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There are several commonly known products referred to as "unity". These include:

Currently the tag refers to the .NET IoC container. However, it seems that a lot of the questions regarding , and get falsely tagged with . It's quite a lot of "unnecessary" work to edit a few questions daily to fix the tags.

I suggest renaming the tag to or something the like (...) and removing the tag completely (and for ever).

PS: if you go looking for "wrongly assigned tags" you won't find that many (recent ones) because i just fixed a bunch of them:

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    Yep, this is not just a problem on Stack Overflow ... Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 7:54
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    MS seems to have a hard time deciding on an official name. The documentation home calls it Unity Container, Unity and Unity Application Block. The release notes of v3 do the same thing. Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 8:13
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    I'm surprised it doesn't also get confused with the Ubuntu desktop environment of the same name. (That's the first thing I think of!) Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 11:29
  • @sevenseacat: you're right. thanks. It does happen: stackoverflow.com/posts/21074353/revisions Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 12:33
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    Good suggestion. The MSDN summary page says "Unity is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container...". So, "unity-di" gets my vote. Commented Nov 5, 2014 at 9:27
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    I've retagged a few left misstagged posts. Spot-checking a 100 posts did not reveal any further miss tagged posts. Could a mod now please rename [unity] to [unity-di] so this can be put to bed? Thanks. Commented Jan 24, 2015 at 8:16
  • I just tried clearing out the unity question from unity3d ones, and it seems like a loosing battle. Clearly something should be done about that. Commented Mar 1, 2015 at 10:20
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    This concern is almost a year old now, and there is still the "confusing plain unity" tag. How to make progress here? Who can/should change it? Commented Jul 25, 2015 at 8:58
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    @BatteryBackupUnit Ok that's what I do either, it's somehow also nice to get some rep of doing so, but that's definitely not the intention of stackoverflow, I guess.. Commented Jul 26, 2015 at 8:26
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    The problem still exists today; retagging questions manually won't make it go away. This tag really needs to be renamed ([unity-container] seems to be a good choice) Commented Sep 6, 2015 at 8:58
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    I've reviewed the questions from around June 2015 to present, and they seem to be clear of any explicit unity3d mix-ups. Flagging this question for moderator attention again so we can hopefully put this confusion to rest at last. Commented Jan 21, 2016 at 16:54
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    Done! The old unity is no more. I've renamed it to unity-container and have not create a synonym. I will let those with some proficiency in the tag determine whether a synonym is required or not. Please review my actions and tell me whether they're satisfactory. cc @Serlite Commented Jan 21, 2016 at 21:28
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    @MadaraUchiha Thanks! i guess there's no feature to "block" the [unity] tag from being recreated? Because i fear that someone may be re-creating it, either for unity the di container, or for unity, the game engine... however, since unity is ambiguous it shouldn't be created for either. Commented Jan 22, 2016 at 7:51
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    @MadaraUchiha can we have a synonym [unity] pointing to both [unity-container] and [unity3d]? Because they're both perfect matches. Maybe even the unity desktop environment. Otherwise i'd rather skip it, because it might lead people to assign the wrong tag, again. Typing [unity now suggests [unity3d] and [unity-container] etc. already. So i don't think we actually need a synonym :-) Commented Jan 22, 2016 at 10:58
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    I've retagged all remaining questions unity3d, and created a synonym from unity to unity3d. That should do it for the tag. Commented Apr 27, 2016 at 20:30

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After some nice retagging work, the tag is no more. All questions are now tagged appropriately, and a synonym from to has been created.

If anyone wants to dispute the synonym or has further questions, please open a new meta post and link to this one.

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  • I would have prefered a blacklist. unity3d guys will cry foul. Commented Apr 27, 2016 at 21:27
  • Thanks for your work. However, unity is just as much unity the container and unity the linux thingy even if unity3d occurs more often. I thought the work was done on January 21st? Why the change now? Was the [unity] tag popping up again? Commented Apr 28, 2016 at 6:15
  • @BatteryBackupUnit Yes, apparently, the tag was created anew before a synonym was created for it. So I've created one for it. Commented Apr 28, 2016 at 8:37

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