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Should [tag:loop] be consistent with StackOverflow ([tag:loops])?

While suggesting an edit for the for the loop tag-wiki, I realized that its equivalent on StackOverflow is loops. Should we rename it to be consistent with SO? It would obviously need a tag synonym ...
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Edits which change the scope of the original question getting approved

Within a short time span I've suggested edits which rollback the previous edit, which has gone through the review of an edit-process. This is because the initial edit has added a tag, which redefines ...
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Why (new) people (to SharePoint SE) tag the questions with multiple [sharepoint-*] -tags? How to avoid that?

It's a two-part question of why and how to avoid that. Why, especially new people to SharePoint SE, tag the questions so that they include often many if not all of the tags of sharepoint-enterprise, ...
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"Nintex" tag? Really?

This tag just popped in during a review on the main site. Should it even exist in the first place?? Nintex Workflow related questions are off topic as are all question about third parties product, so ...
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Old pre 2013 PeoplePicker and the new ClientPeoplePicker: do they require different tagging?

Simple and fast question here: are we using the same tag people-picker for both the old PeoplePicker and the new ClientPeoplePicker? This came to mind after reading the question SharePoint - How to ...
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Are questions about resources for learning SP development on-topic?

Looking the SharePoint Stack Exchange tour I found difficult to ask questions about references for learning SharePoint development. I know there's a related question with an accepted answer but I'm ...
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Tag Delete: Memory

As from title, I propose to delete the memory tag. It is used only by one question and it could live without it (actual question is about disposing practices, so disposing should be enough). https://...
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Do we have a tag for the SharePoint 2013 REST API?

I'm not really sure what it is called... whatever is documented here. It seems to be related to the Client Side Object Model... We do already have a rest (179 questions) and rest-api (2 questions). ...
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Has the policy for version tags changed?

In the last day, I have saw a minor spread of edits suggestions that only add a version tag. As far as I know, many of such questions are NOT version specific, still it seems that I am the only one ...
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Cannot submit tag wiki edits

I've been adding a few tag wikis to the database but all of a sudden am facing an error message whenever I try to submit a new one. It says something to the effect of "There was an error submitting ...
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Again about version specific tag

Just saw this proposed edit. https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/8685 The edit only retagged the question to introduce the 2010 tag. Now, feel free to correct me but the ...
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Mutually exclusive tags

There are some instances of mutually exclusive tags being used in questions: Foundation & Enterprise ~ 60 2007 & 2010 ~ 40 What's the best approach for dealing with this? Is there some way ...
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Questions about migration from SP 2007 to 2010 that use both the version tags

Probably I am thinking to much here, but I prefer to ask for guidance anyway. I was reading some old discussion about the version tags (2010/2007 ecc) and I had the (probably bad) idea to check if any ...
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Visual feedback when creating new tags

Is there a way to signal the difference between new tags and existing tags when asking a question? I got burned when asking this question. My internets are slow here so the Ajaxy-popup with suggested ...
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Should we have tags by product edition?

I've noticed we have search-express and sharepoint-foundation tags. Are these actually helpful to the site?
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Stack Exchange team: Shouldn't the 2010 tag be deleted again?

Brief recap: Version tags were out of control Jeff deleted the 2010 tag We now only use tags that are version specific ...then all of the old SharePoint Overflow questions were migrated in and we're ...
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Problem with MOSS tag

When I try to flag a question with MOSS, it tells me: sorry, the 'sharepoint-2007' tag is not allowed. The 'sharepoint-2007' tag is new... I realize that I can't create tags yet but it seems like the ...
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How do I use tags?

I've created this question for us to document guidance around tagging. We have a lot of old tags migrated in from SharePoint Overflow 1.0 that should be sorted through, and need to set the appropriate ...
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Designer tag without SharePoint

I can see we have a tag called "designer". I am pretty sure this was called SharePoint-designer before. Designer doesnt make sense, it is a product called "SharePoint Designer". I hope we soon can get ...
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Numeric version tags considered ... OK

As a followup to Version tags considered harmful TL;DR -- my main point in that post: The danger of version tags is that they become de-facto requirements -- crutches to avoid thinking about what ...
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Version tags considered harmful

We've noticed that a huge percentage of questions are tagged sharepoint-2007 or sharepoint-2010. This is a dangerous pattern for your community to fall into. Here's why: Version tags are redundant. ...
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Remove / Merge tags

Already I see some tag-sprawl. Eg List(12) Lists(0) (other tags are usually in plural) Documents(4) Document(0) Is there a way to either delete or merge these tags, or flag as redundant?
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Is there a way to "force" or suggest the selection of tags?

In SharePoint related questions 9 out of 10 times, it is imperative to have the post tagged with what version of the product we are talking about (eg. SharePoint-2007, SharePoint-2010, SharePoint-...
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Is there any way to ban the "sharepoint" tag?

The sharepoint tag is pure noise on this site, as all questions are about SharePoint. Is there any way to ban this tag?
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Should we tag questions with a SharePoint version?

In SharePoint Overflow 1.0, there was some encouragement to tag questions with a version, e.g. sharepoint-2010 or sharepoint-2007. This can be great to help answer a question, or for people that only ...
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Can we have an RSS feed of the site?

I was wondering, can we add a feature of having RSS feeds? It will be great if we can get RSS by Tag.
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