Questions tagged [tags]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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What to do about the [wss] tag?
The wss tag is currently described as referring to "Windows SharePoint Services", but almost all of the recent questions under this tag refer to the "WebSocket Secure" (which uses ...
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Synonymize [taskscheduler] with [windows-task-scheduler]
There are two tags whose wiki/excerpt say they are about the Windows Task Scheduler OS-level utility, taskscheduler (currently some ~270 questions) and windows-task-scheduler (currently ~940 questions)...
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Synonymize [aad-b2c] to [azure-ad-b2c]
At some point the tag aad-b2c popped up, but it's an (undefined/undescribed, other than to say that it's a duplicate/synonym) exact synonym of the much more-used, better-named, and better-defined tag ...
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I'm a bit [salt]y about these tags
The tag salt is supposed to refer to the cryptography concept:
Cryptography function that takes random bits and a string (typically a password) and uses a one-way hash to provide a new string that ...
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Clarify the [cryptoapi] tag
My impression is that the cryptoapi tag is supposed to be about the subset of Windows API that deals with crypto (NCrypt, BCrypt, CAPICOM, CertEnroll and the like), and not about any API/library that ...
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Consistent name and wording for C++ containers tags
I desire to propose a complete and consistent name and wording for all the existing tags that refer to the C++ containers. They include stdarray, stdvector, stddeque, forward-list, stdlist, stdset, ...
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Merge [html5-filesystem] and [origin-private-file-system]?
Despite what the cited one-off mailing list post said in 2014, it looks like the idea of an in-browser replica filesystem really did eventually take off, and is now adopted by all major browsers. (...
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What should we do about the [hello-world] tag?
Recently I came across a question with a hello-world tag, which was asked a few days ago. (I can't post the link of it because it is now deleted)
After searching on Stack Overflow and Meta Stack ...
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Can't dupe hammer question because I added a tag, but I could have done it _before_ the edit
Convert raw string (having escape characters) to unicode/utf8 string
Convert "\x" escaped string into readable string in python
When voting to close 1) as duplicate of 2), the system didn't ...
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Synonym proposal: [codegen] → [code-generation]
These two tags are both in use for a mix of different kinds of code generation.
3,690 × code-generation
247 × codegen
codegen seems to be occasionally used in the specific jargon sense “what machine ...
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Tag with few usage that not really describe [duplicate]
Sometimes, I see tags that have a very low amount of posts. For example in this post there is cross-hair-label with 8 posts in 4 years. Or armchair with 2 posts in 9 years.
A tag should describe a ...
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Should we create a tag for Go Toolchains called go-toolchains?
The tag go-toolchain is about Go toolchains in general (the CLI, using it to do things, etc). I wanted to add a new tag for questions specifically about the feature new in Go 1.21 called Go Toolchains....
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Merge and synonym [aws-copilot] and [aws-copilot-cli]
I believe that aws-copilot and aws-copilot-cli are different names for the exact, same thing. Hence, I think that one should be made a synonym of the other.
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Tags covered by a circle
am I the only one having this issue? is this a known issue? (will close the question if so)
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We shall not [glance] at [glance-appwidget]
There's an Android library named Jetpack Glance, or as Google put it, A Framework.
Anyhow, it's a library to develop Android App Widgets on top of Jetpack Compose runtime.
Long story short, there's a ...
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Request retagging [axum] for Rust web library
The axum tag was created for the Axum programming language, an actor-centric language by Microsoft focused on concurrency. It was only a short lived experiment, however, and it ceased all effort after ...
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What's the difference between [abp] and [abp-framework]?
I just stumbled upon abp (currently over 800 questions) and abp-framework (currently 13 questions).
What's the difference?
Should questions with abp-framework be retagged with abp?
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What should we do with the [stream] tag?
I just came across the stream tag, which has 15k questions, and whose excerpt reads:
DO NOT USE FOR THE JAVA STREAM API INTRODUCED IN JAVA 8 (use [java-stream] for those questions!) A stream is a ...
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Renaming [rpgmakermv] to [rpg-maker]
RPG Maker is a series of programs for creating role-playing video games. The oldest versions have their own GUI-based programming languages. RPG Maker XP and VX, released in the late 2000s, support ...
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Rename [argo] to [swift-argo]
Almost all questions tagged with argo are actually about argocd in violation of argo's tag wiki stating:
Apply to questions regarding thoughtbot's Swift JSON parser, Argo. For questions about the ...
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Tag [swiftdata] should replace [swift-data]
The name of the new Apple technology is "SwiftData" not "Swift Data".
https://developer.apple.com/xcode/swiftdata/
Somewhat confusing, as it's "Core Data" and not "...
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The [tax] tag has been burninated
The tax tag is on about 200 questions dealing with numerous different concepts, languages, and problems. It only refers to a real-world domain that use cases for coding deal with, and adds no useful ...
