Why does the 'AI,' tag have a comma, and how can I remove it?
There was a post about AI recently and I noticed that the tag for AI had a comma, so that the tag is "AI,"
Is there a reason or meaning for this, or is it just a typo? When I went to the tag page, I couldn't find a way to edit it (I don't have enough reputation, I suppose). For the future, should there be a way for users to suggest tag edits just like post edits? Does this already exist and I just didn't find it?
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I've merged the erroneous AI, into the already-existing artificial-intelligence-ai.
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No meaning, and a moderator can remove it
Although the trailing comma looks as if it might have some significance, it turns out to be meaningless, so I have flagged this question for moderator attention, asking for the tag name to be edited.
There are plans to improve the editing of both tags and their descriptions:
In the meantime changes to tags can either be by Meta discussion (as you have done here) or by flagging a post for moderator attention (for cases where there is no discussion to be had, such as a simple typo).
How the comma got there
The tag was created by a spam user account, as part of posting a question that would later be edited to contain a spam link. The new tag was created with a trailing comma that it seems reasonable to assume was accidental.
While Codidact tags support punctuation, there are no conventions for what it should mean. Punctuation in a tag is simply punctuation. In the majority of tags on the majority of communities, there is no reason to use punctuation beyond hyphens to separate words.
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