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Give the fields in the moderator "Create tag synonym" form more descriptive titles
Moderators have access to a handy-dandy tool for creating tag synonyms, which looks like this (screenshot from Worldbuilding):
Once you figure it out, it works nicely. But it's not at all obvious ...
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Merge the “Merge Tags” tool with the synonymous “Create Tag Synonym” tool
There are two moderator tools to create tag synonyms in one go.
There's a “Merge Tags” tool (/admin/merge-tags) which is linked from the list of moderator tools (/admin/links). I can also click the “...
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Auto-approve synonyms suggested by diamond moderators
Recall that anyone can propose tag synonyms at /tags/<tagname>/synonyms, e.g. here. If a non-diamond user suggests the synonym, the synonym will require either voting by users with high score in ...
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Please make the tag synonym tool less confusing [duplicate]
This is the screen for creating tag synonyms (Arqade edition):
Which is source and which is target? Every time I use this tool I get confused, as either way could theoretically make sense. The ...
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Inconsistencies in the moderator tag synonym and merge tools
There are several inconsistencies in the moderator tools to create and merge tag synonyms. (Note: the tools described in this page are only accessible to ♦ moderators.)
Clicking the “merge” button on ...
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Remove the tag synonym suggestions entirely
Users can suggest tag synonyms and vote for these suggestions. When enough users vote the tag synonym is created. The whole system has some significant flaws:
Synonym suggestions have almost zero ...
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Force tag synonym if a mod tries to make one, even if it's already suggested
So as a mod there are two different ways I can make a tag synonym; I can suggest it and it goes through voting like normal, or I can just make the dang thing myself immediately without voting.
I ...
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Fixing the sucktastic merge UI (for tags)
(Split off from my answer to Merging / synonimising tags should warn of tag wiki loss...)
The whole interface for this feature is terrible! It has almost no useful information for the poor moderator.
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Merging / synonimising tags should warn of tag wiki loss
On Travel.SE I recently merged two tags, where tag A is 'main' tag and tag B is a synonym tag. In this case, tag B was an older tag which had tag wiki content filled out. So when the merge was done, ...
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Layout improvement for "Create Tag Synonym"
In normal spoken language, you would say "pot" is a synonym for "kettle"; you would state the source first and then the target.
But the page to create tag synonyms has the text-entry fields the other ...
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Really delete this synonym: please tell me which synonym I'm confirming!
When I go to delete a tag synonym (clicking on the ⊗ button, which I believe is a ♦-only tool), a popup asks me whether I want to “Really delete this synonym?”
Since the tag names are in the far ...
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Synonyms of synonyms should be "collapsed" [duplicate]
These two tag synonyms are active at the moment:
thread -> threads
threads -> multithreading
The first synonym should be changed to thread -> multithreading.
Probably completely automating such ...
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