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This edit request "correcting" a correctly-spelled tag to an incorrect spelling on this question made me think it would be better to correct the tag rather than persist in tagging things with the wrong spelling for the sake of consistency. There are only 11 questions with the misspelled tag, so it would not be too onerous to edit/retag them all, but rather than do that, can a tag simply be renamed by someone with sufficient rep? The incorrect tag name is autoclosable; the correct one is autocloseable.

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  • All 11 questions seem to be linked to autocloseable right now, that's the correct tag, isn't it? Commented Jul 11, 2014 at 15:04
  • I think someone uttered an appropriate incantation... Commented Jul 11, 2014 at 15:05
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    It looks like this user went ahead and retagged them a few minutes before you asked this question. Commented Jul 11, 2014 at 15:05
  • Is it preferred to retag like that than alter the tag itself? Commented Jul 11, 2014 at 15:07
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    When it's for such a low amount of questions, yes. I think once you approach 100, it's better to post here like you just did. Commented Jul 11, 2014 at 15:09
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    @Synchro: Only moderator can rename tags, and it's usually best to only bother them with task that are unfeasible to do yourself. So retagging a small amount of questions is best done manually. Commented Jul 11, 2014 at 15:20

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No need to do anything in such cases.

There are zero questions tagged with the misspelled tag - an automated (daily) process cleans unused tags.

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  • You've got it the wrong way around! The misspelled one has 11 uses, the correctly spelled one has none! Commented Jul 11, 2014 at 15:01
  • What? You saying that autoclosable is correct? Commented Jul 11, 2014 at 15:17
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    @Oded see the comments on the question, someone retagged all questions while the OP was writing this question, hence the confusion :) Commented Jul 11, 2014 at 15:27
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    @Stijn - fair enough. All I could see was things looking fine... Commented Jul 11, 2014 at 15:28
  • On a somewhat related note, somebody's created the tag gogland for referring to JetBrain's new IDE for the Go language. However, the correct name is actually goland. I did not see a way to correct it. Commented Dec 18, 2017 at 20:45

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