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Poll: Administrator tag
Yes, nuke it.
Bump: I've started the cleanup of this tag. If anyone else would like to assist, please feel free. Please perform your edits in small batches so that the front page doesn't stay ...
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Many old questions getting additional proftpd/vsftpd tags
As I've been the one doing much of the proftpd, vsftpd, and pureftpd retagging, I feel I should explain why I've been doing it. I'm the author of proftpd, and have lately been spending much time on ...
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Which Header tags need beheading?
These tags are sufficiently generic as to not be all that useful. It's a concept, not a specific technology, and isn't the kind of thing we'd build a tag-community around.
Nor are they common enough ...
sysadmin1138Mod
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Many old questions getting additional proftpd/vsftpd tags
Yes, I think this particular kind of retagging is a good thing.
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Do the four 'cable'-related tags differ or should we merge them?
The tag cable, cables and cabling are synonyme, thus all point to the cable's tag, which is sadly missing a description like you find.
The questions tagged that way are more for the physical aspect ...
yagmoth555Mod
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Do we really need a [custom] tag?
The tag custom serves no purpose. No one follows it, and no one is likely to use it to find questions of interest. It should be burninated and blacklisted.
For that matter, the customization tag ...
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create "self-hosting" tag
My first association with a tag such as "self-hosting" is @HOME, DIY and an amateur approach, rather than managing information technology systems in a business environment which makes it off-topic ...
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Should reverse-dns and ptr-record be merged?
I can't imagine any questions which would be tagged as one or the other. That says to me that it would be reasonable to make one a synonym of the other. I'm not sure about which one to make the "...
wombleMod
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Should the XAMPP tag be removed?
I find your argument compelling. I'm inclined to think the tag should be removed, but first, all the questions on the tag should be Dealt With, one way or another.
wombleMod
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What is the added value of the documentation tag?
I disagree.
A large part of our job is ensuring that good documentation is in place. As such, questions about documentation methods, systems, ideas, etc. are perfectly on-topic, and warrant having ...
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Someone is removing the history tag. Was that discussed and should the edit be accepted or rejected?
I recommend doing whatever you feel is appropriate. You have the required rep, so the SE system trusts you with making that judgement. (I think it also assumes that there are more than ~7 active ...
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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 ...
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vsan tag on Server Fault
This seems perfectly fine to me. It will give better visibility to questions regarding VMware vSAN.
It might also be a good idea to create a tag starwind-vsan for the few questions regarding that ...
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Do we want anonymity?
I would burn it, I cant see a professional use of that tag.
To compare, on Information Security that tag is used 289 times, and its a better site suited for that tag in my own opinion.
yagmoth555Mod
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Whence the [language] and [languages] tags?
I can't see any good reason why either of these tags exists. As far as I'm concerned, they can be burninated.
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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 ...
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Many old questions getting additional proftpd/vsftpd tags
Personally I'm ambivalent. I don't think it's especially useful and nor is it especially harmful to he particular questions.
Where I do have an irritation is them being pushed en masse to the front ...
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Is it usefull to have both tags 'datastax' and 'datastax-enterprise'?
I'm not adverse to doing that and making datastax (the company) a synonym for datastax-enterprise (currently their main product) .
Users with sufficient reputation can are encouraged to propose and ...
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Which Header tags need beheading?
It appears requestheader was intended to be used about a specific configuration option in Apache. But some questions have used requestheader where they should have been using http-headers. I saw only ...
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Merge vhost and virtualhost
Having paged through all of vhost, I believe you are right. Time to take a good look at things.
Right then. I noticed vhosts was there too, doing the same thing. It's been merged in as well.
sysadmin1138Mod
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Is anyone looking into the untagged tag?
I think that untagged is very useful, as it is a clear indication that a question is in need of some attention. The specific attention that most of the questions that have the tag need is burnination ...
wombleMod
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Why don't we use the windows-server tag?
In the vast majority of cases, we prefer to use tag names that include a version number.
As you'll notice, there are well-used version-specific tags for nearly all versions of Windows Server.
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Let's patch up the [patch] tag!
This isn't a widely used tag, getting under 120 questions after 12 years. But the confusion in there is clear. I'm fine with weeding it, and sorting what's in there between maybe patch-cable and ...
sysadmin1138Mod
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Why don't we use the windows-server tag?
As I mentioned in my earlier comments: I was the one who edited your question and removed the windows-server tag.
The main reason for that was that the tag popped up in the new tags overview and as ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Tag badge mouseover: factor-of-ten error?
Score, here, is total upvotes minus total downvotes.
As far as I know it's worked that way since (almost) the beginning.
To quote from the SE FAQ:
A tag score is basically the combined total of ...
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Brocade tag outdated?
At the moment we have exactly four questions mentioning Ruckus hardware. There are 11 mentioning Arris, all of which are about small business/SOHO cable modems (at least, of those that are still open)....
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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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