Questions tagged [tag-synonyms]
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Tag Synonym/Merge [Go] and [Golang]
From the go tag wiki:
Go, also called golang,
From the golang tag wiki:
The term sometimes used for the Go Programming Language
I think these two tags should probably be made actual synonyms or ...
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Tag Synonyms / Merging: Estimates
Right now, we have 4 estimation tags on SESE: estimation and its unmerged synonym time-estimation (239 questions), cost-estimation (29 questions), and workload-estimation (11 questions).
I present ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [modelling] → [modeling]
Please merge tag modelling (20 questions) into modeling (138), and make them synonyms.
Neither of tags has wiki, but questions in both appear to be about the same topic and per my reading of Grammar ...
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Merging tags metrics measurements and code-metrics?
The tags metrics, measurement, code-metrics seem to overlap very much:
metrics is the most used with 77 questions to date. I propose to keep this one.
measurement has 9 questions which are also ...
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Possible grouping of "Analysis", "System analysis" and "Business analysis" tags
There are currently several analysis tags which significantly overlap, but some having relatively few questions:
Analysis: 80 questions - 8 this year
Business-analysis: 26 questions - 2 this year
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What's [app]? Application?
What purpose does tag app serve?
It has almost 40 questions. Few of them I looked at made me feel like it's the same as applications tag. Does it make sense to make them synonyms?
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business logic vs business rules
I just posted a question about business rules in MVC views; when going to tag the question I was looking for business-something and found the business-logic and business-rules tags, neither of which ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [life-cycle] → [sdlc]
Please merge tag life-cycle (22 questions) into sdlc (35), and make them synonyms.
Only sdlc tag has wiki, but questions in both appear to be about software development lifecycle.
Preference for ...
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server-client-server-client-server-... Let's avoid infinite recursions
server-client has a wiki and 63 questions, client-server has no wiki and 21 questions. I think that there is no real difference between them and one should be merged into the other (probably the ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [ux] → [user-experience]
Please merge tag ux (13 questions) into user-experience (68), and make them synonyms.
Neither of the tags has wiki, but questions in both are about user experience (UX).
Preference for master tag is ...
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exception-handling is all about exceptions
Is there any reason we have both exceptions and exception-handling?
Imho, the latter should be merged into the former, or at least synonymized, as there's no relevant difference between their topics.
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Tag merge / synonym request: [assembler] → [assembly]
Please merge tag assembler (12 questions) into assembly (89), and make them synonyms.
Tag assembler has no wiki, for assembly there is tag wiki excerpt:
An assembly language is a low-level ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [software-performance] → [performance]
Please merge tag software-performance (14 questions) into performance (461), and make them synonyms.
Tag software-performance has no wiki, for performance there is tag wiki excerpt:
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Tag merge / synonym request: [float] → [floating-point]
Please merge tag float (10 questions) into floating-point (32), and make them synonyms.
Preference for master tag is because it looks unambiguous and because Wikipedia article uses this term: ...
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Difference between embedded and embedded-systems tags
I looked through the recent questions in the embedded tag, and they seem to be primarily about embedded systems, with some exceptions, like What is the difference between embedding and composing?.
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Coding Style and Coding Standards
There was a post from July 2014 that was partially completed, but the tags coding-style (543) and coding-standards (329) still exist. They appear to be very similar. Should these tags be merged? If so,...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [compilers] → [compiler]
Please merge tag compilers (212 questions) into compiler (82), and make them synonyms.
Preference for master tag is because Wikipedia article uses singular form: Compiler.
Tag wikis appear to be ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [developer] -> [software-developer]
Tag merge / synonym request: developer -> software-developer
It's possible they should both be added to STCI, but at the very least, I don't see much of a difference between these tags. Software ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [cache] → [caching]
Please merge tag cache (27 questions) into caching (79), and make them synonyms.
Tag cache does not have wiki nor excerpt. Tag caching wiki excerpt is
Questions regarding cache algorithms by ...
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Synonym request: multithreading, threading, thread
The the tags multithreading, thread, and threading are duplicates.
multithreading seems to be used the most. I don't see any disadvantage to this (except if a question is only talking about one ...
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tag synonym request: [random] and [random-numbers]
There is a significant overlap in the tags random and random-numbers. There are 33 questions tagged random-numbers and 41 tagged random. Of these, 11 of them have both tags.
Please make random-...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [js] → [javascript]
There are currently 8 questions with the tag js, they seem to all refer to JavaScript, so it would seem natural to make this a synonym.
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Tag merge / Synonym request : [coding-standards]
The following terms are all related and cover the same topic:
coding-standards x 301
Wiki: Coding standards a set of conventions and practices used in software, such as naming classes, variables, and ...
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Should debug and debugging tags be synonyms? Should they be merged?
Should debug and debugging tags be synonyms? Should they be merged? I think so. I would like to hear your opinion.
I am referring to debug tag and debugging tag.
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Should aop and aspect-oriented tags be synonyms? Should they be merged?
Should aop and aspect-oriented tags be synonyms? Should they be merged? I think so. I would like to hear your opinion.
