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Should [m68k] and [motorola-680x0] tags be merged?

I recommend merge to m68k. While it may be mysterious to the uninitiated, it is quite clear and common for anyone familiar with 1980s CPUs (e.g., I don't recall ever doing any real programming on ...
manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact's user avatar
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Should we have a [controller] tag?

Thank you for pointing this out. No. A tag simply called controller is far too vague to be of any use. I would interpret it as referring to a controller processor within a circuit board, for example ...
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According to the naming of other tags, shouldn't the tag amigashell be changed to amiga-shell?

Acording to other name tags, there shouldn't be an Amiga-Shell tag at all. A shell is something that each and every OS provides in some way. For a good reason there is no Windows-Shell, Atari-ST-...
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Rename tag "mechanical" to "mechanical-computing"

I would favor the change. However, do note that mechanical-computing is a subset of mechanical. Asking about how a daisy-wheel printer worked would be an example of mechanical, but not mechanical-...
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I couldn't find the tag amiga-os, what tag should be used for questions about AmigaOS?

I'd say no. Tags are intended as a multi dimensional system. If we define special tag for each and every OS and each and every component thereof, the system of tags turns into a single dimensional ...
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‌[old-hardware-adaptation] versus [new-hardware-adaptation]

I agree. Having both tags seems unnecessary. I would propose creating hardware-adaption and synonymising the others to it.
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Unifying tag spellings

I've renamed 386 to 80386 by swapping the synonym then clicking “merge” – this only kept the tag wiki excerpt properly because no questions were tagged 80386. (The tag management tools, while much ...
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According to the naming of other tags, shouldn't the tag amigashell be changed to amiga-shell?

Yup. I'm just going to go ahead and unilaterally rename it now, since it's so easy to revert. amigashell → amiga-shell 8 revision history entries, 6 questions and 3 "favourite tag" entries were ...
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