?

In my humble opinion the should be obliterated, and blacklisted. They seem like a meaningless meta-tag to me. If a question on SF isn't about system-administration/sysadmin then it is most likely of …
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Mass retag: windows home server

To keep consistent tagging I would really like to see a retag to windows-home-server. Then create the synonyms to point at windows-home-server. I am not certain, but I believe the moderators can do …
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When does an answer become community wiki?

What causes this? What are "Community Wiki" posts? Posts enter community wiki mode when one of the following happens: The body of the post has been edited by at least five (5) different users. …
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extending an already asked question

If the old question heavily overlaps with your new question aside from some minor details, then another option would be to simply add a bounty to the old question along with some comments asking for c …
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Why was my question about a MySQL Server Instance configuration moved to Super User?

However, configuring an environment to support software development is a professional concern But that was not what your question was about. … The answer to your question has more to do with desktop support then system administration. Most likely you have some security tool running, or permissions messed up. …
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Tag Merge Request - Mac related tags

Also consider addressing: leopardserver -> leopard-server osx-10.6 -> snow-leopard osx -> mac-osx macosx -> mac-osx The most difficult to clean up will be mac. Work should be done to separate th …
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Serverfault Tag Merge network/networking

Personally I think this probably will need to wait until tag synonyms are available. Until synonyms or a blacklist is available people will continue to use the [network] tag.
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rss feed for the serverfault blog double posts

I have seen this in other feeds occasionally as well. It appears to be a 'feature' of Google reader. If I understand it correctly, it appears that if an item in the feed is modified you will see bot …
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how to find the list of questions which i haven't make an accept?

Use a search like this. user:me is:question hasaccepted:0
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Why is reputation for bounty taken away even if nothing is awarded?

Partly to prevent gaming the system. Also consider that one of the features of the bounty is that your question is featured. You could look at this from the perspective that you are paying to have y …
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Please merge SQL Server Profiler related tags and add synonyms for them

I couldn't create the [sqlprofiler] synonym I had retagged all the question to the new tag, but forgotten I had to leave one to create the synonym. Everything is retagged though now and the other syn …
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Merge 64 bit tags

I agree but which tags are appropriate. Are all 64-bit questions x86 or do we have some ia64 in there? Should things about ia64 and x64 be in the same tag even though they are completely different? …
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Could a mod please undelete the question about stalking?

I am not sure that I agree that it should be undeleted. 10k+ users can still see it, and the URL is http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/1290/. It appears that Zypher decided to delete the questio …
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Scattered questions, moved questions

What site do these questions really belong to and can I have them moved to that site? From my point of view they potentially belong on all sites. These days firewalls exist at almost every level …
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Why did this question get deleted?

Jeff deleted it. I am not entirely sure why.
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