This tag is for questions about tag synonyms (how they work, who can create them, etc). Use synonym-request] for tag synonym requests.
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Tags dictionary and dictionaries merge
There are two tags, dictionary and dictionaries, where dictionaries should be a synonym for dictionary. I added dictionaries as a synonym to dictionary but haven't gotten enough upvotes for it. I saw ...
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Another tag merger regarding IDLE
Even after this merger request I have found yet another tag duplicate for Python's IDLE IDE in the form of idle-ide. It currently has only 48 questions attached to it, a quick search shows that many ...
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Are tag scores changed when a tag synonym is created?
Suppose I have a score of X for tag A and a score of Y for tag B.
Now suppose that B becomes a synonym of A (A is the master).
Would my score for tags A and B change?
I can think of several options ...
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Tag synonym page to indicate votes missing to be approved
It is not fast to know how many votes are missing for a tag synonym to be approved.
I read that they need 4 votes, but inside the tag information.
Users with more than 2500 reputation and a total ...
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Some -> iPhone synonyms are goofy
I found a bunch of tag synonyms that aren't right:
iphone × 170734 facebook-pictures × 3
iphone × 170734 uitoolbar × 650
iphone × 170734 tabbarcontroller × 149
iphone × 170734 ...
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Allow for tag synonym mappings to be reverted
(As an addition to Fixing the sucktastic merge UI for tags and Merging / synonymising should warn of tag wiki loss)
Currently, there's no way for a moderator to undo a tag synonym / merge. While a ...
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Remove the tag synonym suggestions entirely
Users can suggest tag synonyms and vote for these suggestions. When enough users vote the tag synonym is created. The whole system has some significant flaws:
Synonym suggestions have almost zero ...
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Django-socialauth and Django-social-auth are two different python packages
django-socialauth and django-social-auth are two different Django apps, and yet Stackoverflow only allows for the django-socialauth tag since it thinks that django-social-auth is a duplicate tag.
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Loosen the rules around suggesting tag synonyms [duplicate]
I tried to create a tag synonym for multiplatform and multi-platform, but I'm denied because I don't have 5 upvotes in the tag.
I think the restrictions should be eased up for high-rep users (say, ...
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Origin of auto-generated tags
Sorry if I'm asking something really obvious, but I haven't found any related question here on MetaSO.
I've been taking a look at the new tags page, and I've seen two tags with 0 question tagged: vs ...
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Tag merger - urllib and urllib2
So, I was asking a question today and noticed there were tags for urllib and urllib2. It makes more since to merge these two into a single python-urllib considering the reorganization in Python 3.
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Tagging bug - 'testacular' [duplicate]
Just posted about 'testacular' on stackoverflow here, every time I enter the tag 'testacular' and save, it gets converted to 'karma-runner'.
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Multiple tags for IDLE on Stack Overflow
I noticed that two tags exist for the Python IDE IDLE on Stack Overflow, idle and python-idle. They should most likely be merged, considering that they cover the same topic.
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Tag merging with synonym mapping [foo] → [bar] fails if proposal for [bar] → [foo] exists
I just attempted a tag merge as per this tag synonym request, merging all instances of sso with single-sign-on and creating a synonym reference mapping the former to the latter, but it ended in a ...
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Synonymize the [rdp] and [remote-desktop] tags on Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow has at least two different tags referring to Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol:
rdp
remote-desktop
I suppose you could argue that the former refers to the protocol, while the ...
