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Rename the grub2-mkconfig tag to grub-mkconfig
grub2-mkconfig is intended for questions about the grub-mkconfig command (without the 2), which seems confusing to me. Could it be renamed to grub-mkconfig?
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Can I use the Unix Stack Exchange icon in my open-source theme for profile links?
I'm contributing to an open-source Hugo theme and would like to include a small icon linking to users' Unix Stack Exchange profiles. The icon would be used solely for this purpose and would not imply ...
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Why is it preferable to keep a tangentially-related tag?
This question, Use shell reserved word if hidden by an alias, is about a problem in Zsh that also affects Bash, so it's tagged shell zsh bash
However, the question doesn't actually mention Bash and ...
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Version-specific tags for ImageMagick
Should the tag ImageMagick be split into two tags, for versions 6 and 7?
The syntax of those versions is mightily different but looks deceivingly similar.
So, answers for version 6 will misguide users ...
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To the programmer getting unbalanced parentheses errors
... your lost right curly brace it's here on Unix & Linux SE.
Please collect it or it will be thrown away by our janitorial staff at the end of the day.
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Error when submitting a tag wiki edit initially
When attempting to submit a tag wiki edit suggestion, an error occurs that forces me to wait another 30 seconds before retrying the edit submission. After waiting, submitting the tag wiki edit works, ...
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Disambiguate [tag:volume]
I've added descriptions for
audio-volume
volume
I also audited all the questions in volume. I would suggest renaming volume to storage-volume and making volume a synonym for it.
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Consider a migration of two Stack Overflow questions about ethtool to Unix & Linux?
Yesterday while researching how to answer a Ask Ubuntu question related to network device offload, came across the following Stack Overflow questions:
Where does the [fixed] in ethtool output come ...
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displaying "Unanswered Questions"
There are many questions with many tags that I never heard even the name of before.
So, trying to find questions where I hopefully could do some help, I clicked "Unanswered Questions", but ...
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When does a critique become a rant?
I think we do not want a world where these are actually the same.
The answers would be obviously very useful for people trying to formulate critiques, but without the intent to rant.
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Why is a definition for a tag not wanted?
I submitted an edit suggestion for the nas tag:
Guidance:
Network-attached storage
Wiki:
See Wikipedia: Network-attached storage
However, these were rejected as "The edit does not improve the ...
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I don't understand why my question is downvoted
FWIW I can delete the question, I don't really care, I just thought it might be useful to somebody too.
Anyhow, I'd like to learn why it's considered bad for the site, even though:
I tried to find ...
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Posting for a security awareness campaign in german language
I am currently doing a security awareness campaign where people need to do some OSINT research. Therefore we would like to create a fake user, a fake IT admin of a fake company, on a stackexchange ...
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Relationship between unix.stackexchange.com and Stackoverflow
When should one use unix.stackexchange over Stackoverflow, and vice versa?
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Blacklist the [filter] tag
filter is underspecific and doesn't help categorizing questions.
It's currently being used for (and this is just the diversity of contexts from the first page that opens when I click on the tag name!)
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