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Our volume tag is a mess. Can we decide if it's sound related or filesystem related?
We have a small mess surrounding the volume tag.
Some of the questions are relating to sound / volume / loudness / audio.
Some are relating to storage and the concept of physical or logical volumes.
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Rename tag appstore to mac-appstore and ios-appstore
Since Apple's Mac Appstore is coming in less than 90 days, should we think about renaming all appstore question to ios-appstore, before all the question related to the Mac Appstore start to appear?
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What is the difference between [mac] and [apple]?
Should there be a difference? My proposal is that [mac] relates to hardware, [osx] relates to the software, and [apple] relates to the company specifically.
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Could we allow the creation of [iphone-4s] tag?
I tried to create an iPhone 4S (iphone-4s) tag, but the system won't let me. I think it's a pluralization blocker (iMacs vs iMac). I was excited, because I've never created a tag before.
Can this ...
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How to refer to various MacBooks
Apple has an annoying tendency to release new versions of the MacBooks and just call them "New" without really naming them or giving them version numbers.
For example today's new MacBook Air is ...
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On the right name of Apple products and softwares
May this is too early and maybe I'm the only one concern, but at a certain point shouldn't we correct the name of Apple products and softwares to match their real name ?
For examples :
iTunes ...
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Tag usage for iPads now that there are three generations
I wanted to have some discussion on the tags for iPads.
We currently have a need to tag questions about the hardware being released on March 16, 2012 - and Apple is calling them the new iPad.
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FileVault 1 and 2: should we have tags [filevault-1] and [filevault-2] for the two different technologies?
Problem
Looking ahead: expect confusion to arise from Apple's commonplace use of one word FileVault — without a version number — for two very different technologies.
(Versions 1 and 2 both involve ...
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Tags: iCal vs. Calendar, Address Book vs. Contacts
The definition of the ical tag is:
Apple's calendar application, bundled with every Mac OS X install
Whereas the calendar tag is:
A calendar is visual representation of time, often charted ...
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Should we allow “useless” tags and what are “useless” tags for Apple.SE?
What is the list of tags we should not allow? Much like how on most other SE sites tags like homework, subjective, etc. have been disallowed.
For more info check out: Should we permanently remove the ...
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Your opinion on the “volume” tag?
The volume tag is currently applied to nine questions:
Four of them use it to describe mounted disks
Five of them use it to describe audio sound levels
Tags with multiple meanings are barely more ...
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Can anyone offer a good reason not to kill the playback tag?
The concept of playback has a tag at the moment and rather than just re-tag the questions to be about the apps doing the playing, I wanted to see if anyone had a suggestion to not kill this tag.
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Tag corrections
Proper tagging for questions, use this to determine a baseline format for tags.
Mac OS X => [osx] for example.
All tags should be lowercase, case doesn't matter. Dashes - are used instead of ...
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Retagging windows7 to windows-7
Could we please reverse the synomym for windows-7 / windows7?
Currently it's windows-7 -> windows7, if we want to be consistent with the naming it should always have a dash.
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How are tag badges chosen?
Our list of tag badges is pathetically small in my opinion, and in dire need of changes, the most obvious of which is iphone -> ios, yet I feel that any iOS answer (iPhone, iPod, iPod-touch and ...
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[ios-X] versus [iosX]
While re-tagging a question, I noticed the tag for specific versions of iOS is as such ios4. Is there any reason for this?
I personally think ios-4 would be cleaner. Besides, we already have ios-sdk ...
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Killing the mail tag - Is it time?
I just beefed up the email and mail.app descriptions as well as edited the few questions that had been tagged with mail.
I've proposed mail be a synonym of email.
If you are curious - only 2 of the ...
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Syntax-highlight activation for tags
Dear Mods,
Taken in mind the following meta answer, and some examples without syntax-highlight, please enable it for the following tags:
applescript
launchd (for their plist/xml files)
terminal
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Creation of wiki tags
At the moment we don't have wiki for tags (for example the osx tag).
I know it's written a user need to have more than 1000 points to edit the tag wiki, but soon users will reach 1k points. ...
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Tag bug involving auto-chopping of excess words in wiki excerpts
The Tags page, when showing excerpts, automatically removes some key words from the beginning of excerpts (e.g. "Terminal is" from terminal). This mostly works fine, except for two things:
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New tag for controversial discussions?
Martin has kindly suggested the use of [poo-storm] referenced here. I believe the first recipient of this honorary tag should be the hackintosh thread. All in favor?
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Tag wikis should not contain “Questions about” or “Concerning”
A tag, by definition, is for questions about its stated topic. Repeating "questions about" or variants thereof ("concerning", etc) is redundant and looks bad.
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What to do with maps-related tags for ios?
As of today's release of iOS 6, iOS no longer has a Google Maps-based maps app built in. However, the best-fitting maps tag I could find for iOS is google-maps. Should there be a separate ...
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When should I use the tag for the OS version?
On Stack Overflow, a version tag (e.g. "c#-4.0") is used when the question is about a feature specific for that version.
