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Should we create a Google My Business Tag?

It looks like the tag would be useful. We have 46 search results for "google my business". As I stated in a comment, you don't usually need to discuss tag creation here. You can just go ahead and …
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Tag for placeholder pages ("under construction", "under development", "coming soon", …)

I'm going to suggest creating the tag coming-soon and tagging all the questions with that. It sounds like a closer match to what the questions are about than "under construction" to me. Under con …
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Retire the tag "google-adwords", replace with "google-ads"

I agree that google-adwords should be retired, but replacing it by google-ads would be a mistake. If somebody says "Google Ads" to me I assume they are talking about Adsense. This new name is very am …
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Which of these "internationalization" tags should be merged?

We now have several related tags, some of which should probably be merged: multilingual - 61 Questions internationalization - 47 Questions language - 46 Questions international- 10 Questions multiregion …
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Which of these "internationalization" tags should be merged?

I'm in favor of merging all of the tags into "internationalization". Looking through the questions that are tagged with the variants, all of them would work well with an "internationalization" tag. …
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Why are some tags changed automatically?

Some tags are "synonyms" of other tags. If you use one of those tags, they will be automatically changed to their synonym. For example stats becomes statistics. … You can see the list here: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms …
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Should “dns-server” and “nameserver” tags be merged?

These tags mean the same thing and should be merged. nameserver should be the final tag name because it is the more popular. …
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Which image/picture/photo related tags need to be merged?

We have several related tags that have significant overlap: image × 78 -- merged into "images" images × 175 photo × 10 pictures × 6 …
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Which image/picture/photo related tags need to be merged?

All these tags mean the same thing and should be merged into images which is the most popular. …
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Similar tags: "logging", "tracking", "analytics", "reporting", and "statistics" -- merge?

These tags are very similar: logging × 47 tracking × 123 analytics × 301 reporting × 26 statistics × 87 Should some of them be merged? …
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Similar tags: "logging", "tracking", "analytics", "reporting", and "statistics" -- merge?

"tracking", "analytics", and "reporting" should be merged. They mean the same thing. I'm also in favor of including "statistics" in the merge. It could mean something different, but in the context …
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How to specify a non relevant tag?

Moderators can perform tag merges. I have done so in this case because it is so straightforward.
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SSL is dead. What should we do with the HTTPS, TLS, and SSL tags?

I asked a question today and Martijn let me know that I was using the wrong terminology when I was using HTTPS and SSL interchangably. SSL version 3 was recently found to be insecure and now websites …
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SSL is dead. What should we do with the HTTPS, TLS, and SSL tags?

JasonBirch says: https, ssl, tls (close enough) I agree with his assessment that these tags are close enough to be tag synonyms. …
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Should “dns-server” and “nameserver” tags be merged?

We have very similar tags about DNS name servers: nameserver × 86 dns-servers × 41 …
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