Requests to have a tag "burninated" (or deleted) from the system. Use in case of uncertainty when requesting discussion, or when the popularity of the tag makes manual retagging followed by automatic culling of 0-question tags prohibitively difficult.
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Burn Programming Languages
Not the languages themselves of course, just the tag, which has 3,672 posts attached and must be the most meta of meta tags. The excerpt reads:
A programming language is an artificial language ...
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Should we burn [sudoku]?
The tag wiki for sudoku describes the puzzle sudoku, obviously. However, do we really need meta tags describing the game the asker is trying to make?
As for it being a meta tag, if you saw a question ...
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Burn [get] and [post]
When I say "get", what does it mean to you? A GET request? To retrieve something? To query a database? To call the get method on a C# object? get appears to encompass all of those and more. We should ...
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Please barbecue the [writetofile] tag
The writetofile tag on stackoverflow seems to add nothing. It looks to me as if it could be vaporized with no impact on the 136 questions that have it.
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Remove the [removing] and [removal] tags
I see the remove tag has been taken care of. However, its equally worthless cohorts removing and removal remain. How about banishing those as well?
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Burninate [smooth]?
I think the smooth tag (with 274 questions) needs to be burninated. There are so many things it could mean:
smooth animation
smooth data (as in remove noise)
smooth sound
smooth transitions
smooth ...
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Burninate [interactive] tag
Currently 488 posts are tagged under interactive and none of them has been tagged only as [interactive]. All 488 posts contain [interactive] tag in combination with other major tags suchs as c#, ...
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Burninate the [api] tag in Stack Overflow
The api tag is typical meta tag. It is used as modal modifier for other tags, but it is used for so many different things, that in no way it could be used alone.
Let's burninate it. Every time ...
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Burninate [changes] [duplicate]
changes is a clear-cut meta tag. The tag wiki says something to the effect that it has no clear-cut meaning. It is seen on such questions as
Something to do with robots.txt
Facebook comment changes ...
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Is the [web-api] tag useful?
The web-api does not add anything useful to a questoin.
It is usually used to mean:
I am using an API - These should be tagged with the specific API or platform
Which API can I use to do X - These ...
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Delete the tag [website] and its synonyms [duplicate]
The current SO tag website (and its synonym websites) should be removed from SO entirely. They currently serve no useful purpose for a question (all relevant questions have almost always been also ...
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Should we burninate the tag [same]?
The tag same is mostly used to express a word same (AKA similar). No tag wiki, it is used with different tags (language). And it doesn't add any value IMO.
Should this tag be burninated?
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Burninate [slides]
slides has no tag wiki, and no clearly defined purpose, being currently used for:
JavaScript slideshow plugin thingies {1, 2, 3, 4} -> slidesjs
Sliding movements on a touchscreen
Sliding movement of ...
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Please burninate [website]
I think that this question is pretty good prima-facia evidence that website is just facilitating the deposition of crap.
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Burninate the [exclude] tag
The exclude tag does not have any real meaning.
Can this be burninated? It has too many questions to untag manually.
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Should the [training] tag be put out of its misery?
The training tag (with synonyms course and self-training) seems to have been marked for burnination a while back.
Its current description is:
DO NOT EVEN THINK OF ASKING THIS QUESTION. List ...
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Burninate the [apps] and [application] tags
The apps tag is used over 700 times on Stack Overflow, and has the following description:
Shortened from applications, commonly pointing applications in the online stores for mobile devices.
The ...
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Burninate [pages] tags
pages has 4 followers and 198 questions tagged, of course no wiki.
The question are usually from low rep users meaning they have less experience in which tag to choose
The questions read like this:
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Let's eliminate the [region] tag
The region tag is used for a mixed bag of unrelated phenomena. It adds no information. I think it could be 'burned off'. Trogdor?
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Ambiguous tag [machine] [closed]
Uses of machine include
virtual-machine
jvm
machine-learning
state-machine
Questions tagged machine should be edited and retagged with one of the more specific tags.
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No more holidays
Can we burn the holidays tag? It's clearly a meta-tag with no value.
(37 questions all of which have other, more relevant, tags)
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Should we kill off [*-faq] tags?
For earlier discussion on this sort of thing:
sql-faq tag being propagated: this (June 2012) has led to sql-faq being removed.
Setting up a FAQ for the C++ tag: this is from late 2010; back then, it ...
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Char-broil the [accept] tag
Looking at a question, I noticed an ambiguous tag:
accept
Here's a sampling of the questions there:
Will apple accept my app, even though it is more informational?
How to enforce ...
