A request to add one tag as the synonym of another tag. Please be specific about which tag should be a synonym of which. Bidirectional synonyms and cycles are implicitly disallowed, so suggest wisely.

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Make urlencode a synonym of url-encoding [duplicate]

The urlencode description reads This is about encoding text in/for a URL. Some characters are not valid for URLs. For instance ' or \ and more. The url-encoding description reads URL ...
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Clean up [marker]/[markers] tags

Currently, 3 tags are used to refer to the Google Maps markers: marker, markers and google-maps-markers. Obviously, markers should be an synonym of marker. However, the marker also has many other ...
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Make [toc] a synonym of [tableofcontents]

toc is an appreviations for tableofcontents and tableofcontents is the most common related tag for toc. I suggest we make these two tags synonyms with tableofcontents as the master tag.
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Tag synonym [iAd] and [iAds]

Can someone with the correct privileges create a tag synonym for the tags iad and iads. They refer to the same topic and have nearly exact wiki definitions. iad Excerpt from wiki: iAd is a mobile ...
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Make [tmpfile] a synonym for [temporary-files]

Please make tmpfile a synonym for temporary-files tmpfile: •Tag wiki ✗ •Questions tagged: 33 temporary-files: •Tag wiki ✔ •Questions tagged: 293 The tag info for temporary-files says: A (often ...
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Merge [inifile] and [ini-files] into [ini]

The tag wikis for inifile and ini are very similar. ini-files doesn't have one. I think ini should survive.
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Make [windows-universal] a synonym of [win-universal-app] or burninate it

Both tags: win-universal-app and windows-universal concern the same problems. Therefore I would suggest either to make windows-universal a synonym or burninate it. What do you think?
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Let's substitute [substitute] with [substitution]

tl;dr please synonym substitute -> substitution substitution - 587 questions, has a (crappy) wiki substitute - 151 questions, no wiki There's also string-substitution, which has 66 questions ...
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Do we need both [watchkit] and [apple-watch]?

I noticed that we have two tags for Apple's next device, apple-watch and watchkit. Do we need both? Anything that someone on this site (a developer) is going to be doing with an Apple Watch is through ...
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Should the BRE tag be a synonym of biztalk-rule-engine?

There are two tags that were being used for very similar purposes: bre and biztalk-rule-engine. When I first looked BRE was a generic tag about Business Rules Engine and it was being used both for one ...
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“capitalize” vs “capitalization” tags?

I've found out there are 2 tags for capitalization issues: capitalize and capitalization. Is there a valid reason for having both of them? If so, is that reason clear enough for people writing ...
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Merge tag [meanio] into [mean.io]

The tags meanio and mean.io are being used for the same purpose. As mean.io has 200 questions (vs 4) and a more substantial tag wiki, I recommend that it be kept as the main tag and that meanio be ...
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Synonymize [parse-url] and [url-parsing]

url-parsing is the process of splitting a URL into parts. This tag has 80 questions and no wiki. parse_url is the PHP function, which explains why 47 out of 56 questions which were tagged with ...
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Merge [code-first-migrations] into [ef-migrations]

Despite code-first-migrations is more popular (951 vs. 251) I think it should be merged into having more correct and generic name ef-migrations.
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Merge tag [nc] into [netcat]

The tags nc and netcat are being used for the same purpose. As netcat has ten times as many questions, a more substantial tag wiki, and is fully spelled-out (vs. an abbreviation), I recommend that it ...
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Shall we synonymize [optional-arguments] and [optional-parameters]?

Let's synonymize optional-arguments (x 75) to optional-parameters (x 525)! They are used the same (and should be).
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Make [http-error] and [http-status] synonyms of [http-status-codes]

Both http-error (192 questions) and http-status (21 questions) mean essentially the same thing (though http-error is a subset of http-status). There's also http-status-codes (669 questions). I think ...
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Tags google-cloud and google-cloud-platform should be merged/synonymized

Google Cloud, as defined in the google-cloud tag description, is identical to google-cloud-platform. I think both tags should be synonyms.
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Create tag synonymity between OpenERP and Odoo

OpenERP has been renamed to Odoo. It would be nice if the Odoo and OpenERP tags became synonyms. There is already a request for that but at this point not a single person can vote it up now, so it ...
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duplicate tags [angular-ui-router] [ui-router]

Tags angular-ui-router and ui-router both refer to the same thing, the latter being considerably newer and less used.
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please remove suggested synonym

A while back I suggested that the tz tag be merged as a synonym of the timezone tag, but I recently realized that it can be useful for questions specifically about the tz environment variable. I've ...
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Make [cross-compile] a synonym of [cross-compiling]?

cross-compile and cross-compiling have 19 questions tagged with both. I do not see a difference. I could retag all the cross-compile questions, but someone will just recreate it. I could look ...
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Request to change tag name for Bootstrap [duplicate]

There has consistently been a large amount of accidental use of the bootstrap tag when users intend to use the far more popular twitter-bootstrap. This has been problematic enough that both tag ...
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Make [web-browser] a synonym of [browser], or redefine [browser]

It does make sense to keep the two tags separate if browser is used in more general terms (for example, the man command as an offline, command-line-based documentation browser). The way the browser ...
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Burninate [management-studio]

management-studio, as it stands right now, has 52 questions tagged. Every question is dealing with sql-management-studio. The management-studio tag doesn't actually have a wiki of its own, and it ...
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Proposing tag synonym: [big-o] and friends → [complexity]

