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What should we do about the [hello-world] tag?
Recently I came across a question with a hello-world tag, which was asked a few days ago. (I can't post the link of it because it is now deleted)
After searching on Stack Overflow and Meta Stack ...
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The [tax] tag has been burninated
The tax tag is on about 200 questions dealing with numerous different concepts, languages, and problems. It only refers to a real-world domain that use cases for coding deal with, and adds no useful ...
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Extraordinary burnination: turn off the [tdengine]
The tdengine tag has been plagued for at least since one year (possibly more) by what look like a massive seeding attempt via automatically created accounts, or plain ban evasion, at best, but again ...
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Burninate the [leetcode] tag again and blacklist it please
Again leetcode raised its ugly head:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77083564/multiplying-large-numbers-with-precision-issues-how-to-correctly-handle-floatin
There seems to be only a single ...
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Should we burninate the [stars] tag?
Do NOT burninate this tag right now - this is a discussion, NOT an invitation to burninate this.
If anyone ignores the rules and burninates this anyways, the mods may have to get involved with that, ...
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The [filament] is burning out
I was trying to ask a question about the Filament rendering system. It occurred to me that there were two more specific tags regarding "filament": laravel-filament and google-filament, which ...
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Let's col[lab]orate on a plan for this tag!
This is a discussion. DO NOT burninate this tag right now
We have a lab tag. Here's its tag description:
Lab is a simple test utility for node.
Except... it isn't being used that way. I've seen it ...
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This tag paid the ultimate [price]
After reviewing some questions in the shipping tag during burnination, I ran across price tag, and wondered how relevant it is for SO. It has 882 questions at the time of writing this post about ...
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Should we burninate the [360] tag?
I think we should burninate the 360 tag
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
Totally ambiguous
Is the concept described even on-topic for the ...
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Burninate or synonym request for [if-this-then-that] tag
I came across this question, which has a tag, called if-this-then-that. Apparently some other questions have this tag too. I don't see the sense of having this tag, while there already is an if-...
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Is SO getting too [corporate]?
Converting the question in a burninate-request as suggested in the comments.
I believe the tag corporate should be burninated.
It fails all the preliminary checks before burnination:
Does it describe ...
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Should we burninate the [interview] tag?
The interview tag has 22 questions. A selection of them are duplicates or closed questions.
Only 1 question is now left in the interview tag. It has been closed.
It is asking for help with interview ...
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The [rowname] and [columnname] tags have been burninated
Tag Counts
rowname x200
columnname x393
Intersection between the two x8
Burnination criteria
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? And is it unambiguous?
The tag ...
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The [shipping] tag has been burninated
So... I think we should burninate the shipping tag
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
It is something that is in some-way related to ...
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The [maintenance] tag has been burninated
I believe the tag maintenance should be burninated.
It fails all the preliminary checks before burnination:
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it ...
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The [variations] tag has been burninated
As I was working on the burnination of the options tag, I came across the question Variant options on Shopify which had both the variation and variations tag (as well as the options tag). When I ...
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This tag is not [old] but it could make us [old]
A new tag, old was recently created for this question. I think it is ambiguous and should be removed.
Burnination criteria:
1. Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? ...
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The [customer] has been removed
I happened upon the customer tag today. It presently has 202 questions, 36 of which were created in 2022 (about 6 per month).
The questions, predictably, revolve around eCommerce software. The top ...
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The [connect] tag has been burninated
In 2017 we had a discussion about disambiguating connect because it was being used to mean multiple things. At the time, it was suggested to have a separate request to burninate this tag after the ...
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[how-to] burninate this tag?
Seriously? We have a how-to tag? Well... we shouldn't. Let's go through the criteria:
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
Absolutely not. ...
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We should Ex-[communicate] this tag
communicate is sitting at 130 questions.
Almost half of these questions are about Python's subprocess module, usually code using the Popen.communicate method. Of those, the overwhelming majority are ...
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The [colon] tag has been burninated
I think we should burninate the colon tag for the same reasons we burninated the comma tag:
Does it describe the contents, is it unambiguous?
In a sense, the contents have a colon somewhere in there. ...
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Should we burninate the [i] tag?
Recently I started seeing Python questions tagged i (example: How to create a background mask from numpy array?).
They seem to involve iteration like for i in collection. When I hover over this tag in ...
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This tag has hit rock [bottom]
So... we have a bottom tag on SO. I propose we get rid of it.
Criteria for burnination:
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is
applied? And is it unambiguous?
No, certainly not....
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Rename [scenekit-modelio]
The questions with this tag are trying to refer to Model I/O.
Model I/O is not specifically for use with SceneKit. If the creator of the tag was trying to differentiate it from [modelio], [apple-...
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The [options] tag has been burninated
I am proposing that the options tag be burninated. There are about 1945 questions with the tag. Most of the top answerers have only answered one such question; a few have answered two. One top ...
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Fix the [transporter] malfunction
I've recently stumbled across transporter, with currently 1 watcher and 36 questions. There's no tag wiki at all either.
