Questions tagged [synonym-request]
A request to add one tag as the synonym of another tag. Please be specific about which tag should be a synonym of which. Bidirectional synonyms and cycles are implicitly disallowed, so suggest wisely.
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How to get synonym creation history?
Each tag may have several synonyms. On synonyms page like this you can see the synonym's creator. This is the user who started the process of synonymizing. In case if that done by a mod, no other ...
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What should we do with the [alias] tag?
Since we've been seeing some meta-tag discussion these past few days, here's another:
What should we do with the six-question wiki-less alias tag?
It seems to have been used as a synonym of tag-...
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Merge the [anonymous] and [anonymous-visitors] tags
anonymous and anonymous-visitors seem synonymous. Let's merge them?
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What's the difference between [easter-eggs] and [hidden-features]?
I just learned that Meta Stack Exchange has a tag hidden-features and a tag easter-eggs, and apparently at least one site regular sees sufficient difference between these tags to replace one by the ...
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Synonymize [user-rank] to [top-users] and [rankings] to [reputation-leagues]
Both the tags rankings and user-rank seem to describe the same thing as either top-users or reputation-leagues.
Since the tags pertain to approximately the same concept I think they should be ...
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Synonymize [the-overflow] into [blog]
There are two tags for the company blog:
blog (381 questions)
This tag is for questions about the Stack Overflow blog, the place for official company communications as well as essays, opinions, and ...
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Merge and synonymize [bookmark] with [bookmarks]
The tag bookmark has no wiki or excerpt. It has 12 questions, and quite a few, if not all of those questions seem to be asking about the SE bookmarks - and there is already a much clearer, better tag ...
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Should [careers] be a synonym of [jobs]?
Previously the functionality we currently know as Jobs was known as Careers.
Seeing that most of the questions regarding this topic are off-topic to MSE in the first place, I don't see any value in ...
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Can we [table] this tag, and use [tables] instead?
I saw the table tag on this, now deleted, off-topic question. I figure, since tables are now supported in markdown, we should be able to merge table into tables, especially considering the latter has ...
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Make [glossary] a synonym of [terminology]
This was already discussed on What should we do with [glossary]?. There is only one answer which is proposing this, it has +15 / -0.
glossary has 8 questions, no tag excerpt no tag wiki
terminology ...
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This tag [belongs-on] another site
The tag belongs-on (currently 6 questions, all of them asked in 2011 or earlier) seems to be a very old way to refer to what are now known as migration close reasons.
belongs-on should be a synonym of ...
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Where is all the [activity]?
Currently there are multiple tags in regard to the same thing, the activity tab of a user profile.
There are:
activity
recent-activity
activity-summary
With the following excerpts:
Use this tag ...
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Synonymize/merge [newsletter] into [community-digests]
Apparently, the newsletters have been renamed to Community digests. (I haven't seen an announcement or something.)
In my opinion, we should do the same for the newsletter tag here. I have already ...
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Should [sharing] and [share-this] be merged/synonymized?
We currently have two tags on Meta Stack Exchange about sharing:
sharing (79 questions)
For questions relating to sharing a post or promoting the site via email, on Facebook, or on Twitter.
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GlorfindelMod
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Let's get these tags [locked] down - do we need them all?
I just wrote a question about post notices on locked questions. When using the tag picker, I realized that we have three tags that are all really versions of the same tag:
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