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Burninate or synonym request for [if-this-then-that] tag

I came across this question, which has a tag, called if-this-then-that. Apparently some other questions have this tag too. I don't see the sense of having this tag, while there already is an if-...
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Do we really need separate tags for minor patch versions of Ruby?

I could find five of them: ruby-2.1.3 ruby-2.1.4 ruby-2.1.5 ruby-2.3.1 ruby-2.3.8 that, regardless there are some questions using these tags, it's very unlikely they have to do with particular ...
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Duplicate tag: [matterjs] - [matter.js]

matterjs Questions: 103 Created: 5 years, 5 months Viewed: 28 times Editors: 2 About: Matter.js is a 2D rigid body physics engine for the web written in JavaScript. matter.js Questions: 89 4 years,...
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These two tags are [LinkedIn]

The tag-excerpt of linkedin says: A tool used for finding business/networking connections, such as for suggesting job candidates. Used for questions regarding LinkedIn's APIs. Do not ask questions ...
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Make [spark-framework] a synonym of [spark-java]

The tag spark-framework has been burninated twice before, here and here. It was recreated just a few days after being burninated the last time. spark-java is the more popular tag with 414 questions ...
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Synonymize [moustache] to [mustache], or burninate [moustache]

Note that once a tag has no uses it is removed from the system within 24 hours. So this burninate-request is ultimately unnecessary but will be kept as a blacklist target in case the tag pops up ...
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Tags [conv-neural-network] and [convolutional-neural-network] serve the same purpose

The tags conv-neural-network and convolutional-neural-network serve the same purpose. Former is older than later. Can we retag/burninate/synonymize them?
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We will gladly take your [money]

money It's a thing. While we write programs to take it, move it around, lose it, etc, it's not really a good tag. A better tag is currency, which takes into account an actual usage. Here's the ...
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Once upon a time the orphaned twins [story] and [stories] went looking for a purpose

We have both story (80 questions, 15 followers) and stories (25 questions, 3 followers), but both with no wiki entry. Looking at the questions, we have ones on Facebook and Instagram stories, JBehave ...
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Should we start a transaction for burninating [transactional]?

transactional looks more a type-squatted tag than anything else. Should it be burninated? Or can it be made an alias for transactions automatically moving all ~600 questions tagged?
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Delete [emr] - it's a duplicate of [amazon-emr]

Those are synonyms. I suggest to merge them. Leave amazon-emr and delete emr, as amazon-emr is easier to find.
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Can we start burninating or synonymising [initalization]?

EDIT 3: After @JDB has pointed out this link in the comments, I have been enlightened as to the polling approach of pasting answers and asking people to vote on them is not a good one. Hence, I am ...
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No key value; pare [keyvaluepair]

keyvaluepair may be a synonym of key-value. Or maybe burninate keyvaluepair and retag since the other tag is more used and better documented. I do not have enough meta experience to understand which ...
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[PCL]: When acronyms attack!

The printer-control-language tag has, ah, a few questions having something to do with printing. Most of them seem to involve computer vision or .NET assemblies instead, though. That's because ...
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Merge [unity3d-5] and [unity5] tags (or synonymize or delete)

The unity3d-5 and unity5 tags are being used for the same purpose. Can these be merged or made into synonyms? Alternatively, these may not be needed at all. I'm not convinced tagging a question as ...
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