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reworked cleanup request based on existence of [preview.app] mentioned in comment
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Shall we review Let's put [preview]? in the rear-view

The tag has an ambiguity problem. It has no tag wiki and is often misapplied in place of better, more specific tags.

AboutFor example, about half of the questions tagged with it are about Preview, the image and PDF viewer in OS X, for which there exists . There are other various uses ofAlso, the tag inis applied to questions about previews of new versions of Windows (for which there are existing tags),and MS Office Preview, previewing images or rendered code in different image/text editors, print previews, etc. It's all over the mapfor which there are tags already.

My feeling is that havingIt appears in questions about various other contexts for which a more general tag for OS X Preview is perfectly reasonable and helpfulsufficient. All the other uses of really add nothing

This tag needs to the questionsbe burned.

I suggest we go through and remove or replace the tag as appropriate for each question. The most likely replacement tags are

Related minor tag that should also be burned:

There are only 102 questions tagged now, so this should be a relatively quick problem to fix.

Shall we review [preview]?

The tag has an ambiguity problem.

About half of the questions tagged with it are about Preview, the image and PDF viewer in OS X. There are other various uses of the tag in questions about previews of new versions of Windows (for which there are existing tags), MS Office Preview, previewing images or rendered code in different image/text editors, print previews, etc. It's all over the map.

My feeling is that having a tag for OS X Preview is perfectly reasonable and helpful. All the other uses of really add nothing to the questions.

I suggest we

  • rename the tag or maybe to prevent future misapplication of the tag,
  • write a tag wiki explaining the proper usage of the tag, and
  • remove the tag from questions where it is misapplied.

There are only 102 questions tagged now, so this should be a relatively quick problem to fix.

Let's put [preview] in the rear-view

The tag has an ambiguity problem. It has no tag wiki and is often misapplied in place of better, more specific tags.

For example, about half of the questions tagged with it are about Preview, the image and PDF viewer in OS X, for which there exists . Also, the tag is applied to questions about previews of new versions of Windows and MS Office Preview, for which there are tags already.

It appears in questions about various other contexts for which a more general tag is sufficient.

This tag needs to be burned.

I suggest we go through and remove or replace the tag as appropriate for each question. The most likely replacement tags are

Related minor tag that should also be burned:

There are only 102 questions tagged now, so this should be a relatively quick problem to fix.

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Excellll
Excellll
  • 12.7k
  • 17
  • 29

Shall we review [preview]?

The tag has an ambiguity problem.

About half of the questions tagged with it are about Preview, the image and PDF viewer in OS X. There are other various uses of the tag in questions about previews of new versions of Windows (for which there are existing tags), MS Office Preview, previewing images or rendered code in different image/text editors, print previews, etc. It's all over the map.

My feeling is that having a tag for OS X Preview is perfectly reasonable and helpful. All the other uses of really add nothing to the questions.

I suggest we

  • rename the tag or maybe to prevent future misapplication of the tag,
  • write a tag wiki explaining the proper usage of the tag, and
  • remove the tag from questions where it is misapplied.

There are only 102 questions tagged now, so this should be a relatively quick problem to fix.