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I found this post which has a wrong tag. It's basically because the author didn't know what the fastboot tag stands for and have chosen it. However I didn't find any tags which are good for this question. As far as I know the author can't choose no tag, it's forbidden. So what should be done if you don't find any tag where your question fit into. I mean, you can't just choose a wrong tag with the thought "there is no better tag, but I can't change that".

I don't know if I'm at the right place here, probably some would say, I should post this in meta android but I think it's a general SE question what to do if no tag is good for your question.

Thank you in advance, moderators!

P.S.: Same thing here, I can't post a question with just the tag tag. I have to choose under these "bug feature-request discussion support". It's not bad that you don't want to have every content in the Meta SE, but I think you didn't do it right. currently this would make many content get labeled as discussion just to get it posted.

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    I've re-tagged it boot and performance, that should match the issue. Thanks for bringing it up!
    – Izzy
    Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 8:15
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    For a quick reading why some tags are required in Meta, please read What's Meta?
    – Andrew T. Mod
    Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 8:32

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When,

  • you don't understand which tag is best for the question and all the current tags on the question are not suitable,
  • when some current tags on the question are not suitable and you can't find a better one

but you still think a better tag is needed, then,

  • with careful consideration (analyze the question thoughtfully) create a new tag or more -- requires minimum of 300 reputation points
  • the better choice: ask the veterans. Veterans may not necessarily be those only who've been with the site for a long time but can also be those who are one or more year old here but are very good and active in editing questions.

I myself tend to be in situations when I do not understand what tag is best and I do not find it good to create new tag(s) unless I'm sure there exists no other suitable tag. So I simply post the question on the site's chatroom with a brief note of the requirement and let the others take care of it.

If the user activity is low on chatroom then you can consider posting a comment on the question like:

For users: The current tags on the question doesn't properly give the hint about the question, neither the question is actually about them. But I can't think of any better tag as of now, so may be one of you can consider an edit with a better tag. Thanks!

That has been my strategy. You can find your own or may be somebody else would propose a better one.

As for the meta tags, I'm not placed at best position to comment, but I respectfully disagree with your view about them. Meta isn't a place to post anything, but it's all about the working of the main site, be it technical or user-centric issue.

If you look at your question again, you're are asking for best practices on what to be done when tags are not suitable and more....

tag exactly fits the question. See its excerpt. It's meant to seek community consensus on an issue.

If you're not seeking consensus then either you've a problem in using the site which goes into , or there is an erroneous behavior you noticed which obviously fits , or you want a new feature, so goes here.

Also, if you think that the current mandatory tags doesn't cover everything or most of the issues, then it's better to propose a proper and detailed use-case and then argue with why the current mandatory meta tags doesn't fit the use-case yet the use-case as a question is useful. This would give us a better picture of what's going on in your mind since I (as a normal user), as noted, doesn't find an issue with the mandatory tags. So, how would you convince the users like me?

But reserve the use-case for another question.

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  • Thank you! I also thought about creating a new tag (or in my case, ask for the creation), but I think it's not necessary to create a tag for one specific question. and yes, I am asking for best practices, so I don't understand why mods did move that.
    – Schwertspize
    Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 9:08
  • If the condition demands then you've to create a tag at some point, though this point shouldn't be the priority. As for why this question was migrated back, I can't tell for sure, neither would I attempt to. :) Perhaps Mods here or other users can guess.
    – Firelord Mod
    Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 9:13

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