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Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.

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Burninate [wikimedia] or donate $2. Please don't scroll past this. ​

The wikimedia tag (~150 questions) seems to be in dire need of burninating. Wikimedia is the organization behind Wikipedia and a couple of other wiki sites. While some questions about mediawiki, the ...
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We need basic tag inheritance functionality [duplicate]

OK, that's not a question. I went round in a few loops trying to find anything on tags, specifically to do with synonyms and alias. I think tag inheritance is a more appropriate label and yes, I found ...
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How do you name tags?

Are there any guidelines on how to name tags when you need to create one ? For example, I asked few questions about a Vue.js datepicker (this one, to be precise). I created and named its ...
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Merge and synonymize [nelmio-alice] and [alice-fixtures]

nelmio-alice and alice-fixtures refer to the same thing: https://github.com/nelmio/alice Neither has a ton of activity (46 and 36 questions respectively), but the former has a few more. These two ...
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Can we differentiate [integrate] and [integration]?

For integrate, we already have usage guidance that says to avoid it and use other tags. This includes integration for system integration and other more relevant tags if the calculus meaning was ...
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Disambiguate [abc]

Disclaimer: while I personally don't think the tag in question should exist, this is not intended as a burnination request, but as an open discussion to choose a plan of action. Nearly 9 years ago ...
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Resolving an ambiguous tag: [mri]

The mri tag is currently described as being related to a specific Ruby interpreter: Matz's Ruby Interpreter or Ruby MRI (also called CRuby) is the reference implementation of the Ruby programming ...
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discord.py: a common setup issue with Intents

In discord.py, you have to set up a Discord Bot account and enable necessary intents. But for most questions regarding discord.py, enabling intents solves half or most of the problem. Many questions ...
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Merge [namedparameterjdbctemplate] and [jdbcnamedparametertemplate]

The tags namedparameterjdbctemplate and jdbcnamedparametertemplate seem synonymous. Let's merge them?
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
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Make [astro] a synonym of [astrojs], or vice versa

Tag astro was burninated 2 years ago in Ad [astro]⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀. At that time there were only 23 questions tagged with it. In the past 2 years, astrojs has become very popular, resulting in astro being ...
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"Ad [Astro]" is tagged [status-completed] but unclear which (if any) action was taken

I came across this 2 year old meta post Ad [astro]⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ question that raises the question of what to do with the astro tag. The post is tagged with the status-completed tag, but there is no indication ...
Cornelius Roemer's user avatar
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Tag silently changed to tag-synonym after posting a question

I asked this question specifying the tag pixi: After I posted it, the tag was silently changed to pixi.js. But that's not at all what I wanted. I wanted to create a new tag for a new tool. I checked ...
Cornelius Roemer's user avatar
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The [programmatically] tag won't automatically delete

A while ago I noticed that the programmatically description said: Do not use this tag: it doesn't add meaningful information to a question, as "programmatically" could apply to most ...
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What is a short common name and tag for C++ Standard Library on SO?

I often have to write in comments C++ Standard Library which is long for comments. Is there a standard abbreviation for it, since std is not C++ Standard Library, it is a namespace. Do we have some ...
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Why do we have both [hash] and [hashcode] tags?

I got very confused asking a question about a hash function for making a non-prime hash table. Both of these tags exist and I can't figure out whether this is a good idea or not. hashcode: A hash code ...
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