Questions tagged [tag-blacklist-request]
If a tag isn't adding information and should apply to all questions use this tag for suggesting it be closed.
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Let's not over-engineer questions: blacklist [engineering]
While cleaning up electric, I noticed that there are an engineering tag. On a website whose title is "Electrical Engineering", that's a strong candidate for an intrinsic tag, i.e., one that ...
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implicit tag: can we cut out the [electric]ity?
(A bad pun or play on words in the title of such requests is expected by tradition.)
Remembering I'm not electrified by the existence of the blanket [electrical] and [electricity] tags, let's ...
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Blacklist [pads]
after tags: PADS and mentor-pads: same tag, not linked is done, we should now blacklist pads.
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Would a Moderator delete the misspelled [verliog] tag?
Would a Moderator please delete the misspelled verliog tag?
There is only one question with this tag: Basic Verilog Assignment
The question title has the correct spelling of "Verilog". I ...
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block the [channel] tag
The channel tag is a useless meta-tag: this tag does not add any useful meaning by itself, it requires other tags to provide context. That's not how our tags are supposed to be used.
channel has 0 ...
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Should we blacklist the [constant] tag?
Quite a few questions that are about constant voltage or constant current sources are often incorrectly tagged with constant and either voltage or current. We already have constant-current (and ...
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Typo: [transimpedence] is wrong, [transimpedance] is right, but far less popular
We'll need to retag 89 questions with transimpedence. Is there a script that can automate that?
Also, can we please blacklist transimpedence?
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Burninate [small] tag
I don't see the usefulness of the [small] tag. There are only 4 questions tagged with small.
I suggest to burninate it.
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Time to burninate [small-electronics]?
There has been a tag small-electronics on this site, and I have no idea what it means. Is there such a thing as small and big electronics? I suggest to delete the tag small-electronics
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I'm not electrified by the existence of the blanket [electrical] and [electricity] tags, let's remove them, or at least blacklist them
Both these tags are typically used when the poster isn't intending to dig for an actually descriptive tag. Neither of these tags should be existing, as they apply to every single question on this ...
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The `Texas` Tag
How did we end up with a texas tag?
Can we please burninate it?
I'm guessing that it's being used to refer to parts made by TI.
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Remove robotics tag from all questions
robotics is a deprecated tag that defines a set of off-topic questions. For a question about electronics related to robotics it does not change the solution space or change anything about the ...
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Blacklist electronics tag
As discussed here, this tag is deprecated since it isn't adding information and should apply to all questions here. @Kevin Vermeer♦ said to create a per-tag discussion to delete them.
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Shouldn't we disallow adding deprecated tags?
I sometimes remove the deprecated homework tag, and five minutes later somebody reads the question and thinks: "hey, this looks like homework", and adds the tag ...
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