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Across Stack Exchange, we usually go for plural tags for countable nouns, and for unabbreviated tags. Please rename the following tags for consistency (keeping synonyms as suitable, of course):

Pity we can't do that for . This tag shouldn't exist anyway; what's a good replacement (or set of replacements)? ?

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Is this really true? On SO the singular versions are winning in all cases – Michael Mrozek♦ Jan 24 at 1:12
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@MichaelMrozek Browsing through tags on MSO: unclear, anecdotes. Jeff prefers plurals. – Gilles Jan 24 at 1:24
I would suggest the opposite: prefer the singular form. – user unknown Mar 24 at 22:38
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I think we should delete . And since we use , maybe we should replace with ?

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x-client sounds like a process or application rather than a window. We use window because it's there, but I don't think it's a good tag name, because it's too close to the completely different windows. – Gilles Feb 20 at 9:54
then maybe we can use x-window ? – Coren Feb 20 at 10:01
Confusingly close to x-window-system (for which we use x11). – Gilles Feb 20 at 10:20
what about gui ? – Coren Feb 20 at 10:33
too generic, that's more of an analog to command-line. – Gilles Feb 20 at 11:45
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