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What we need:

• A pre-burnination process
• get mass tag actual tag destructions out of the way sooner rather than later that'd clear up 3+ year old meta stuff
• burnination list on meta
• SEDE Classification query
• Current Burnination process
• Shog9's MSE guidance on tag management
• Shog9's points from chat at the initial discussion:

1. Get rid of burninate requests that are stupid. This means EVERY SINGLE REQUEST that builds on that damn "no one is an expert at this" rationale. Tags are bad because they're ambiguous or somehow harm the site, not because some random jackass never stepped outside of their web-dev cave.
2. Identify tags that primarily need disambiguation: tag would be good but means two completely different things (NOT two mostly-the-same things in two different contexts). These can be automated to a high degree, but folks get lost talking about burnination when they need to be figuring out a disambiguation strategy.
3. Cleanup. Deleting hundreds of closed, downvoted questions isn't hard - or particularly essential to the process. Finding hundreds of off-topic questions in an obscure tag no one has ever tried to dig through is. Migrating or closing is. Editing really is.

Things that aren't all that helpful:

1. Tons of tag editing while the topic is still being discussed. I can make a tag as though it never existed; any of you could script a tag removal for a few hundred tags. Stuff is hard 'cause it needs judgement, not warm bodies mindlessly clicking.
2. Hand-wringing about a tag with 5 questions in it. Probably still a stupid request, but either do it or don't. Stuff I can and would be willing to help with:
3. Mass tag removal
4. Mass tag disambiguation
5. Mass question deletion
   Stuff I don't have time for but wish I did: declining more stupid burninate requests.