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The tag:

These four tags have no tag wikis (or tag wiki excerpts), so it is not clear that what do the tag and the tag used for exactly. I went through all the questions quickly and don’t think that we need the tag or tag.

I want to delete the tag from this question, but the notice was shown when I clicked the edit button:

Another edit is awaiting approval for this post.

So, I can’t do anything to that question.

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    Seems reasonable. Any objections?
    – Laurel Mod
    Commented Sep 18 at 14:31
  • @Laurel If you look at the bottom of the list of tags sorted by "popular" there's quite a few random word tags that would be worth getting rid of on top of these two. (now, however, young, already, etc. etc.)
    – ColleenV
    Commented Sep 19 at 13:36
  • @ColleenV Some of them can be made into synonyms (kinda mod-only) but the rest will have to be manually deleted, which can be done by anyone who can edit (try not to flood the homepage). However, I think that tags for function words (if they were consistently applied) could be helpful to keep, since they're almost impossible to search for otherwise.
    – Laurel Mod
    Commented Sep 19 at 15:33
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    @Laurel I agree - categorizing posts about "a", "of", "for", "be" et. al. so that you can find relevant answers is really difficult in this system. This is actually a problem that is well-suited to be solved with AI helping with searches (and I DO NOT mean providing summaries to answer the question). I wonder if a general "function-words" tag would be helpful to at least narrow down searches and provide a synonym target.
    – ColleenV
    Commented Sep 19 at 15:43
  • @ColleenV Basically I mean any word with special properties that is hard to search for (this might not strictly match the formal definition). The tags here (can-modal / could-modal) are good examples, and you mentioned some others. Unfortunately, merging them all into a single bigger tag would again make it hard to find any relevant questions. Some of these tags do have better names than the word itself (e.g., "a" is "indefinite-article") but it's not always easy for me to know what that is given that I had a native speaker's education.
    – Laurel Mod
    Commented Sep 19 at 15:46
  • @ColleenV As for AI as a solution for tagging, I actually experimented a little with ChatGPT, but I didn't give it enough time (or maybe talent) to make it give good suggestions. I remember getting extremely generic suggestions like "grammar" and "tense" or just whatever was mentioned in the title (too obvious to be helpful). Maybe you'd have better luck with a different AI, but the question remains of how to actually get the tags on each question without being disruptive.
    – Laurel Mod
    Commented Sep 19 at 15:50

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