Is [analog] tag too broadly applied? May it deserve burnination?

Question

This is related to this old question. Since there is no definitive answer on that thread and after more than one year the analog tag is still used for a really broad spectrum of questions (thus it doesn't appear useful to help when searching for questions), I wonder if it deserves burnination.

Answer 1

tl;dr I'd stop short of burnination, but it could use some love. Wouldn't be hard to go through 45 questions.

There are 45 questions with that tag.

At least one of the questions refers to a project on GitHub called Analog. The last update on that project was six months ago.

The rest appear to be more about

• analog signal conversion, or
• visualizations of analog items, like sweep-second clocks.

There is an analog-digital-converter tag for some of the first set of questions.

(There is no digital-analog-converter tag, surprisingly?)

The other questions use the analog tag out of context of the actual problem. It just happens to be an analog clock they want to display. It would be like tagging something sweater just because I was having issues with updating the winter apparel products on my e-commerce website.

I'd suggest:

• Keeping analog on the handful of questions that use the GitHub library of the same name.
• Doing a conversion to analog-digital-converter for the appropriate questions.
• Removing the analog tag altogether if they're just talking about displaying an analog device on the screen.