*sigh* In *general* the convention is to ask first before doing a mass tag. *As a moderator* even, when I do bulk retag or 

 Its a meta tag anyway and doesn't belong. I'll see about trickle in editing these out, flooding the front page on a weekend, or otherwise monkeywrenching the tag.

Mass edits are generally not ok - and feel free to flag future instances of this for attention, it seems we missed that 

Annoyingly we've not done a tag cleanup in so long I don't remember the do not use boilerplate we used to have, I'll go dig it up later, but it seems appropriate here