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General questions about tag usage on the main site

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Should the tag [format] exist/be split/clarified?

text-formatting exists, and has >150 questions, but it seems to me that how to format text would vary wildly across different programs image formats → image-formats exists, but has only 10 questions; the tags
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How can I create a new tag, vsts, for Visual Studio Team Services?

Also, the reason you're receiving that error message is that tags differing only in hyphenation or capitalization are no longer allowed. … If I understand correctly, only moderators can create tags that would be blocked by that check (there are legitimate exceptions to the rule, like windows and window). …
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Who can I contact if I want to create a new tag, but I don't have the reputation points?

As you found, all users - not just site moderators - with sufficient reputation can create tags. Therefore, you can ask right here on meta! …
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How to avoid posting on the wrong site when a tag tells me it's on topic but the mods tell m...

You should read each tag's description before you apply it to a question (or post the question): Google Spreadsheets is a part of the Google Docs web app suite. Questions about Google Spreadsheets …
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Merging or Linking Tags

Interestingly enough, osx already has macos as a synonym (established in 2013). If OSX does get official renamed to macOS, we would want to reverse the synonym direction. That would require a moderato …
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Why did I earn reputation because of a tag?

I think you're talking about this thing in the Reputation section of the Activity page (I'm mousing over the +213): Just participating in the tag didn't give you rep; it's telling you how much rep …
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Split off [split]

It's done. There are now zero questions tagged split. The original content of this post follows. The meta question you linked has the status-planned moderator tag, so we have the official go-ahead …
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