Questions tagged [tags]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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Rename the grub2-mkconfig tag to grub-mkconfig
grub2-mkconfig is intended for questions about the grub-mkconfig command (without the 2), which seems confusing to me. Could it be renamed to grub-mkconfig?
See How to rename a tag? for the technical ...
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Why is it preferable to keep a tangentially-related tag?
This question, Use shell reserved word if hidden by an alias, is about a problem in Zsh that also affects Bash, so it's tagged shell zsh bash
However, the question doesn't actually mention Bash and ...
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Version-specific tags for ImageMagick
Should the tag ImageMagick be split into two tags, for versions 6 and 7?
The syntax of those versions is mightily different but looks deceivingly similar.
So, answers for version 6 will misguide users ...
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Disambiguate [tag:volume]
I've added descriptions for
audio-volume
volume
I also audited all the questions in volume. I would suggest renaming volume to storage-volume and making volume a synonym for it.
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Why is a definition for a tag not wanted?
I submitted an edit suggestion for the nas tag:
Guidance:
Network-attached storage
Wiki:
See Wikipedia: Network-attached storage
However, these were rejected as "The edit does not improve the ...
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Blacklist the [filter] tag
filter is underspecific and doesn't help categorizing questions.
It's currently being used for (and this is just the diversity of contexts from the first page that opens when I click on the tag name!)
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"smart" tags being not helpful as they are now
Preparing to ask a question about smartmontools, I tired to filter existing questions using the correct tag(s).
However searching for tags matching "smart" I realized that none of the tags ...
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Policy on creation of distribution tags for derivatives
Triggered by the recent (attempted) introduction of two tags for ArchLinux derivatives (EndeavourOS and BlackArch), I wonder whether there is an established policy and/or thresholds for creating tags ...
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#unix-path tag?
We didn't have a #unix-path tag until I just made one. (I hope I haven't made trouble by doing so.) The #PATH tag (all-caps) is specifically about the environment variable, but not what we refer to on ...
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Harmonizing use of locking-related tags
I was about to start writing a tag wiki for the lock tag in the sense of a mechanism to prevent concurrent access to resources or to synchronize threads when I realized that the tag usage has now ...
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Filters for finding useful answers
Background
I was looking at a recently asked question, where the asker was clearly out of their depth with an issue. The gist was essentially "I've got this problem, help please, because I've no ...
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Proper tag for discussing tun interfaces
I've noticed that many questions about tun network interfaces are tagged with the [tunneling] tag. This doesn't seem appropriate since, as I understand things, such an interface doesn't provide ...
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Tag Synonym: "Container" and "Containers"
I do not have enough points on either tag to suggest a synonym properly, but anyone here who does should:
container
containers
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What to do when finding a case of ambiguity between two tags?
Although it seems similar, it is a different case from this one.
My question goes on the other hand; and is that reviewing several questions about rxvt-unicode, I have found that there are times that ...
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Mail alert for specific tags
I want to monitor a specific tag and would like to be informed when question with that tag arises.
I know I can create an RSS/Atom feed based on a tag.
But I need it as email. Is it possible?
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