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Tag cleanup - Part 1 - Results

These are the current outcomes of my earlier tag cleanup proposal. Two of our beloved moderators, Elmy and Lila, both helped out with this as well. Thank you to Journeyman Geek for offering feedback (...
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Proposal to rename [desexing] tag to [neutering]

For UK/US users desexing is not a tag most would think to look for when refering to spay, neuter, castration, etc. In fact "desexing" is a term that I (a vet) have never heard used by any veterinary ...
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Creating breed tags

The consensus from this post Should we have tags for breeds? is that when there's 3-4 posts on a breed that it would be appropriate to create a breed tag. I created a german-shepherd and retagged ...
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PSA: I'm starting the process of removing the tag [care]

Based on the previous discussion that happend last week: How can we improve the [care] tag? It sounds to me like the general feeling towards the tag: care is that it's pretty useless and should be ...
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Tag pluralization list

Running this query on DataSE I found some tags I think that would make more sense to be pluralized based on the other tags we have. aquarium (Note: The similar tag terrariums is plural) bearded-...
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Habitat - Redundant Synonym Tag or Eliminate?

Biweekly challenge brought attention to habitat, which not only has no wiki attached, but is only used in a few questions that are also tagged either aquarium or terrariums. Of the 7 questions tagged ...
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Tag synonyms and renames for shedding/molting

We currently have 4 questions tagged shedding and 1 tagged molt. They mean the same thing. Both terms can be applied to any species of animal that sheds its skin or fur. molt is inconsistent with ...
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What should we tag questions where a pet is doing an action that the asker wants stopped?

Related to Split the [behavior] Tag? , but not specific to splitting the behavior tag. This is a more thought-out proposal, with backing evidence. Someone asks a question about stopping or ...
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Split the [behavior] Tag?

I think we need to split the behavior tag into what I've seen are the two common uses for it: behavior - explain behavior of a pet and unwanted-behavior - refers to an undesirable behavior of a pet ...
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Chameleon(s) tag

For a question about chameleons I tried to remove the singular chameleon and instead add chameleons as per our meta discussion on tag plurals but I get a message saying You are attempting to ...
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When should we begin culling tags?

We currently have 210 questions and, by my count, 129 tags, 71 of which are only being applied to one question at the moment. Some of these are obviously useful (e.g. mice) whereas sound and ice are ...
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