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Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?

Tags for Microsoft products are currently a mess.

Office:

Word:

Excel:

Powerpoint:

Publisher:

Access:

There is very little structure or order in how Microsoft-related questions are being tagged. I think this should be cleaned up. I would like to propose the following tagging recommendations for office questions; feel free to critique my suggestions.

  • Questions about a specific microsoft product, like Word, should be tagged like .
  • Questions that pertain to a specific version of office, and would not apply to all/other versions, should be tagged like
  • Questions pertaining to any or many versions of office should be tagged

A question could have several of these tags, e.g. it might be tagged and if the question is about Word and is specific to the 2010 version. While more verbose than just , it creates fewer redundant tags.

Tags above which do not fall into one of those categories/naming schemes should be retagged and eliminated, with the following exceptions:

  • might apply to some other things having to do with words, but posts with that tag should be manually checked and retagged if appropriate.
  • might apply to questions about office environments. Those sorts of questions should be retagged to or something of that sort
  • might apply to questions about access control, etc. Those sorts of questions should be retagged to a more appropriate tag, as access is ambiguous.

Most of this retagging should be able to be accomplished by moderators automatically with a batch retag, e.g. to . More nuanced ones, like the exceptions above, will need to be handled manually; I can do this if need be.

So, do these seem like reasonable suggestions? What changes would you recommend? And how can we try to encourage new users to tag accordingly?

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