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Should the [purchase] tag be burninated?

It was a rainy day so I have manually removed all of the tag from across Ask Ubuntu. My apologies to the front page which I spammed pretty solidly :). With the tag deleted in this way there should be …
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Can we [safely] remove this tag?

I have removed the last of the tags today; it was raining and cold outside so a perfect day for some tag housekeeping :). …
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What should we do when encountering wiki excerpt suggestions on useless tags?

Conduct a thorough review of the available tags and remove those tags that are in a similar position. This would save everybody a lot of time and energy. … A quick look through the tags currently available shows quite a few that could safely be removed. A solid criteria for such removal would need to be in place though... …
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Merge tags [video-driver] and [gpu-drivers]?

Only job for the future is to watch to see if the old tags are reused before the system has a chance to consume them when empty. … When merging tags there are 2 good choices with some subtle differences: 'Merge with Synonyms' and 'Merge without Synonyms'. …
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Do we support [language-support]?

A small community consensus but nevertheless a consensus. So: I have merged language into language-support Subsequently I have created language as a synonym for language-support Perhaps a little bac …
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How should we clean up the [kvm] tag?

References: Moderator Cheat Sheet: The canonical guide to manipulating tags
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I need some [help] getting rid of this tag from Ask Ubuntu Meta!

No: moderators don't have the ability to outright destroy or block tags. … Alternatively, you can ask the community to manually clean out the tags, which helps identify off-topic and low-quality questions. …
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Please block the [help] tag on AU Meta

Decide if it needs to be blocked: This was discussed some time ago Burninate the meta tags {help} and {features}? at a time shortly after the tag was blocked on the main AU. … – Shog9's definitive guide to the blocking of unwanted tags on SO. I need some [help] getting rid of this tag from Ask Ubuntu Meta! …
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