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I use frequency of terms being used as a proxy (and very rough) measure for whether they might be useful as tags. … For me terms that could be used on too many or too few Q&As make poor tags for SE sites. …

This is an old question, but by using wildcards in the search bar we can see that, after 1,173 questions: Only 2 have been tagged [findmypast*] with both having findmypast and findmypast.co.uk tags 37 …

I think we should: use migration as a broad tag to cover all movements of people between and within countries rename immigration to be called immigration-records and apply it to records relating to …

Would having some industry tags on G&FH SE be useful? …

I think the use of some industry tags can be useful to complement the occupation tag which I find to be too broad. … At times I think it might be useful to use tags for the actual occupation, like miner, mining agent, toller, etc but as you can see from this first example such tags quickly get very granular and less …

This then leaves me with the dilemma of whether to have tags for both the country and the state/county/province. At the moment I think most questions with geographic tags are tagged this way. … I am beginning to think that when a country warrants state/county/province tags, then we should stop also including a country tag. …

I think that we should leave the tag ancestry.com as it is. That way confusion with general ancestry is avoided. I actually subscribe to ancestry.com.au and have no trouble calling the tag ancestr …

I think that the website tag should be removed from any question that is already tagged with the name of a website. For example, ancestry.com, familysearch.org, findmypast, etc. I would not expect t …

I think that the subscription tag should be removed from most questions that are already tagged with the name of a service that requires a subscription. For example, ancestry.com, findmypast, etc. I …

world-war-1, world-war-2, us-civil-war 'Century' tags e.g. 18th-century, 19th-century 'Decade' tags e.g. 1840s, 1790s but where I diverge is on the use of Century and Decade tags. … I started on this site thinking that century tags were more important than decade tags, and that decade tags should not be used. …

Rather than being too purist in our approach to tagging questions for the time period of relevance to them, I suggest a pragmatic guideline of using time period tags in this order of priority: Named … Users will not need to know that decade tags prior to the 19th century should not be used if each decade tag in the 18th century and earlier is made a synonym of its century tag. …

From that my preference when tagging geographically is in this order: City tags only in exceptional circumstances e.g. new-york-city - see this answer to Applying geographic tags to questions? … At the moment we have many questions with both a Country and State/Province/County tags and I think a loose guideline should be to phase Country out in favour of State/Province/County tags, particularly …

I think part of one of your proposals could be simplified: We keep product-support alongside a recommendations (replacing software-recommendations) and apply product-support to every question …

However, I just found Cleaning up the DNA tags is an earlier Meta G&FH SE Q&A that is relevant to this discussion, and it did mention the tagging protocol that you propose. …

In the Genealogy Conference Room @vervet pointed out that: As a side note, I noticed the other day when editing a question that there are tags for immigration, emigration, and migration. …