The [best-practices] tag is already banned on Stack Overflow, though there is a [best-practises] tag taking its spot among newcomers.
Related blog post: The death of meta tags
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I found a lot of related tags which could be banned as well. Search on prac in https://stackoverflow.com/tags. Most if not all of them can be wiped as well. Only practical-programming seems feasible. Some of the practical tags needs to retagged then.
update: I wiped the following (should maybe be added to blacklist as well?)
bad-practices
coding-practices
common-practice
practical-approach
practical-use
programming-practices
I'll wipe the remaining when I'm in a mood to do that ;) First a break.
Newbies often ask things like "how do i conkatenate strings best practise??? please help" when they don't even have bad-practice working code. I champion such tags, even though they are overused.
I often write code I don't approve of and would like to know if there is a more elegant or at least more standard way to code. I'd hate to get into the habit of creating numbered variables and learn a year later about arrays, to name a trivial example.
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1Well, there's often a reasonably wide gulf between the "best" way to do something and any number of "not completely horrible" ways to do the same. I suspect most users asking for "best" don't really know what that would look like anyway: best in terms of maintainability, best in terms of performance, ...? Merely asking, "How should I concatenate strings" followed by some specific information would probably suffice - and that's what I'd edit it into anyway.– Shog9Aug 10, 2010 at 19:40
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[best-practice]a couple of days ago[c++-best-practices]etc is also banned @Perpbest-practice[s],best-practise[s]... what else?standards?industry-standard[s]?common-programming-techniques?[standards]could be talking about technical standards -- for example, RFC 2822. (Huh. That's obsolete now? But I've never heard of RFC 5322 before...)