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Is the Ubuntu tag justified?
TL;DR: Keep ubuntu, add linux wherever applicable.
Some Datapoints:
ubuntu -> 70 questions
linux -> 435 questions
ubuntu + linux -> 33 questions
ubuntu - linux -> 37 questions
kubuntu -> 1 question (...
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Can/should we force users to state O/S and gratis or not before posting?
Support for required tags exists in the engine (on meta sites, all questions must have one of the tags discussion, support, bug or feature-request. However no main site currently has such a ...
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Version-specific programming language tags (python vs. python3)
No. We had a similar issue over at Android.SE (with CyanogenMod and version specific tags) and decided they are only leading to clutter. If the question is specific to a version, that should be stated ...
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I am sad about [api]
I think this tag is redundant and should be removed. We should encourage askers to use more meaningful tags:
a library to embed in their application: Tag as library
a web service to call from their ...
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Can you merge [browser] with [web-browser]?
Thank you for posting this. I noticed this the other day when I was performing a bunch of tag maintenance, and it is on my list of things to address.
Prompted by your post, I took a look at the 14 ...
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Should there be a tag for "pay once" software?
Though I see your point, I doubt that will be a useful tag. If a user wishes that approach, it should be pointed out with the question itself.
Currently, we don't even have any tag specifying "payed"....
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Cleanup wiki tags
I am indeed very familiar with all of these projects. While they might sound excessively related, most are as unrelated as two different Adobe products.
Everything being open, each site has its own ...
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Request for new cycling tag
cycling sounds like a good tag.
As I said over there, be sure to explain:
Your final goal
All of your requirements
Your operating system (ex: Android)
Whether it must be able to work offline or not
...
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Scientificalicious
Scientific computing is a subset of software used for sciences. For example iOS: Chemical/Molecule Viewer is about science but not about scientific computing. Real Time (<10ms response) Graphing/...
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Get [offline] off our lines
Can it stand as the only tag? Probably not — because we want a platform tag and a domain tag on most questions. We have other tags that can't be used on their own, such as gratis and open-source. A ...
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What to do with the [format] tag?
“Format” is a clear case of ambiguous meaning. We need to retag the questions to either remove format or replace it by a non-ambiguous tag.
Songbook text processing: Repeat chord lines for recurrent ...
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Should we merge [surveys] & [questionnaire]?
Browsing through the questions of the former, I agree they match the tag-wiki description of the latter – so I'd say they should be merged. To avoid the "left-over" to be re-created, it should be made ...
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Should we have the [elderly] and [non-tech-savy] tags?
I don't think these particular tags would be useful, because it is hard to define what software is for-dummies. One person could say that 90% of all smartphone apps are for-dummies, while another ...
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Should we have the [elderly] and [non-tech-savy] tags?
I don't think the elderly tag makes much sense. What is it about the software that makes it apply to the elderly? Tags like the following make more sense:
hohdeaf for hard of hearing or deaf (a ...
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Tagging of closed questions
I think editing the tags of a closed question can make sense in various cases, for example:
We want to get rid of a tag that is (now) only used on closed questions.
Remove it, otherwise this tag will ...
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Tags [stats] and [statistics]
I think the tags are used for two different things: gathering statistics from observed phenomena, and analyzing statistical data. However the split between the two tag names stats and statistics is ...
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Disambiguate the [amazon] tag
I'd suggest leaving amazon as the Amazon store tag, and amazon-web-services for AWS. This is how Stack Overflow does it:
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Disallow [free-software] and guide users
Shog9 has added free and alternative back to the list of disallowed tags and also added free-software. free and free-software guide the user towards gratis and open-source.
It turns out that ...
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What to do with the [data] tag?
Looks like a meta-tag to me. From a quick look, none of the questions using it would make less sense without it:
database+data: what a surprise: a database uses... what?
backup+recovery+data: wow. ...
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Tag to indicate that an app is free for commercial use
I don’t think that we should have a tag for this. The gratis tag and a clarification in the question body cover this.
If OP says they need a software that is free for commercial use (and tag it with ...
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Update "gratis" tag wiki with info about when "gratis" is a non-must have
We use the gratis tag for recommendations for software that is free of any financial cost.
All of our tags represent requirements ("must-haves").
The tag wiki for gratis correctly states:
"Gratis ...
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ambiguous tag: "duplicate-display"
As outlined in my question, I suggest we...
re-tag the display mirroring questions display
rename the duplicate-display tag to something more appropriate, e.g. duplicate-files
As per Timmy's answer: ...
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Do we need the [standards] tag?
standards would be an appropriate tag for software related to standards in general, which is sufficiently rare that I don't expect any legitimate use for the tag any time soon. It is not an ...
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How to use the [productivity] tag?
Well, “productivity software” is a commonly used software category, so it makes sense to have it as a tag. However, beware that it doesn't mean the same thing to everybody — I don't think the ...
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Tags for specific GNU/Linux distributions: [ubuntu], [debian], [centos-7], …
I stand by my previous opinion: distribution tags are for the most part not warranted. Since a program that runs on Linux will run on any distribution, using a tag like debian to say “I want a program ...
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Is [gui] a useful tag?
I've used this tag a few times and I find it personally useful. As you pointed out, there are quite a few questions that would probably be asking for a GUI. This isn't how I think the tag should be ...
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Homegenize tags? "microsoft-excel", "powerpoint"
Unless you want a software that excels (as every 3rd question asks for "the best"). But as that would be a meta-tag then, you're correct it shouldn't be ambiguous.
But then think to say a word: ...
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A tag framework
A Framework is more than just a library, although most frameworks consist of some libraries themselves.
Frameworks are explicitly different from software-development as some programming languages ...
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How do we fix incorrect instructions presented to visitors?
We should fix that description to use firefox and chrome respectively. That is what is used in reality.
Note: I did the edit. It needs to be approved, yet.
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