Community just created a tag on Stackoverflow called javscript.
There are no questions, on Stackoverflow, with this tag.
It appears to be a mispelling of javascript.
Why was it created?
asked Apr 16, 2014 at 18:06
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3No, a tag wiki was created, because someone (e.g. an actual person) used a misspelled tag. The tag and wiki will be cleaned up automatically. Community only gets the blame because there is no actual user account to create tag wikis.– Martijn PietersCommented Apr 16, 2014 at 18:07
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thx @MartijnPieters– Nathan KoopCommented Apr 16, 2014 at 18:08
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1Presumably you found the revision because of that tag wiki edit; you were correct in rejecting it. If it is any consolation, when the tag wiki is deleted, the 2 points the user got for their efforts is also revoked.– Martijn PietersCommented Apr 16, 2014 at 18:18
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That's exactly what happened. thx– Nathan KoopCommented Apr 16, 2014 at 18:24
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That edit is particularly useless because tags with no questions attached are not even listed for auto-completion. Noone will see that tag wiki, normally.– Martijn PietersCommented Apr 16, 2014 at 18:25
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So how did that user find it? Just looking through the tags?– Nathan KoopCommented Apr 16, 2014 at 18:26
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It could be they were the one that corrected the tag. You can still find it in the tags page if you search for it.– Martijn PietersCommented Apr 16, 2014 at 18:27
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You confused the tag wiki history with the tag itself.
Someone accidentally created the tag javscript; it'll be cleaned up automatically as there are no posts associated (see How can we get rid of misspelled and unused (or "zombie") tags?).
Then someone suggested a useless tag wiki edit for that tag; for that to work an initial revision is needed, so the system creates that initial revision in the database and needs to attach a user account to it. The edit suggestion triggered this but there is no point in attaching their name to that revision, so Community gets the blame instead. You'll notice that the timestamp on the initial revision matches the timestamp on the suggested edit exactly.
The tag wiki will be deleted together with the tag, come tomorrow this'll all be gone again.
answered Apr 16, 2014 at 18:15
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2One moment, I need to go punch some reviewers in the face... Commented Apr 16, 2014 at 19:23
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@animuson: Please do! That was a very useless wiki edit and should never have been approved. Commented Apr 16, 2014 at 19:26
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They've all been review banned for a day with a nice message. ;P Letting moderators enter a message makes that review ban option so much more useful. Commented Apr 16, 2014 at 19:38
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The wiki edit was perhaps not that bad:
"Do not use this tag. Use [Javascript] instead."Commented Apr 16, 2014 at 21:10