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Only the newer versions will be called macOS, the older ones will still be called OS X Cat-of-choice. I would propose to go with a synonom instead of a renaming.
Today (June 2016), the synonym points macos -> osx so that we can decide at a later date to flip things around. If there is an answer that makes a strong argument for never merging the two, we ...
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I agree with this proposal. 'Terminal.app' makes it clear that it is the app and no the general subject of command line or terminal questions. A synonym defeats this, but renaming the tag should work.
'Command-line' for command line issues, and 'terminal.app' for the program.
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Why do we even need an M1 tag to begin with?
The M1 is just the name of this particular chip - it's like saying "i7" or "i5" and we don't have tags for these. We don't even have a tag for "Intel" though we do have one for powerpc and ppc (synonym).
I think we should continue doing what we've done and tag the architecture and ...
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People insist on making tags for new OS so we generally merge things down once the newness dies down. There’s little to no point to having every release have it’s own tag.
There are great reasons to have the iOS tag be monolithic.
It’s a matter of timing and in practice, almost no one ever makes a tag older than N-2 so there’s no point keeping those ...
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Quicklook is what you get if you press Space in Finder to view the content of a file
Preview.app is an application on its own
Unless I misunderstood your intention I don't think these two tags should get merged.
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That edit should have been rejected. apple-music is not an appropriate tag here as this is nothing to do with Apple Music, the music streaming service. Unfortunately, no-one reads the tag wiki excerpts, let alone tag wikis, and I've been there. music.app tag is the appropriate tag here and I've edited the question to use that tag.
By the way, you don't need ...
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Just pushing this into an answer to get a vote going.
It's time for it to face its final curtain.
No encore, just a swan song.
It's well-covered by the other tags.
It could be useful for instance, perhaps for Garage Band or Logic questions, but a quick scroll down the top 50 questions under the tag reveals the other tags would pretty much have covered them ...
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Where are we coming from?
Currently we have
shortcut with 557 tagged questions, described as
Series of one or several keys that invoke some software/os action when triggered by the user
A Shortcut is a series of one or several keys that invoke some software/os action when triggered by the user. Common known keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS X are for example ...
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My vote would be to merge both to efi or some other tag further up the hardware chain.
What are your thoughts of tagging these utilities more on what they do (replace/interface with EFI) than what the program du jour is called?
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Yes. Burn it. Burn it with fire.
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osx → macos ✔︎
Just like that, all 16.5k osx questions are now macos questions! With what I presume was a chat between moderators outside of this meta question, bmike has reversed the synonym, such that osx → macos. Enjoy the shiny new badges!
Also, since this change occurred quite suddenly, it seems like no-one thought about the tag wiki and of course it'...
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I don't think we need a specific ftps tag right now. The question you linked just happens to be using FTPS, rather than being about FTPS. There's no questions I can find which are specific to the secure version of FTP — only about FTP in general. The standard tag of ftp will suffice.
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I'd support reversing this merge. Any objections or cleanup needed if we implement this?
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When proposing new tags, please also propose texts for the tag descriptions so the community can improve on those to have a common understanding.
Having said that: tags should be used to add value to a question by providing additional categorization/grouping. Any question about Procreate will already have the application name in the question somewhere, so ...
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Not sure I see a benefit here. If a question is off-topic we put it on hold to give the OP the opportunity to revise it, and close it if they don’t (or the scope of the question doesn’t allow it). So a question is either on-topic and properly tagged, or closed (and tags not really important any longer).
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No. No one can offer a good reason to spare the tag. Please kill it.
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Is there a way to encourage users to tag their questions appropriately?
Yes, and you've mentioned it already in your post:
the community can retag questions
That's really the answer. We can't make people read FAQs and guides. We can't make them take a test before they can answer. We can, only through our good actions, guide them to better behaviour. Re-...
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I'm tempted to merge the long tag into the short one.
If someone wants to type mobile... they will see and select the synonym, but MDM is a great tag IMO.
Before I merge things, let's see if there is more support for your request to point the short tag at the long one...
Clearly, we should merge these - the only question is which way (which we can easily ...
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Actually, asking here on Meta is the correct / canonical way to have someone create a new tag when you can't do it yourself. Commenting may sometimes help, but that's not really why comments exist.
You would want to link to the question here and explain what tag should be created for the item. Feel free to edit your question and tag suggestion into the ...
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My initial thoughts would be to leave the keyboard shortcuts alone and have shortcuts.app or ios-shortcuts cover the workflow.app being renamed to shortcuts as an application you download from the iOS App Store. Since it intercepts intents from Apple and third party apps to become siri-shortcuts, the siri tag might work just fine for any voice command ...
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Unless we want to burninate the tag entirely, a second tag for zoom.app might help since the usage for this as an Accessibility feature seems to be the initial use in 2010. I’ve created zoom.app and fixed three posts that were tagged zoom but clearly mean the app.
I don’t think we want or need it for questions on optical or digital zoom on cameras. (But I ...
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From the tags page:
photos x 590
Photographs and photography
And:
photos.app x 81
The Apple photo manager and editor and successor to iPhoto and Aperture. Introduced in 2015.
Making photos a synonym of photos.app has the potential to mis-tag 590 questions now. Questions that pre-date the existence of the Photos app from Apple and have ...
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If you don't have enough reputation to create a new tag, you can comment on your question stating what tag you wish to be added to your question and why you think that tag is necessary.
Could someone add the foobar tag to my question because [reason]?
Someone with the necessary reputation may agree with you and add it for you. Don't append such meta-...
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The questions in case also have data-recovery or recovery tagged.
It's used in these questions as reference to files aka data-transfer or data-recovery.
The best option would be to remove this tag as there are more detailed replacements for them already.
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Done - this was an easy merge / synonym to convert them all to cellular-data with any further cleanup by retagging questions that were erroneously tagged as either 3g tag.
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Personally I disagree with this, since every question tagged dhcp should be tagged networking anyway and if someone tags with dhcp but not networking then the question may be missed by those that are following the networking tag (this would mean that one would have to follow two tags) and would probably lead to the question being edited to add the networking ...
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I'm all in favor of killing it (and adding a requirement that new tags can only be created by people with >15k rep), but my main concern about killing off tags is the bump to the top of the queue of all the edited posts. I'm utterly convinced that we're better off without that tag, though.
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That follows what we've done for other OS names.
Tag Synonym osx-mavericks -> mavericks was approved!
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As of mid 2013, the wiki tags indicate that osx-server is only for Snow Leopard and older server installs. I have been retagging server.app to all Lion and newer questions and removing the osx-server tags when it's not used on 10.6 and earlier.
Perhaps we will want to re-evaluate this and make a synonym to point them all to the same tag and/or re-tag old ...
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A succinct answer would be there's no good reason to split off shortcut and hotkey related questions from general keyboard questions. (The synonyms point to keyboard, not the other way around as your title states.)
We can absolutely change the synonym and meta is the place to build consensus. The next step would be someone detailing what the actual wording ...
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