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10 questions linked to/from Batch retagging?
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Do 23,000+ tags need tag database editors?
In less than one year, StackOverflow has accumulated 23,305 tags (as of this post).
Should higher-end moderators have an interface to rename, combine, and delete tags at the database level (i.e. ...
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Too much retagging
I know that this is a somewhat recondite and mostly harmless hobby for a few users, but to stop it being vastly irritating for the rest of us can I suggest:
Retags of questions more than week old ...
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We need meta tags to be able to organize and search tags easily
We need meta tags to more easily describe our preferences.
Current mechanism (regular expressions) is not sufficient because related tags (semantic issue) don't have to have related names (syntax ...
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Merge svn and subversion tags [closed]
Now that a batch-retagging feature has seemingly been implimented (for moderators), a tag merge request:
svn is an abbreviation for subversion - the two could be merged, probably into the more ...
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Please merge the "winapi" and "win32" tags on Stack Overflow [closed]
Stats:
winapi 474
win32 1439
winapi+win32 164
I don't know much about Windows programming myself, but according to Wikipedia, Win32 and WinAPI refer to the same thing.
If these are ...
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Should mass tag edits/removals be throttled or put to the community for voting?
Recently I watched the bcl tag disappear in one fell swoop (over a period of 3-4 hours). While there were only around 120 questions so tagged, it was a fairly valid tag when referring to the .NET ...
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proper protocol for usurping/updating tags to account for meaning shift?
This question is a follow-up to Is [*-lang] an acceptable tag? And [factor] discussion , which points out that the factor tag is in practice much more used for the "factor" data type in R than for the ...
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How much work goes into a retag?
Inspired by requests such as this one.
I've been wondering how much work it takes the mods to perform a retag. Not that I want to ask for one, but simply because I'm curious ...
Also, as a side ...
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Mass Retag request? [meta-tag:synonym-request]
Would it be worth retagging questions which are making synonym requests as synonym-request. From what I see here, it sounds like the mods could perform this sort of soft-tagging without bumping ...
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LINQ tags in Stack Overflow [closed]
There are a lot of LINQ tags in Stack Overflow: linq, linq-to-objects, linq-to-entities, linq-to-xml and a lot of crazy stuff. There one big tag that doesn't follow the more or less general pattern of ...
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