Questions tagged [burninate-request]
Use with [meta] to request that a tag here on Meta Stack Exchange be removed. Use in case of uncertainty when requesting discussion, or when the popularity of the tag makes manual retagging prohibitively difficult.
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Should we consider burnination of [yahoo-pipes]?
Should we consider burninating yahoo-pipes?
The yahoo-pipes tag currently has only two questions.
Yahoo Pipes was a data mashup tool that is now discontinued. Since then, the service has been shut ...
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Cleaning up our [activ*] tags
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I've been slowly working through the tag cleanup backlog. Next on my list was going to be activity (meta Q). Then I noticed active (meta Q). Then I noticed all the other "activ*" ...
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We don't need this [contribution] to our tag list
I've just noticed the contribution tag. This tag seems pretty useless. Its rather broad, as a huge portion of questions on this site relate in some way to contribution, and is also meta-tag, not ...
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Burninate [communication]
I just saw the communication tag. This tag seems like a meta tag and is pretty useless for describing the question, as well as being used for a bunch of different topics. While only having 18 ...
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Why are we [hosting] this tag?
The web-hosting burnination request brought another tag to my attention, hosting (13 questions, no tag description). This tag is used for questions about image hosting, web hosting, using SO to host Q&...
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What is this [web-hosting]?
While burninating the web tag, I came across the web-hosting tag (9 questions, no tag description). This tag is similarly used in a confusing manner. Most of its questions are either about where to ...
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Is [spoonfeeding] a meta-tag? Is it really a relevant meta meme?
I added this spoonfeeding to a question I posted a few moments ago, before that question, it had four questions closed.
I looked at the FAQ about the Meta Memes, and spoonfeeding is not included.
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This tag encompasses a large [web] of topics
We have a web tag here on MSE. I think it should go. It was 21 questions (as of now) with no tag wiki or info. It includes the following topics:
The "web" version of SE (in contrast to the ...
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There is a problem with the [problem-user] tag
We have the problem-user tag, with excerpt that reads:
This tag should be used in a question about a user who has been causing problems like spamming, unproductive answers, using abusive language and ...
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Remove (again) and prevent creation of the specific-user tag
From the accepted answer at Should any Meta post that calls out a user by name be deleted, not just downvoted? :
There's a reason we always kill off the specific-user tag every time it appears.
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This tag has no [description]; should it be removed?
The description tag here on this site seems to have no clear use. It also has no tag wiki description, hence the title.
Looking through the current uses, I see that many of its uses are covered by the ...
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The [time] has come to get rid of this tag
I think it is high time we get rid of the time tag altogether.
It currently has 72 questions which cover a wide variety of topics, including:
The time it takes for something to end up in a queue
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This tag is hurting my [workflow]
The workflow tag has no tag wiki or excerpt, 11 questions, and is used for various kinds of workflows: those of users on Stack Exchange for many different scenarios, and even those of staff members. ...
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Should the [blocked] tag on MSE be eliminated?
I just noticed that there's a tag on MSE called blocked that's currently on 36 questions. It has no tag wiki/excerpt, and the name is unhelpfully generic/vague as well. As such, it seems like this tag ...
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What does [active] mean?
Inspired by What does active mean? which had the very ambiguous active tag (thanks @Amplitwist for the edit). It has 19 questions but no tag excerpt. If you search in the tag list for activ, you'll ...
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