Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Question closed for "needs details or clarity" but it's so simple I don't know what more detail to add
My question How do I download all my videos from Google Photos? was closed with the following reason:
This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers.
Add details and ...
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Can someone please give my stale pending edit some love?
Not sure why, but this (months?-old) edit is still awaiting review. A picture is worth a thousand words I hear. TIA.
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Do we want to reduce the number of votes needed to Close/Reopen questions?
Recently Stack Overflow reduced the number of votes needed to close/reopen questions from 5 to 3 after a successful experiment to see if it was worth it.
The results were that it did improve the rate ...
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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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Please rename [youtube-creatorstudio] to [youtube-creator-studio]
The tag youtube-creatorstudio should be renamed to youtube-creator-studio better to reflect the tool kit's official name.
It's a minor tag with just three questions but I can't think of any reason ...
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Please make [outlook-on-the-web] a synonym of [outlook-web-access]
Currently outlook-on-the-web tag have 15 questions and outlook-web-access tag have 32 questions. Uses for the both tag is almost same.
Please make outlook-on-the-web a synonym of outlook-web-access ...
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Please make [facebook-chat] a synonym of [facebook-messenger]
Ref: Distinction between [facebook-chat] and [facebook-messenger]
The A there includes:
I don't think there is a distinction. I think the former should be a synonym of the latter.
It has been ...
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Can we rename [google-documents] and [google-presentations]?
Ref: Can we rename [google-spreadsheets] and [google-spreadsheets-query]?
and: Please make [google-spreadsheet-charts] a synonym of [google-sheets-charts]
Please rename:
google-documents > google-...
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Please rename [hackernews] to [hacker-news]
The tag hackernews should be renamed to hacker-news better to reflect the site's official name.
It's a minor tag with just eight questions but I can't think of any reason not to use the site's proper ...
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Please make [google-spreadsheet-charts] a synonym of [google-sheets-charts]
The official (current) name of the product is "Google Sheets", so tags about it and its functionality should reflect that.
Please make google-spreadsheet-charts a synonym of google-sheets-charts.
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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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Please rename [research-gate] to [researchgate]
The tag research-gate should be renamed to researchgate better to reflect the site's official name.
It's a tiny tag with just a single question, How to “unfollow” people on ResearchGate but I can't ...
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Can we rename [google-spreadsheets] and [google-spreadsheets-query]?
We have two tags that include “spreadsheets” within them, and both refer to the Google product: google-spreadsheets and google-spreadsheets-query. In use 3,200 times (approximately) between the two.
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Make [windows-live-mail] a synonym of [outlook.com]
The Microsoft email service for consumers has changed it's name several times.
We have windows-live-mail(25 questions) which should be a synonym of outlook.com (249 questions) but as I haven't the 5 ...
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Rename request: [google-drawing] to [google-drawings]
Google calls its web-based diagramming software Google Drawings (see) and we are in favour of consistency.
Please rename google-drawing > google-drawings.
There are at present about 23 Qs with the ...
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What's the point of keeping a merged question with deleted target?
Want name only to appear after signing into gmail account, not my email address is locked:
merged by phwd♦ Mar 30 '11 at 2:36
This question was merged with Display name instead of email ...
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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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Bottom border is not displaying in the profile page
There are few bottom border issue in the user profile page.
In the Profile tab - Top Posts section, the bottom border is not displaying.
In the Activity tab - Questions, Answers, Badges and Active ...
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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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Suggest [password-recovery] as synonym of [account-recovery]
Isn't password-recovery a subset of account-recovery? I mean, if you're trying to recover your password you're obviously trying to recover access to your account, no? (The reverse is not necessarily ...
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Break synonym between [account-management] and [account-recovery]
Currently, account-recovery is a synonym of account-management.
While I agree that they're related, and sometimes closely so, I suggest that they're sufficiently different that they should not be ...
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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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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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Why did I receive badge notification which I have already earned?
Yesterday I received notification 2 times on main site (as well as for Stack Overflow) that I have earned "Marshal" badge, which I have already earned back in November 2015.
See the below screenshot ...
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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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Please make [office-web-apps] a synonym of [office-online]
(This is related to: Clean up project: Office 365)
Office Web Apps is an old name for what has now become Office Online.
Please make office-web-apps a synonym of office-online and merge.
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Please make [google-inbox] a synonym of [inbox-by-gmail]
The official name of the product is Inbox by Gmail, but it is often called "Google Inbox". (The URL of inbox.google.com exacerbates this a bit.)
Please make google-inbox a synonym of inbox-by-gmail ...
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Please update the "recommendation" custom off-topic reason to include guidance to Software Recs
Among our current custom off-topic Close reasons is one for questions asking for recommendations. It currently reads:
Application/website recommendations are off-topic and out of scope. It is better ...
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Synonyms for Google Drive apps
Can we get some synonyms created? Google can't seem to make up their minds on what things should be called.
google-slides should be a synonym for google-presentations
Google Drive was originally ...
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Can we get rid of the [issue-tracking] tag?
There are 12 questions tagged issue-tracking. Most of them are also tagged with something else, usually the actual issue tracking system they are asking about.
Those tagged with only issue-tracking ...
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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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Create tag for telegram-messenger
I asked a question about telegram-messenger Telegram Messenger on a Google Voice number
There is no tag for it, Would it be possible to create a new tag for it?
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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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Make [gmail-chat] synonymous of [google-talk]
Google Chat used to be usable within Gmail, Orkut and iGoogle but the last two services were shut down, so presently Google Chat can be used only within Gmail.
At this time there are two alternatives ...
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Tag [google-sheets] needs to be a synonym
If you got the reputation, please go to https://webapps.stackexchange.com/tags/google-spreadsheets/synonyms and vote up the synonym for 'google-sheets'.
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Merge [blogger] with [blogspot]
blogger and blogspot are about the same service. Please make them synonymous.
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Phantom triangles on downvote warning
There are phantom triangles on top of the warning bubble when low-rep users downvote a post:
I'm running Chrome 40.0.2214.115 m on Windows 7 x64.
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Create tag for the new Inbox by Gmail
Would it be possible to create a new tag for Inbox by Gmail (http://inbox.google.com)?
google-inbox?
Google is sending out invitations to more and more users, so it probably going to be useful in ...
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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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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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Let's expand the "dead app" close reason
One of the custom off-topic close reasons here is
Questions on applications that no longer exist are off-topic for Web Applications as no one will ever be able to make use of the answers again. ...
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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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My question is about Google Tag Manager, but there's no tag for it yet
I asked this question a while back:
Google Tag Manager no longer in preview mode for any version.
At first it was tagged with [google], but that tag was removed later by someone else. There's no tag ...
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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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"Don't ask about" on Web Apps Tour
From The Tour, specifically the "Don't ask about" section
Weren't the "Creating or developing a web application" and "Web browsers, including features and browser extensions/add-ons" items moved to ...
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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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Can we kill (and possibly blacklist) [php]
PHP is a scripting language for building dynamic web sites and web apps.
This site is not about building web apps.
I've been looking through php and any question that's not already closed should be ...
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Make all recommendation questions out of scope and off topic, regardless of research
Maybe it's time to be final and state that any and all recommendation questions are just off topic and out of scope with the site.
The current close reason listed reads:
Questions seeking ...
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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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"You don't have the permission to use this type of flag"
In the Flagged Posts queue, I choose the "it has invalid flags" option. I receive this message:
I most certainly should have this permission. Certainly I have before now. The flagging dialog also ...
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