word – There are too many tags!

I’ve been looking through our tags page and, yikes, we have way too many of these. Also I think some of the tag descriptions aren’t always the best. Here are a few that I think can go:

• abandonment: “Policies and practices for determining when a question has been abandoned and what to do about it.”
• abuse: “This tag is for questions concerning actions leading to bad behaviors or bad purposes, considered or suspected to be against Stack Exchange policies or the collaboratively philosophy of any Stack Exchange site.”
• ad: “For discussion about the explicitly commercial advertising that appears on this site (if any), as well as the Community Promotion Ads which are voted on by users of each site.”
• auto: “Posts about autonomous processes and automation on Stack Exchange.”
• crash: “Reporting about Stack Exchange site crashes.”
• db: “The SE database. Also see [sede] for a query tool.”
• google: “For questions concerning Google, a popular search engine and the main referrer to Stack Exchange sites. For Google as an OpenID provider, use the [google-openid] tag. For questions about Chrome, use the [google-chrome] tag. For questions about Google+, use the [google-plus] tag.”
• hat: “For general questions about the holiday hats (Winter Bash) celebration at the end of the year. Winter Bash sunset in 2023.”
• issue: “Issues/bugs on the sites.”
• license: “Questions about the licensing of content on Stack Exchange sites.”
• meta: “Meta Stack Exchange (aka MSE) is the governing meta site for all Stack Exchange sites together. Use this tag to ask questions about this very site. In some sense, the [meta] tag is “Meta-Meta Stack Exchange”.”
• obsolete: “Sometimes posts become obsolete over time. Use this tag to discuss how to deal with such posts. Note that the [obsolete] label is only on SO Teams.”
• rust: “Usage of the Rust programming language as part of the codebase for SE.”
• windows: “Use this tag for questions that are specific for the use of the SE sites on Windows-based operating systems. DO NOT USE this tag to ask general-purpose questions about Windows. Find the correct site for those.”
• x: “Posts about the X button that closes popups.”
• zoom: “Use this tag for questions about how the layout of SE pages changes when the view is zoomed in or out by the browser.”

Maybe we should syonymize some of them since there are some obvious groups oh no, actually I think we’d be best off with collapsing all of these into one tag. Any suggestions for what to name it?

discussion meta tags synonym-request clean-up