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I've just spent a few hours re-tagging a few hundred questions on serverfault.

Mostly this was to remove 20XX tags, and as they can be ambiguous (eg SQL 2008 vs Windows 2008, etc.) there's no easy way to automatically re-tag, but it makes sense that people create them.

It would be great if they could be blocked with a specific message, something like "Years are not useful tags, you probably are referring to a software version, if so use the full name as the tag, for example: windows-server-2008, exchange-2007"

This is somewhat a dupe of: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31184/what-can-be-done-about-ambiguous-tagging

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Yes the tag block list is closest. – LapTop006 Apr 11 '10 at 4:22
I think the examples given aren't the best. Tags with versions in them (years here) can be very useful. – Bart De Vos Feb 18 at 0:04
@Bart, I believe the tags in question were the ones containing only the year, such as 2008. – John Gardeniers Feb 18 at 11:07
@JohnGardeniers I see. They need to go :-) – Bart De Vos Feb 18 at 11:25
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If the tags keep coming back we can ask to get them blacklisted.

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