Questions tagged [tag-disambiguation]
For questions about ambiguous tags that might need to be expanded into multiple tags. Use with the [tags] tag
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What to do about the [wss] tag?
The wss tag is currently described as referring to "Windows SharePoint Services", but almost all of the recent questions under this tag refer to the "WebSocket Secure" (which uses ...
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Clarify the [cryptoapi] tag
My impression is that the cryptoapi tag is supposed to be about the subset of Windows API that deals with crypto (NCrypt, BCrypt, CAPICOM, CertEnroll and the like), and not about any API/library that ...
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Disambiguate [jai] (Java Advanced Imaging API) from the Jai programming language
Proposal
Rename jai to advanced-imaging-api or java-advanced-imaging-api
Introduce jai-lang or jai
Details
I've been part of the Jai programming language closed beta for a while now and I thought ...
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What should we do with the [stream] tag?
I just came across the stream tag, which has 15k questions, and whose excerpt reads:
DO NOT USE FOR THE JAVA STREAM API INTRODUCED IN JAVA 8 (use [java-stream] for those questions!) A stream is a ...
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Rename [argo] to [swift-argo]
Almost all questions tagged with argo are actually about argocd in violation of argo's tag wiki stating:
Apply to questions regarding thoughtbot's Swift JSON parser, Argo. For questions about the ...
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How does [cobra] explicitly mean three things?
Somebody went through the effort of describing three different technologies for the tag cobra.
The excerpt reads:
Three possible technologies:
The Cobra toolkit is a pure Java HTML parser and ...
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Merge and synonymize [cdp] with [chrome-devtools-protocol]
cdp is a new tag with 35 questions
chrome-devtools-protocol is the main tag with 199 questions
The term "CDP" is a well-known abbreviation for "Chrome Devtools protocol", so it ...
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Disambiguating the [dbconnection] tag
As part of the connect burnination, I came across dbconnection, which looks like it could use a disambiguation followed by merge/removal:
No tag wiki guidance
Currently 235 questions
Has 46 ...
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What should be done with the [generative] tag?
I don't really like the generative tag, and I feel it's overly broad and there are more specific tags that should be used instead. At the same time, it fails the burnination criteria:
Does it ...
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Proposed tag synonym filtering -> filter
Please don't vote on the tag right away. It is already at +2, at +4 the synonym gets approved and the tags get mixed, we won't be able to undo that action. So let's discuss here before an irreversible ...
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Reconsider xla tag
Until 2017 almost all xla questions were to do with Excel/VBA, as described in the tag info. Since then, of the 35 questions with the tag, 28 instead refer to the machine learning compiler. There is ...
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Disambiguate [abc]
Disclaimer: while I personally don't think the tag in question should exist, this is not intended as a burnination request, but as an open discussion to choose a plan of action.
Nearly 9 years ago ...
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Resolving an ambiguous tag: [mri]
The mri tag is currently described as being related to a specific Ruby interpreter:
Matz's Ruby Interpreter or Ruby MRI (also called CRuby) is the reference implementation of the Ruby programming ...
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Should [audiowaveform] tag be a (one-way) synonym of [waveform]?
There are 559 questions tagged waveform and 19 questions tagged audiowaveform. A large percentage of those tagged waveform actually relate to audio waveforms and not other physical or abstract ...
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Widespread incorrect use of the [redirect] tag
The description of the redirect tag states:
A response by a webserver, that asks the user agent to not show the response body, but instead request a different resource. Questions can be related to ...
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