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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Synonymise [locked-questions], [locked-answers] and [locked] to [locked-posts]
Suggestion
On Meta SE, synonymise:
locked-questions → locked-posts
locked-answers → locked-posts
locked → locked-posts
Rationale
While technically there is a difference between locked answers and ...
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Merge or synonymize the [icon] and [icons] tags on MSE
I wrote this question, and in doing so, I found out that we have two tags, icon and icons. These are identical. Can someone merge them or set up a tag synonym for them?
There aren't many questions ...
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Merge beta and beta-sites
beta-phase (51) and beta-sites (40) are both being used interchangeably on meta - perhaps they should be merged and synonyms created, or just remove beta-sites? (Beta-phase has Beta as a synonym.)
It ...
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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 [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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Merge [site-stats] into [statistics]
As the statistics tag already handles
Questions about sizes and other quantities of Stack Exchange sites, e.g. number of questions, GB/day transferred, etc.
in other words: site statistics, I ...
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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:
locked - 86
locked-...
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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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Merging image-upload and image-uploading
image-upload and image-uploading should be merged as both serves the same purpose, with tag:image-uploading retaining its position as the main tag as it defines the process itself, the tag's name ...
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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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Is it an [escape-character], or is the [character-escaping]?
The tags for character-escaping (25 questions) and escape-character (4 questions) should be merged.
They're both fairly small tags about escaping special characters: . ^ $ * + ? ( ) [ { / \ | ` " <...
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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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Add [ie7] as a synonym for [internet-explorer-7] on Meta
Meta includes both ie7 and internet-explorer-7 and the former should be synonimized to the latter. IE6 doesn't have the same problem, everyone just calls it "IE6". IE8 and IE9 have already been ...
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Make [retagging] and [addtag-request] synonyms to [retag-request] rather than [tags]
Currently here, on meta.SO, retagging and addtag-request are synonyms to tags.
But [retagging] should be a synonym to retag-request, and [addtag-request] to tag-creation.
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Actually complete re-tag requests
I've just seen Manishearth's question asking for completed re-tag requests on Meta to be closed.
I think it would be useful if uncompleted re-tag requests (327) and synonym requests (94) could either ...
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