This is an attempt at a Community-wiki answer that responds affirmatively to the proposal:
Tags should be reviewed before they are created.
The aim is to ensure that only quality tags are created.
This answer is a mishmash of opinions that have come up in non-Community-wiki answers, along with some new views not previously brought up. It's a bit of a summary as well.
The reputation gate needed for suggesting new tags should remain unchanged at what is currently 5 reputation points. 1
A proposal for a new tag should always include a usage guidance and a tag wiki description for the tag. Both? Or at least one? 2
A proposal for a new tag should enter the already existing review queue for tag wiki edits. Thus, the reputation gate for voting to accept or reject a proposal for a new tag will be 5,000. 3
Give an option to tag proposers to link their newly created tag with another existing tag that is closely related. 4
No need for any approval time expiration. 5
- StackOverflow tags are a folksonomy.9
Stack Overflow tags are a folksonomy.6
1 Not previously proposed here. Reference:
Privileges > participate in meta.
2 Reference:
make at least one of them required.
3 References:
Use the Suggested Edits Review Queue
Privileges > approve tag wiki edits.
4 Reference:
This way, users can filter on the existing tags.
5 Reference:
I think having a approval time is not a good idea as I imagine this queue
will grow substantially.
9 References:
I think it should be more towards the folksonomy end.
Tag Folksonomy and Tag Synonyms.
1 Not previously proposed here. Reference:
Privileges > participate in meta.
2 Reference:
make at least one of them required.
3 References:
Use the Suggested Edits Review Queue
Privileges > approve tag wiki edits.
4 Reference:
This way, users can filter on the existing tags.
5 Reference:
I think having an approval time is not a good idea as I imagine this queue
will grow substantially.
6 References:
I think it should be more towards the folksonomy end.
Tag Folksonomy and Tag Synonyms.