Questions tagged [retag-request]
This tag is for requests to replace one tag with another existing tag. It also applies to requests that one tag should be merged into another, or simply abandoned.
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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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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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Outlook vs Outlook.com
Since Hotmail has become Outlook.com there have been a lot of questions on this SE about the transition and about changes to functionality. Many questions just refer to "Outlook" or use the "Outlook" ...
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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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Synonym requests
These tags seem close enough to me to be merged:
google-account & google-accounts, and
user-accounts, and account.
My apologies if this isn't the right course of action, but I can't do anything ...
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Merge [blogger] with [blogspot]
blogger and blogspot are about the same service. Please make them synonymous.
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Merge [gmail-contacts] and [google-contacts]
Not sure which way round this should go, and this would probably be a good use for synonyms. Whilst there are subtle differences between clicking the Contacts button in GMail, and going to the ...
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Please merge [google-plus-hangouts] and [google-hangout]
They really are the same thing and have a comparable number of questions each.
google-plus-hangouts
google-hangout
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SkyDrive is now OneDrive
OneDrive for Everything in Your Life
Today we are pleased to announce that SkyDrive will soon become OneDrive.
We have more than a handful of questions about skydrive. Please re-tag them as ...
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Merging [doc], [document] and [documents] tags
doc is just a short version of document. Also, documents is the plural form of the latter. They should all be merged.
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Synonym request [hangout] -> [google-plus-hangouts]
Please make hangout a synonym of google-plus-hangouts.
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Rename [deviant-art] to [deviantart]
The tag for deviant-art should be renamed to deviantart to reflect the site's official name.
It's a tiny tag with just a single question, but I can't think of any reason not to use the site's proper ...
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Please rename [commons] to [wikimedia-commons]
There's only 12 questions, and I'm tempted to retag them manually, but...
commons is too generic, and doesn't have meaning without the existence of other tags.
Since all of the questions with that ...
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Can the name of the [google-team-drive] tag be changed to [google-shared-drive]?
Can we please change the name of the tag google-team-drive to google-shared-drive?
The name of the feature on G Suite changed from Team Drives to Shared Drives in June this year. Thus, the tag name ...
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Merge “spam” tags
Questions tagged spam are pretty much, by definition, about how to prevent spam. (I can't think of any questions that we would want here that wouldn't be.)
I suggest, then, that the following tags be ...
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GAS [google-apps-script] tag
The Google Apps Script Developer Relations team chose SO as their Q&A platform. In doing so, they use the following tag:
google-apps-script
Web Applications, however uses this tag:
google-apps-...
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Retag request: [search-engine] & [search-engines]
There are (as of now) 18 questions tagged as search-engine
21 questions tagged as search-engines
Here's requesting merging of the above 2 tags. Optionally, search-engines could be made as a ...
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Rename [google-plus-circle] to [google-plus-circles]
Please rename google-plus-circle to google-plus-circles. This will match other similar tags (e.g., google-plus-pages).
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Merge into and add [online-storage] as a synonym of [cloud-storage]
First, a question: online-storage and cloud-storage mean the same thing, right?
If so, should we merge into and add online-storage (12 questions) as a synonym of cloud-storage (8 questions)?
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Please pluralize [keyboard-shortcut]
The tag keyboard-shortcut would be better as keyboard-shortcuts because, well, an app seldom has a single keyboard shortcut.
It would also better match other tags.
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Tag [ad] should be merged with and made a synonym of tag [ads]
ad should be merged with and made a synonym of ads - they both mean the same thing, one has an s, and one doesn't.
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Synonym Request & Rename
Synonym Request & Rename
word & microsoft-word, better to rename into tag:ms-word
Rename
excel ==> tag:ms-excel microsoft-excel
outlook ==> tag:ms-outlook microsoft-outlook
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Merging tags [chart] and [charts]
chart and charts should be merged. They refer to the exact same thing.
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Tag merge request: links, hyperlink, permalink, broken-link, linking
hyperlink x 2
linking x 3
permalink x 4
broken-link x 3
All of these are the same variation of links ( 23 questions)
Can these be merged & maybe a synonym can be created for these?
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Synonymize [forwarding] and [email-forwarding]
I'm not fully convinced that they're the best tags, but forwarding and email-forwarding seem to be covering the exact same territory.
forwarding has usage guidance:
Generically refers to the ...
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Merge [localization] and [language] tags
language is being used as a subset/synonym of localization, so they should be merged. Even though language has more threads, I suggest using localization as its parent since it has a more general ...
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Please merge and synonymize [forums] and [forum]
Both forums and forum exist, have questions, and have a tag wiki.
The former has more questions than the latter. Can they be merged and synonymized, please?
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Let's rename [google-plus-hangouts] to [google-hangouts]
In Google's ongoing effort to divorce functionality from Google+, the "Plus" part of the name for Google Hangouts was dropped several months ago. As you can see from the official page, the name of the ...
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Please rename [skype] to [skype-for-web]
While the usage guidance for skype points out that it's only for "Skype for Web", we still get people asking about the installable software.1,2
We can shortcut that to be specific with the tag by ...
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Merging tags [antispam] and [anti-spam]
Currently there are two identical tags: [antispam] and [anti-spam]. I think they should be merged, since there is no real difference between them.
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Tag Synonym request: [filters] -> [filter]
There's only a few questions under filters, but it's pretty clearly a synonym for filter. Can it please be made such?
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Please consider merging [facebook-chat] & [facebook-messages]
If you have enough reputation, please suggest facebook-chat & facebook-messages as synonymous.
That is (keep in mind those tags have no descriptions), unless the former means the pop up version ...
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Please synonymize and merge [rss-reader] and [feed-reader]
rss-reader and feed-reader cover the same territory. (There are questions about Feedly in both, for instance.)
The former has more questions than the latter. However, by its name "rss-reader" would ...
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Merging tags [howto] and [how-to]
Both howto and how-to tags refer to the same thing and thus should be merged.
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Please rename [stackoverflow] to [stack-overflow]
The tag stackoverflow should be renamed to stack-overflow better to reflect the site's official name.
It's a tiny tag with just three open Qs but I can't think of any reason not to use the site's ...
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Merge/synonymize [google-docs] and [google-drive]
Google Docs are now part of Google Drive. Should not google-docs now be a synonym of google-drive?
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Merge [facebook-<X>] into [facebook]
[facebook]: 138
[facebook-pages]: 8
[facebook-chat]: 5
[facebook-apps]: 4
[facebook-connect]: 3
[facebook-games]: 3
[facebook-alternative]: 2
[facebook-account]: 1
[facebook-groups]: 1
Could these be ...
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Tags [like] vs. [facebook-like]
I draw your attention to the tags like and facebook-like.
Only like has a tag wiki, which currently reads:
A way to give positive feedback or to connect with things you care about on Facebook.
So,...
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Can we standardize the Microsoft tags?
Last week there was a Meta discussion asking whether questions about Microsoft Word online were on-topic.
Are questions about Microsoft Word Online on-topic here? I don't
really see any posted ...
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Synonym request [google-apps-scripting] -> [google-apps-script]
Please make google-apps-scripting a synonym of google-apps-script
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Rename “pivot” to “google-sheets-query-pivot” or at least “query-pivot”
All questions that link to pivot refer to the pivot functionality within google-sheets-query. I've submitted usage guidance to it which will hopefully get approved.
Due to (currently) having no usage ...
