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Should [waffles] be burninated?
Waffles shall never be burninated, because they stand for all that is lovely and delicious, and without them, MSO would not be lovely (or delicious).
If you didn't know this yet, SE's servers run on ...
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Should the [Internet Explorer] tag be removed?
No. I think that would be misapplying the concept of removing off-topic tags. Questions about using the Internet Explorer browser on Stack Exchange are not off topic for this site. Legacy questions ...
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We have no [knowledge] of this tag
To the best of my knowledge there is only one thing we can do: Let's unleash the burnination dragon!
EDIT:
This tag has been:
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Put [stack-exchange] in the stack for tag exchanges
I have to agree.
Looking at the questions from the list in the stack exchange tag, there are none where the tag adds context, nor where removing the tag would remove context.
Moreover, the ...
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Burninate the "inappropriate-advertisements" tag
No, let's not do that. Let's go over the burnination criteria
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
Yes, it does describe the contents and it ...
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Confused about the use of [confused-users]
Seems like a classic meta tag of the unwelcome on meta sort. I'd say give it a week or so, see if anyone has any great reasons to keep it, and fire up the reaper :)
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Do we need any [developers] on Meta?
This tag doesn't really seem to fill a specific purpose at the moment.
The first question tagged with it is this very old (and closed) question (and is now historically locked, thanks mods!), which ...
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We don't have any [friends]
Seems legit, unless someone has a great reason we should keep the tag, so give it a week then we might be able to get rid of the tag, and some of the questions too.
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There are [multiple] problems with this tag
I say yes, let's burn it. I had a look at the questions tagged with multiple, and there were plenty that could've done without it. This one, which seems like a good for instance, already had the ...
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Do we need to clean up all the duplicate cross site tags?
Leave them where they are. It is nice there is a gimp tag on Graphics, but so can there be one on Stack Overflow if its questions are related to programming a plugin for example. No way that question ...
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Let's close the [awards] ceremony
I agree with getting rid of it.
Questions about bounties should simply be tagged bounties. We don't need an extra tag for awarding them. Same goes for badges.
The 3rd question you mention is off-...
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Meta needs to be agnostic of the [language-agnostic] tag
Worse than being a meta-tag it seems actively confusing. It also seems to refer to *human* languages, which is a usage that seems incorrect in context.
I don't think there's going to be much loss in ...
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Will a good [job-interview] where I pass all the [interview-questions] help my [career-development]?
Considering the post that triggered this off is clearly off topic - we could probably close anything off topic and removing the tags. If no one's using the tags, they should age away, in 6-8 weeks?
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I'm having some [difficulty] discerning what we could use this tag for
I see that we also have an easy-questions tag. Let's merge both of these tags into a question-difficulty tag. This would cover things like how to find questions at a desired level of difficulty or ...
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This tag is hurting my [workflow]
I agree it should be burninated. A lot of the existing tags cover the specific workflows of each site functionality they refer to, like review-audits, suggested-edits, declined-flags, etc...
My guess ...
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Confused about the use of [confused-users]
With the help of various community members, the confused-users tag has been removed from all questions and will be deleted within 24 hours. Confused users are always welcome on Meta, but the tag no ...
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This tag needs some [clarification]
Yes, burn it.
The name is (ironically) unclear, and very likely to be misused by inexperienced askers who are (like many askers) seeking "clarification" on some issue. That's obviously a bad use of ...
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Burninate the stackapps tag
No. MSE is the meta for StackApps too, so questions on that site, including the tag, are still very valid and should be kept.
So questions on the actual API go to StackApps. Questions about the ...
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Let's not engage in [social-manipulation]
We don't participate in social-manipulation anymore.
A mixed effort of users manipulated this tag into the garbage bin. Thanks to all who helped out, even though this tag only affected a few questions....
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Should we burninate the [ios] tag?
I would not recommend to burninate ios tag because some issues could affect only iOS devices without using app or mobile web. E.g. my recent bug report: Text overlapping in comment in iOS
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The [vampire] tag kinda sucks -- can we stake it?
The Vampire tag has been staked. Got little help from Sonic.
At some point the tag should be a small pile of dust in the sunlight.
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We don't have any [friends]
Looks like this had approval for awhile, so I went ahead and removed this tag from the 6 questions (4 of which are dupe-closed) that had it.
I'm sorry to say, but I made no friends in the process. It ...
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[how-to] get rid of this tag?
Instead of burninating it I suggest asking a moderator to merge the how-to tag into the support tag with the latter being the master and leaving the former as a synonym to it.
If there are any ...
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Has this tag been [hacked]?
I consider this a "sub tag" of security. While indeed all hacking questions do belong to security, in general, the extra tag has a meaning and helps to identify and find the questions ...
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Let's get rid of this [page]
status-completed
The ambiguous page tag has been subjected to the withering fire of Trogdor:
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Is this [text] useful?
Worth pointing out that since 2017 only six posts have included that tag which makes it virtually obsolete.
I suggest that in many cases text be replaced with wording that says
For the suggestion of ...
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Should we destroy the [websites]?
Yeah, let's burn it. With dragonfire.
This tag doesn't add anything meaningful to the site. The tag is only barely related to the oldest question tagged with it (which is itself probably a duplicate ...
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Any problem with burninating [problem-user] tag?
I agree with your reasoning that the tag is not needed, but I feel that a major reason to go ahead and do it now is that using the tag is not nice. We have:
a spam tag but not a spammer tag
a serial-...
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Let's not be [argumentative]
I argue that we need to do some retagging, not burnination.
There are 9 questions with the argumentative tag. Of those:
4 questions are tagged with both argumentative and subjective, and refer to ...
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Can I learn what [learning] is?
On review, this does feel like a classic meta tag, and it seems like something of very limited value. It should be fine to burninate. It's a slightly more used tag so do remember to be mindful of the ...
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