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How does [cobra] explicitly mean three things?
Somebody went through the effort of describing three different technologies for the tag cobra.
The excerpt reads:
Three possible technologies:
The Cobra toolkit is a pure Java HTML parser and ...
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Merge and synonymize [cdp] with [chrome-devtools-protocol]
cdp is a new tag with 35 questions
chrome-devtools-protocol is the main tag with 199 questions
The term "CDP" is a well-known abbreviation for "Chrome Devtools protocol", so it ...
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Merge [slate-react] and [react-slate]
I propose to merge slate-react into react-slate.
Why?
Both tags existing is clearly due to people writing one word before the other, and they're obviously meant to be the same tag
The react community ...
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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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Disambiguating the [dbconnection] tag
As part of the connect burnination, I came across dbconnection, which looks like it could use a disambiguation followed by merge/removal:
No tag wiki guidance
Currently 235 questions
Has 46 ...
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Synonymize [plotly-python] to [plotly]
Having plotly-python when we can use pythonplotly together is redundant, hence, it should be synonymized.
There used to be a r-plotly which is now a synonym of plotly. It is only logical to do the ...
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Can we burn [record]? [duplicate]
I found the record tag. I showed it used a the record keyword in Java. While trying to see others posts, I see it has multiples used as record for database, record for phone, or an object.
Does it ...
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Rename and synonymize [pynecone] to [python-reflex]
Current tag: pynecone
Reflex is a library to build full-stack web apps in pure Python.
— README.md | @reflex-dev/reflex
I think this is quite a clear-cut case. The project was renamed from Pynecone ...
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Accidentally created [sdl3] when [sdl-3] would be better
First time in Meta. It was pointed out in a comment on my question that I created a tag (sdl3) that doesn't match the existing convention for SDL version tags, which is sdl-{version} (e.g. sdl-2, sdl-...
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Gold tag badges don't apply to synonymized tags
(I want to preemptively say that I do not contribute to Stack Overflow for the reputation or the badges)
On Stack Overflow, I possess the selenium Gold badge, but the permissions don't seem to apply ...
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Something's fishy in [dolphindb]
Lately I've noticed a slew of low quality, mis-tagged questions all with one thing in common... the dolphindb tag.
They all seem to be posted in batches from a handful of user accounts and rarely ...
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What is the meaning of the number displayed next to "related tags" on same tag?
On https://stackoverflow.com/tags/blogger/topusers it shows this:
What is the meaning of the number × 3684? It is not questions tagged, because that shows above as 2,925.
I'm just using blogger as an ...
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Python 3.x is just "Python". Any way to get rid of [python-3.x] tag?
The tag python-3.x is pointless these days. The only supported versions of Python are Python 3.x, for many years now. Python 4 isn't happening ("probably there never will be a 4.0 and we'll just ...
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Should we always update the [java] version?
From time to time, there are suggested edits like this about the java tag wiki and I agree that these would be an improvement over the previous tag wiki when a new Java version comes out.
However, ...
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Where are the "hidden" questions in [how-to-guide] tag?
I was interested in the kind of questions that would have the how-to-guide tag — there are 268 questions with this tag currently — but when I search with this tag, no questions are returned currently:
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What should be done with the [generative] tag?
I don't really like the generative tag, and I feel it's overly broad and there are more specific tags that should be used instead. At the same time, it fails the burnination criteria:
Does it ...
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If my question is about building C++, should I tag it with c++?
I have a couple of questions that are about building C++ with Bazel. I tagged then with c++, but that tag was removed from both (by the same person fwiw). That doesn't make sense to me. Is there some ...
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Merge and rename Google Maps Marker Clusterer related tags
We have markerclusterer with 800+ questions.
This JavaScript library creates and manages per-zoom-level clusters for large amounts of markers on a Google Map. It was deprecated by @googlemaps/...
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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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Proposed tag synonym filtering -> filter
Please don't vote on the tag right away. It is already at +2, at +4 the synonym gets approved and the tags get mixed, we won't be able to undo that action. So let's discuss here before an irreversible ...
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Synonymise [apache-echarts] with [echarts]
I just stumbled across apache-echarts, with 148 questions and no user guidance. There's also echarts with 1349 questions and the excerpt:
Apache ECharts is a free open-source charting and data ...
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Reconsider xla tag
Until 2017 almost all xla questions were to do with Excel/VBA, as described in the tag info. Since then, of the 35 questions with the tag, 28 instead refer to the machine learning compiler. There is ...
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Odd tag name in "How do I format my posts using Markdown or HTML?" help center page
I was reading "How do I format my posts using Markdown or HTML?" and saw a section on tags. It said:
To talk about a tag on this site, like-this, use
See the many questions tagged [tag:...
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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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