I've recently come across the tag lightning and I believe it is confusing and unnecessary, and therefore a good candidate for burnination. This tag has 143 questions at present.
Looking at the criteria for burnination:
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
There is usage guidance for it:
Questions about the Lightning extension to Mozilla Thunderbird
However, another tag thunderbird-lightning, with 24 questions, also exists, which is clearly for the same topic:
Lightning brings the Sunbird calendar to the popular email client, Mozilla Thunderbird. Since it's an extension, Lightning is tightly integrated with Thunderbird, allowing it to easily perform email-related calendaring tasks.
The lightning tag is not unambiguous because there are several other lightning related tags, most notably salesforce-lightning with 665 questions.
From a quick sample of the questions, they include
- Some questions that are unclear, such as this, this and this, some of which will Roomba shortly
- At least one about the Lightning connector on the iPhone that needs to be detagged
- At least one about acquia/lightning that should be retagged to acquia
- The majority, however, (at least 37/50 on the first page) are actually about salesforce-lightning, e.g.this, this and this
Is the concept described even on-topic for the site?
Quite a lot of the questions actually seem quite low quality, but the concepts (apart from the Lightning connector) are on topic.
Does the tag add any meaningful information to the post?
No - it's too widely misused. Many of the questions are double-tagged, e.g. lightning and salesforce-lightning, but many are only classified in lightning which is very unclear.
Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?
As above, no. It could mean at least 3 different things, probably more.
My suggestion:
A brief community effort to correctly tag the majority of the questions to salesforce-lightning, thunderbird-lightning, acquia or lightningchart as appropriate, followed by the deletion of lightning. I suspect that most of the questions that can't be clearly moved to the correct tag, could probably be closed as needing details or clarity.
