A request to add one tag as the synonym of another tag. Please be specific about which tag should be a synonym of which. Bidirectional synonyms and cycles are implicitly disallowed, so suggest wisely.
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Merge [post] into [http-post], [get] into [http-get] [duplicate]
Currently on SO there are 2 identical pairs of 2 identical tags:
post (11,957)
POST is one of the HTTP protocol methods;
http-post (2,195)
POST is one of the HTTP protocol methods
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Should tags for plot/graph/chart be synonyms?
My question is about tags that deal with plotting, graphing, charts, visualization, etc. I know there has been some previous discussion about this - at the level of whether there should be a graph tag ...
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Duplicated tags: imageio, javax.imageio
Tags imageio and javax.imageio should be merged - they even have the same description.
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Truncate the amount of truncation tags so they are truncated (truncat[e|ion|ed])
We seem to have a lot of tags that are nearly the same:
truncate - 505 questions
truncation - 95 questions
truncated - 52 questions
These tags should be merged.
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Add synonyms/merge [.file-extension] and [file-extension]
Examples I found:
wav .wav
war .war
vdproj .vdproj
rdlc .rdlc
ico .ico
doc .doc
More difficult examples:
mov has questions about file extensions (as .mov) and about assembler mov.
mov + ...
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Make [nodejs] a synonym of [node.js]
The nodejs keeps getting re-created and it keeps getting used despite being marked 'DO NOT USE'. It should be made a synonym of node.js.
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Retag/synonimize tuple-unpacking to unpacking
I've created1 a tag wiki for unpacking to reflect the fact that it's overwhelmingly used to tag questions about Python's iterable-unpacking feature, and removed the tag from the (two or three) ...
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SO Synonym Request: [tag:script] and [tag:scripting]
On StackOverflow scripting already has as scripts as a synonym.
We also have script, and I propose that it be made a synonym of scripting. I can't make this recommendation on SO because I don't have ...
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Make [tag:asmjs] a synonym of [tag:asm.js]
I think that if it's called asm.js, the tag should be asm.js instead of asmjs.
Then, I think that asmjs should be a synonym (slave) of asm.js (master).
I would have proposed it as a synonym, but I ...
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Synonimize [.net-micro-framework] and [netmf] tags
I have noticed that there exist both .net-micro-framework and netmf tags which refer to the same .NET Micro Framework technology.
I suggest to make netmf synonim of .net-micro-framework. That would ...
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Merge/Synonym request: Tags for DataTransferObjects
There are currently 3 tags (dto,datatransferobject and data-transfer-objects) I have found on Stack Overflow for questions about DataTransferObject.
I think these tags can be merged. Also I would ...
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retag: composer-php as master for composer
"Composer" is a great new PHP software for managing dependencies, so naturally questions get to SO and get tagged. The first tag was composer-php, which sounds like the right thing, but people are ...
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Unification of the 'X Window System' tags
The X Window System has picked up a few tag for its self on SO; x11, xwindows, xlib, xorg, x.org, xserver and I am sure there are a more variations in use. What I think is even worse is that ...
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Alias or remove the [address] tag which is now empty
The address tag is finally disambiguated, and all 600+ questions have been moved into more specific address-based tags. It was wildly obvious that the questions with the "address" tag were far too ...
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Merge and make [crop] a synonym of [cropping]
I think making crop a synonym of cropping is the more sensible way to have it go, in spite of the latter name being less frequently used, but it doesn't really matter which way it is.
Current usage ...
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synonymise dateutil -> python-dateutil
As the title says really: I believe dateutil should be synonymous with python-dateutil which is a little bit more explicit re: the language and has a better wiki entry.
Possibly, as there's only 54 ...
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make bitmaps tag a synonym of bitmap
The bitmaps tag seems completely redundant, but there are 101 questions marked with it. I suggest making it a synonym of bitmap which has more questions (5016) and covers the same topic.
Small ...
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Synonymize [multi-select] and [multiselectlist]
The SO tag multiselectlist has no wiki summary and is used in the same cases as tag multi-select, so I suggest that multiselectlist should be made synonym of multi-select.
They are used for the same ...
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Tag synonym: [inverse-matrix] and [matrix-inverse]
Although not sharing exactly the same meaning, it would seems that having inverse-matrix and matrix-inverse as not-synonyms will be more confusing them having them as synonym.
Can anyone help out ...
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The [onload-event] tag should be a synonym of [onload]
Looking at the tag wiki excerpt for onload:
onload is a JavaScript event that is run when a document is loaded.
Hmmm… an event named onload. Sounds pretty similar to onload-event. I think ...
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Tag synonym request: [datediff], [date-diff] and [date-difference]
The aforementioned tags serve the same purpose across nearly all the languages and their wiki-excerpt mentions the following as well:
Date-difference will give difference in the number of days, ...
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Make [vm] a synonym of [virtual-machine]
The vm tag wiki defines VM as representing virtual-machine.
Some questions are tagged with both and some are tagged with one or the other.
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Should we make [average] tag synonym to [mean]?
I think average should be synonym to mean.
I do not have enough rep/privileges for making this change (or even propse it).
Can someone please take care of this?
Update:
Following the answer I got ...
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Clean up route related tags
We got a lot tags related to route and routing and most of them can be cleaned up. My suggestions:
synonym route (x 621) and routes (x 3564)
synonym zend-router (x 50), zend-framework-routing (x 22) ...
