A crash course to tag moderation
Tag moderation primarily consists of three components: synonyms, disambiguation, and burnination. The latter two tend to be more visible, with burnination being the only part with a currently established process heavily involving the community.
Tag moderation is often necessary for a number of reasons, including consolidating topics, clarifying tags, and cleaning up off-topic tags. Some times, burninations also give us an opportunity to clean up large amounts of off-topic questions, whether new or old.
How do I participate?
There's several ways to participate, even if you don't have much time to put into it.
Burnination
If you're interested in participating in a burnination, see this document.
Disambiguating
Some tags are ambiguous (usually due to poor naming), causing unrelated questions to be grouped.
If you think a tag needs to be disambiguated, please make a meta post with the tag-disambiguation tag.
Retagging
If you found a set of questions tagged incorrectly or think a tag has to be merged with another, please make a meta post tagged retag-request.
Synonymizing
As for synonyms, there's not always a lot to do here. If you stumble into nearly identical tags, you can post a question on meta with the synonym-request tag.
If you have questions about participating, or have questions when participating, join our chatroom