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I've retagged an Android json question to Android-json a few times now, but just a moment ago I discovered that the Android-json tag only has 77 (!!!) questions in it, compared to 7272 for the combination of android and json ... even though Android's wiki asks specifically to use the Android-specific tags.

This basically means that I'm probably doing the question more harm than good attention-wise, because that tag clearly isn't getting any.

Have people just given up retagging in the android tag because of the constant flood of low-level, duplicate questions that could be answered by http://lmgtfy.com/ and copying the title or am I missing something here?

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    How is JSON even specific to Android? JSON is JSON regardless of how you are creating or consuming it. Commented May 12, 2014 at 10:17
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    Why does there need to be an [android-json] tag? Is there any more specific (and valid) reason than "they are questions about both Android and JSON"? Commented May 12, 2014 at 10:18
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    Don't ask me, I'm just following the Android-tag wiki ... I just presumed that that was reason enough, and that the Android questions containing the json tag often had more to do with httpPost or something, so they wanted to create a separate area for Android as to not bug the hell out of regular java programmers following the json tag or something like that. Commented May 12, 2014 at 10:49

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The original recommendation to "use Android-specific tags" was added by Robert Harvey in 2011. The example he mentions is the tag which should be preferred over the tag .

The recommendation to use the tag has only been added recently, but with no further information as to why such a tag would be needed. There seem to be no good arguments for the tag, so I have removed that recommendation from the tag wiki.

The "use Android-specific tags" recommendation still may need further improvements because is a synonym of nowadays. So if the recommendation is still valid, there should probably be a better example.

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  • It doesn't seem like android-intent even needs to exist unless intent needs to be disambiguated. Commented Nov 16, 2015 at 3:58

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