<p>I agree that the <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/modeling" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;modeling&#39;" rel="tag">modeling</a> tag is pretty much useless because it is too unspecific and too vacuous. It is not the only tag like that. For example we have <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fitting" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;fitting&#39;" rel="tag">fitting</a>×600 and <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/model" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;model&#39;" rel="tag">model</a>×900, which are also vacuous and could well be burninated &amp; blacklisted as far as I am concerned. Some have argued that <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/machine-learning" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;machine-learning&#39;" rel="tag">machine-learning</a>×12,000 is an even more extreme example: <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5609">How to improve the description and usage of the [machine-learning] tag?</a></p>

<p>That said, I do not think there is anything we can do about such tags: they are too popular for manual deletion and our community has never ever requested SE admins to burninate an existing tag.</p>

<p>So these tags are here to stay. The only thing we can do is to add something like </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>ALWAYS ADD A MORE SPECIFIC TAG. </p>
</blockquote>

<p>to the tag wiki excerpt.</p>
