I'm happy to have you clean up tags into a consistent and sustainable state. I checked, and you already have the Edit Tag capability. As far as I can see, there is no special moderator mechanism for editing tags. I don't think it's possible to avoid bumping a post if you change which tags the post is tagged with.

Olin Lathrop‭ Okay if you say so :) Anyway I'll let this post sit here for a week or two before I do anything, in case someone got feedback.

With Edit Tags you can merge or delete tags from the tag page, which won't bump anything. (As opposed to editing the individual posts, which would be tedious and bumpy.) It's good to check that a deletion won't leave any posts untagged.

Monica Cellio‭ I can't find a way to rename or delete tags so I guess "edit tags" isn't a sufficient privilege. I can create synonyms and set parent tags though.

Monica Cellio‭ What privilege does he need to merge or delete tags?

I thought Edit Tags did that, but apparently I was mistaken. It ought to; I'll investigate.

Monica Cellio‭ I don't mean to be a pest, but has anyone found how we can give Lundin the permission to fully manage tags, including deleting and renaming? If it takes moderator privilege, I'm OK with making him a moderator.

Not that I actually want moderator privileges... But it feels like tag editing should be possibly by trusted users. We had another user here who did a great job cleaning up and renaming tags who should have similarly gotten trusted with tag deletion and synonyms. So I feel that tag clean-up might be (should be) a recurring event and if we can get at least some 2-3 users who can do that, it will go quicker. Plus they can (at least with the current modest site traffic) review all new tags invented with new questions.

Lundin‭ I just checked, and that user did have the Edit Tags privilege. However, he needed a mod to delete tags for him, so this issue has been around for a while. I think we should add those capabilities to Edit Tags. If the Codidact team is not comfortable with that, then there should be a new priviledge called Curate Tags that allows anything that can be done with tags.

Sorry for the delay (was away). It turns out that renaming and merging tags does require moderator privileges currently (my memory was wrong). Merging isn't reversible, which is why this was made more restrictive when it was implemented, but we should consider changing this now, especially with the Edit Tags ability not being earnable and only grantable. I've started a discussion with the devs about what changes we'd need to make. In the short term, making Lundin a mod would solve the problem; in the longer term, I hope we can do better here.

Monica Cellio‭ Thanks for looking into this. I just tried to grant Lundin moderator privileges, but it looks like I can't do that. I can grant all other privileges except Moderator. Please consider this a request to make Lundin a moderator on Electrical Engineering.

Olin Lathrop‭ sounds like a good plan to me, but for the sake of transparency with the EE community, could you make a meta post? Doesn't have to be long and involved, just propose adding Lundin as a mod for this purpose, so that other community members have a chance to weigh in. Thanks!

Monica Cellio‭ OK, did that.