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Tags whose meaning or purpose may be, or has already been, interpreted inconsistently by users of the site it exists on. Use this tag if your question relates to tags which are being used inconsistently or are likely to cause confusion.

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Tools to help detect different uses of ambiguous tags

I just discovered that case-when was sometimes being used when switch-statement should be used. In order to find questions where it was mis-used, I looked for questions tagged with case-when, and ...
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What to do about conflicting tag names? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to handle tags with multiple meanings? On Stack Overflow, I keep finding posts tagged raven that should be tagged ravendb. They are two very different products by ...
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Delete the [detect] tag? [closed]

I just came across detect, a tag with the lovely tag wiki summary: "Detect meaning goes like either discover or identity of presence." Looking at the 484 questions currently tagged with it, I see ...
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Clarification on tags: Android and Monodroid [closed]

On the "normal" stackoverflow site, is anyone aware of how "android" tag subscriber/watchers feel toward questions being asked that contain C#/Monodroid code (versus Java code) ? I've never had a ...
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Ambiguous tag: switching [closed]

There are 134 questions using the switching tag. Most are using it in the sense of "changing from one thing to another," e.g. "Switching from UIViewController to UITabBarController." However, there ...
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Can the [star] tag be removed? [closed]

There's a tag: star which I think needs to be removed. It has no wiki, so there's no good way to tell why it was created, but its usage is inconstant and not relevant: 20 questions are tagged with ...
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How can ā€œtag antonymsā€ ā€” ambiguous tags with multiple distinct meanings ā€” best be nominated for disambiguation and/or bifurcation?

icc is attached to SO questions about one of two distinct things: The proprietary super-optimized Intel C/C++ Compilers, or Color-management theory and practice having to do with ICC profiles (named ...
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The [address] tag is ambiguous as-is [closed]

The address tag has no central focus. I work in the address verification industry (postal/street addresses) so I've subscribed to this tag, to contribute where I can. However, I've seen all sorts of ...
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Ambiguous tag created and added to older posts [closed]

A new tag specialized was created 20 hours ago and added to 3 older posts. The tag name itself is way too generic and the tag wiki is: Customizing generic code for specific cases Does the ...
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PCI (Bus) vs PCI (PCI DSS) tags. How do you encourage correct tagging? [closed]

I'm particularly interested in questions and answers relating to PCI (bus), but I am finding many questions tagged with pci that actually refer to PCI DSS. Is there anything that can be done to ...
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How do you get ambiguous tags on Stackoverflow handled? [duplicate]

Stack Overflow has a tag sys which was probably started for the Python module named sys. Alternatively, it could have been started for the ASP.NET namespace Sys. In any event, it is being used for ...
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What does [install] tag refer to? [closed]

Following is the tag wiki excerpt of install tag: Installation (or setup) of a program (including drivers, plugins, etc.) is the act of putting the program onto a computer system so that it can ...
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The [filepicker] tag has had its basic tag rights infringed upon by filepicker.io

For those of you who hate fun, Ending the Fourth is what I think needs should happen. I guess the question is "can file pickers in general and filepicker.io be separated?" Once upon a time ...
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Apache tag is frequently misapplied [closed]

According to its Tag Wiki Summary, apache is about: The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache [...] In the Java environment (and not only there) there are tons of Apache projects that ...
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Ambiguous [store] tag on Stack Overflow [closed]

Tag info for store is: A store is a data repository of a set of integrated objects. These objects are modeled using classes defined in database schemas. Data store includes not only data ...
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Ambiguous tag 8080 [closed]

The tag 8080 has about 5 questions related to Intel 8080 or 8085 assembler code, and about 14 questions related to HTTP port 8080 (and when I looked, it had only 19 questions). I was reviewing a ...
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What does tag 'notes' represent?

I saw notes. Somebody uses it to represent lotus-notes; other put it to represent notes in general. What is the SO policy on this tag? Is this part of ambiguous general tags? Is this accepted, or it ...
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Tag cleanup: [bubble] [closed]

The tag bubble appears to be used in at least four ways: As a synonym for bubble-sort (examples: Bubble Sort in MIPS, Output Bubble Sort results to an array in java) As a synonym for speech-bubble (...
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Partition tag is ambiguous [closed]

As I've been cleaning up the tags on questions I've answered I've found several that have multiple meanings. Per @PopularDemand's answer here, I'll post a question about the partition tag as a test ...
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Skeleton is an ambiguous tag [closed]

The skeleton tag info tab says that Skeleton is a Wordpress theme, but it has been used (20 times total) for several different things and looks like none of them is related to Wordpress. For me, as a ...
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Disambiguate the [ar] tag [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: “ar” tag on stackoverflow The ar tag is ambiguous; it can refer to both the unix archiver utility and to augmented reality. Previously, people have put effort in ...
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AMD tag: Advanced Micro Devices or Asynchronous Module Definition? [closed]

AMD AMD The AMD tag is ambiguous and there seems to be a roughly even split in its application - between processor-specific questions and JavaScript library questions. Only 127 tagged questions at ...
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Guidance on recently added jquery tag, jquery-jtable [closed]

Question: I recently added a new jquery-jtable tag and started re-tagging related questions accordingly. Is this right? Should I proceed? Background: I often search for stray questions tagged JTable. ...
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Clarify the [normalize] tag [closed]

Does the normalize tag mean normalize.css, does it mean normalizing text (Ć³ -> o), the Normalizer::normalize function in PHP or something else? Maybe someone who has enough privileges could split ...
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The "after" tag

