Should we get rid of the "learning" meta-tag?

Question

For a long time, "meta-tags" have been discouraged on Stack Exchange.

Today I ran into the tag learning, which I think is one of these not-useful tags. Questions about "learning" don't seem to be much of a meaningful group where someone might have expertise. It's not entirely a meta tag because teaching English to learners is definitely somewhat of a skill of its own ... but I feel like people wanting answers that are more holistically oriented towards "learning" should be asking on English Language Learners or Language Learning rather than here. So to the extent that it's not a meta-tag, it seems to be a broad attitude-based tag that has an unfortunate (in my opinion) overlap with other sites. (I don't think all overlap is a bad thing, but this kind of overlap seems pointless.)

The tag has 81 questions and 5 followers, which is not tiny but not huge either. The highest-upvoted question with this tag, What is meant by “steep learning curve”? (current score 26), seems to have been tagged by accident just because it is about the word "learning".

I propose eliminating the tag "learning".

Answer 1

My vote is yes: die tag, die!

(I'd also like to see the very related tag, esl, with 28 questions gone for many of the same reasons.)

There are several types of questions that use the [learning] tag:

• Questions about learning (usually learning English), some of which are recommendation questions
  • example: Where do I learn cursive?
  • Most, if not all of these questions are off topic: we don't do recommendations (at least not on main... if there's any content of value maybe it can be moved to the big meta post?) and questions about learning English in general should be asked on ELL, not here (from the Ask Question sidebar: "If your question is about learning English, ask it on ELL instead.") and should be closed, and maybe some deleted. It's more convenient to find these questions while the tag is still on questions, so I wouldn't remove the tag from these questions.
• Questions that involve the word "learning" or other forms
  • example: What is the meaning of "ardent learner"?
  • There is nothing inherently off-topic about these questions, but I think we don't need the learning tag to keep these questions together.
• Questions that look pretty normal...but the learning tag was presumably added because the asker is learning English
  • This is just a English-specific [beginner] tag and [beginner] is called out as a meta-tag in the very blog post you linked. These questions are not inherently off-topic either, so removing the tag is best; you may need to add some tags if there was only the learning tag.

Also, the tag wiki for learning is pretty bad:

Questions that are useful for people learning English as a second language.

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I don't see any reason to wait to close or delete vote questions that are off topic (as always, make sure to use your powers wisely). As for questions which aren't off-topic and would need editing (if we all agree the tag needs to go), I don't think they should be edited all at once; let's avoid flooding the front page.