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I discovered today that there's actually a tag, and 4,000+ questions use it. According to its wiki entry, it's described as:

The shortest distance between two points. Or, a row of characters in text output.

Seriously?

The four burnination criteria are:

  1. Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
  2. Is the concept described even on-topic for the site?
  3. Does the tag add any meaningful information to the post?
  4. Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?

To which I believe the answers are no, no, no, and no.

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    We've reached the end of the [line] ;)
    – NathanOliver
    Commented Jun 29, 2017 at 18:28
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    That tag definitively crossed the [line] ;)
    – honk
    Commented Jun 29, 2017 at 18:30
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    This tag needs to toe the [line] ;)
    – Nathan Arthur
    Commented Jun 29, 2017 at 20:18
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    "[Line]s, [line]s, everywhere there's [line]s" - Paul Simon
    – aschultz
    Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 3:13
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    I had to google the [line] above
    – Vanity Slug - codidact.com
    Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 13:19
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    Related tag: polyline "Polyline in computer graphics is a continuous line composed of one or more line segments." Proposal: Retag those questions tagged with line with a new tag named line-geometry. Note: Wikipedia's disambiguation page for line shows entries for Line (geometry) and Line (text file).
    – DavidRR
    Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 13:50
  • Isn't there an app called Line?
    – I haz kode
    Commented Jul 1, 2017 at 8:42
  • @DavidRR polyline is not a line. the rest of your comment could be posted as an answer.
    – Will Ness
    Commented Jul 1, 2017 at 9:05
  • the answer to '3.' could be yes.
    – Will Ness
    Commented Jul 1, 2017 at 9:06
  • Ya, just cross it!!!
    – Ronak Chaniyara
    Commented Jul 1, 2017 at 9:16
  • Because you're mine, I cross the line.
    – Scott C Wilson
    Commented Jul 2, 2017 at 12:36
  • Is there a way to see which tags have been created recently? Garbage collection - aah, I mean burnination - of tags would be faster if we burninate them at the source ;) I guess that more than 50% of new tags shouldn't have been created in the first place...
    – Michael
    Commented Jul 2, 2017 at 12:50
  • @DavidRR There's no need for lines to have their own separate geometry tag. Just change it to geometry when that's appropriate.
    – jpmc26
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 21:48

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The ones that actually deal with the geometric math about lines can be retagged with . We've had a number of other burnination requests about geometric figures: Unify [triangle] [rectangle] [shape] [circle] and the like under [geometry]. (There's another one solely about , too, but I don't wanna hunt around for it right now.)

I could also think of some cases where would be appropriate.

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