Restrict tag creation?

Question

I feel we have more tag-cleanup-request question here than what would be good (at least it's my personal idea).

Is it possible to make creation of tags more controlled (/ difficult,) by...

• increasing reputation required?
• have a review process for new tags?
• (setting up quality requirements - e.g. at 100 characters of description for a newly created tag?)

While I'm writing this question I've found this great asnwer, which explains background, however, I'm not really sure how effective those actions are.

Answer 1

I think either a review process for new tags could be a good thing.

Alternatively could we just make entering the tag description (short & long) mandatory and put all these in the review queue.

That way we end up with a (hopefully) good tag description and the creator is forced to think about it while creating the tag.

Answer 2

There actually is kind of a way to review new tags. Users with more than 10K reputation have a "tools" page that shows, among other things, the most recently created tags. Those can be found at the bottom of the main stats section. It shows how many questions have each tag mentioned, and as one would expect, clicking a tag goes to the list of questions tagged with it.

I just destroyed the poe tag by retagging its one question with the existing power-over-ethernet tag.

It's worth noting that on Stack Overflow, the "create tags" privilege requires 1500 rep, while here it only takes 300. If we can show that we're getting too many pointless new tags, the moderators can petition Stack Exchange to bump up that privilege level for us. (A lot of the bad tags we're looking at are fairly old.)