Questions tagged [tag-pruning]
For questions about the automated process that removes tags which have not been widely used or no longer have questions associated with them.
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Why aren't tag synonyms deleted from the list of tags?
If you navigate to the last page of tags on basically any site, you'll see pages of tags with zero questions. Doing a little investigation (clicking on any of them) shows that they are all synonyms of ...
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Why are these zombie tags on Meta SE not yet deleted by the daily cleanup script?
I noticed that the tags canned-comments and impact here on Meta SE are still around even though they are not associated with any questions for (apparently) quite a long time. Based on this SEDE query, ...
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Single use tags are not deleted after six months if they were recreated via a rollback
The question Understanding risks of logging into Stack Exchange sites from a shared computer or network has two tags which have only been used once and have no tag excerpt or wiki: shared-devices and ...
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Single-use tags with no tag wiki, but with rejected proposals for the tag wiki, aren't auto-burninated after six months
Recently, there was some confusion as to why a single-use tag without a tag wiki wasn't auto-burninated after six months. It was later discovered that as someone made a rejected proposal for the tag ...
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Why wasn't this tag removed - despite having single occurrence?
From what I understood about tag pruning, tags which are used only on one question are automatically removed if they are used only on one question. This happens after the tag is 6 months old (if it ...
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Auto-delete orphaned tag synonyms
I recently encountered this question on MSO, where a user asks about why certain tags appear in the tag overview page.
This issue is caused by a synonym that redirects users to a non-existent tag.
I'...
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Do not expire single use tags on Beta sites
Tags that have exactly one question are automatically pruned after six months, leaving their questions untagged, and their wikis orphaned. This is problematic on Beta sites, where it's not uncommon ...
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What are the differences between tag pruning on main sites and their metas?
As I have learned from here and here, tags which have no questions are deleted once in 24 hours and tags which have been only used once are deleted after 6 months.
I would like to know whether such ...
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Do not expire single-use tags that have a tag wiki
Single-use tags automatically expire after a few months. This is arguably the right thing when the tag is a misspelling (though I'd prefer some way of reviewing the process — but this post is not ...
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Please allow low-occurence tags to be declared persistent
Single-use tags are pruned after six months. Sometimes, this removes spurious tags. Sometimes, this removes legitimate tags.
After a quick look on Unix SE, I see plenty of legitimate tags that are at ...
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Questions about to become untagged
As far as I know, any tag that is only used once every 6 months is pruned automatically. If that tag was the only one left on a question, the question becomes untagged and history of the previous tag, ...
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How can we get rid of misspelled and unused (or "zombie") tags?
During the re-tagging of questions, tags sometimes become orphaned from existing questions.
Are these zombie tags ever removed from the tags list?
What if a tag is misspelled and needs to be removed?...