952807 - Too many tags linked to no articles

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Priyanka Nag [:priynag]]

What did you do?
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1. Searched for a list of all tags.
2. Went through all the tags just to check that the correct tags are being linked to the correct page.


What happened?
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Came across too many irrelevant tags, which were leading to no articles. 
Couldn't find any way of getting rid of those from front-end.

What should have happened?
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There shouldn't be any tags which are not ultimately linked to any articles.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[Priyanka Nag [:priynag]]

Attachment: Screen shot of one such unlinked tag

Comment 2

[Māris Fogels [:mars] (please needinfo)]

Ali, is this something we should clean up before the next MDN sprint?

Comment 3

[ali spivak]

I think this is a cleanup effort we need to do - have a way to delete unused tags

Comment 4

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

As far as I'm aware, there's no way to delete tags. That would make this a dev issue for starters, no?

Comment 5

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

We can delete tags in the admin panel. I regularly remove spam tags.


Note1: pay attention, you can delete tags even if they are still in use.

Note2: that this would be an easy task if we had an indicator in the admin panel that a tag is no more inuse.

Note3: not a high priority, I would prefer to finish our cleaning of templates first.

Comment 6

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Right, the only interface to delete tags is the admin panel. Good idea to have tags carry an indicator if they are in-use or not. That'll be a good first task for this when we pick it up.

Comment 7

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