How to tag questions related to size of The Queue? [closed]

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Questions related to size of Close Votes review queue at Stack Overflow are rather popular^*, how to tag these?

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Of existing tags, the following seem to apply:

• review (1,5K+ questions in tag)

  For questions about the /review path where users can view and act on posts by other users that the system thinks may need attention.

• vote-to-close (900+ questions in tag)

  Voting to close is the process by which users can vote to close a question if it is off-topic or otherwise disallowed by the FAQ.

• stackoverflow (4K+ questions in tag)

  Questions specific to stackoverflow.com and not necessarily related to other Stack Exchange network websites, such as retag requests.

Per my reading, these three tags together sufficiently qualify questions about CV queue size, while none of them alone appears to suffice.

Is one expected to use all three tags for this kind of questions?

For the reference: results of the search by combination of tags review, vote-to-close and stackoverflow.

Answer 1

Yes, that is exactly the tagging method you should use. The review tag indicates you're talking about review, the vote-to-close tag isolates that to just the Close Votes queue, and the stackoverflow tag would isolate that even further to just the Close Votes queue on Stack Overflow. Plus you still have an extra tag left over.

The size of the Close Votes queue on Stack Overflow is too specific of an issue to warrant a tag. As Martijn points out, the size of the queue is only one thing. Ultimately all of the separate questions are only identifying the size as the reason for wanting some change to the Close Votes queue, which would be the real topic of the question. It makes more sense to have them all under one question identifying the size as the problem, with answers identifying possible [alternate] solutions to that problem. They're already linked by being duplicates, which keeps them grouped together; we don't need a tag to do that.

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not giving it a tag looks rather like plain unwillingness to acknowledge a problem of The Queue

That's a bold statement that's completely wrong. Stack Exchange has acknowledged the problem, and a tag is not needed to indicate their acknowledgement of it. There's also a second problem: there's way too many duplicate questions about this issue. We could easily get by with only 1 or 2 questions about the size of the Close Votes review queue, which definitely wouldn't require a tag at all. A lot of them are already closed as duplicates anyways.

You're basically trying to combine all three of the tags I mentioned above into one, very long tag when they don't need to be combined. People keep saying we need a single tag so we can find them all easier - no we don't. They're just as easy to find if they're tagged correctly with the above three tags.

Answer 2

I don't really see why we need this tag. This is about a recurring issue, not a topic. Most of the questions that could be tagged with close-votes-queue-size are really all just one question, and the rest are dupes or outdated versions of it.

Answer 3

There are no queue-specific tags that I'm aware of; if close-queue existed, then close-queue + stackoverflow would be the appropriate combo.

But in practice, most questions on queues follow the review + [queue-subject] pattern, so the three tags you cite would suffice to identify a post on a specific queue on a specific site.

Answer 4

I'm not really sure why there's a bounty on this question, as your recent edits don't seem to actually change what you're asking, and (at least in my mind) animuson's answer still holds: Yes, use all three of those tags.

The problem animuson mentions is also still a problem:

there's way too many duplicate questions about this issue. We could easily get by with only 1 or 2 questions about the size of the Close Votes review queue, which definitely wouldn't require a tag at all. A lot of them are already closed as duplicates anyways.

There does not need to be a new, long, ultra-specific tag to deal with this issue because, quite frankly, most people are asking repeat questions of "Why is the queue so big?" or "What are we going to do about the size of the queue?"