I propose that we get rid of a lot of bad tags that should never have been created. I went through them all and this is what I think we should get rid of or rename.

I'll leave this meta post here for a week or so for feedback, before I go ahead and edit out tags that nobody got any objections about removing.

(Or if a moderator can help out with that without "mass bumping" all posts, that would be nice. I don't think I can rename or make tag synonyms either.)

Too broad/non-specific/ambiguous:

• accuracy
• component-characterization
• computer
• computer-arithmetic
• control
• count
• equipment
• errors
• integrator
• limitation
• module
• network
• noise - Ambiguous since it could mean EMI, or signal processing noise, or audible noise. Should probably be removed and split into the existing tags EMI, signal-processing and audio.
• ORing - Confusing if this is about the slang "OR:ing" as in Boolean algebra or O-ring as in a type of seal. Neither makes a good tag, use specific tags like "OR-gate" (digital electronics), "logical-or" (programming) or "bitwise-or" (programming).
• output
• packaging - Could either refer to component packages (SOT23, TO220 etc) or packing material that components use (tape & reel, tray etc). Could perhaps be renamed package to be less ambiguous.
• programming - About as meaningful as having an "electronics" tag.
• protocol
• quality
• reliability
• switching - Could refer to switch regulators, or power switching on/off, or electrical switching (transistors, analog switches, relays, optocouplers etc), or electro-mechanical switches, or switching things in programming/general.

Too specific/limited use:

(Kindly practice DNI TLA - Do Not Invent: Three-letter Abbreviations)

• 1-wire - Name the programming interface or MCU instead. Different 1-wire interfaces have little in common.
• AC-circuit - Use alternating-current instead.
• analog-computer - Limited use, go with something like Analog instead.
• cd4047 - I don't think we need a tag for every standard IC.
• DC-generator - Use current-source instead.
• DMM - Use multimeter instead.
• ICMR - Use opamp, Analog or similar tag.
• OCMR - Use opamp, Analog or similar tag.
• OTA - Use opamp instead.
• signal-and-systems - Not a common term AFAIK, covered by the more well-known term signal-processing.
• stray-current-corrosion - The corrosion tag should be enough.
• UART-USART - Just use UART instead.
• UVLO - Supposedly means undervoltage lockout. Personally never came across the term (even though I've been involved in battery charger design). More common terms are brown-out protection, low-voltage detection.

Off-topic/application level/use of electronic products:

• HiFi - Use the audio tag instead.
• pH - Chemistry term.
• remote-control

To be renamed/synonymous:

• awgn - Shouldn't we rather have a broader category gaussian-noise? Or just use signal-processing.
• cmc - Should be made synonymous with common-mode-choke.
• li-ion-cell - Tags per battery chemistry makes perfect sense, so this should just be renamed to li-ion. (And it would be fine IMO to create other similar tags as needed, like lead-acid, NiMH, Li-Po, Li-Fe4, NiCd etc.)
• Ohm-law - Any reason why this isn't named Ohms-law? I realize that ' might not be supported inside tags.

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