poetic has 17 question and no wiki. poetry has 176 questions and a wiki.
Should the former be merged into the latter? Should the former be blacklisted to avoid misuse in the future or just make them synonyms?
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The posts marked poetic seem to consist of posts about poetic language but not (classical or formal) poetry. The highest-voted question under that tag asks for a poetic term for enjoying the breeze.
While it is accurate to say that poetry is simply the noun form of poetic, the term poetry has acquired enough of a distinctive meaning that it is a little uncomfortable to call flowery or vivid prose poetry. Describing it as poetic still seems appropriate, maybe in the sense that even though it isn't poetry, it is like poetry.
I think there is a place for the two tags to have separate identities. For clarity, I'd suggest renaming poetic to poetic prose.
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1Then info on the [poetic] has to be added since it's empty. Perhaps also add a usage clause: "Use this tag for...". Jan 28, 2016 at 12:08
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FYI, we have at least one question about prose poetry, but leaving that aside, there may some grey areas around poetic, literary-english and literature. Some of the word requests might be more about obscure-terms or rare-words than poetic or figurative vocabulary and constructions.– chosterJan 28, 2016 at 21:09