#The canonical tag is a bad idea. 

Using tagging for this - particularly mod-only tags - feels like bureaucracy for its own sake. The fact that you even have to *suggest* making this usable only by moderators speaks to the obvious potential for misuse and abuse inherent in the very concept. **I strongly encourage you to eradicate this abomination as quickly as possible.** I've removed it from all existing questions outside of meta; if it returns, I'll happily blacklist it.

A sufficiently good "canonical" question should naturally migrate to the top of the [Votes][1] and [FAQ][2] lists in its respective tags. When repeatedly used as a target for duplicate questions, it'll start showing up in the list on the "Close as Duplicate" dialog. If you need a separate list of these, a post linking to them (which you already have) should suffice. 

**And all of this is either directly accessible to everyone, or automatic *based on* stuff that's accessible to everyone.**

Forcing mods to mediate every single "canon or not canon" discussion just adds resistance to a process that already has plenty of that simply by its nature. They should be able to weigh in like anyone else, putting on that diamond hat only when a dispute *requires* mediation. 


  [1]: http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/security?sort=votes
  [2]: http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/security?sort=faq