2014-08-22

We don't like company-only tags, and there's been various crusades in the past to purge them:

Can we get rid of the company tags?

Company tag necromancy: The zombie apocalypse!

What should the [microsoft] tag be used for?

Lotus tag cleanup

Retagging [microsoft] questions

Retagging [google] questions

Retagging [firefox] [mozilla] questions?

Unlike a specific product, a company does not represent an area of expertise. Someone could be an expert in one product, but have no idea about another. microsoft is a prime example of this, with Office, OS, Apps, Phone and other software & hardware to cover, it's likely an expert in one does not necessarily make them an expert in the other.

Is this something that we consider a problem? If so, break out the pitchforks!

In some cases, the questions should be retagged to more specific product tags

In others, the tag should simply be removed outright.

There are more than the few I've listed below, so feel free to add them as you find them.

Tags Found:

adobe
apple
asus
cisco
dell
dlink
google
hp
intel
linksys
netgear
oracle
redhat
samsung
seagate
western-digital

Tags Burned/Merged/Cleaned (so far):

acer
alienware
amazon
amd
asrock
atheros
ati
atlassian
belkin
brother
buffalo
canon
compaq
easeus
epson
fujitsu
fujitsu-siemens
gigabyte
htc
ibm
kodak
lenovo
lexmark
lg
logitech
lotus
matrox
microsoft
mozilla
msi
nvidia
oki
panasonic
razer
sony
toshiba
xerox
zyxel

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