I have encountered the tag after. From looking at the list of questions using it, it seems to have no real use or standard meaning. Should it be removed? BTW, is this the right place to come to for ...
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Sage accounting software tag as opposed to sagemath [closed]

I am reviewing suggested Edits this morning and came across one where the editor has removed the sage tag from this question: Sage Accpac Ireport method failed They left this note: sage tag only ...
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Should the tag "lib" be removed? [closed]

I found the tag lib, which has no wiki / tag summary, and seems to be a synonym of the removed tag library. I guess it should be removed too.
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Should the html-parsing tags also be tagged as html [closed]

In Stack Overflow should questions tagged as html-parsing also be tagged as html. I believe NOT, because questions tagged html should be searched by people looking to find solutions for problems ...
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ambiguous tags: friend / friends / friendship [closed]

friend (356 questions), friends (194 questions) and friendship (43 questions) are ambiguous. Sometimes they refer to friend classes/functions as in C++, sometimes to social networking "friends", and ...
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Clean up questions marked with both Ruby and Ruby On Rails

Let's break apart the tracks of ambiguity and have questions tagged with ruby-on-rails and ruby cleaned up. There is an undercurrent of abusing and applying the latter tag to all things in the ...
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Existing tag with the name as my desired one, but for different thing [closed]

I want to ask a question in SO, about the deployment automation platform glu. There are however no questions about it (only a mention in this answer), and there is already a tag glu for OpenGL GLU. ...
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Should the ambiguous tag [quartz] be blacklisted? [closed]

quartz is ambiguous. It is commonly used for the Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler (quartz-scheduler) and for some of Apple's Core Graphics technologies (quartz-2d, etc.)—two topics with ...
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Should/can anything be done about an ambiguous tag?

This tag guard is used mainly for a command-line tool. However, it's also used for about a few questions about guards in functional programming. Can we do something about this? The concern is that, ...
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simplexml tag is ambiguous

The tag simplexml is ambiguous. The description of the tag describes a feature of the PHP standard library, but a significant number of questions are about an entirely different Java-based framework (...
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Ambiguous tag: ming [closed]

The ming tag is being used for both: a php library for creating flash swf content an object document mapper for mongodb. The php library has a about 6 questions with the tag and the mongodb has 4. ...
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The "bootstrap" tag is ambiguous [closed]

Currently, bootstrap can refer either to either twitter-bootstrap (the CSS framework), or bootstrapping. Thus, bootstrap is ambiguous. Can people help me clean up this tag so it refers to either?
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A real solution to ambiguous tags

Introduction Even within a site's relatively focused range of topics (it's unlikely anybody on SO will think sun refers to the solar system's star), some tags are inherently ambiguous. There are ...
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swift tag needs disambiguation [closed]

I just noticed that swift seems to be associated questions relating to two wildly different topics: SWIFT - the interbank messaging system Swift - the distributed object/blob store for OpenStack ...
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Ambiguous tag: native-client [closed]

native-client is ambiguous, it refers to both sql-server-native-client and google-nativeclient. There are only 13 questions using this tag, so it should be easy to split.
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Please make the JBoss version-specific tags less of a mess [closed]

This morning, Ondra Žižka retagged 209 questions from jboss7.x to jboss-as-7. While the retag was thorough and may be justified*, it creates a problem. Every other versioned JBoss tag has been ...
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How should we clean up and disambiguate the [find] tag? [closed]

find may be a problem. It has a few possible legitimate meanings. "find" is a filesystem search tool on various flavors of *nix. "find" is also a filesystem search tool on various flavors of DOS ...
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Should the "metro" tag refer to a Java framework or Windows 8 technology? [closed]

Looking through pending edits, I noticed someone had stripped metro off a Java webservices app. However, Metro is a well-known Java WS framework, as well as what the tag currently says: "Metro is ...
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Cleaning up tags for the .NET Framework Client Profile [closed]

Earlier today, someone created .net-4.0-client-profile. Being a new tag deletionist, I swooped in to determine if there was a better, already-existing tag. I found three others. Four! client-...
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Cleaning the Prototype tag [closed]

Summary The prototype is ambiguous. After reviewing the current questions, the tag wiki should be updated. Progress update I have retagged over 1700 questions. We need a better tag wiki excerpt. If ...
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Ambiguous tag: p [closed]

The p tag looks like it's being used both for HTML <p> paragraph elements and for questions about P-NP. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/p It looks like the former (<p>) ...
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'write' is an ambiguous tag

Stack Overflow has 638 questions tagged write. The 'related tags' gives a clue to the various areas where this tag is applied: file x 188 read x 161 php x 76 java x 70 python x 63 c# x 58 c ...
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ambiguous tag BDD [closed]

The bdd tag is apparently used for a few questions about Binary Decision Diagrams (which was the only meaning of BDD I knew until tonight), many more questions about Behavior Driven Development (...
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Should we split the [storyboard] tag?

The storyboard tag (333 questions) is currently used in two sets of questions that have little or no intersection. WPF and Silverlight apparently have classes by that name used to manage animation. At ...
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How should the symbol(s) tags be split up?

symbol and symbols apparently can mean: A character: Why Subversion skips files which contain the @ symbol? Something in Ruby that's kind of like an enumerated value: Emacs ruby symbol word ...
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The [easing] tag, mathematical or jQuery? [closed]

I just ran into this suggested tag-wiki-edit. As it seems, easing can refer to a mathematical function or to a jQuery plugin. Most of the questions tagged with it seem to be about the plugin. What ...
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