I had a look at the meta discussions that are about burninating, blacklisting/deleting or creating tags. I made a list of them. Why? It's for two purposes. Firstly, to have an overview about our taxonomy efforts besides tag synonyms. Secondly to track reappearing tags that have been burninated by community consensus before. Since the second is a lot more important those are at the top.
Why is the second more important? It is important because it gives us a reason to put them onto the blacklist if they pop up again.
There are just rhetoric questions so far you say? Yes there are. What I want and hope this helps to do is keeping tabs on burninated tags and squashing resurrecting ones in their tracks. If one detects a resurfaced tag the - hopefully few - questions can be edited and the date added to the burninated tag. If there are several dates behind a tag we can request a blacklisting.
Burninated but doesn't stay dead
- word-games (On tag:scrabble, tag:word-games, tag:games) - 15 questions
Decent votes but no burnination completed yet
- obscure-terms (What's the tag "obscure-terms" for? Is it necessary?) - 38 questions
- homework (Is the "homework" tag really useful? Is there a way to vote to delete it?) - 45 questions
Disputed
- explanation (Can someone explain the [explanation] tag to me?)
- expression-requests, phrase-requests, idiom-requests (What are [expression-requests] tag for?)
- nuance (Do we need [tag:nuance]?)
- typography (Are typography questions on-topic or off-topic?)
- usage (Does the "usage" tag have any value? & Is there a difference between [usage] and [word-usage]?)
- word-usage (Is there a difference between [usage] and [word-usage]?)
- request & polite-request (Burninate tags [request] and [polite-request])
- books & literature (Is "Literature" a pointless tag?)
- vocabulary (Is the vocabulary tag helpful?)
Tags validated by meta discussion
- single-word-requests (Against single word requests)
- title (What manner of “title”?)
- writing (Is the tag "writing" necessary?)
Blacklisted or burninated by community consensus
Blacklisted tags
The system prevents the use of blacklisted tags.
- language (Should the 'language' tag be deleted?)
- english (How about getting rid of the [english] tag?)
- words (Blacklist the [words] tag)
- word ("Word" tag -- useful?) Synonym of words actually
Burninated tags
- acceptability (Tag for questions about whether a language feature is acceptable/common?) - Removed again 09.10.2016
- correction (Let's get rid of the "correction" tag)
- descriptivism (What is the meaning of the descriptivism tag?)
- essay (Should we delete the essay tag?)
- genericized-trademarks
- ic (Delete the [wish], [harry-potter], and other tags?)
- ian (Delete the [wish], [harry-potter], and other tags?)
- games (On tag:scrabble, tag:word-games, tag:games) - Removed again 13.10.2016
- grammar-checker (What should be done with the "grammar-checker" tag?)
- harry-potter (Delete the [wish], [harry-potter], and other tags?)
- management-speak (Delete the [wish], [harry-potter], and other tags?) (Delete the [wish], [harry-potter], and other tags?)
- microsoft-word (What is the point of the Microsoft-Word tag?)
- opinion (Burninate [opinion], please)
- pedantic (Delete [pedantic] tag)
- polisemy (Delete the [wish], [harry-potter], and other tags?)
- productiveness (Delete the [wish], [harry-potter], and other tags?)
- proofreading (Proof-reading tag: what to do with it?)
- puzzle (Delete [puzzle] tag)
- scrabble (On tag:scrabble, tag:word-games, tag:games) - Removed again 07.10.2016
- sexist-language (Creating the new tag "sexist-language") [Creation discussion at -10 & removed by SE moderator at the time] - Removed again 10.10.2016
- similarities, similar (Should we get rid of the tag "similarities"?)
- spelling-checker (Should we burninate the [spelling-checker] tag? (0 posts left tagged))
- tech-speak (Delete the [wish], [harry-potter], and other tags?)
- wish (Delete the [wish], [harry-potter], and other tags?)