I wonder if a tag [hungarian-combinatorics] would be suitable, in general, or in place of some of the old [erdos] tags

@DavidRoberts That doesn't pass the litmus test, I think, but I do have some affection for Hungarian combinatorics... I would say nay, out of principle.

By limus test, I mean: Can I think of more than three contexts where one would search for this tag? Can I think of more than three people who might subscribe to notifications for this tag?

A tag that doesn't pass this test is not necessarily bad, it just needs more scrutiny.

Hi, since we're talking about tags, David Roberts mentioned thesis recently.

@DavidRoberts So I guess that by "slowly deprecate" you mean the we should remove the tag thesis from those questions manually. (But in such a way that we do not bump too many old questions to the frontpage.)

Or would it be better to make a post on meta about thesis before starting the manual removal? (I suppose an answer here would be a suitable place for that: Help improve tagging!)

I will check the time in our timezones: Adelailde, Burlington, VT, Bratislava.

I'm in favor of eliminating thesis and I'm happy to do my part if we can make an action list here so we can keep track. (And I can do my share with my morning coffee without thinking too much...)

Ok, let's see what David Roberts says about (thesis) - after all, the suggestion came from him.

It goes without saying that if manual removal of erdos or thesis gets a green light, I'll try to help too. (Naturally, not retagging too many questions at the time.)

For the record, we have all questions currently having the tag erdos or thesis saved here in chat.

The tag erdos has empty tag-info. The tag thesis has a rather short tag-excerpt and tag-wiki.

"A thesis is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings" and "A thesis (or dissertation) may be arranged as a thesis by publication or a monograph, with or without appended papers respectively."

I agree about the tag removal for [thesis]

It so broad as to be useless, except for questions that might well be better placed at academia.se

Thanks for the response! I'll keep in mind that thesis is supposed to be removed - and I'll try start retagging. (I will do at most one question per day - naturally, if others want to do more, I won't object.)

In case somebody would want to check them later, the posts where this tag was manually removed can be found through SEDE, as mentioned here.

@MartinSleziak it's a late reply, but yes, because the Markdown renderer would interfere with the MathJax

The Amplitwist mentioned this about the issue:

So I suppose it is reasonable to edit such posts when a post with "old" formatting is bumped to the frontpage for some other reason.

Absolutely

As far as I can tell, it was necessary back then - but not the additional backslash breaks the formatting.

Here is a list of posts with * ordered by "most recently bumped".

Searching for "\\" wouldn't be useful - it appears often in matrices and arrays. (Not only in the "old" posts.)

Naturally "`" was just a typo - I meant double backslash "\\".

specific-question Heuristic argument for the prime number theorem? - bumped not too long ago (by a new answer and an edit of the question). I have added nt.number-theory as a top-level tag. And also prime-number-theorem and heuristics.

Just mentioning it here in case somebody has suggestions for a better choice of tags.

@Fran

@François thanks for your view. I agree it was a weak suggestion, and was not greatly thought through