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Proposed clean-up of bad tags

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:
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- [accuracy](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/4614)
- [component-characterization](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7691)
- [computer](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/8621)
- [computer-arithmetic](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/3055)
- [control](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/4711)
- [count](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/4463)
- [equipment](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/8961)
- [errors](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/2969)
- [integrator](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7290)
- [limitation](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/8382)
- [module](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/2901)
- [network](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/6178)
- [noise](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/4412) - 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](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7654) - 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](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/2970)
- [packaging](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7496) - 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](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/2955) - About as meaningful as having an "electronics" tag.
- [protocol](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/6177)
- [quality](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/2903)
- [reliability](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/2902)
- [switching](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/4024) - 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:
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(Kindly practice **DNI TLA** - Do Not Invent: Three-letter Abbreviations)

- [1-wire](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/8250) - Name the programming interface or MCU instead. Different 1-wire interfaces have little in common.
- [AC-circuit](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/6392) - Use `alternating-current` instead.
- [analog-computer](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7699) - Limited use, go with something like `Analog` instead.
- [cd4047](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7302) - I don't think we need a tag for every standard IC.
- [DC-generator](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7293) - Use `current-source` instead.
- [DMM](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7649) - Use `multimeter` instead.
- [ICMR](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/8307) - Use `opamp`, `Analog` or similar tag.
- [OCMR](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/8309) - Use `opamp`, `Analog` or similar tag.
- [OTA](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/5650) - Use `opamp` instead.
- [signal-and-systems](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7268) - Not a common term AFAIK, covered by the more well-known term `signal-processing`.
- [stray-current-corrosion](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7155) - The `corrosion` tag should be enough.
- [UART-USART](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7732) - Just use `UART` instead.
- [UVLO](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/6826) - 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:
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- [HiFi](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/8085) -  Use the `audio` tag instead.
- [pH](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/6935) - Chemistry term.
- [remote-control](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7736)

To be renamed/synonymous:
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- [awgn](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/78439) - Shouldn't we rather have a broader category `gaussian-noise`? Or just use `signal-processing`.
- [cmc](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/8372) - Should be made synonymous with [common-mode-choke](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/5864).
- [li-ion-cell](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/5279) - 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](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/7726) - Any reason why this isn't named `Ohms-law`? I realize that `'` might not be supported inside tags.