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Blacklist the [design] tag

The design was recently burninated but just today I've seen it on at least a couple of new questions. It seems very likely this will continue and it won't disappear for long without help so suggest it...

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The [convert] tag has been burninated

This tag has been burninated. Please do not recreate it. If you need advice on which tag to use, see the answer below. If you see this tag reappearing, it may need to be blacklisted.The convert tag...

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Burninate the [drupal] tag

I would like to suggest to burninate drupal tag as its wiki suggests:Drupal is an open source CMS framework written in PHP. Consider posting your question directly on https://drupal.stackexchange.com...

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Should we remove [translate] (again)?

I saw this request two years ago to burninate the translate tag.However, it seems we currently have many different questions on this tag again, all about totally different purposes and subjects.Isn't...

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I want my (overcooked) [Apple] pie!

Let’s remove apple once and for all!But first let’s blacklist it, so we can edit it without fighting against users putting it into their questions.(and remove the documentation proposal).Quoth the tag...

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Burninate this tag a[sap]

I learnt recently of the trend on Stack Overflow to burninate tags with company names (like apple, microsoft, amazon, ...) in favor of product-specific tags (like ios, windows, aws, ...).This made me...

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Blacklist the [game-development] tag

The game-development tag was added recently and applied to ~815 questions. Since it has been burninated more than once before it should be cleaned up again. Could this tag be black-listed this time?

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Request to blacklist the [covid-19] tag

While covid-19 may be a topic on many of our minds right now, it doesn't really relate to coding. At best, it's a meta-tag. At worst, it's just offtopic on Stack Overflow.Can we please burninate and...

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Request to blacklist the [covid-19-data] tag

Very related to "Request to blacklist the [covid-19] tag".A user created the covid-19-data tag, yesterday.I feel like the tag doesn't add any relevant information to the question, lust like...

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Please [check] all questions with this tag

The check tag: 60 questions, no usage guidance, and just a hodge-podge of people wanting to check something.No clear or useful purpose at all.Burninate and blacklist it I say.What say ye?

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Re-burninate and blacklist the [convert] tag

Related: The [convert] tag has been burninatedFor reasons that were discussed in the linked post, the convert tag was burninated just under 3 years ago.In the meantime, it has reappeared and now has 88...

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Clean up [pod] tag

The word Pod is used in many different context and has very different meaning in each context. I suggest that the tag should be cleaned up and the questions should be tagged with more specific tags and...

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Blacklist [restart]

restart is problematic because it's most often used for Questions related to software restarts, while the wiki claims:This refers to the process where a computer's power state is systematically (and...

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Synonymize or blacklist [vanilla] tag

It seems someone has created a vanilla in reference to Vanilla Javascript, which isn't a thing. The language is Javascript, We don't have vanilla-c# or Vanilla-Java so it makes no sense to have vanilla...

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Re-burninate and blacklist [check]

The check tag has re-appeared in the last month after being successfully burninated twice: ~7 years ago and ~1 year ago. I think we should re-burninate and also blacklist it as it's just being misused...

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​[how-to] burninate this tag?

Seriously? We have a how-to tag? Well... we shouldn't. Let's go through the criteria:Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?Absolutely not. Other...

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Now playing -- [hacking] II: The Revenge

Apparently, the hacking tag was burninated in August 2014, but has come back again.What, if anything, should be done?

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Let's permanently [exclude] this tag

exclude has previously been burninated and is now back with another 75 questions. According to rodgort, it has been revived thrice since its initial burnination. It's time to get rid of it for...

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Too much [carbon] is bad for the environment

It seems like carbon was made a synonym of php-carbon in the scope of this MSO post (which was probably fine at that point) (or it was probably synonymized later).However, as there seems to be a new...

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Adding [httpclient] to new questions should be blocked

httpclient has description:DO NOT USE - Use [apache-commons-httpclient], [apache-httpclient-4.x] or [dotnet-httpclient]but is still frequently added to more and more new questions.

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Let's [remove] it once and for all

The remove tag has been burninated last year.I saw that it reappeared and new questions were tagged with it.Hence, I suggest to blocklist it with the following error message:Tagging a question with...

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Should we cleanup and burninate the [meta] tag?

ProblemAs of now, the tag meta (supposed to be used for the HTML-element) is misused for question regardingFacebook/ different products by Facebook (aka. Meta. Given the relative recency of Facebook's...

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Tag [cfg] was created again

Tag cfg was created again. This time it was used on the questions of four categories:ones that should be tagged with context-free-grammar instead. I re-tagged them accordingly.Ones that should be...

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Disambiguation of [gp]

Tag info for gpMicrosoft Dynamics GP is a mid-market business accounting software or ERP Software package.is very similar to that of dynamics-gpMicrosoft Dynamics GP is one of several ERP (Enterprise...

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Rename ambiguous [sf] and [sp]

I've encountered two tags used for R libraries: sf and sp.Both has tag info and a significant number of questions and watchers.But both had questions erroneously using these tags. Most likely due to...

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Burninate the [leetcode] tag again and blacklist it please

Again leetcode raised its ugly head:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77083564/multiplying-large-numbers-with-precision-issues-how-to-correctly-handle-floatinThere seems to be only a single question...

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