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6:28 AM

I recently edited tags on these two questions: sports.stackexchange.com/posts/22927/revisions sports.stackexchange.com/posts/22926/revisions

In case somebody is wondering why I added autograph-identification, despite such questions are considered as off-topic. Main reason is that while the tag exists this makes it easier to check how many deleted questions were of this type. (And thus evaluate in some way how big a problem such questions are.)

I am not opposed to complete removal of the tag if it seems a reasonable solution. There were some discussions about the following course of action: What is the next thing to do with the (autograph-identification) tag? and How can we reduce the number of autograph identification questions asked by new users? and a few other posts.

Q: What is the next thing to do with the (autograph-identification) tag?

Recently it was decided that the autograph-identification questions are no longer on-topic - as a result of the discussion here: Revisiting autograph identification questions (conclusion: off-topic). As far as I can tell, so far the only thing that was done as a consequence of this was adding a ...

Q: How can we reduce the number of autograph identification questions asked by new users?

This community has come to the conclusion that autograph identification questions are off topic. However, it seems like pretty much every time I check this site for new questions a highly disproportionate amount of them are off-topic autograph identification questions made by new users. Obviously...