Questions tagged [tags]
General questions about tag usage on the main site
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Syntax Highlighting Requests
As per Add the "Copy button for code blocks” feature on SU - Meta Super User, this feature has now been enabled.
In order for it to work, the Code Language for syntax highlighting must be set for ...
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Tags [auto-login] & [autologon]; [high-dpi] & [dpi]; [traffic-filtering] & [internet-filter] could be tag synonyms
Creating this question because I do not have enough reputation in any of the tags to suggest the synonym.
Tag auto-login and autologon could be tag synonyms.
auto-login has 110 questions, while ...
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Is UTF-16 worthy being a SuperUser tag?
Recently, I have asked a question "Why does something not work?" and the answer was "Because it's UTF-16".
For reference reasons I wanted to add the "UTF-16" tag but, ...
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Time to switch Windows-Explorer tag to File-Explorer?
The windows-explorer tag is currently used to refer to File Explorer (which is set as a synonym).
The correct term for this tool has been File Explorer since Windows 8 (see https://superuser.com/tags/...
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Rename [microsoft-flow] to [microsoft-power-automate] given the 2019 rebrand?
Microsoft Flow is a SaaS tool that was renamed to Microsoft Power Automate in 2019, but our current tag for that tool still uses the old name: microsoft-flow.
I propose renaming microsoft-flow to ...
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The Great [tag-cleanup-request] status-tag cleanup of 2024
Following on from the Great CM status tag cleanup of 2024, we lost our "status-planned" tracking of ongoing cleanup tasks. That's because the planned tag is now considered a process tag, ...
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Where can I ask this question about Computer Screen Technology?
I have asked a question about Computer Screens on Super User. Specifically, about understanding their (supposedly different) technology, certainly not a question about their use as computer screens (...
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How is this question about resolution off-topic?
I have asked a question about Upschaling and Pixel Replication
I have frequently heard that it is better to have a display resolution
with the resolution of the content you want to display on the ...
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Should the [ps1] tag be used, and if not, should it be removed?
Tag ps1 has no guidance, with only 44 questions using it, however the main problem is .ps1 is a PowerShell profile and script extension, but is being used both for PowerShell and other shells that ...
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Pondering mod status tags
We've been using the status tags - things like status-review were used for 'internal' SU moderation tasks. At some point, review tags on per site meta get fed into tickets internally.
I feel like a ...
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Let's deal with the [if] tag, else it'll become a problem
The if tag exists, most notably on questions about the IF functionality in Microsoft Excel, but it has been used for all sorts of conditional and branching questions.
Is it worth keeping separate? ...
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Consider blocklisting the [microsoft] tag?
As per Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again, microsoft as a tag is not wanted: we have more specific tags to use for microsoft products (microsoft-excel, windows-10, etc).
It has been ...
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Can we get a description for the [ole] tag?
Could we ask for the description of the ole tag or its removal?
I used the tag in the sense of Object Linking and Embedding in How to compare TIFF files with tags 37680 (0x9330)?, but see http://...
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Why is a tag too similar to itself? [duplicate]
I wanted to tag this question with variables. When I typed "vari" the only suggestion was environment-variables. Since the description says "system-wide" and my question concerned ...
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Against the "restrictions" tag
So, we have a restrictions tag. I believe it is much too vague and general.
Now, true, it has 95 associated questions, but they should either just lose the tag or get more specific tags, existing or ...