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A recently-created tag, should be blacklisted. It's a given that everything on the site will be about a movie or TV show, so having such a uselessly broad tag is not helpful. Usually, tags that match a SE's site name are auto-blacklisted for this reason, it looks like this one slipped through the cracks.

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  • Mmm, I agree with the sentiment - but having looked at the tag management pages, don't know how to do this via the tools. Is this something that can only be done by making a request to the SE staff?
    – iandotkelly Mod
    Feb 18, 2014 at 5:47
  • SE staff have the tools.
    – user209
    Feb 18, 2014 at 5:58
  • In this case movie (which I have already seen, and removed, somewhere) should be, too.
    – Napoleon Wilson Mod
    Feb 18, 2014 at 10:37
  • Given that this tag has been used recently, I wonder what "blacklisting" actually does at all.
    – Napoleon Wilson Mod
    Apr 17, 2014 at 22:54
  • @NapoleonWilson - I tried to do a sample question, it disallowed the movie tag, but seems to allow the tv tag.
    – JohnP
    Apr 18, 2014 at 1:48

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I have added tv and movie to the tags blacklist.

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  • You sure? See Napoleon's comment above.
    – user209
    Apr 17, 2014 at 22:56
  • Yes, it would appear that the tv is not / no longer blacklisted for some reason.
    – iandotkelly Mod
    Apr 18, 2014 at 3:45
  • TV as a tag seems more and more like it could have relevance as opposed to making a fargo-tv tag and a from-dusk-to-dawn-tv tag, etc. As more movie becomes series why make a new tag for each when there's an easier, more efficient way?
    – Meat Trademark
    Apr 18, 2014 at 8:32
  • Could someone please finally explain what's the actual deal with blacklisting and what the final decision for those tags is? Since yet again this answer seems wrong.
    – Napoleon Wilson Mod
    May 17, 2014 at 21:43
  • For the same reason, shouldn't the television tag be blacklisted too?
    – Crow T Robot
    Jun 19, 2014 at 18:18
  • Why is this not blacklisted??? We just had it created... again... movies.stackexchange.com/questions/46891/…
    – Catija
    Jan 28, 2016 at 16:43
  • @Catija - don't know. I've re-added it.
    – Oded
    Jan 28, 2016 at 16:47

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