Is the same true for the OS tags used on Ask Different, or should I use the OS ...
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2500 reputation is a high requirement for just suggest tag synonyms
Suggesting tag synonyms requires 2500 reputation which seems REALLY steep for something so basic. It's strange because there is a badge for 3 such suggestions yet it's only considered a bronze badge.
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Should we be more active with tag editing?
I have noticed more and more over the last couple of questions, that most of them only have 1 or 2 tags, and very little further expansion. Since tagging is a very big feature of Stack Exchange, and ...
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Tag for questions that apply to MacBook, MacBook Pro, PowerBook equally?
There are some questions on the site that apply to all Apple notebook computers. These questions tend to be tagged arbitrarily as MacBook or MacBook Pro. However, a question can also be related very ...
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Add mention of Mountain Lion's Reminder app to the reminders tag
I walked across a post about reminders tags, and I took a look. There are no mention about the Mountain Lion's reminder app, only the iOS version.
I am not sure if it's intentional to keep those two ...
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Request for community consensus on what the signature tag should mean to us
I'd like to open a discussion on what we should make of the signature since it appears to mean several things if you look over the existing questions we have that currently use this tag.
The clear ...
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Revisiting answers when new functionality is available e.g. release of iOS 5
I've just been browsing through questions tagged "iPad" and it occurred to me that there are a lot of questions for which there will be better answers once iOS 5 is released. There are a number of ...
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Adopt a “Create a Tag, Write the Description” Policy
I was browsing through some of the lesser-used tags and came across many tags that were misused greatly due to either their lack of a description or to a low-quality description.
For example, with ...
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Change the language tag to mean human language?
In tagging this question, I was surprised that the language tag was described as being for programming language rather than human language. However, of all the questions using the language tag, only ...
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Can someone create a Nook tag?
I have insufficient rep to create a tag. I'd like the Nook tag to be attached to this question. Thanks in advance.
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Tag standardization
I've been working on the tag list lately, trying to standardize the format and clean up confusion. For instance, we didn't need both [podcast] and [podcasts], and the non-existent [iphone-2g] needed ...
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Tag for alternatives to Windows-only applications?
I created a tag [windows-alternative] to describe a question where the OP is looking for an OS X alternative to an application that is Windows-only. It doesn't feel quite right though, maybe someone ...
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Do questions on the Game Center belong on here or Gaming.SE?
There is no tag for the iOS Game Center.
Should any questions on it be asked here, or on http://gaming.stackexchange.com/ or elsewhere?
Or should cross-posting be allowed in this instance?
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Merge the “retag-request” and the “retagging” tags
On this meta site there are two questions tagged retag-request, and four questions tagged retagging.
The first should probably be merged with the latter.
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What is the difference between accounts and users tags?
With 26 questions tagged accounts, 19 questions tagged users and 4 questions tagged users+accounts it is unclear to me when to use which.
Should these two tags be merged? Or, if not, how should their ...
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Where are the iPad Mini and iPad 4th-generation tags?
I just noticed a question specific to the iPad Mini had been tagged as ipad-3. While retagging I noticed there don't seem to be tags for the newest (4th-generation) iPad or the iPad Mini.
Someone ...
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Proposal to merge MS Office tags to better surface experts in that field
I was collecting some stats on tags and wanted to share them with the group. There are about 230 questions currently (out of 16,000 total questions) that relate to Microsoft Office.
The MS-Office tag ...
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Tag synonyms page layout bug
The tag synonyms page seems like it has a layout bug. The text in the body is very close to the margin. See screenshot:
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Merge the “bug” and “bug-report” tags
On this meta site there are three questions tagged with bug-report; two of those questions are also tagged with bug, and one is only tagged with bug-report.
As there are 40 questions tagged bug, this ...
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osx brand server tag synonyms
I would like to suggest that snow-leopard-server and any other such variant of the given Server Software names be synonymized to osx-server.
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Would someone add “unibody” and “non-unibody” tags?
Many hardware questions are really improved by knowing the exact model but that is really hard to manage. It sure would be good to at least demarcate the huge hardware differences between a unibody ...
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Software vs. Applications
We have two tags that barely express the same thing :
Software
Applications
I try to merge most of Applications into Software, but for the last two, I ran into some troubles.
These last two ...
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Plural vs. Singular and Infinitive vs. Name tags
I see there are several tags that are in a plural form but the singular form would also be acceptable and vice-versa, for examples :
software
shortcuts
applications
settings
bookmark
There is the ...
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What tag should I use for a question about the original iPhone?
There are specific tags for iPhone 4, iPhone 3gs, iPhone 3g, but why not the original iPhone?
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Tag wiki reputation bug
I assume this is a bug, tag wiki editing now requires 20,000 reputation?
http://apple.stackexchange.com/privileges/edit-tag-wiki
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tag synonym reminder -> reminders
I think reminder should be a synonym of reminders - I didn't find the question mine got duped to because it actually doesn't come up on a search of 'share reminder' - but does on 'share reminders'. I ...
