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3:54 AM
The tag only had tag-excerpt (created by quid). I have added tag-wiki and included link to some places where the purpose of the tag is explained in detail.
If somebody is willing to have a look and has some possible improvements, I'd be grateful.
 
 
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8:04 AM
Current status of deprecated tags - you can compare this with numbers from November 5 and August 11.
There are 904 questions with deprecated tags. There were 1000 such questions on August 25.
This means that the number decreased by approximately 100 questions in 8 months.
Here is breakdown by separate tags:
has 328 questions. 192 after removing most frequent related top-level tags, 113 not having any top-level tag at all.
has 175 questions, 85 without co.combinatorics. There are 46 questions in this tag which do not have any top-level tag.
has 402 questions. 249 after removing the questions with geometry-related top-level tags. There are 150 question in this tag which do not have any top-level tag.
 
 
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9:57 AM
Decrease by 100 question in 8 months suggests that these tags are not going to be removed quickly. Although there are users who are more optimistic about this.
Feb 1 '14 at 22:16, by François G. Dorais
I agree with @quid. The MO turnover rate is much slower than MSE. For 165 edits, it would take up to two months to do without causing ruckus.
If the above comment can be interpreted as saying that retagging about 80 questions per month is realistic, then the tags could be gone in a year.
If you look at the numbers from the past, seems to be getting removed faster.
This is partly thanks to François G. Dorais who retagged quite a lot of questions in August and September.
Another reason might be that some old questions are bumped in order to update image links that are no longer working. And if a question is bumped for some reason, often also tagging is corrected.
It is natural that questions about geometry are more likely to contain pictures than the questions about abstract algebra and discrete mathematics.
But even if the deprecated tags are not removed too quickly, at least we could try prevent these tags from growing.
It seems that several users do quite a good job in removing those tags from new questions.
If you look at questions with deprecated tags: Only foud such questions posted in 2018 exists and three of them are on hold.
And even if you look at questions that were recently active: There are only 6 questions with some of these tags bumped in 2018, 4 of them are closed/on hold.
But I think this is mainly thanks to the users who edit those tag away. I suppose many users post questions without checking the tag-info - which means they do not notice that the tag is deprecated.
You can check for yourself how many question with those tags were posted in 2018: abstract-algebra, discrete-mathematics, geometry.
Blacklisting those tags seems like a reasonable solution to me - that would at least prevent them from being added to new questions.
 
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Q: The existing deprecated tags should be blacklisted

Martin SleziakTL:DR; I suggest to remove deprecated tags that still exist on some questions, in order to prevent them from being added to new questions. There are a few tags which are deprecated and should not be used at all, but still exist on the site.1 Ideally such tags should be completely removed, but th...

 
 
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11:42 AM
I have added to Relations of axioms of choice. I'd say that should be a good tag for that questions too. But maybe the OP had a reason to omit that tag which I do not see.
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Q: Relations of axioms of choice

user44191We start with $ZF$. The axiom of countable choice, $AC_\omega$, says that any set product of nonempty sets with a countable index set is nonempty. For any $ZF$-definable set $A$, we should be able to define $AC_A$ in an analogous manner: any product of nonempty sets with index set $A$ is nonemp...

 
 
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12:49 PM
Speaking about deprecated tags, sleepless in beantown has taxonomist badge for discrete-mathematics and vonjd has taxonomist badge for abstract-algebra. No taxonomist badge for geometry.
 
 
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2:50 PM
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Q: Summing an infinite series

Shivin SrivastavaIs there a closed form sum of $\sum_{k=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^k}{(k!)^2}$ It is trivial to show that it is less than $e^x$ but is there a tighter bound? Thanks

In mathematics, an exponential sum may be a finite Fourier series (i.e. a trigonometric polynomial), or other finite sum formed using the exponential function, usually expressed by means of the function e ( x ) = exp ⁡ ( 2 π i x ) . {\displaystyle e(x)=\exp(2\pi ix).\,} Therefore, a typical exponential sum may take the form ∑ n e ( ...
 

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