<h2>Popular packages/modules should have their own tags</h2>
<p>I was the person that added the <code>e1071</code>, so I obviously disagree with the i<a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/441/what-should-be-rules-for-making-and-using-tags/560#560">dea</a> proposed by @onestop.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/4025/mle-for-naive-bayes-in-r">question</a> being discussed currently has two tags: <code>R</code> &amp; <code>e1071</code>. I would argue:</p>
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<li>Just having the R tag by itself isn't particularly useful for any question.</li>
<li>For this particular question, other tags don't really fit well, For example, <code>mle</code> or <code>Bayesian</code> doesn't seem right. In the future the <strong>only</strong> person who will be interested in this question is someone who is using the <code>e1071</code> package. Why not use it as a tag?</li>
<li>We can have up to five tags. Most questions only have 2 or 3 tags.</li>
<li>The R tag is the most popular and is currently used in 15% of posts. It seems like an obvious way to help searching for R is to use package names.</li>
<li>@onstop suggests that only main packages have there own tags, i.e. <code>ggplot2</code>. However,  <code>e1071</code> is used by a number of bioconductor libraries. Therefore, (I would guess) it is probably used by more people than <code>ggplot2</code>. Admittedly, most people don't know it ;)</li>
<li>SO overflow use packages tags for searching. For example, an Rcpp tag exists.</li>
<li>A <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62851/process-for-deleting-poor-quality-tags">tag is deleted</a> after six months if it is an orphan.</li>
<li>Most posts in this site suffer from a shortage of tags, why delete tags?</li>
<li>The R &amp; c++ example seems strange. Again taking SO as an example, no Rcpp post has a c++ tag. It seems like obfuscation to remove the Rcpp tag.</li>
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