Questions tagged [synonym-request]
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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Create [x86-64] synonym for [amd-64]
On Stack Overflow, the x86-64 tag is the main tag for questions about 64 bit extensions to the Intel x86 architecture. The amd64 tag is a synonym. Here on Code Review, the amd64 tag exists (and only ...
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Let's demerge [mergesort] for consistency with other sorting tags
In a previous meta question, we decided that the sorting tags should not be merged. I am fine with this. Currently, however, there is a peculiarity among the 6 major sorting algorithm tags: ...
0 votes
1 answer
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Synonym request for tag [animations], proposed synonym [easing]
Synonym Request I came across this question screen-transition-effect-like-in-final-fantasy-games where OP makes their custom easing function in order to smoothly transition a color over an image. I ...
11 votes
1 answer
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What's your angle on desynonymizing [Angular] and [Angular.js]?
As we should know from ""Angular" (Angular is not Angular.js)", Angular is not AngularJS - Angular is Angular2+. Wikipedia also says they're different things: Angular - "Angular (commonly referred to ...
11 votes
2 answers
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Can we constrict the [python-2.*] tags?
I would like to suggest the following: Rename python-2.7 -> python-2.x Synonymize python-2.6 -> python-2.x This is as we don't have individual Python 3 tags, such as python-3.6. But we do however have ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Synonym Request: [smtp] -> [email]
I have a review request that pertains specifically to SMTP behaviour and would like it tagged as such so as to be unambiguous and searchable. However, I have no objection to such a tag deferring to ...
3 votes
1 answer
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(pascal) vs. (free-pascal)
This question has been half-answered before: Pascal / Delphi / Pascal Script tags It was explicitly asked again here: Should we have a [free-pascal] tag? but no answer was given. Now a bunch of ...
12 votes
1 answer
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Should the [css] and [css3] tags be merged?
I can't think of any good reason why the css3 tag should exist on CR at all. There is currently a discussion going on over on Meta SO as to when the css3 tag is appropriate. CSS3 is not a well ...
10 votes
1 answer
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SELECT [sql-server] AS [t-sql] FROM tags
sql-server and t-sql (short for Transact-SQL) both represent practically the same thing, which is Microsoft's proprietary RDBMS. From Wikipedia: Transact-SQL (T-SQL) is Microsoft's and Sybase's ...
4 votes
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Synonym request: [template] -> [generics]
As far as I can tell, template is basically just C++'s version of generics. If this is correct and there is no other appropriate use of the template tag (the tag says it's not supposed to be used for ...
5 votes
1 answer
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Do we still need separate [unix] and [linux] tags?
I'm not sure if we still need both unix and linux. Unix is a broader family of operating systems and Linux is one of them under Unix. I don't think we should just have linux since there are ...
3 votes
1 answer
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Synonymise [objective-c-runtime] with [objective-c]
The tag objective-c-runtime has 3 questions: UIScrollView Category utility function for auto sizing contentSize (0 answers) Dynamically setting unknown properties of a subclass from parent class in ...
6 votes
1 answer
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Synonymize [levenshtein-distance] -> [edit-distance]
I created the levenshtein-distance tag without knowing there was already an edit-distance out there. Can we make the one I created a synonym of the existing tag? This will ensure any future users are ...
4 votes
3 answers
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Should [adventure-game] and [role-playing-game] be synonymized?
We have both adventure-game (14 questions) and role-playing-game (5 questions), which don't seem to differ much in the questions being asked for both. Plus, most of these questions involve a console ...
5 votes
1 answer
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Is the [ecmascript] tag needed?
I think this tag should be made synonym with javascript. It currently has only 6 questions, 4 of which are JavaScript. One is tagged instead cold-fusion and another .net. It has 0 followers. I'm just ...