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Requests to have a tag "burninated" (or deleted) from the system. Use for both requesting a removal, as well as discussing if a tag needs removal. Read the tag wiki for more details.

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The [connect] tag is being burninated

This tag is in phase 4 of the burnination process described here. The question and comments have been cleaned to allow for on-topic discussion about the burnination of this tag. Please keep it that ...
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Any last [word]s? [duplicate]

This tag needs to die as its very ambigous, and vague. Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous? This tag doesn't help to describe the question in ...
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These two tags are [LinkedIn]

The tag-excerpt of linkedin says: A tool used for finding business/networking connections, such as for suggesting job candidates. Used for questions regarding LinkedIn's APIs. Do not ask questions ...
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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, ...
8 votes
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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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Burninate [custom-backend]

custom-backend Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous? The tag is used for questions of a lot of different technologies with a lot of different ...
8 votes
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This tag should be [rect]

rect claims to be about the RECT structure but its questions do not appear to share this idea, since they're generally about rectangles in graphics in whatever different implementations exist. This ...
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The [protection] tag has been burninated

I noticed the tag protection is used for a few unrelated concepts. The main ones that stick out are: preventing edits on workbooks and documents security stuff: authorization, hacking, etc There was ...
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No Shirt, No Shoes, No [service]

There is still the service tag. It has 23,024 questions It usually contains questions about android-service (9,137 with service and android) windows-service (2,055 with service and windows) web-...
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Wow these [levels] are tricky!

levels has no tag guidance or description, and has nearly 500 questions. Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous? No. This "levels" can ...
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Burninate [roblox-studio] tag

I created the roblox-studio tag with the hope that it would be a place for developers to discuss issues with and solutions for plugins and extensions of the Roblox Studio IDE. I worded the usage ...
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Should we remove the [french] tag?

It seems to me the french tag doesn't add much to Stack Overflow. It has no description and is a mess. The questions fall mainly under the following categories: They use the French version of an OS/...
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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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Liquidate the [companyname] tags. They are useless

I think that all the tags for a company, corporation, or IT group in the form of [companyname] should be burned. They don't add any value to SO, because: They do not make it any easier to find ...
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Clean up the [sony] tag: Is it useful at all, or should we re-tag and clean up?

The sony tag, despite being used on 743 posts, isn't a great one. Besides informing us that there is something related to a brand in the question, it doesn't tell us a whole lot. An earlier issue has ...
240 votes
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The [amazon] tag has been burninated

The amazon tag keeps popping up. It currently has 3744 questions tagged. Why suggest to burninate? It is ambiguous -- is it referring to "Amazon Web Services (AWS)", or the "Amazon.com ...
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Can we get [behind] the burnination of this tag?

This is a discussion, not an invitation to burninate this tag The behind tag has 53 questions at the time of me posting this, so we need to follow the formal burnination process (And no, don't go and ...
23 votes
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Let's stop [Chat]tering

At the moment, we have a tag called chat. This seems like a meta tag. We use this tag for the following: Asking how a chat works on some platform: 1 Off-topic questions: 1 The above list is just a ...
23 votes
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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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Should we cleanup and burninate the [meta] tag?

Problem As of now, the tag meta (supposed to be used for the HTML-element) is misused for question regarding Facebook/ different products by Facebook (aka. Meta. Given the relative recency of ...
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These tags need some [static-analysis]

So we've got: code-analysis - 1220 questions the process of analyzing the code of the application to discover, review, validate or verify certain properties of the application. static-analysis - ...
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This burnination was perfectly [balance]d

As-of September 2016: Questions tagged with it: 91 questions 3 tag watchers no usage guidance As-of October 2020: 166 questions 12 tag watchers no usage guidance, but a tag wiki: balance is used ...
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Should we stop [sharing] the [share] tag?

This is a discussion - not an invitation to go and burninate tags. Please refrain from burninating these tags for now We have a share tag. Here's the tag wiki for that tag: questions about sharing ...
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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 ...
26 votes
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Sack the [career-development] tag

There is, apparently, a career-development tag. It has two questions, both of which are closed and likely to get roomba'd soon; there is no tag usage guidance or wiki. Questions about career ...
28 votes
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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 ...
15 votes
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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. ...
118 votes
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We [like] to clean up bad tags

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. After checking a ...
75 votes
1 answer
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The [gpl] tag has been burninated

I recently encountered the gpl tag, which has the following description: DO NOT USE! LICENSING / LEGAL ADVICE IS OFF TOPIC -- GPL questions should be asked on opensource.stackexchange.com - The GNU ...
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Do we need the [commercial-application] tag?

The commercial-application tag has 32 questions, no usage guidance, and is mostly off-topic questions. The tag itself is ambiguous. Almost everything that professional developers work on are ...
111 votes
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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. ...
9 votes
2 answers
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Should we burninate the [double-underscore] tag?

I recently came across to the double-underscore tag due to the recent underscores burninate request which was declined and it was decided that the tag should be kept. It has totally 25 questions; none ...
68 votes
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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 ...
27 votes
1 answer
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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....
39 votes
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Burninate [pricing]

I'm not sure that pricing has a purpose on this site. Seems that instead it encourages people to ask about off-topic things. Should this be removed?
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Ambiguity comes with an expensive [price] tag

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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A [choice] has been made to remove this tag

There are 541 questions tagged choice, and more importantly than having no experts or being ambiguous, the tag seems to be an excellent fit for questions trying to choose between styles, frameworks or ...
18 votes
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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 ...
6 votes
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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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Uninstall [installation]?

This tag is even more vague than its friend failed-installation that was uninstalled removed back in 2017. I don’t feel that it brings much information to a question, and I’m not sure why would anyone ...
29 votes
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Did anyone keep a [record]? [duplicate]

I think we should burninate or disambiguate/split up record. The tag Wiki states A record in programming is a data type with labels to access fields of the record. However, it is used for records ...
10 votes
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Can we remove or merge tag [whatsapi] with tag [whatsapp]?

Tag whatsapi, all time 161 questions, Revision history: Created on Jul 26, 2016: Whatsapp allows direct linking to it's resources in mobile application. Whereby, you can create an application (eg ...
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APSW tag significance

I do not see any significance to the apsw tag apart from product promotion. It appears that this tag was created by the developer, and over the years it has been assigned to 13 questions only. Even ...
24 votes
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Is it time for a change of [administration]?

Stack Overflow has an administration tag with several hundred questions (at the time this post was written) that span a whole range of topics, many of which are borderline (or even blatantly) off-...
40 votes
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Is it [turn-by-turn]'s turn to get burninated?

I believe the tag turn-by-turn 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 ...
74 votes
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This tag has [collapse]d

This seems to be a subset of bootstrap tags, since most of the questions also have jquery, twitter-bootstrap and most of them are about collapsing an element of a menu. It doesn't seem to be a very ...
38 votes
1 answer
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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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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 ...
45 votes
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Burn the [cart] tag

Should we burn the cart tag? I don't think it adds any value - it doesn't discuss a technology, it discusses an implementation of one.
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Please stop [abuse]ing this tag

Yet another burnination request (if you couldn't tell by the title you haven't been here long enough)... Today's culprit: The abuse tag Stats: 35 questions (Update 10 June 2022: 20 questions), only ...

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