The Great [tag-cleanup-request] status-tag cleanup of 2024

Question

Following on from the Great CM status tag cleanup of 2024, we lost our "status-planned" tracking of ongoing cleanup tasks. That's because the planned tag is now considered a process tag, used by CMs to keep track of community requests that SE is currently handling.

We've pondered the introduction of a new set of "status"-style tags: Pondering mod status tags. Instead, I propose that we should do our own status-tag cleanup, and mark all finished cleanups as status-completed or status-declined. This will give us basically the inverse of a 'planned' tag: anything WITHOUT the completed or declined tags should be fair game to be worked on. Plus, 'completed and 'declined' are considered outcome tags by CMs, and therefore won't interfere with their use of process tags.

We currently have 113 questions tagged [tag-cleanup-request] -[status-completed] -[status-declined]. I've gone through all of them and listed the completed ones below. Can the mods please mark them status-completed, and the ones that the community have deemed not needed as status-declined?

These are the status-completed ones:

• Are we [licensed] for all this? (Main proposed synonym was created, others discussed and not needed) status-completed

• Is there any difference between the tags "windows-server-2003" and "windows-2003-server"? status-completed

• aria2 vs. aria2c? status-completed

• Send out [newsletters] status-completed

• Don't give us static about deleting [dynamic] status-completed

• Burninate or clean up the tag [dual] status-completed

• Time up on the [trial]? status-completed

• Skip the [skipping] tag? status-completed

• Get rid of Microsoft tag status-completed - Can you also edit the duplicate list to add: Consider blocklisting the [microsoft] tag? please? status-completed

• Drop kick [dropout] status-completed

• Pummel [panel]? status-completed

• Unsynonomize [synaptic] and [synaptics] status-completed

• The theory tag may be redundant status-completed

• Pew Pew the Laser Tag status-completed

• Archive the outlook-archive status-completed

• Time to change [pop] flavor(s) status-completed

• Can we [design] a better tag? status-completed

• We're not a bank, get rid of [audit] (or replace it with less ambiguous tags) status-completed

• Let's expel [native] status-completed

• Cleanup up [organization] tag status-completed

• Glitch tag cleanup now completed status-completed

• Options tag cleanup now completed status-completed

• Sonicwall: Is it a manufacturer tag? status-completed

• Possible Tag Merge: [toshiba-satellite] into [toshiba-laptop] status-completed

• tag cleanup: [editor] status-completed

• Let's dellete [dell] status-completed

• Split the [manual] tag status-completed

• Clear up the [clear] tag status-completed

• Document or shred [manual]? status-completed

• Tag cleanup: Delete / merge [function] tag status-completed

These can be status-declined. I've included individual reasons as to why:

• Take away the chinese tag - community members make a good argument for keeping individual language tags separate (Further reading: Are languages too localized?)
• I speak [spanish], and [english] too… - duplicate of above
• Deprecate product version preview tags - just use new version tag straight away - OS preview tags are kept for questions specific to preview/pre-release/beta versions of OSs.
• Remove [zip-drive] tag? - zip-drive is an adequate tag
• Burninate the [ssid] tag - ssid is a meaningful tag

TO DO

• The next [selection] for burnination

• Rename Tag: [attachments] into [email-attachments] - cleanup warranted, rename not. Better to use a new question to organise the cleanup.

Answer 1

We appreciate the assist. I've retagged everything that I felt comfortable retagging, which is pretty much all but 2 posts.

I didn't label the status-declined posts cause I did them at a sitting, and it felt wierd to decline a request we carried out. They're reviewed and actioned tho.

There's 2 posts that needed more attention before completion so I've chosen to label them as to do, rather than taking action. They're a bit more work and we can revisit these in future.