How should we clean up the [kvm] tag?

Question

This is a discussion about a tag, not an invitation to mass-edit questions containing said tag (at least for now)**

We have a kvm tag. It is meant to be about Kernel-based Virtual Machines (based on the Tag Wiki for it). We also have a kvm-switch tag for questions pertaining to KVM switches.

I recently noticed a few Suggested Edits that re-tagged questions that were (wrongly) tagged with the kvm tag to use the kvm-switch tag (for questions about KVM switches). These edits aren't wrong at all.

However, I noticed there's about 1,100 questions tagged with the kvm tag, 104 of which also contain the word "switch". In addition, 28 questions tagged with kvm include the phrase "kvm switch". There's also three questions tagged with both the kvm tag and the kvm-switch tag.

I haven't gone through all 104 questions that contain the kvm and the word "switch", but a quick glance indicates many (most?) are about KVM switches (although at least a couple are actually about Kernel-based Virtual Machines).

So, what should we with the kvm tag? Some initial ideas include:

• Keep the kvm tag, clean up the wrongly-tagged questions, and request a tag warning for that tag Pros: Less work,
• Create a kernel-virtual-machine tag, and retag all questions tagged with kvm to either kernel-virtual-machine or kvm-switch. Pros: tag name is unambigous Cons: Retagging tons of questions is a lot of work, and would likely heavily polute the front page*

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*It might be possible to rename the kvm tag to kernel-virtual-machine and then just re-tag those questions, and that might be easier, but I'm not sure

**This should be obvious, but several of my other tag-related Meta questions (on MSO) have resulted in other users deciding to take action on a tag before consensus was reached, so I'm trying to avoid that issue here

Answer 1

After some further discussion with @cocomac on Raiders of the Lost Downboat the following changes have now been completed:

A few tasks remain:

1. Some re-tagging of posts tagged kvm-virtualization to kvm-switch as appropriate which cocomac has agreed to undertake.
2. Usage guidelines and a tag wiki will need to be added to the the new kvm-virtualization which is currently barren of any useful details.

And thanks again to cocomac for finding the issue, bringing it forward to the Community and acting on it!

References:

• Moderator Cheat Sheet: The canonical guide to manipulating tags