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.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
11 votes
1 answer
195 views

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 ...
Marcus Müller's user avatar
5 votes
1 answer
76 views

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 ...
Marcus Müller's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
133 views

Blacklist [pads]

after tags: PADS and mentor-pads: same tag, not linked is done, we should now blacklist pads.
Marcus Müller's user avatar
6 votes
1 answer
92 views

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 ...
toolic's user avatar
  • 6,965
10 votes
3 answers
154 views

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 ...
MarkU's user avatar
  • 14.5k
10 votes
0 answers
113 views

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 ...
Null's user avatar
  • 7,588
5 votes
1 answer
50 views

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?
Marcus Müller's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
35 views

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.
Shashank V M's user avatar
  • 2,289
16 votes
2 answers
334 views

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
Shashank V M's user avatar
  • 2,289
31 votes
5 answers
270 views

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 ...
Marcus Müller's user avatar
13 votes
2 answers
327 views

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.
brhans's user avatar
  • 14.5k
-1 votes
2 answers
130 views

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 ...
Kortuk's user avatar
  • 13.4k
3 votes
1 answer
140 views

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.
Brian Carlton's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
153 views

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 ...
stevenvh's user avatar
  • 146k