Tagged Questions
Questions specific to stackoverflow.com and not necessarily related to other Stack Exchange network websites, such as retag requests.
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What can I do about closed questions on the purpose of F# that show up in Google results?
I have tried to Google the topic "Purpose of F#" and the top 2 results are from Stack Overflow. Both are closed.
Both link to other articles on the Stack Exchange network which are also closed, ...
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0answers
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Can this answer be undeleted?
There's an answer to this question that's been deleted despite being reasonably well-written, answering the question fairly well, and getting a couple of upvotes.
I'm not clear why the answer would ...
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0answers
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Make [social] a synonym of [social-networking]
Can we make social a synonym of social-networking?
There may be some other candidates, but social-networking seems (if nothing more) the most-used meaning of social.
Here's some possible candidates ...
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1answer
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Why does the ranking page show yesterday's reputation?
I have 810 rep on SO. When I checked my all-time rank, I saw that am having 795 rep.
But one hour ago, one of my answers was accepted. So my rep got to 810. But still the previous 795 rep is displayed ...
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0answers
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Angular tag on Stack Overflow out of date? [duplicate]
The angular description is as follows:
AngularJS is an open-source JavaScript framework. Its goal is to augment browser-based applications with Model–View–Controller (MVC)
capability
But, ...
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0answers
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Tagging questions for Dojo version 1.7 and above (AMD)
I have some dilemma asking questions about dojo. There was a significant technology shift in version 1.7 - changing require syntax (switching to AMD) and remodularization. The code from old version ...
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1answer
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Is there a better way to tag this question without 4 platform specific tags?
I've been a Delphi coder for quite a while now, using the delphi and delphi-xe2 tags quite often. Delphi XE2 and above versions (XE5 now) include a new platform called firemonkey, which allows for ...
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1answer
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Make [gtalk] and [googletalk] synonyms of [google-talk]
The tags google-talk,gtalk and googletalk all refer to the Google Talk Chat Service. I think google-talk is the easiest to read and the other tags should be make synonyms of it.
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Should “Professionals and enthusiasts” be qualified in the help center?
In another Meta discussion about how to deal with new users, user Joshua Taylor formulated the community's expectations towards new users in an interesting way. He said (emphasis mine):
... I ...
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1answer
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Disambiguate [pcl]
In StackOverflow, there's the tag pcl. Now, this could either mean Portable Class Language or Printer Control Language. However, at least 6 people (me and 5 people I've just untagged) have confused ...
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2answers
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Purge [technical-writing]
I've came across the tag technical-writing. It has no wiki explaining what it should be used for, and very many questions that are very off-topic here (some are perfect match for Workspace, some for ...
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1answer
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The question I posted was closed without a solution
My question, which I posted, was closed with the given reason:
Questions asking for code must demonstrate a minimal understanding of
the problem being solved. Include attempted solutions, why ...
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0answers
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Cleanup of [tree] and related tags
There's currently a lot of mistagging and overlap related to tree (and binary), binary-tree and binary-search-tree.
The goal:
binary-search-tree should be used to refer to questions specific to ...
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1answer
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Merge tags [sge] and [sungridengine]
The first sge is just an abreviation of the second sungridengine.
For extra fun Sun don't exist anymore and Sun Grid Engine has four successors:
Oracle Grid Engine,
Univa Grid Engine,
Open ...
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0answers
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Tag synonyms for tag:video
Quite some time ago I proposed movie and movies as synonyms for video.
Alas, nobody comes to vote for these synonyms.
Is there any way to rush this process? Can anyone (with the proper ...
