Tag Cleanup For Graduation

Question

We all know the site is graduating soon and one nice thing to do before we are fully graduated is to clean up the tags on the main site. We have almost 300 tags and tags are very important to organizing questions asked and making sure people who are interested in a topic can find questions and answers easily.

We should all make sure that:

• Duplicate tags are made synonyms.
• Useless tags are removed.
• Tag Wikis are not missing (Good chance for users under 1k rep to get a little rep).
• Tags are applied where they need to be applied.

Post below if you think any tags that need cleaning (dupes, mistakes, unneeded, blacklisting etc) and we'll decide as a community what to do.

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Current pending synonyms:

• key <- key-signatures
• maintenance <- instrument-care
• rock-n-roll <- rock

Removed Tags:

• alternatives
• diminished

Answer 1

I believe the learning <- pedagogy synonym request should be declined, and instead:

teaching <- pedagogy

Reference: oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pedagogy

Answer 2

The tag alternatives should be removed because it doesn't really give any information about what the question is about. Of the 3 questions it is tagged in, 1 is closed and the other two are about completely different topics. One is about alternate solfege and is about if a cajon can be an alternate drum set.

Answer 3

On the pedals issue that Charles raised, I propose that pedals as a tag itself is scrapped.

Lots of the questions should be retagged effects-pedal.

Those questions referring to piano or harp pedals, I think the pedals tag could just be removed - I'm not sure it's possible to be an expert only in playing the piano with a pedal, and not piano in general.

guitar-effects and effects-pedal should be kept separate - effects pedals are not only used for guitars (I'm thinking loopers), and it's possible to also create guitar effects without the use of a pedal. (I believe, not my area!)

Answer 4

key <- key-signatures should be a synonymy because they both are typically used to talk about keys and are typically used interchangeably. Even if the questions that talk specifically about the key signature the key signature is part of the key.

Answer 5

I just found instrument-maintenance -- should be merged with maintenance.

Answer 6

With the current effects and pedal tags, it’s extremely difficult to choose a reasonable set of tags for guitar effects pedals. I usually end up choosing arbitrarily between guitar-effects and effects-pedal, and clearly many other people simply choose pedals. That’s a mess – there is so much overlap between these things that we should not have 3+ separate tags for them.

The pedals tag should be split into its main uses:

• guitar-effects for pedals related to guitar effects
• looper-pedals for sampling and looping pedals
• keyboard-pedals for piano and organ pedals
• pedal-points for bass note pedal points

We should make effects-pedal a synonym of guitar-effects and then retag anything that is not actually about guitar effects, like looper-pedals. Once the pedals tag has all non-guitar questions removed from it, we can also make that a synonym of the most common “pedal” type questions, probably guitar-effects.

Answer 7

The diminished tag should be removed for a few reasons.

First of all it is unclear what the subject is as there are diminished chord, intervals, scales, and diminished could even apply to rhythms (technically a diminution, but the same root word). Another tag would be needed to make it clear what you were talking about and then the diminished tag would be unnecessary because it is a subset of that topic.

Secondly, we do not have major and minor tags and they are the more prevalent scales, chords, intervals, ect in music and I consider the fact that we don't have or need those tags that we don't need a diminished tag.

Answer 8

Found simple-time-signatures and compound-time-signatures -- these are overkill given the existing time-signatures.

Answer 9

overtones should be dropped: only two questions, one about didgeridoo (an overtone instrument) and one about the difference between harmonics and overtones. Since harmonics already exists for (essentially) all questions related to overtones, we can safely drop it.

Answer 10

The tetrachords tag should be removed as any question that talks about tetrachords would be talking about scales and how they are made which we already have a tag for.