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Questions that deal with our cleaning up unwanted junk tags.

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Reprocessing processing [duplicate]

processing is used in two ways - firstly as a meta-tag. Secondly to do with the processing language/IDE. I'd propose killing off the processing tag and merging it with a tag that specifically denotes …
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11 votes
2 answers
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Any arguments for [command-line-arguments]?

command-line-arguments is a classic meta-tag. Any arguments for keeping it?
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5 votes
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Can we kill the consolidate tag?

Its not too bad, only 10 uses of it, and Its easy to eliminate. Its got no tag wiki, and as such it won't be missed if we drag it out somewhere and bury it. Its a classic metatag apparently used with …
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10 votes
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Canning the ccna tag

The ccna tag seems to either be "I saw this question in an exam" IE - not a actual problem or dosen't really add to the searchability of a question. There's 7 instances of it, a good chunk of which ma …
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Popping the [party] tag

We have a party tag. Its a metatag. It needs popping.
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5 votes
1 answer
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No [news] is good news

The news metatag is old news. It only has 7 questions, including one that's spam, and is a candidate for speedy deletion.
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25 votes
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Don't hate the [player] hate the tag

The player tag feels like a classic meta tag, and one likely to be misused. I saw it in use for a question what seems to be a glorified cd player but could refer to audio, video or other software that …
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13 votes
1 answer
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Beating the beta tag

Considering we already recommend having a sub-tag for betas and RCs, beta is redundant. Can we get rid of it?
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11 votes
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The theory tag may be redundant

theory has 15 questions. Some are low quality but out of scope. Its also a classic meta-tag, and considering our close reasons contain a mention of practical problems, I propose we nuke this
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