Questions tagged [clean-up]
For coordinating projects to help clean up the main site.
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A task for the task jar: Passwords are being replaced by passkeys
Google has announced that passkeys will be turned on by default.
Passwordless by default: Make the switch to passkey
We might need to review How do I recover my Google account, password, or username? ...
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Another task for the task jar: Close questions about defuncted web applications
According to The Web Application Graveyard, created in 2015 by ale,
questions on applications or application features that are no longer available are off-topic for Web Applications as no one will ...
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Add importxml and importhtml tags
We have a ton of questions regarding the ImportXML or ImportHTML functions in Google Sheets. It would be useful if they were easier to find, especially as a lot of them are quite similar and those ...
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Burninate the [posting] tag
I draw your attention to posting.
There is, of course, no excerpt or tag wiki. It is attached to questions about "posting" on Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Social Plugin, Google Groups, Google+...
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Vote to delete "What's the best invoicing webapp?"
This question has the following close reason:
closed as not a real question by phwd♦ Feb 28 '11 at 20:19
It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is
ambiguous, vague, ...
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Do we need [social-networks]?
Update: Tag no longer exists.
Tag social-networks was in use for ~40 Open Qs. It showed 13 followers and a Usage guide of:
On Web Applications, the tag 'social networks' refers to a website where ...
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Clean up of [speed] tag
I draw your attention to the speed tag.
Currently, there are 11 questions. There is, of course, no tag wiki or excerpt.
The questions are on a variety of topics.
2 are closed webapp recommendation ...
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Clean up [untagged] questions
This is a clean-up task which'll never end.
There is a regular job that removes tags that are only on 1 (or fewer) questions. What this means is that any question with one of these "orphan" tags ...
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Clean-up needed: [direct-message]
I draw your attention to the tag: direct-message.
Only nine messages, but...
There is, of course no tag wiki and no usage guidance. By itself, the tag is useless; it requires a companion tag to give ...
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Clean-up needed: [support] & [customer-support]
I draw your attention to the support tag.
No tag wiki or usage guidance, of course.
The questions tagged thus appear to be, by and large, questions asking for support, rather than questions asking ...
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Clean-up needed: [transfer]
I draw your attention to the transfer tag.
7 questions. All but one look like they should simply use the migrate-data tag instead. Some use both tags. (The one that shouldn't use migrate-data is ...
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Clean-up needed: [identity]
I draw your attention to the identity tag.
There is no tag wiki, and no usage guidance, of course.
Questions are quite scattered.
How to delete a Twitter account
How to create a "new online ...
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Clean up needed of Meta tag: [archive]
I draw your attention to the tag archive. Currently, there are 19 questions. There is no tag wiki or usage guidance.
There are a number of apps which have the concept of "archiving", not to mention ...
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Better tag guidance for tags that attract development questions
In spite of our best efforts, we still get daily questions about web application development.
Obviously, people don't read. Part of the problem may be that some of the tags that a web app developer ...
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Purpose of [reporting] tag
I draw your attention to the reporting tag.
Currently 14 questions, and they run the gamut:
using Google Spreadsheets to make a report
scheduling reports in HP Project and Portfolio Management ...
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Google Apps is now "G Suite"
https://www.google.com/gsuite or, if you prefer, https://gsuite.google.com/
Introducing G Suite from Google Cloud. A set of intelligent apps including Gmail, Docs, Drive and Calendar to connect the ...
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We need to git rid of [git]
I draw your attention to the git tag and its 27 questions.
Git is in no wise a web application. There are a number of web applications (github, bitbucket) with which Git can be used, and we have tags ...
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Burninate [hide]
I draw your attention to the tag hide.
It's currently applied to 10 questions, all of which have something to do with hiding, or not hiding, something. (At least none of them are about animal skin.)
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Tag Excerpt (guidance) improvement project
Tag wikis and wiki excerpts have evolved a bit over time. Originally, the excerpt was supposed to be "the elevator pitch" for a tag. However, that guidance has changed and the excerpt is meant to be a ...
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What [javascript] questions are on-topic?
I've tweaked the tag guidance and description of the javascript tag to try to make it more clear that more than likely the question our visitor is about to ask is off-topic here.
As you can see, a ...
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Nobody's [defaults] but mine
I draw your attention to the defaults tag.
This looks to be the very definition of a meta-tag. Every app will set these up differently, and whether or not they're changeable is up to each app. No one ...
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For your [reviews]
I draw your attention to the tag reviews.
There is no tag description, and no usage guidance.
This looks like another classic "meta tag". It has no context without the other tags on a question and ...
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We must [unsubscribe] from the [subscription]
I draw your attention to subscription and unsubscribe.
I would call both of these the very definition of a meta tag. "Subscribing" could be to a mailing list (or similar), paying for a service, or ...
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What to do with the [address] tag?
The tag excerpt and wiki for address are empty but there are 9 questions 6 questions related to regular (physical?) addresses and to email addresses. In the context of Web Applications it looks to be ...
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Can't make the [connections]
I draw your attention to the tag connections.
Ten questions (at the moment). No usage guidance or wiki description.
About half of the questions are about LinkedIn connections. The rest are about ...
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Clean up project: Office 365
I draw your attention to the tag office-365.
There seems to be a bit of confusion on what this tag is for. Granted, the description isn't great, but that's fairly easily remedied.
A goodly number of ...
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Is 'icons' a good tag?
I draw your attention to icons.
On the (currently) 10 questions with that tag...
1 is about emoji in Gmail subject lines
2 are about emoticons in Facebook
3 are about icons in Trello
1 is a request ...
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Let's burninate [api]
(Slightly related to this question: Questions of the form: Does {website X} have an API?)
Application Program Interfaces are firmly in the domain of programming. Except, perhaps, for questions asking ...
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The Web Application Graveyard
We've all been there. A beloved or essential application shuts down. Maybe they ran out of money. Maybe they merged with another company. Maybe they just got bored. In any event, the app is no longer ...
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Problematic [tags] and [tagging] tags
I draw your attention to tags and tagging.
Not only is one simply the verb form of applying the other (and should thus be a synonym) they certainly seem to be meta tags; neither could be the only tag ...
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Why in the world do we have [stack-exchange]?
Apparently, we have a stack-exchange tag, with a long wiki description describing the network of sites.
Why?
Well, now we've got a baker's dozen questions that are either:
a support question that ...
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Let's clean up some meta tags
First, let's look at the advice from What are tags, and how should I use them?
Avoid meta-tags
Do not use meta-tags in questions. Here are some tips
to help you determine whether a tag is a meta-tag:
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URL shortener cleanup project
For the most part, URL shorteners should not be used here.
Their primary benefit—fitting long URLs into artificially scarce text spaces—is of no use here. The Question and Answer spaces are plenty ...
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Tag cleanup for July 2013
Following tags are meta tags (what is this?), need to be removed/made synonyms
themes - needs disambiguation
tags
sorting
list - needs disambiguation
audio
website
webservice
Important
Do not flag/...
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Clean up a thon contest! [closed]
Kicking off the activity by introducing an idea brought up by JohnC.
Clean up a thon!!!
Cleaning's an art. My mop is my paintbrush.
Our answer rate has dropped to 87% which may seem great but it's ...
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We need your help to clean up Web Apps!
Web Apps needs your help! In honor of Web Apps' anniversary celebration, we're cleaning up questions and/or answers that are not answers, or are closed that have no future value whatsoever.
So......
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