"Research" tag: define usage guidance or remove?

Question

I know that this has been brought up before (see some previous questions at the bottom of this post), but as far as I can tell there has not been a question devoted specifically to this tag. It would be good to get some sort of consensus.

There are currently 102 52 0 questions tagged research, with seemingly nothing in common except that they are about people researching their genealogy. Which kind of defeats the purpose of a tag.

The tag usage guidance is currently no guidance at all:

The study of source materials to establish facts and reach conclusions.

Should the research tag even exist? If it should, what should the usage guidance be?

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_{Previous mentions:
15 Jul 2015: Should we blacklist some tags that can be applied to almost every question?
11 Oct 2012: Proposal to remove tags like brick-wall and road-block
10 Oct 2012: What is the difference between the [research] and [research-methods] tags?}

Answer 1

Remove the research tag.

I have never tagged any of my questions research even though most are about research.

There is nothing in common with questions tagged research, rendering the tag useless. For questions about specific aspects of research we have the following tags:

• research-methods: For questions about how to conduct genealogy research and best practices for genealogy research.
• research-travel: To be used for questions about planning for, conducting and recording travel trips in the pursuit of genealogical research.
• research-guides
• locating-records: Questions about locating specific records of reference works identified by geography, date, type or topic. Used to enquire about availability and identification of such resources.

Answer 2

For the tags listed --

• research-methods: For questions about how to conduct genealogy research and best practices for genealogy research.

In What is the difference between the [research] and [research-methods] tags?, there was a suggestion about whether the tag should be research-methods or methodology. I'm leaning towards research-methods.

• research-guides: Suggest adding something like this: "For questions about finding 'how-to' articles about specific record types and information papers about specific record groups"