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About two weeks ago I cleaned up the various usages of that referred to several different technologies. However, the tag still exists with zero questions on the main site.

It does exist on Staging Ground posts and according to the top users tag page there are 27 questions with the tag. Same information can be seen when hovering over the tag. And searching for sg:yes [gemini] also returns 27 results:

The search for Staging Ground posts tagged "gemini" returns 27 results.

Of those 27:

  • 8 are published - uneditable by regular users
  • 8 are inactive and in the Major changes state - editing them would re-activate the post (even briefly)
  • 11 are marked as Off topic
  • zero are about the "Bug-tracking software from Countersoft" as the tag information says. All of them are for - the generative artificial intelligence chatbot by Google.

In cases like these, what is the correct way to handle the Staging Ground posts? If there is even a correct way. The aim is to cause minimal disruptions but allow the tag to be automatically deleted.

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    perhaps it is the bug-tracker whose tag should be renamed. "Gemini" has become a recognizable brand name by now, and not for the bug-tracker. Commented Oct 3 at 5:58
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    Oh sorry, I realized removing gemini in favor of google-gemini and countersoft-gemini is exactly what you are trying to do: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/434789/… Commented Oct 3 at 6:03
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    Oh, that's why yarn won't disappear. Commented Oct 3 at 7:27
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    @jonrsharpe seems so. Well spotted. Commented Oct 3 at 7:30
  • Ah, seems so obvious now. +1 and adding on React 18 and 19 tags that I've been trying to track down and convert to react or eliminate. 3 of each remain that are published SG posts and no longer editable by us Untermenschen. Commented Oct 4 at 4:44
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    FWIW I had been eying this post as it seemed related. Staff had to get involved. Commented Oct 4 at 4:48
  • @julaine I wish that reasoning (common sense based on real world usage rather than "we saw it first, it's ours") had any pull with this crowd but it didn't when I tried to argue that "DNN" is most commonly understood to mean Deep Neural Networks, not "dot net nuke" (most people would have to look that up!). part of this community's understanding of self seems to include some illogical and unexplainable dogma. some things are allowed to be "gardened", others must not be, and I'm implied to be mad for even bringing it up. Commented Oct 4 at 9:51
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    So, any movement on this? I'd really like to know what process to kick off to kill some tags off that the Staging Ground is holding hostage. Commented Nov 11 at 8:59
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    @DrewReese funny thing - I was thinking about this question just yesterday and how to draw attention to it. I was deliberating asking for a [status-review] or not. But it's not (necessarily) a company issue. I've raised it as a discussion because maybe a preliminary measure would be "flag for a mod to deal with the tags". Or maybe that's not a good idea. I don't really know but I am getting tired of correcting the continual misuse of the [gemini] tag. Commented Nov 11 at 12:16
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    I'd like to either be able to edit published SG posts (though I can understand why they are effectively locked upon publication) so we wouldn't need to raise a mod flag or bother staff, or for someone, anyone, with the power to simply modify post tags to step up and make a suggestion how they can most effectively handle this. Commented Nov 11 at 16:18

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The only issue for the community here is that we cannot edit the Staging Ground's copy of published questions. This has happened before for another tag as well and in that particular case I'd flagged the particular question and a moderator had edited the tag out.

In this particular case I propose that we edit the questions that we can and for the published ones raise a flag for moderators to edit those since there aren't many.

Since there could be many published questions in a tag going forwards ideally the community should also be able to edit the published posts. If not the body then at least the tags should be editable so we can handle such cases.

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