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Should we burninate the [spatie] tag?

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I propose the tag should be removed. It has about 90 questions. I believe it does fulfil the 4 criteria for burnination according to What is the process for tag removal (burnination)?

Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?

This tag is very ambiguous. Spatie is a web development company in Belgium which has a large number of open-source projects mainly for the Laravel PHP framework. Using this tag does not make it clear what the question is about as it could be about any one of those libraries, and there is no thematic connection between each of those libraries other than them being written for Laravel.

Is the concept described even on-topic for the site?

The concept is a collection of open-source projects which are not thematically linked. Knowing something about one of these projects does lead to you knowing something about any of the other projects. As asking about a collection of projects at once would be too broad then I believe this tag is also too broad.

Does the tag add any meaningful information to the post?

While the tag does add information, it does not add any meaningful information. There are no commonalities other than Laravel in any of the libraries the questions are tagged under and as such [Laravel] along with a specific library tag are sufficient to fully describe the question.

Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?

It does not mean the same thing in all common contexts as in all contexts it's used to describe a specific library but that specific library is different in almost every question.


In addition: I find this tag to not add any additional information to a question which is not already covered by tagging the question with and by the OP saying what library they are using and/or linking to it.

Now, I must admit, I am not aware of whether this tag was created by the company to keep track of and answer questions about these libraries, and if this is indeed the case then removing it might actually hurt users who would have otherwise gotten answers to their questions, and I'm not sure what the general policy on these types of tags is.


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