[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #5344: Delete stale, orphaned topic tags

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#5344: Delete stale, orphaned topic tags
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 Reporter:  jonoaldersonwp  |       Owner:  dd32
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  low             |   Milestone:
Component:  Support Forums  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  seo             |
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Comment (by dd32):

 Replying to [comment:18 Clorith]:
 > I'm thinking something initially manageable like removing tags that:
 > - Have a numeric only slug (these are purely HTML entity tags from a
 quick check, and even if the tag was fully numeric any way, numbers alone
 give no context and as such hold no value)
 Done. All of the affected 150 terms were either numeral, or only contained
 non-[a-z0-9] characters like `#:)`

 > - Have fewer than 5 uses
 Done.

 > - Are literally the term `WordPress`, or `wp`
 Done.
 I removed `wordpress`, `wp`, `plugin`, `theme`, and `error`. These were
 just the generic tags on the first page of edit-tags.php that I didn't see
 offering any value.

 Happy to remove any other similarly generic ones if provided a list,
 WordPress cannot delete these terms directly itself, as it's not optimized
 for such operations on large tags (It fetch/diffs/sets the tags for each
 topic, rather than just deleting the tag for the topic which is much
 faster)

 Note: I took a snapshot of the terms prior to running this, I can revert
 any individual change or triple check what the data was before this if
 required for anything.

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Ticket URL: <https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5344#comment:23>
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