The [resources] tag has been burninated

Question

This tag has been burninated. Please do not recreate it. If you need advice on which tag to use, see the answer below. If you see this tag reappearing, it may need to be blacklisted.

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The resources tag currently has this tag wiki excerpt:

Materials used to aid in the process of language learning, whether they be in print, online, or in person.

This seems fine until you realize that we have a physical-resources tag and an electronic-resources tag, which completely cover the scope of the resources tag.

The physical-resources tag's wiki excerpt is:

Physical resources such as dictionaries, text books, audio recordings, flash cards, etc, as opposed to online or electronic resources.

The electronic-resources tag's wiki excerpt is:

Language learning materials that are primarily hosted online or in an sort of electronic medium; examples include audiobooks, movies, and songs.

Can we delete the resources tag?

Answer 1

resources is too broad especially given two tags that are much more narrow in scope that also deal with resources all together.

With physical-resources and electronic-resources in play, this tag is now obsolete. If one has a narrow question, the OP should be able to narrow down to one of those tags. So, let's use our resources (sorry for the pun) to burninate resources. If necessary, the OP could use both.

These are two examples questions that could be tagged with electronic-resources but are currently tagged with resources:

• Through which language can you learn the most other languages online?

• Are there any free online resources for learning Tamazight?

Answer 2

There are cases when learners will be looking for any resources, regardless whether they are physical or electronic. If we keep the tag resources, this single tag will then be sufficient, instead of tagging the question with both physical-resources and electronic-resources. So this would be an argument to keep the tag resources.

Answer 3

All questions with the resources tag have been retagged to use physical-resources, electronic-resources or both. In addition, the tag wiki excerpts now reads as follows:

DO NOT USE THIS TAG. Instead, use [physical-resources], [electronic-resources] or, if necessary, both.

(Old description: Materials used to aid in the process of language learning, whether they be in print, online, or in person.)

There a several options to progress with it:

• [burninating the tag)(What does it mean to "burninate" a tag?): strictly speaking, since the tag is not used by any questions, we should not need to do anything (accept retagging questions now and then).
• blacklisting the tag: this makes sure that the tag can never be re-created again. This requires that we put a tag-blacklist-request question on our meta site, since only Stack Exchange employees can blacklist a tag.

Note: Why do we burninate instead of blacklisting? points out that

blacklisting was not designed as an integral part of the tag system. It's an add-on, intended for rare problems that cannot be handled any other way.

For this reason, I would suggest that we don't create a blacklist request, unless we get serious problems in the future.