<p>I am wondering if we need the <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/basic-concepts" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;basic-concepts&#39;" rel="tag">basic-concepts</a> tag (221 threads). It looks like an archetypal <em>meta tag</em> to me, and the SE policy is to not tolerate meta tags. We do have some particular exceptions to this rule on CV (such as [self-study]), but [basic-concepts] does not seem to be useful at all: it seems to be used randomly with many hundreds of "basic" questions not having this tag.</p>

<p><strong>Therefore my suggestion is to eliminate it.</strong></p>

<p>The problem is that it has a lot of threads. We <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1846/what-could-be-done-with-respect-to-tag-big-list">have recently manually removed</a> another meta tag <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;big-list&#39;" rel="tag">big-list</a>, but this involved editing below 40 questions. <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2804">There was a recent question</a> about <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/best-practices" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;best-practices&#39;" rel="tag">best-practices</a> with what seems to be a consensus to get rid of this tag; but it has over 60 threads and manual removal will be tedious and annoying (because of bumping to the front page). With <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/basic-concepts" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;basic-concepts&#39;" rel="tag">basic-concepts</a> we are talking about 200+ threads.</p>

<p>If we agree that <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/basic-concepts" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;basic-concepts&#39;" rel="tag">basic-concepts</a> is useless and should better be removed, can we actually ask SE developers to burninate this tag? SE developers can perform automatic no-bump removal of a tag from all threads; this is called "burninating" a tag. See <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/239190">When to burninate</a> on Meta.SE:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>You probably shouldn't bother [to remove a tag manually] if there are more than a few dozen questions. [...] For tags that involve large numbers of questions, just flag the burninate-request and leave a note for the mods that the cleanup is done. They'll pass this along to someone like me [SE admin], I'll verify that you didn't lie about the sanity-checking and cleanup, click a button, and it'll be like the tag never existed...</p>
</blockquote>

<p><strong>Update.</strong></p>

<p>I have re-tagged all the threads that had [basic-concepts] as the <em>only</em> tag. This tag is now ready to be burninated. <strong>I am putting [burninate-request] tag on this meta thread.</strong></p>
