Should we rename [question2answer] to [php-question2answer]?
I just came across the tag question2answer in a c# question. The tag clearly reads:A popular open source Q&A platform using PHP and MySQL. (Please do not use this tag to indicate that you have a...
View ArticleCan we speak out against all the pronunciations?
There appears to be community consensus that questions asking about pronunciations of technical programming terms is off-topic.The pronunciation tag has also been discussed before, and that tag has...
View ArticlePlease stop having opinions about things
Running the following search:title:opinion closed:yescurrently yields 57 results. Of these, What is your opinion on Clojure? has a historical lock. I've gone through them all, and I think the remaining...
View ArticleUnderstanding what's valuable to Stack Overflow
Possibly like most users here, I visit Stack Overflow almost daily because it's an absolutely amazing resource. While I've been using the site for maybe a decade, I only started actively participating...
View ArticleTag [dynamic] is very ambiguous and seldom describes the content
The tag dynamic is very ambiguous and does not well describe the content in the question and I struggle to think of a question where it can work as the only tag for the question. I consider this to be...
View ArticleFixing up now-bad links to use Wayback Machine
In light of bobpowell dot net having been taken over by malware, as noted in How to report malware to Stack Overflow, does anyone have any objection to me editing the 26 posts I found with...
View ArticleNo Thanks, Damn It!
For a while this year, I was on a crusade, editing posts to remove "Thanks".But there were far too many of those posts.So I started to remove "Thanks in advance".But there were too many of those.So I...
View ArticleWhich [security]? [cybersecurity]! Aren't those supposed to be synonyms in...
I stumbled on the tags cybersecurity and security and tried to imagine if there is a difference between questions that would go in either tag. In the context of Stack Overflow that is.I couldn't come...
View ArticleIt's time for [code-cleanup]
I've stumbled across the code-cleanup tag and I'm not quite sure if it really is on-topic for Stack Overflow.Just by looking at how the tag is worded seems off-topic as any code cleanup seems to be...
View ArticleWhat should we do with [kubeadm] questions?
kubeadm is a tool to create Kubernetes clusters. This activity is almost always off-topic for Stack Overflow, at least when done with a command line tool - as kubeadm is.The tag kubeadm is driving...
View ArticleDuplicate tags for path finding: [pathfinder] [path-finding] and [pathing] -...
This question actually extends a question posted a year ago:Is [pathing] a synonym of [path-finding]?I'm adding a third tag pathfinder to it, which, like pathing, has no tag wiki and is used by only 68...
View ArticleIs [pathing] a synonym of [path-finding]?
I've just come across a question about pathfinding (you know, Dijkstra, A*, that sort of thing) that had the tag pathing instead of path-finding.The pathing tag has no tag wiki. There are 62 questions...
View ArticleRemove the [organization] tag
A quick look seems to suggest that this tag is meta, and that we could just remove it and leave not much of a trace. Looking at organization, I see many questions. Some are, modernly speaking, too...
View ArticleClean-up [coding-efficiency]
I recently came across the coding-efficiency tag. Its excerpt is highly meta and opinion based:For questions regarding programmer efficiency, not computer efficiency, e.g. tightening one's...
View ArticleWhere shall we let the community update Xcode download locations?
A reminder of a common close reason (bold from me):Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they...
View ArticleThe [collision] tag is often misused despite the description indicating how...
The tag collision has the following wiki excerpt:The intersection of one or more objects or concepts, such as communications packets or function names. For questions about collision detection (in...
View ArticleCombination tags (aka "hyphenated tags")
Basically, I noticed that there is a tag for excel, vba and then excel-vba. The third one is just the use of VBA as it applies to Excel. As far as I can tell, there is no reason why you should ever use...
View ArticleGet rid of enterprise architecture
Looking at corporate it lead me to find questions about enterprise architecture...is a business function concerned with the structures and behaviors of a business, especially business roles and...
View ArticleLet's [scrape] these tags off the bottom of our shoe
There are so many scraping related tags right now:web-scraping - 47,235 questionsscreen-scraping - 4,126 questionsscrape - 1,181 questionsscraper - 277 (as of Dec 31, 2022 is a synonym of...
View ArticleHow to flag dozens of almost identical answers
There are a lot of questions asking about importing content from websites (web scraping) using Google Sheets formulas. Researching for a canonical Q/A I found there are dozens of bad questions having...
View ArticleCanonical question for importing content from dynamic websites using...
In How to flag dozens of almost identical answers I have mentioned that I have found dozens of "bad" questions from people having problems importing content from dynamic websites using IMPORTHTML /...
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Shall we clean up strikethrough content from answers?
Some answers get updated by:adding new contentstrikethroughing the obsolete contentStrikethrough sounds a bit primitive as we have a revision system for posts.Shall we remove or keep strikethrough...
View ArticleDo we need [imageai]?
In the new questions tab this morning I found one question having only the tag imageai. This tag didn't have a tag wiki. Looking at the list of questions having this tag, it looks to be frequently used...
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These tags need some [static-analysis]
So we've got:code-analysis - 1220 questionsthe process of analyzing the code of the application to discover, review, validate or verify certain properties of the application. static-analysis - 1016...
View ArticleClean up of "ChatGPT" questions
I just read a newsletter announcing the launch of ChatGPT API by OpenAI. This question is not about the ban about using generated text content in Stack Overflow. Also it's not about posts that use...
View ArticleEdit out external broken links to refiddle (displaying spam)
I noticed that refiddle.com, a site likely used to test regular expressions, is no longer active and links to a spam site. An issue was raised on the official repo in 2021, but it appears that the...
View ArticleApache AGE (of Despair)
At the suggestion of a Mod in chat, I'm putting out a call for help in flagging the chaos in the apache-age answers which I (and several others) have noticed.I'm not an expert in this area, but even I...
View ArticleBurninate or clean up the [coding-style] tag [duplicate]
I recently encountered the coding-style tag, which attracts a large number of subjective and argumentative questions. Its tag description is:DO NOT USE! This tag refers to an entirely opinionated...
View ArticleCleaning posts with omploader.org images
2019: CompleteAll the posts which contain http://omploader.org have been cleaned up and most of them are closed, since the links gave to the post lots of details.2017: Requesthttp://omploader.org is...
View ArticleCan we differentiate [integrate] and [integration]?
For integrate, we already have usage guidance that says to avoid it and use other tags. This includes integration for system integration and other more relevant tags if the calculus meaning was...
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