I propose that the tags big-o big-omega little-o big-theta be made synonyms for complexity, as it is unlikely that a question needs expertise specific to big-O or whichever, rather than complexity in ...
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“gamma” tag is ambiguous or synonymous

gamma (33 questions, 0 followers) is mostly being used for discussing gamma correction, but has one question about the gamma function (and before now five gamma-distribution questions now retagged). ...
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Meta: Make [off-topic] a synonym of [scope]

The scope tag on Meta.SO seems to be the authoritative tag regarding on-topic vs. off-topic questions. From the excerpt, Use this tag when examining what is on-topic or off-topic, and why. The ...
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Can we make [filter-branch] a synonym for [git-filter-branch] please?

There are currently 163 questions tagged with git-filter-branch 15 questions tagged with filter-branch There actually used to be about 26 questions tagged with this, but I started removing them, ...
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Possible tag synonym [scroll] and [scrolling]

scroll and scrolling appear to be about the same thing. They both don't strike me as being too useful, though, but I wouldn't request deletion yet.
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Tag merge request: [tika] into [apache-tika]

The shiny new profile page just prompted me to go for the apache-tika badge, which was a surprise as I thought I already had it, but that was actually tika. I've done some checks, and we have a fair ...
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Should [panoramas] and [panoramic] be merged?

Recently, I came across a question that was tagged both panoramas and panoramic. Should these be merged, since they are so similar? EDIT To clarify: panoramic has no tag wiki. The tag wiki for ...
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Merge [kafka] into [apache-kafka]?

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/apache-kafka/info seems to be the legit tag, but a confusing http://stackoverflow.com/tags/kafka/info exists and seems to be less used. When I added a question, I added ...
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Identical versions [semver] and [semantic-versioning]

semver is short for semantic-versioning, both being used for semantic versioning following the spec at http://semver.org. Normally, I would simply re-tag the 23 question in the first to the latter ...
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Merge tags 'numeric' 'numerical' 'numerical-methods' and 'numerical-analysis'

I went to add a tag favorite for something related to numerical computing, and found that there are several distinct tags that all fit this area. Their tag wiki descriptions are almost identical, and ...
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Duplicate tags: Duplicate and duplicate removal

We have both duplicate and duplicate-removal which seems to duplicate the need for duplicate tags. Could we duplicate-removal the duplicate?
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Merge/Synonymize Proposal: [uiautomator] [android-uiautomator]

I just became aware of this, but would need to wait some time for my lazy reputation. uiautomator's wiki: The uiautomator testing framework lets you test your user interface (UI) efficiently by ...
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Merge tags “windows-store-apps” and “windows-store”

windows-store-apps used for 5,429 questions windows-store used for 438 questions Since these two used for the same thing most of the time it will be easy to use only one of them ...
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Synonymize [windows-applications] to [windows]

windows-applications are, whatever you might have thought Applications which run on the Windows OS As such, I don't see any reason to have that tag, as it adds nothing over windows Windows ...
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Make [nimrod] a synonym of [nim]

Nim was recently renamed from Nimrod, so it's a good idea for the tags nimrod to be synomized with nim.
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Make [django-queryset] the central tag for Django querysets

Following up on other Django-related meta questions, I've noticed that Django has quite a few duplicate tags sitting around. There are quite a few tags being used for Django queryset-related ...
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Merge [imageicon] and [image-icon]

please to merge imageicon (tagged 507 Q&A's) with image-icon (tagged 58 Q&A's), both are used exclusively for Java + Swing questions on SO
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Rename [linuxmint] to [linux-mint]; make [mint] a synonym

linuxmint and mint are both about Linux Mint. Using "linux-mint" instead of those two would better follow the naming conventions.
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Tags [pipe] and [pipes] should be synonyms

I happened to spot that I've got bronze topic badges for both pipe and pipes. Unfortunately, there are 1154 questions tagged pipes and 2358 questions tagged pipe, and 49 questions tagged with both, ...
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There is no [spark] but [apache-spark]

I do not have enough reputation to suggest tag synonyms, thus I am pointing one I found. In my opinion the tags spark and apache-spark are synonyms.
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Make [trait] a synonym of [traits]

These tags refer to the same concept : traits In computer programming, a trait is a collection of methods, used as a "simple conceptual model for structuring object oriented programs" trait ...
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Merge tag [facebook-fbml] and [fbml]

I request to please merge both the tags as both of them represent the same meaning and that is facebook markup language. The tag fbml do it all so there should be no need to special specify a tag ...
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Make [bcl] a synonym of [base-class-library]

bcl has 112 questions and base-class-library only has 17 questions, but we also use portable-class-library, so I suggest that we use the longer tag and make the acronym a synonym.
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Merge [windowmanager] and [window-managers]

These tags mean the same thing: windowmanager and window-managers. I'd prefer they be made synonyms for (the non-existent) window-manager though.
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Make the tag [gui-thread] a synonym for [ui-thread]

The tags gui-thread (12) and ui-thread (269) are basically the same. Either one could be a synonym for the other, so this is just my personal suggestion: Despite the number of questions in both tags, ...
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