Addressing the points Shog9 makes:
Does it describe the contents of the ...
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The [term] tag has been burninated
The term tag has the following usage guidance:
May refer to: 1) Term (language) or Terminology, 2) Term (time), 3) Technical term, 4) Scientific terminology or 5) Telecom Enforcement Resource and ...
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Re-burninate and blacklist [check]
The check tag has re-appeared in the last month after being successfully burninated twice: ~7 years ago and ~1 year ago. I think we should re-burninate and also blacklist it as it's just being misused ...
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Do we really need separate tags for minor patch versions of Ruby?
I could find five of them:
ruby-2.1.3
ruby-2.1.4
ruby-2.1.5
ruby-2.3.1
ruby-2.3.8
that, regardless there are some questions using these tags, it's very unlikely they have to do with particular ...
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I challenge the [kattis] tag
The tag info page for kattis says it all:
Use this tag for programming challenges found on Kattis.com.
Kattis is a website where you can find hundreds of programming problems to solve. Kattis is ...
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The [high-resolution] has been downscaled
This tag has been burninated. Please do not recreate it. If you need advice on which tag to use, see the answer below. If you see this tag reappearing, it may need to be blacklisted.
high-resolution ...
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Should we unprocess [python-textprocessing]?
The current python-textprocessing tag has 136 questions on Stack Overflow.
We currently have tags for both python and text-processing (1721 questions).
Does this tag really add any meaningful ...
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How could we make [todictionary] less ambiguous?
There is this todictionary tag, with 53 questions.
But the tag is way too ambiguous... It doesn't have a tag wiki nor does it have a tag wiki excerpt.
The original use for this tag (at least I suppose)...
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The [qa] tag has been burninated
Stack Overflow has a qa tag (with the synonym quality-assurance) with almost 1400 questions, out of which around 9% are closed.
From a quick look over the questions, there seems to be a bit of ...
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Should we pipe [MangoDB] to /dev/null?
I propose we burninate the mangodb tag. Users have been confusing it for the mongodb tag, as it's only one letter different. There are now 33 questions remaining on the tag after I went through and re-...
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We need to clean out our [cleaner]
The cleaner has 2 questions and no usage guidance. The first one is about making cleaner CSS, whereas the other is about the Cleaner class in java.
Does it describe the contents of the questions to ...
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There are multireasons the [multifile] tag should be burninated
The multifile tag has no wiki information and has 82 questions. Every question has at least one other tag. It hasn't been used much recently (no questions in the last 30 days; about a quarter of ...
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What if [whatif] were removed?
The whatif tag has 15 questions and no tag wiki.
6 questions are about the -WhatIf flag common to several (Windows?) PowerShell cmdlets
3 questions are about a What-If parameter in Power BI
6 other ...
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How did this tag not get burninated on its [date-of-birth]?
The date-of-birth says
For questions related to storing, retrieving, and viewing Date of Birth (DoB) information.
Again, the burnination questions:
Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?...
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Shod wee bernynate tae [syntex] tg?
The syntex tag has 12 questions, but 11 of them are not about the now unmaintained Rust library by this name (thanks @RyanM for digging that up).
There is no tag description or wiki page.
Following ...
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Rename [airbnb] to [airbnb-js-styleguide]
The airbnb tag is specifically about their JS style guide, based on the tag wiki excerpt:
For questions about complying with one of Airbnb's JavaScript style guides (located on GitHub). [...]
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Make love, not [codewars]
Related: Can we remove the Codility meta tag?
We now have a codewars tag, which has 8 questions. This should be removed for the same reason that codility was removed: this really isn't a programming ...
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This tag has been [lib]erated from existence
I recently stumbled on the lib tag, with no wiki and 779 questions covering a wide range of topics.
The commonality in all the questions is that users are referring to a "library", for which ...
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What is our [roadmap] for burnination?
Discussion of the [roadmap] tag happened as early as 2014, but no decision was apparently made at that time and the proposal was not clearly in favor of burnination. I specifically propose burnination....
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Come [discover] this tag's problems
There are 51 questions with the tag discover. 9 users watch it and it has no tag wiki.
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
Definitely not. The ...
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It's the [20m-questions-milestone] but, I believe it should be gone
I was looking through the tags list just to look at any random tags that could be deleted and I found the 20m-questions-milestone tag.
Do we REALLY need it?
Some uhh questions:
(2 for 1) 1: Does it ...
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Let's go [dumping]
Dumping
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
No, it doesn't really help tell what is happening. The questions with [dumping] are random.
Is ...
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The [social] tag has been burninated
The social tag has the following description:
The term social refers to a characteristic of living organisms as applied to populations of humans and other animals.
This clearly has nothing ...
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We have removed [remove]
remove has 531 questions, 43 followers, and no tag wiki. An arbitrary tag that seems too broad to add value to any given post. Most of the posts tagged with remove seem to be used by low-rep users.
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