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Tag synonym request: message-loop
I suggest making messageloop a synonym of message-loop, because they both mean exactly the same. Because I am not able to do this on stackoverflow, I am asking for this on meta.
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Please synonymize the “verilog-2001” and “verilog” tags
I'm a newcomer to this site and I hope I'm not doing a rude thing by suggesting the following: completely remove the verilog-2001 tag.
Verilog-2001 is an extension to Verilog-95 standard. Today, when ...
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The tag [xml-parse] should be a synonym of [xml-parsing]
xml-parse is the same thing as xml-parsing. There are currently 31 questions under the former.
Same idea as Tag merge request for [xmlparsing], [xml-parsing], and [xmlparser], really.
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Synonyms requests of android-gcm and apple-push-notifications
Can we please make google-cloud-messaging and gcm synonyms of android-gcm?
It is clear that all three tags mean exactly the same thing, but users keep using all three of them in new questions, ...
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I'm out of memory (or; The “out-of-memory” and “outofmemory” tags are a mess)
I stumbled upon the out-of-memory tag today, which currently has 57 questions assigned to it.
There is also an outofmemory tag, which I origianlly thought could be merged together, but then I see ...
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Make [if-then] a synonym of [if-statement]
The if-then tag seems a bit pointless, but is being used. Could we please either:
Burninate it; or
Make it a synonym for if-statement?
(This came to my attention through ...
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8 different tags for scraping webpages need synonymising
I believe all of these tags should be synonyms.
Comments?
scrape 326
scraper 185
scraping synonym
screen-scraper 29
screen-scraping 1,648
web-scraping 1,972
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Merge [vc6] and [visual-studio-6]
We have two different tags for the same subject.
I suggest that questions currently tagged with vc6 be changed to visual-studio-6 to be consistant with the other Visual Studio tags. This ought to be ...
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The tag synonym [operator] should point to [operators], not [operator-keyword]
While looking for questions to retag to operator-precedence, I noticed that operator is currently a synonym of operator-keyword, which is really a tag about operator overloading. This is really ...
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Merge [google-docs-script] into [google-apps-script]
google-docs-script is a synonym for google-apps-script. Almost half of the 75 questions tagged so far are ALSO tagged google-apps-script already, so we'd benefit from elimination of the redundancy.
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[cps], [continuation-passing] -> [continuation-passing-style]?
The continuation-passing and cps tags both refer to Continuation-passing style, and should therefore be merged. I also think it's better to use the full term, so we should make a new tag ...
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Tag synonym request - [tfpt] -> [tfs-power-tools]
The tags tfpt and tfs-power-tools appear to refer to the same thing.
I'm mostly suggesting the synonym as a recent tag wiki edit seems to confuse this with TFTP.
The more verbose tag is likely ...
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Tag Synonym Request: [google-charts] [google-visualization] [google-charts-api] [google-geochart]
Executive Summary
I believe the following 4 tags should be consolidated:
google-charts
google-visualization
google-charts-api
google-geochart
Reasoning
All four of these topics have incredibly ...
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“RWD” should be a synonym for “responsive-design”
I went to tag something with rwd and discovered that there was already a responsive-design tag. Unless "RWD" is an ambiguous abbreviation, I believe it should be set as a synonym of ...
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Synonym request - [android-edittext] -> [edittext]
These tags seem to be referring to the same thing, as only 73 questions tagged [edittext] don't have the [android] tag (while most seem to refer to it).
I'm not sure which way this should go, but the ...
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Delphi-specific tag synonyms request
Once I started a discussion on the usefulness of tag creation and accompanying retag efforts for Delphi-specific control types. E.g. the tag tcheckbox was created, or the tag checkbox was retagged to ...
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More tag synonyms for Knockout
As a followup to last year's question about synonyms for knockout.js, it looks like there are now two more:
knockout-mvvm
knockout-mvc EDIT This one is not actually the same, it just has a ...
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Make [servicebus] and [azureservicebus] both synonyms of new tag [azure-service-bus]
I noticed that both servicebus and azureservicebus are synonyms, as they both refer to the Windows Azure Service Bus. The different names may be useful to distinguish between the hosted and the on ...
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Map code-behind tag as a duplicate tag of codebehind
The code-behind tag is a duplicate of codebehind.
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Should sublimetext and sublimetext2 be synonyms?
sublimetext, sublimetext2 and sublimetext3 should be synonyms. It's not helpful to have separate tags for various versions of the same app when there's so little difference between versions. It's also ...
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Disambiguating tag CSP
We have in stackoverflow both csp and content-security-policy that seem to refer to the same topic, at least in tag description. This tags might eventually be made synonyms and merged.
However, there ...
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Merge [known-types] into [knowntype] (or vice-versa) and synonymize
Currently there are 2 very similar tags: known-types (15) and knowntype (31), both WCF related.
Let's merge one into another and synonymize.
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Can we merge the google-scripts tag with google-apps-script?
google-scripts and google-apps-script appear to be talking about the same language, and just fragment the discussion. Admittedly Google may have caused that by referring to the script alternatively as ...
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Merge [n-tier] into [n-tier-architecture] (or vice versa)
Currently there are 2 independent tags:
n-tier (389)
n-tier-architecture (218)
Let's merge one into another and make it synonym.
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Merge and synonymise the “[Previews]”
Meta has three preview tags:
preview
Live render of the post as you are writing it.
markdown-preview
Questions about the live Markdown preview of posts as they're being typed.
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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 ...
