We have the charger, charging, and battery-charging tags, should they be merged?
There are a few questions marked as charging that relate to capacitor and inductor charging, but all of the others refer to battery chargers.
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2\$\begingroup\$ It could be a problem for Dodge hackers! \$\endgroup\$– clabacchioCommented Jan 29, 2012 at 16:25
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\$\begingroup\$ Seriously, could "charging" be associated to anything else than batteries? I think they could be merged... \$\endgroup\$– clabacchioCommented Jan 29, 2012 at 16:27
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2\$\begingroup\$ @clabacchio charging can be associated with "charging a capacitor" \$\endgroup\$– KellenjbCommented Jan 29, 2012 at 16:38
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\$\begingroup\$ That's what I was thinking, but I'm not sure anyone will ever ask how to charge a capacitor...I don't know... \$\endgroup\$– clabacchioCommented Jan 29, 2012 at 16:49
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\$\begingroup\$ @clabacchio, there can be some complexity to charging a cap, I think that charging is a useless tag myself, always needing to have capacitor or battery to be useful. \$\endgroup\$– Kortuk ModCommented Jan 29, 2012 at 18:38
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\$\begingroup\$ @clabacchio The problem is questions like electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18593/… and electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/14462/… We probably need to manual changing of tags instead of bulk changing all of them. \$\endgroup\$– KellenjbCommented Jan 29, 2012 at 18:53
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\$\begingroup\$ @Kellenjb If you (not necessarily you specifically, but at least someone from the community) clean up the questions that need manual retagging, the rest can be dealt with in a bulk way (by merging or deleting the tag). \$\endgroup\$– Adam Lear StaffModCommented Feb 12, 2012 at 3:43
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\$\begingroup\$ How about dV/dt for the capacitor charging ... ;) \$\endgroup\$– placeholderCommented Apr 12, 2013 at 4:54
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The charger and battery-charging tags should be merged anyway, there is no way they can refer to something different.
There of course are questions that are related to capacitor charging, but they can have the tag charge instead. In common sense, the word charging refers to battery charging, and the few questions about capacitor charging can be re-tagged manually. In my opinion, it's just useless to have the battery-charging and charging tag, while almost everyone adds both to their posts, or only battery-charging since it's more specific.
So I'd say we merge battery-charging and charger anyway, and, but that's more debatable, merge them to charging as well.