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Accounting Area51 proposal has been deleted
Done. I didn't know accounting site was killed. The link is now gone.
Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
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Should we enable the new banner that warns about our site's policy on AI-generated content?
Creating an answer so we can vote on it.
I'd be in favour of:
Reminder: Answers generated by artificial intelligence tools are not allowed on Personal Finance & Money. [Learn more]
with the link ...
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Merge tags lease and leasing
I propose a more complex operation.
The issue is that the tags lease and leasing have zero guidance becasue they are both trying to deal with vehicle-leasing and real-estate-leasing.
Those are two ...
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Is a question about purchasing power off-topic?
I think this is on-topic, but I don't want to override three other established users of the site by immediately voting to re-open (which would take immediate effect as I'm a moderator). [Update - it ...
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What does the [decision] tag mean?
I don't think this tag is useful as it's too vague and won't be useful for anyone looking for similar questions. It should be deleted.
Update: I've now removed it from all existing questions. That ...
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Can we remove "Strategies for earning more money" from the on-topic list?
To provide a focus for up/down-votes on my proposed action: I don't think the question is a good fit and I'd like to edit the help centre.
(EDIT: and I also can't think of a good question that the ...
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The "coupons" tag is being used for bond coupons, shopping coupons, and vouchers
I wouldn't use "product" as discount coupons are as likely to be store as manufacturer.
discount-coupon covers both effectively. See Wikipedia's definition:
a document exchanged in a ...
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Difference between tags "income-tax" and "income-taxes"
I think we should merge them. Seems pretty clear-cut.
As it's hard to reverse afterwards I'll leave it a couple of days before doing that.
EDIT: now done.
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Merge tags "abroad" and "offshore" into tag "international" and establish tag synonyms?
Agreed. In principle offshore has slightly more specialised connotations than international but I don't think it's worth it to try to draw the distinction in practice.
[edit: tags now merged and ...
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Should [wealth] be a synonym of [net-worth]?
I'm inclined to just delete the tag from the one remaining question, it doesn't really add much to it and wouldn't even if replaced with net-worth. Perhaps we should first import the tag wiki into net-...
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Create tag synonym: "security" and "securities"
security and securities are not the same thing.
They might appear to be the same thing....
security A security (also known as a financial instrument) is a
tradable asset of any kind. For questions ...
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Merge tags "share-repurchase" and "buybacks"
I agree they are the same and should be merged. For what it's worth, I'd vote for "share-repurchase" since "buyback" is more colloquial (e.g. "buyback" in wikipedia links ...
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Remove "problem" tag
Seems like an obvious one, even if it was created by the site's founder :-), so I've just removed it.
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Merge tags "hedging" and "hedge"
Sounds good to me, I'd propose hedging should win as it has more posts (101 v 20) and seems more natural.
If anyone prefers hedge post a competing answer and we can see how the votes go. If there's no ...
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Why can´t we answer this question
After some help from StackExchange staff, it looks like you hit some variant of this bug:
Receiving incorrect WebSocket message "this post is locked - no more edits are allowed" when editing ...
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Tour page: mention that questions seeking off-site resources are off-topic
I appear to have the power to edit this unilaterally and have just done so:
Anything not directly related to Personal Finance and Money
Questions that are primarily opinion-based
Questions with too ...
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Merge [bills] and [billing]
To put the alternate case to Nathan's answer, I propose we keep billing.
My reasons because it's more used than bills, which suggests that it's what our users find more natural on average.
EDIT: I'...
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Difference between tags "income-tax" and "income-taxes"
income-taxes has 19 questions vs 1649 for income-tax. I don't see the need for the former.
I'll agree with Ganesh, it's good practice to give these things a few days for member input. Although, Meta ...
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Merge tags w2 and form-w-2
I agree, they should be merged.
I personally prefer form-w-2. Form W-2 officially has a hyphen in the middle. Most of the other form tags have "form" in the tag name, and it is nice to be able to ...
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Make fsa and flexible-spending-account synonyms?
As this seems to have support and no opposition, I've merged the two tags and made flexible-spending-account a synonym for fsa. I did it that way round to be consistent with hsa, but I don't feel ...
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Merge sales-tax and sales-taxes tags
This is so obvious there's no need for discussion, @JoeTaxpayer has done it already.
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The "coupons" tag is being used for bond coupons, shopping coupons, and vouchers
Member has posted about an odd tag issue and a proposed solution.
I've added the tag "featured" to get some attention. If there are no objections (within 5 days), I'll proceed with this, and ...
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Ambiguity: "premium-bonds" tag
I'm not convinced that the "Bond trading above its face value" usage is something worthy of a tag. We don't any questions tagged as "discount-bonds". I suspect that people asking ...
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"put-options" and "call-options" vs "puts" and "calls"
Suggestion:
Move all the "puts" and "calls" questions into "put-options" and "call-options".
Reasoning: All "puts" and "calls" questions ...
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Can we remove "Strategies for earning more money" from the on-topic list?
Given that this just came to our attention, I don't think there have been many of this type of question on this stack. Leading to 2 outcomes -
Leave it as is. It hasn't presented itself as a problem, ...
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Tags for non-fungible tokens
I've made this synonym as it seems fairly uncontroversial and I can always undo it if there is pushback.
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Rename "interactive-broker" tag to "interactive-brokers"
Done - I didn't bother creating a synonym, but I can do if the "wrong" one creeps back.
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Ambiguity: "applications" tag
software is already an existing tag. I think this tag should be used for questions about software applications.
For questions about loan or credit card applications, I think the applications tag is ...
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Should the umbrella tag be renamed?
Seems like an obvious one, so I've done the rename in a way that means umbrella will be a synonym for umbrella-insurance in future.
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