This isn't a widely used tag, getting under 120 questions after 12 years. But the confusion in there is clear. I'm fine with weeding it, and sorting what's in there between maybe patch-cable and software-patch. This kind of mass retagging tends to dominate the front page for a bit when we do it.
That said, I can set a tag-wiki for patch to indicate what kind of patch we're talking about.
After digging through the tag, this is what I found
- 93 questions relating to software or hardware patch management.
- 7 questions relating to patch-panels and related
- 1 question directly about patch-cables.
Given this, I'm fine with doing the following:
- Retagging the 8 other questions into a new patch-panel
- Create a new tag for software-patch and set the tag wiki to indicate what it is for.
- Merge the patch tag into software-patch and create a synonym.