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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Tags: iOS vs. iOS5 vs. iOS4, etc [closed]
With each major release of iOS, it seems that we grow a new tag. As of now, we have ios, ios4, ios5, ios4.3, ios4-2, ios-sdk-4.3, ios-3.x, ios4.1, ios32, ios4.0.1, and a handful of others that are ...
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Combine all [ul], [ol], and [li] into a single tag [closed]
I don't see why these are all split up. Separately, they don't really make any difference. In general, we're talking about "HTML Lists" and not an ordered or unordered list specifically. Whether or ...
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Synonyms: [email-server], [mail-server], [mailserver] [closed]
These 4 tags should be made synonyms:
email-server
mail-server
mailserver
I think mail-server should be the master tag, even though mailserver is more popular.
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android-market tag should be renamed or synonymed [closed]
Google has renamed the Android market to "Google Play", hence I think the android-market tag should also be renamed, to google-play. (or at least, have any questions tagged google-play synonym to ...
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Merge [javascript] and [jquery] tags [closed]
There is often confusion among beginners. Most of the time, when they ask a JavaScript question, what they really want is JQuery. In fact, every problem can be solved with JQuery.
We should make ...
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Remove synonym [jq] -> [jquery] [closed]
jq actually exists (now):
jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
This question cannot be tagged with jq since it's automatically converted to jquery.
I suggest to remove ...
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Does [css-positioning] deserve to stand alone? +Cleanup [closed]
Currently, css-positioning is synonymized into css. However, there are currently several other positioning tags in existence that seem to indicate that CSS positioning is a wide enough issue that it ...
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Tag shenanigans: "datatable" vs "datatables" [closed]
There's a jQuery plugin named DataTables. There's a .NET class named DataTable.
There are SO tags named datatables and datatable, both of which describe the jQuery DataTables plugin.
A number of ...
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Add a [hls] tag - people keep auto-completing to [hlsl]! [closed]
Can we add hls tag as synonym for http-live-streaming?
I keep finding questions being tagged with hlsl (high level shader language). Presumably because people are typing "hls" and blindly auto-...
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Overlap? [deleted-accounts] vs. [deleted-users]
deleted-accounts 252 questions
Use it for questions about user accounts that have been deleted or the process of that deletion.
deleted-accounts is for questions about user accounts that have ...
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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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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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Merge tags [fql] and [facebook-fql] [closed]
They both refer to Facebook Query Language. I suspect it would be better to merge fqlx852 to facebook-fqlx1216 and make a synonym from former to latter.
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Make libxml tag a synonym for libxml2 on StackOverflow [closed]
Libxml has been v2 seemingly forever, no doubt some v1 installations are out there, but the libxml tag is used synonymously for libxml2 on StackOverflow.
Update this is still outstanding - anyone ...
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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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