[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 dd32):

 Those sound reasonable to me as a first set to remove.

 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)
 > - Have fewer than 5 uses
 Looking at the current list of tags, here's the counts:
 {{{
 Topics. Tags w/ that many topics.
 0        36,724
 1       492,877
 2        53,658
 3        19,359
 4        10,231
 5         6,288
 6         4,271
 7         3,233
 8         2,484
 9         1,945
 >10      22,257
 }}}

 Combining removing tags with less than 5 uses, and those whose slugs are
 just numeric, we'd be removing 613k tags leaving 40k tags behind.

 > - 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)
 There's quite a few which match that too, but I suspect that list is going
 to be harder to come up with, although, looking at the most used tags,
 there's a number of obvious ones.
 Eg, top 20 topic-tags in use:
 {{{
 name            count
 woocommerce     43,541
 plugin          38,768
 wordpress       37,200
 error           36,563
 css             29,316
 theme           25,310
 menu            21,195
 php             18,578
 image           18,525
 header          18,308
 images          18,149
 post            16,522
 posts           16,094
 categories      15,393
 sidebar         15,298
 widget          14,654
 category        14,577
 Comments        13,920
 login           13,784
 multisite       13,680
 }}}

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