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"Intentionally awkward" Usage Guidance text for some tags

I'm not sure how many tags follow this pattern, but I just noticed these two: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/org-mode https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/org-agenda ...
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Tags for buffer/file/dir local variables

One question I saw today had the following four tags attached to it : file-local-variables, local-variables, buffer-local, directory-local-variables. It seemed a bit overkill to me, but I don't know ...
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Uniformity in tag description

Today I went to add a description for a new tag. I wanted to follow the same general pattern in writing this description, but I found that since tags had been probably described by several different ...
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Tag for certain kinds of visual interface customization

I'm wondering how to tag How do I display line numbers in emacs (not in the mode line)? It was originally tagged customization, but that's a really bad tag name. It can easily be confused with Emacs'...
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Should the [history] tag be split?

When I look at the [history] tag, I see at least three senses of that word being mashed together: History: The 43 year long story of emacs History: a record of user input; previous commands History: ...
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How about a `macOS` tag?

We've got an osx tag and an mac tag. The Emacs community is nothing if not pedantic ;), and Apple renamed it to macOS in 2016, so why not a fold them both into a singular macOS tag?
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What should the install tag mean

I notice the install tag doesn't have a wiki, so I thought I would try to put one together. However, I'm not sure what it should be. It looks like most of the questions with the install tag refer to ...
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Replace desktop tag with desktop-save-mode?

I just took a look through the desktop tag, and almost all of the questions relate to desktop-save-mode. However, the word “desktop” is pretty general, and there were a handful of questions that used ...
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What is the purpose of the tag '04182016 (that I believe was automatically added to my question)?

On my recent question Export Javascript source block to script tag in HTML when exporting Org file to HTML the tag '04182016 suddenly and misteriously appeared. I believe it happened automatically (...
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Tags for [invocation], [start-up] and [command-line-arguments]

I was looking for a tag for a question about getting Emacs to do something at startup based on the command line arguments. I didn't find any so I created command-line-arguments. As I was looking for ...
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What tag wiki do we use for [emacs-internals]?

Also see: A tag for internal features? As per the discussion above, we've created the emacs-internals tag. However, this tag needs a more solid definition of what it applies to. Currently, we ...
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Changing some (most) uses of tag `auto-complete-mode` to tag `autocompletion`

See this Meta StackExchange question.
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