[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:  (none)
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  low             |   Milestone:
Component:  Support Forums  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  seo             |
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Comment (by Clorith):

 Replying to [comment:14 dd32]:
 > Just noting that I cleaned up [attachment:"5344-limit-topic-
 creation.2.patch"] a little bit, and moved it to Performance
 Optimizations, so that this only affects the english support forums, and
 not all the localised support forums.

 Sounds reasonable for now (I seem to recall rosetta also wanting this at
 some point, but I think it makes sense to revisit that once the full on
 tag-upgrade-process is in place, since the curated tags are only really
 valuable once we've also implemented a way to more sanely choose tags,
 what I like to call phase 3 of this).

 For the next phase, I'm thinking removing all "undesirables" from the tag
 list makes sense as a first step. Doing so will reduce the total dataset
 we have to work with, and make it much easier to determine the overarching
 tag hierarchy needed to group the remaining tags.

 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)
 - Have fewer than 5 uses
 - Are literally the term `WordPress`, or `wp` (since it's fairly redundant
 to tag a topic as being about WordPress, on a WordPress support forum)

 I'll lean a bit on @jonoaldersonwp to sanity check that these sound like
 sensible criteria for a first set of removable tags.

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