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Alphabetizing the Tags menu has given prominence to two filters that appear to be tests or some other non-functional species of tag. The following tags are the lead filters on the Tags menu, yet according to Special:tags, they have been applied to 0 changes.
Is there a reason we can't just drop these from the menu? If we can't--if they are useful somehow to someone--can we give them names that will not put them at the top of the menu?
There are 3 active tags containing 2017 (code name first, then human-readable name):
I see two separate 2017 source edit, but weirdly not 2017 (filed as T175066).
visualeditor-wikitext has many changes (110,264) and is potentially useful (to find bugs in the 2017 wikitext editor).
I'm not sure about the dupes, @Deskana or @Jdforrester-WMF might know.
I don't think we want to special case these, but we could either rename the description and/or hide all tags with 0 tagged edits (in principle useful, just need to make sure we can do it performantly, and without lag (don't want to hide valid tags just (re)used for the first time).
I've been wondering what these tags were for a while. Looking at Special:Tags, neither of them have any edits associated with them. Coincidentally, they're also the only tags that have no edits associated with them. As far as I'm concerned, they're meaningless, and can safely be deleted. I can't delete them with my staff account, though.
I don't know if it's possible to delete the 2017 and 2017 source edit tags except via the DB? Looks like someone created them for an AbuseFilter or whatever and never used them? And yes, visualeditor-wikitext certainly shouldn't be touched. :-)
They are deletable, but not by staff accounts; only accounts with administrator rights can do it.
I guess this is deletechangetags. Maybe we should add it to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/sysadmin . Then @Catrope can do it.
Or we can find someone whose work account is enwiki admin.
@Mattflaschen-WMF, the one that I called just "2017" is listed that way on Special:tags. But looking on RC page I see you're right. There are just two called "2017 source edit". So I guess these are dupes?
I did a search using highlights to see if either of the "2017 Source edit" tags got any hits. See screenshot. The answer is yes and no. The first one (with no description on the menu) did not. But the second one (with the tag description in the menu) did.
The edits it returned were all on the same talk page:
