PSA: A new feature has been added to the site, tag deprecation.
How it works:
- deprecated tags cannot be added to new posts, but they won't be automatically removed from old posts
- tags can only be marked as deprecated manually if they're empty
- tags cannot be undeprecated manually
- two new BUR options have been introduced:
deprecate tag
andundeprecate tag
- to be deprecated, a tag needs a wiki
- two new mod actions have been added: tag deprecate and tag undeprecate, to monitor manual changes (only admins can undeprecate manually)
To manually deprecate an empty tag, go to the tags index, click "edit" on a tag, and mark it as deprecated from there. To deprecate tags with posts or undeprecate tags, please open a bulk update request.
You can also see a list of deprecated tags from the same page.
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