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Ambiguous tag: [tag:separate]
the tag separate is used for several ambiguous things:
Splitting a string (or an array)
Indicating a text file format (e.g., comma separated)
Segmenting an image
etc.
It seems like tagging a ...
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Burninate the [section] tag
The section tag has no clear use and adds nothing to the existing questions.
Can this be burninated? It has too many questions to untag manually.
EDIT: Is there a specific reason why this still ...
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Script to remove tags
There are some not useful or ambiguous tags which should be removed. As I know if a tag have no associated question it get removed after 24 hours.
But there are some questions, which have a number of ...
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Burninate [writing] tag
The writing tag doesn't seem to serve any real purpose. Almost all questions tagged with it would be just as good without it. It doesn't seem to have a very high number of questions on it either.
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Burninate MMORPG tag
The mmorpg tag should never see the light of day on Stack Overflow again.
Most of the few questions associated with this tags are either closed or asked by new users that don't understand the topics ...
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Burninate [result]
I'll let a recent suggested edit to the tag wiki speak for me:
A result is the final consequence of a sequence of actions or events
expressed qualitatively or quantitatively.
Possible ...
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Burn the exercise tag
Can we burninate the exercise (meta-)tag?
I don't think it is any different from homework and suspect a large proportion of questions (118) are close fodder... no questions are tagged only with ...
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Sauté the Meta.SO tag [bug-reports]
The meta tag bug-reports is a very silly tag. Its tag wiki states:
Bug reports are posts about the filing of bugs and how to go about them, what to include or when to invoke the necessary ...
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Burninate the [information] tag
There are currently 242 questions tagged information. This tag is so general, it's completely meaningless. Information about what, exactly? There is no tag wiki and it appears to be used more or less ...
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Char-broil the [description] tag
The description tag is a useless tag and should probably be outright killed.
The questions there aren't typically horrible to the point of deletion. Most have no votes, and have answers, so the tag ...
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Burninate the [worst-case] tag
worst-case has 34 questions with it and no tag wiki. Many of the questions appear to be very close to not constructive/too localized i.e what's the best case/worst-case for this?
Unless my lack of ...
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The tag synonym [operator] should point to [operators], not [operator-keyword]
While looking for questions to retag to operator-precedence, I noticed that operator is currently a synonym of operator-keyword, which is really a tag about operator overloading. This is really ...
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The [priority] tag is ambiguous
There are currently 288 questions tagged priority.
This doesn't seem like a useful tag to me, as the word priority is used in many different contexts. Most of the questions seem to fall into one of ...
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Destroy the SPOJ… tag
The spoj tag appears to be a meta tag much in the same way that homework was - it indicates where the problem came from but does not seem to aide in searching or tagging. It seems to be much the same ...
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Burninate the [not-firing] tag
not-firing (45 questions) needs to be fired. It's a meta-tag where people tag things like
cocoa nstimer nsthread not-firing
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Blacklist the [engine] tag
The tag engine is not meaningful enough to keep around; it doesn't even have a tag wiki (what would that even contain?). Can we disallow it?
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Merge [google-docs-script] into [google-apps-script]
google-docs-script is a synonym for google-apps-script. Almost half of the 75 questions tagged so far are ALSO tagged google-apps-script already, so we'd benefit from elimination of the redundancy.
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Double burnination request: exam review
exam and on Stack Overflow seems to be mostly used to indicate that the OP is either cheating on their exam by asking us to do their work for them or, less nefariously, studying for an exam. Either ...
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Remove [source] tag [duplicate]
So it appears it has already been suggested, but I came across the source tag this morning and it seemed pretty useless after looking at the just-over 1000 questions still tagged with it.
It's also ...
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Can we burninate the [undefined-index] tag?
"Undefined index" is a very common error message in php. A good question already adresses the problem and gives solutions to fix this error.
Most questions with this tag seem too localized and should ...
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Delete the [sheet] tag on Stack Overflow
sheet is ambiguous. It has no wiki entry, and it's unclear what was intended in its creation. It has been chosen by OPs to mean several different things:
UIModalPresentationFormSheet: this
Cheat ...
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Burninate request: checker
checker has been used for all kinds of things:
Checkerboards
Sudoku validation
Finding URLs
Checking syntax
Validating a specific format
Finding the encoding of a string
And much more. A question ...
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Get rid of .NET unreleased tags
The following tags should be burninated.
.net-4.0-rc1
.net-4.0-beta
As of April 12, 2010, The .NET 4.0 Framework has been released. There is no value for keeping these tags around. There are ...
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Burninate request: [group]
group is very ambiguous. It can refer to Facebook groups, group statements in SQL/LINQ/etc, a regex group, so on, so forth. I think therefore this has to be a meta tag (further proven by there being ...
