Questions tagged [burninate-request]
Requests to have a tag "burninated" (or deleted) from the system. Use for both requesting a removal, as well as discussing if a tag needs removal. Read the tag wiki for more details.
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This [region] should be closed off
I stumbled upon the region tag, which is at the time of this question used in 942 posts. I know region primarily from .NET (essentially a beginning and ending comment that enables to visually fold a ...
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Where do we draw the [dotted-line] on this tag?
dotted-line tag wiki Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? Maybe, partially. and is it unambiguous? Dotted lines can appear in multiple places. This one is ...
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End of [weekend] tag
Don't get me wrong, I love weekends and I want to be an expert in weekend. However, I'm not sure how can one become an expert in weekends (in a programming context), but not in weekdays, or date/time ...
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Re(s)pelling [(mis)spelling]
The misspelling/spelling tag (177 questions) should be synonymized with spell-checking (1446 questions). Many questions tagged with spelling do not have anything to do with spellchecking, though. ...
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Burninate the [ng] tag and/or merge into [angular-cli]
The ng tag: Is used on only 46 questions, all Angular-related (even when angular isn't explicitely tagged on the question) Its meaning is ambiguous: ng is the command to invoke the Angular CLI (for ...
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Someone didn't do their research before making the [reproducible-research] tag
There's a reproducible-research tag which has the following Wiki excerpt/description: Reproducible research is the idea that the result of scientific research should be published with data and code ...
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Can we [bulk] delete this tag?
I "ran" into the bulk tag today, and came to the conclusion quite quickly that it probably needs to go. At the moment it has no Tag Summary, or Wiki, and it's "usage guidance" ...
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Question the tag synonym flex -> flexbox
Does the tag synonym flex → flexbox make sense when have lots of tags that contain the string flex? If we consider Adobe/Apache Flex (apache-flex, flex3, flex4, flex4.5) with more questions than ...
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Should we burninate the [httpclient] tag?
The httpclient tag: Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous? It doesn't describe the contents of the questions because anything using HttpClient ...
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Should we burninate the [albumart] tag?
The albumart tag: Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous? It doesn't describe the contents of the questions because the implementation of ...
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Let's touch base on a game plan for the [buzzword-compliance] tag!
The tag buzzword-compliance is low-hanging fruit for removing a bad tag. Noting the process for burnination: Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it ...
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Does the [constellation] tag need to exist?
The constellation tag currently appears on only two questions, where the term means completely different things: GMAT - Phasing of a constellation (Earth orbiting satellites Simulink: find ...
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We don't really need a [versionupgrade]
I came across the versionupgrade tag today which has 40 uses, no wiki or wiki excerpt, no watchers, and no discernible pattern of beyond just what one can intuit from the name (that a given question ...
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A [rad] burnination proposal
As the rad tag wiki says: "Please don't use this tag, it is ambiguous." Related: Clarify [rad] tag. I don't think it should be clarified but burninated, however, since the tag doesn't really ...
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Do we really need [imaging]? It is not programming!
I just ran into a tag imaging that shouldn't exist in my opinion. The tag wiki says: Anything related to digital imaging, i.e. the theory, the technology and the techniques about acquiring, ...