On this question (Can Players Teach Each Other The Magic Initiate Feat Or Other Feats?) the tag magic-initiate has been created, referring to the Magic Initiate feat from D&D 5e.
Does this tag seem too specific to deserve existing? Could we potentially end up having a tag per feat, or even a tag per equivalent-of-a-feat for every system? Or am I being a bit too dramatic here?
If it's too specific, it will be eliminated after a period if it's the only instance of the tag.
Don't fret too much over tags. It's an emergent folksonomy, deliberately. There are many tags not used much. We only should be bothering to take action on tags if they are actually causing an issue. "It's not used much" or "it's too specific" is not a real issue.
The help page about tagging says this:
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Tags can also be used to help you identify questions that are interesting or relevant to you.
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The magic-initiate tag is too narrow. In particular, the Magic Initiate feat is not even the focus of that question (it's just one example of a feat), so it seems far too specific to be necessary in that case.
I suppose the Magic Initiate feat might be something one could be an expert on, but that particular question is not a good argument in favor of keeping it. The larger issue is that, as you point out, it'd be a system-specific tag for a specific feat; using the same logic, we could create individual tags for every feat/feature in every system that has more than a few questions about it, and that's clearly not the ideal goal.
"Too Specific" isn't an actual problem with tags. Extremely specific tags are totally fine, provided we have the question activity that leads to their generation.
That tag has nothing to do with that question, so it's been removed. Unless it's used on several questions before the next clean up phase, it will be deleted automatically.
