Questions tagged [synonym-removal-request]
A request to remove one tag as the synonym of another tag.
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please remove the synonym of [drone] to [drone.io]
Previous discussions:
Merge [drone] and [drone.io] tags
Merge or synonimize [drone.io] tag with [drone] and [droneci] tags
Proposal: create the tags 'drone-ci' or 'drone-io', instead &...
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Remove the synonym from empty-string to string
There's a question about empty strings in C++, and I wanted to add the empty-string tag. But I've discovered "empty-string" is a synonym of "string". This is wrong.
Clearly, a ...
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Vote or remove tag synonym suggestion [angular-module] to [angularjs-module]
In 2014, a tag synonym suggestion has been created from angular-module to angularjs-module which is stuck at 0 votes.
At the time, Angular (2+) has neither been released nor announced yet, and the ...
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Remove synonym [yarn] -> [hadoop-yarn]
There are two major software products that use "yarn" in their names:
Hadoop YARN (hadoop-yarn) - Hadoop is a distributed computing platform and YARN is a resource manager and scheduler for ...
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Remove synonym [compiler] from [compiler-construction] tag
About 10 years ago, the [compiler] tag was renamed to [compiler-construction] to avoid "tag misuse". That was a good idea.
However, since the tag compiler is still a synonym to the compiler-...
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Remove the synonym [generic-programming] -> [generics]
It appears the generic-programming tag has been merged into generics. I can't find any discussion on Meta from the time of this decision (only this unanswered/tangential question) but I'd like to ...
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Remove [idb] synonym from [indexeddb]
The idb library is one of the most popular libraries for the IndexedDB API (if not the most popular), but it is currently a tag synonym for the API itself.
Some people do just refer to IndexedDB as ...
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Remove synonym [memory-usage] from [memory-management] then make [memory-efficient] a synonym of [memory-usage]
I noticed that memory-usage is a synonym of memory-management. However, at least in my view, these tend to refer to distinct concepts with distinct question categories.
memory-management strikes me ...
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Problematic SO synonym: [ibm] -> [websphere]
I am looking for some advice or moderator action to help with a problematic tag on SO, ibm -> websphere
Context:
"IBM" is a corporation with hundreds/thousands of software products.
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De-synonymize [cmake] and [cmake-gui]
Suddenly I found that my favorite tag - cmake - has a synonym cmake-gui. Name of the latter tag perfectly fits to cmake-gui tool, which is a GUI wrapper around command-line configuration tool called ...
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The [tk] tag should not be a synonym of [tkinter]
I just noticed (when retagging a question) that it looks like someone aliased tk and tkinter despite this question here:
Synonymize [tkinter] with [tk]
specifically indicating that this should not ...
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Revoke [plotly] tag synonym [r-plotly]
Recently the r-plotly tag referring to the R library plotly became a synonym for the plotly tag referring to the JS library plotly.
I think this should be undone, as it makes filtering the questions ...
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Reverse the [memory-barriers] [memory-order] synonym situation so questions about C++ std::memory_order can be tagged memory-order, not barriers
This has been bothering me for a while, but to take a recent example, a question like What are the optimal std::memory_orders for this scenario of a coroutine waiting on an event? is about what std::...
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Too much [carbon] is bad for the environment
It seems like carbon was made a synonym of php-carbon in the scope of this MSO post (which was probably fine at that point) (or it was probably synonymized later).
However, as there seems to be a new ...
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Help, [iam] trapped in the Amazon and can't get out
The iam should not remain a synonym of amazon-iam when IAM is an industry abbreviation.
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