Given two recent posts on meta on the topic of removing tags (conditioning and numerics), I was wondering if there is an interest among some users to install a regular "tag review". The idea is to look globally at all tags, see if there are any issues and propose a set of modifications to be approved by the community. Clearly, this should not interfere with ad hoc requests. I'm happy to volunteer to participate in such a recurrent action.
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2$\begingroup$ I would also volunteer my time to such a task. $\endgroup$ – Godric Seer Jun 7 '13 at 19:34
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1$\begingroup$ Good idea! I am sure that cleaning up the tags will improve usability of scicompSE. I would also take part in these discussions. $\endgroup$ – Jan Jun 8 '13 at 12:02
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$\begingroup$ @Geoff Oxberry: Hi Geoff, I'm open for suggestions on how to proceed here. $\endgroup$ – GertVdE Jul 3 '13 at 15:57
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1$\begingroup$ Yes, this is a good idea. I'm no longer a pro tem moderator, bud I'm happy to help out where I can. $\endgroup$ – Aron Ahmadia Aug 23 '13 at 16:56
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Maybe my answer will bump this post for Geoff to see.
Also notice in beta site,
Users with more than 1250 reputation and a total answer score of 5 or more on the tag, can suggest tag synonyms. Users with a total answer score (total upvotes minus total downvotes) of 5 or more on the tag, can vote for tag synonyms.
But the question with any beta sites is that there are many useless tags, and users haven't been able to gain 5 or more scores on one to tag the synonyms. For example:
There are tags created by mistake because the creator didn't enter the hyphen and the system interpreted one part of the tag as one tag, notable examples are finite, elements, eigen.
Synonyms, for example, electromagnetics and electromagnetism; data-visualization, visualization, and plotting; finite-element and fem.
Lastly my suggestion is that, like a site self-evaluation here: Let's get critical: Jul 2013 Site Self-Evaluation , we should make a tag self-evaluation.