I am referring to:
aspect-oriented tag
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aop tag
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Tag merge / synonym request: [srp] → [single-responsibility]
Please merge tag srp (26 questions) into single-responsibility (27), and make them synonyms.
Preference for master tag is because I consider single-responsibility a more descriptive name.
Tag srp ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [regex] -> [regular-expressions]
regular-expressions and regex.
These are the same thing, just one is shorter to type.
Regular-expressions should be the 'master' tag while regex is the synonym.
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Tag merge / synonym request: [dry] → [dry-principle]
Please merge tag dry (27 questions) into dry-principle (5), and make them synonyms.
Preference for master tag is because I consider dry-principle a more descriptive name.
Tag dry wiki excerpt is
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Remove the [asp] tag or link the [asp] tag to either [asp-classic] or [asp.net]
On Stack Overflow, the asp tag was made a synonym of asp-classic since that is generally what is meant. Looking over the 8 that are were tagged here as asp shows a similar pattern of usage. (though I ...
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Tag "third-party-libraries" and "3rd-party-library"
Aren't these tags more or less the same: third-party-libraries and 3rd-party-library? Should they be a synonym, or are they different?
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What is the difference between [exact-duplicates] and [duplicate-questions] tags? - synonym request
What is the difference between exact-duplicates (16 questions) and duplicate-questions (4 questions) tags?
As of now, neither of above have tag wiki; per my reading of handful of questions I randomly ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [Immutable] -> [Immutability]
I prefer immutability but it really doesn't matter. There's no reason to have both tags though, so pick one and stuff the other one inside it. (If you can black-list the alternative might be good ...
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Merge/synonym request: i18n / internationalization
i18n should be merged into internationalization and made a synonym.
They even have the same wiki but are still different tags. Merging them would be a good idea.
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Tag merge / synonym request: [legacy-code] → [legacy]
Please merge tag legacy-code (2 questions) into legacy (46), and make them synonyms.
Tag legacy-code does not have wiki nor excerpt. Tag legacy wiki excerpt is
Questions about legacy languages, ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [os] → [operating-systems]
Please merge tag os (12 questions) into operating-systems (65), and make them synonyms.
Both tags do not have wiki, only excerpts. For the reference, current excerpts are quoted below
os
An ...
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What is the difference between [class] and [classes] tags? - synonym request
What is the difference between class (25 questions) and classes (19 questions) tags?
Neither of above have tag wiki, a handful of questions I randomly picked appear to use these as freely ...
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Tag: Synonym TFS with Team Foundation Server
Can we make the following tags a synonym: tfs -> team-foundation-server
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C++ tag synonyms
Apparently, there are two duplicate(?) tags: c++11 and c++0x. The only difference between the two is that c++0x was the WIP name before c++11 was finalized (at the last few meetings).
For someone ...
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Shouldn't the nlp tag be replaced with natural-language-processing?
It seems like nlp should be changed to natural-language-processing and that nlp should be used as a synonym of it instead because it is less apparent what nlp is.
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Can we please merge [definition] tag into [terminology]?
Can we please merge the definition tag into terminology?
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Tag merge / synonym request: [degrees] -> [degree]
Please merge degrees (4 questions) into degree (20 questions).
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Tag merge / synonym request: [maintainability] -> [maintenance]
Suggest to merge maintainability (35 questions, no tag wiki) into maintenance (80 questions, tag wiki quoted below), and make them synonyms.
Tag wiki for maintenance:
The activities that occur ...
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Tag merge / synonym requests: [prototype] -> [prototyping], [type-system] -> [type-systems]
Please merge the following tags and make them synonyms:
prototype (14 questions) into prototyping (25)
type-system (18 questions) into type-systems (6)
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Tag merge / synonym request: [internationalisation] → [internationalization]
Please merge internationalisation (3 questions) into internationalization (25), and make them synonyms.
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Tag merge / Synonym request: [programming-languages] --> [languages]
programming-languages - 774 questions
languages - 52 questions
They're the same thing people! At least in the sense that we use it (seeing that we have a spoken-languages tag), they are used the same ...
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few loose ends tags that seem to be synonyms - vcs, vm and maybe foss
I think it would be nice to merge tags:
vcs (14 questions) -> version-control (307 questions)
vm (7 questions) -> virtual-machine (24 questions)
foss (11 questions) -> open-source (462 questions)
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Tag merge / synonym request: [interface] -> [interfaces]
Could we merge interface questions (41 total) into interfaces (10 total), and make them synonyms?
Side note given the number of questions, I'd bet 4:1 that "interface" makes better master tag. But ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [off-shore] → [offshore]
Could we merge off-shore questions (10 total) into offshore (3 total), and make them synonyms?
Side note. distributed-development looks also worth considering as merge / synonym candidate for above.
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Should [svn] and [subversion] be tag synonyms?
svn has 71 questions with a wiki summary.
subversion has 29 questions but no wiki summary.
Should subversion map to svn?
If yes, please could someone with enough rep do so?
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Performance, website-performance, software-performance, performance-tools and job-performance tags
Currently, there are five tags containing "performance" in their title:
performance (141, 38) “Questions related to improving application performance [...]”,
software-performance (10, 4) No wiki ...
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