Clean-Up the "complex" tag [closed]

Question

complex seems to be a meta-tag. I looked through some of the questions and it only seems to be used for a (subjectively) very complex problem.

207 49 questions are tagged with it.

• I cleaned up this tag, it should be made a [synonym of complex-numbers] now

complextype has some disambiguities, not sure what to do with that:

• xml datatype. Example: XML Schema + complexType element + Alternative to sequence
• complex in c : Complex types using OpenMP
• complexType in sql - EF4 SPROC Complex Type Mapping - Problem with ROW_NUMBER()

Tasks (see Giles answer):

1. cleanup everything in complex and complextype that does not refer to complex numbers / the xml complex data type Done
2. make complex a synonym of complex-numbers

Someone needs to to the synonymizing now.

EDIT May/2012 I just cleaned up some questions from complex again. The tag is still likely to be misused with "complex sql queries", "complex anything stuff" and "the complex xml type"

Answer 1

Whoa there, many questions use it to mean complex numbers, which is also covered by complex-numbers. There's also complextype which at a first glance looks like a mixture of complex numbers and complicated types.

I propose the following:

1. Go through complex and complextype, removing the tag when it's used as a meta-tag.
2. Make complex a synonym of complex-numbers, which should reduce its misuse.

As I write: 207 × complex, 58 × complex-numbers, 74 × complextype. I propose to keep complex-numbers, even though it's the minority, because it's clearer.