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Should we try to maintain consistency in tag names?

I have replaced the future tag with the future-tense tag on all relevant questions.
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Should we try to maintain consistency in tag names?

I recently noticed that there was a past-tense tag, a present-tense tag, and a future tag. Since they are all for different tenses, it seems more reasonable to have consistent names for them. Therefor …
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Is the 'mathematics' tag really necessary?

While I see your point about tags which have only a few questions not being particularly useful, the site is fairly new, so it has not yet had time to accumulate a large number of questions. … I would much rather create a bunch of new tags now than go through thousands of questions a few years from now to re-tag questions with only one or two very general tags which apply to at least half of …
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What is the correct tag to use when asking which dialects use a specific word?

If a question is about a specific dialect then a tag corresponding to that dialect should be used, e.g. american-english, british-english, canadian-english, austrailian-english, etc. If the user wants …
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