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When filtering for "status"-Tags on the Tags page here on MSE, there is a tag . It's not editable and no questions are tagged with that tag:

Moving the mouse on the Tag to get the Tag-Information results in a 404

GET https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/status-bychaos/subscriber-info?_=1398671265891 404 (Not Found)

But the tag is a synonym of the added back in 2012. The is also not used by any question.

So are the tags and dead and should be burninated?

Edit: this also happens in the favorite/ignored tag autocomplete/selector:

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  • Those tags don't seem to exist (no empty wiki excerpt header), nor do they appear on the Tags page when filtered. When did you last see them? Your question is only ten minutes old and this seems like a very unlikely time of day for the empty tag reaper to run...
    – Charles
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 7:48
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    @Charles I just noticed them today, so maybe they get automatically cleaned up. But i think due to the tag synonym these tags will not get deleted by the system
    – Jehof
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 7:51
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    @Charles I took the liberty to add a screenshot.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 7:53
  • @ShadowWizard thanks for the edit
    – Jehof
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 7:53
  • @Jehof cheers, also retagged as this is specific for meta and there is nothing to burninate, the bug is likely in the filtering.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 7:54
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    @ShadowWizard, super, thanks. They do not appear when just filtering on chaos.
    – Charles
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 7:54
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    Well, for what it's worth CHAOS used to be a team inside Stack Exchange: "CHAOS is a team of eight full-time employees that just started working at Stack Exchange Global World Domination Headquarters in New York, NY" and next to their display name used to be a PSI character instead of diamond.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 7:58
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    @ShadowWizard is it a deleted question. I get a 404 on the link
    – Jehof
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 8:00
  • @Jehof yep, I quoted the essential part.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 8:00
  • @Jehof OK, full screenshot. (it was PNG originally, imgur converted to JPG probably to save some bytes on their server, sorry!)
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 8:03
  • I think it has something to do with Working with the Chaos Monkey, and it's a play on status-bydesign. When a bug cannot be reproduced or explained, it's blamed on chaos.
    – Bill the Lizard
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 12:31
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    The OP is right. The tags are "deleted" at the moment, but since that synonym link still exists, the system thinks the tag pair still exists as well. Fixing the issue is just a matter of destroying the synonym.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 12:57
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    @animuson indeed, there is a synonym. However, ordinary users can't delete it, can you please delete the synonym and put this issue to rest? ;)
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 9:51
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    @ShadowWizard Gone.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 14:34

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Now the only chaos on Meta is the usual anarchy.

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