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@MartinSleziak This should be entirely expected. Tag-badges are more-or-less calculated "on the fly" every day. If you fail to meet the criteria for the tag-badge, you lose it (and these are the only tags that are so easily removed). (See MSE tag-badge faq.) Since the tex is no longer a "master tag", no user can meet the criteria for having a badge in that tag.
This is similar to what happened earlier this year when I pluralised the definite-integral and indefinite-integral tags. Everyone who had them lost the unplauralised versions, and gained the corresponding pluralised.
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You wrote: That said, it should be incumbent on the tag-creator to fill in a tag-excerpt and at least a stub of a tag-wiki mentioning the scope of the tag shortly after its creation. This is exactly I would like to see in help/faq on tag creation. (If we want to create such thing or already have one.) For this particular point it should also be explained there that users should not be afraid to create tag-wiki even if they are below 20k; the tag-wiki will have to go through review, but that should not stop them. — Martin Sleziak 4 hours ago
@Martin: Yes, a "when to create a tag" faq may be very useful. Before embarking on this we may have to examine what sorts of tags are actually useful here. I'm not of the opinion that a tag must have hundreds of questions to be useful. Rather, its applicability (or not) to a given question should be more-or-less obvious. Between the large area-tags and the very specific tags I feel there is a mushy middle which often fails this criterion. — Arthur Fischer ♦ 3 hours ago
Arthur's comment is certainly interesting (it might become a reasonable question on meta). But I am afraid it will be difficult to answer the question What sort of tags are actually useful. My feeling is that it is a kind of I know it when I see it thing; which essentially makes it a judgement call. But maybe such question could bring some useful comments and observations.
I am not entirely sure myself what should be in tag-creation-faq. We already have a comment template and a faq item saying that users should not be overzealous in creating new tags.
Maybe adding such a sentence about creating tag-info when creating new tag to the faq for tags would be sufficient?
What does "approximate level of the question" mean and how does it relate to selecting tags? On reading through this, that lost me. — D.W. May 16 at 15:35
I agree with this comment. When I read this faq item I am not sure what If you can, approximate level of the question. is supposed to mean. We do not have level based tag.
And If it is a question based on something you learned in class, tag it with the name of the class. sounds to me like bad advice. We might get, for example, under real-analysis or calculus questions which clearly belong to elementary-set-theory simply because the question asks about something mentioned in the introductory lessons on some analytic course.
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