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Should [documentation] meta questions follow Documentation? [closed]

Since SO Documentation is no more, all documentation Meta questions about it are now useless (at the very least, they are off topic now).Even though they don't take up (much) physical space at SO HQ or...

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Question cleanup needed

This question ("Do I cast the result of malloc?") has 27 answers currently.Actually, the count of the essentially different answers are only around 3, the others are duplicates.Considering its high...

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Close voters call to arms: let's make this September welcoming

"It is September once again... and once again students are asking their homework problems..."How about we help site newcomers learn to properly ask questions by spending few minutes in review queue and...

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Clean up of run-together/hyphenated and singular/plural tags

The Stack Exchange user interface now prevents creating tags that differ only in hyphenation or pluralization. This hasn't always been so, however, and there are currently many such tag pairs, like...

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Should we do something about "sqllite" misspelling?

I'm starting this discussion regarding a specific word. Note that I'm well aware that some other typos are more frequent than this one, but I'd like to narrow the discussion to "sqllite" because it's a...

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Let's clean up Excel related tags like [countif], [vlookup], [sumif] and...

On https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/375774/1595451 I proposed to generalize countif and vlookup from being exclusively for excel to include other spreadsheet apps like google-sheets where the related...

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What to do with closed but upvoted off-topic questions with no answers?

I'd like to have guidance on the value of old questions closed as off-topic with no answers:6,708 such questions as of Jan 4 2019:...

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Split [guide] into more specific tags

The tag guide is used in 2 ways:for documentation questions like installation guides, 10 search results right now. Guide for working with Linux thread priorities and scheduling policies? is a good...

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Close or edit questions asking for recommendations

There are many questions which ask for software recommendations; are too broad; or at least opinion based.That said, keep in mind that my knowledge in SQL is very basic.I updated the query, so...

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Tag cleanup request: [astronomy]

There has consistently been a large amount of off-topic questions using the astronomy tag.From the tag Usage guide for astronomy:Astronomy is the study of celestial objects, such as planets, suns, and...

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Burn / Synonym the [music-player] tag

There are two tags that serve almost the same function the audio-player and the music-player tags.It is unlikely that audio-player would not play music or a music-player that would not play other forms...

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Can we clean up the [macbook] and [macbookpro] tags?

Today we deleted this question that was tagged macbookpro. The tag didn't have an excerpt at that time, so I added one to redirect general computing questions to either Super User or Apple.SE. Given...

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Should I delete my old (and now irrelevant) questions which have low view...

I'm "cleaning up" my last questions with my own solutions. I found this question of mine (Manipulating the browser chrome in a web extension) while writing this question had 28 views in 369 days. I'm...

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Time to cleanup [code-cleanup]

I've stumbled across the code-cleanup tag today and am 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...

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Synonymise: function-call, function-calls, method-call, call

For questions related to calling functions/methods, we have four possible tags:function-call, function-calls, method-call, callIt seems that at least the first three tags should be synonyms (since a...

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Cleaning posts with omploader.org images

All 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.http://omploader.org is apparently long dead. Yet, we...

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Cleaning up tags like [like] [duplicate]

This post aims to remove like, but I'd also like to clean up the fleet of tags surrounding things like it:SQL's LIKE keyword/operator (for which there is a tag: sql-like)Visual Basic's Like operator...

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Can we clean up/delete the tag 'object'?

The tag object seems to be used for an interesting variety of questions - not at all related to each other. The tag on its own does not add any information - a classic meta tag. The generic excerpt...

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I'm having [awk-formatting] problems

I'd suggest burning awk-formatting:total questions 43no description or information39 questions are also tagged as awkOldest question Nov 2010, newest question Nov 2018I would just tag the 4 questions...

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Apparently-aliased tags [buildconfig] and [buildconfiguration]

These tags appear to be duplicates. The tag buildconfiguration is more widely adopted with 100 vs. 42 tagged questions, so I suggest merging the tag buildconfig into buildconfiguration.

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