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I've been using Stack Overflow for some time and I thought it was time I started contributing to the Meta site:

I recently noticed that there's a with only 140 questions and very little associated information:

.gz is a file format used by the gzip application that compress/decompress files.

This tag seems redundant given that there already exists a much more comprehensive with 2.9k questions.

gzip is the name for the compressed data format used by the eponymous GZip application for compressing and decompressing data.

I'd like to suggest merging the tag into .

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  • are all questions about [gz] about the format and not about the tool? if yes, then yeah. Otherwise we may want to check more closely that.
    – Braiam
    Commented May 11, 2015 at 14:55
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    @Braiam From what I can tell, both tags include questions about different software implementations such as web server HTTP transfers, PHP's gzcompress function, automatic decompression by text editors such as Vim, etc. Both tags also include questions about the file format itself as specified in RFC1950.
    – Anthony Geoghegan
    Commented May 11, 2015 at 15:15
  • Ugh... that seems to be a tag "something to do with the gz format"
    – Braiam
    Commented May 11, 2015 at 22:55

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Yes, the tags should obviously be synonymized. Consider, for example, the tag. It is synonymized with which is the extension 7zip files have. Another example is the tag (it has and tags as synonyms) and many more.

This also seems logical: when you are talking about a .7z file, you are actually talking about 7zip in general. If not, then the question is about files in general and should be tagged .

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