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This tag is for questions about tag synonyms (how they work, who can create them, etc).

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Confusing /calendaring tag?

Go for it. This is the same case as the oops tag you mentioned earlier -- a single user created it without putting much thought into it; it only takes 300 rep to create tags, and they probably only bo …
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3 votes

Merge network[-]manager tags

The tool is called "NetworkManager" (as opposed to "Network Manager"), so I kept networkmanager. There was only one network-manager post, but I made a synonym anyway in case it happens again
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
2 votes
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Passwd tag synonymous to password?

Well, it was intended by the user who suggested it and the others who voted on it, but it does seem wrong to me, so I removed the synonym. It renamed passwd 45 times since January 2014 though, and tho …
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
1 vote
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Regarding package management tags

Added the package-management ← package-manager synonym (package-manager is more common, but the synonym going that way doesn't really make sense to me). Will merge later
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
2 votes
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Synonym paging → virtual-memory?

mattdm suggested the synonym already, so I approved it and merged
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4 votes
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Synonymize /unicode with /utf-8

utf-8 and utf8 both point to unicode now and are merged
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
6 votes
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Unalias rename and mv

I imagine rename was meant to refer to the action of renaming, not the actual tool, but there's no tag wiki to be sure. I don't know where you came up with 169, but the synonym only took effect 40 tim …
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
3 votes
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Merge tags mac and macintosh

updating post history, 3 rows affected updating posts, 1 rows affected updating PostTags associations, 1 rows affected removing/renaming old tag, 1 rows affected updating count for master tag, 1 rows …
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
3 votes

"tag" and "tags" are not synonyms?

Tags with no questions get deleted automatically at midnight. tag did have a question until 9 hours ago, so it's still around, but it'll be gone tonight
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
1 vote

I think that "config" and "configuration" tags could be merged

Done; config now points to configuration
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
3 votes
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"log" tag should be made a synonym of "logs"

Merged, log → logs synonym added.
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
3 votes
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Some mistakes regarding the /chrome, /google-chrome, and /chromium

google-chrome was just an oversight; I merged it into chrome since chrome had considerably more instances, so now all three are grouped together. We normally only make synonyms if there's a history of …
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