user27: A tag has many purposes.

The most popular tag of a question will appear in its title, which helps SEO. 
Tags help navigate the site. 
Tags have pages to describe about them, providing background on the subject. 

A tag is less useful then, if it appears on most of the questions on the site. 
For instance, if I ask about how Sakura is so strong, it would make more sense to have "naruto" as a keyword in the title, and not "characters". 
Searching by the characters would yield no real results. 
Last but not least, there won't be a constructive, helpful tag wiki for characters. 
I want to hear the community's opinion about this. What do you think? Should we keep the characters tag? Should we burn it to ashes? 
Applying the same logic, the character-abilities, variations and opening-songs all should burn. 

user49: I hadn't thought about it like that, but it makes sense.
I read this post where it says:  

Tags are for sorting your question into specific, well-defined categories. Each tag should by itself refer to a specific category. If a tag only makes sense when used in combination with another tag (like '2005' with sql-server, 'visual' with 'studio', or '3.5' with .net), it's a bad tag.  

But in the same logic the character-abilities tag should be treated in the same way, right? 
In the same post, it is also said that:  

Tags are not for indexing your question. This isn't audio or video. Stack Overflow and Google can index your question just fine based on the text of your question itself. 

And  

Tags connect experts with questions they will be able to answer.  

As far as I know, there aren't any 'characters' experts. Perhaps you can be an 'expert' in some specific series' characters, but not in characters in general.
So according to that logic: yeah, it should be burnt to ashes!

27: <p>A tag has many purposes.</p>

<ul>
<li>The most popular tag of a question will appear in its title, which helps SEO. </li>
<li>Tags help navigate the site. </li>
<li>Tags have pages to describe about them, providing background on the subject. </li>
</ul>

<p>A tag is less useful then, if it appears on most of the questions on the site. </p>

<p>For instance, if I ask about how Sakura is so strong, it would make more sense to have "<a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/naruto" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;naruto&#39;" rel="tag">naruto</a>" as a keyword in the title, and not "<a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;characters&#39;" rel="tag">characters</a>". </p>

<p>Searching by the <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;characters&#39;" rel="tag">characters</a> would yield no real results. </p>

<p>Last but not least, there won't be a constructive, helpful tag wiki for <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;characters&#39;" rel="tag">characters</a>. </p>

<p>I want to hear the community's opinion about this. What do you think? Should we keep the <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;characters&#39;" rel="tag">characters</a> tag? Should we burn it to ashes? </p>

<p>Applying the same logic, the <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-abilities" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;character-abilities&#39;" rel="tag">character-abilities</a>, <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/variations" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;variations&#39;" rel="tag">variations</a> and <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/opening-songs" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;opening-songs&#39;" rel="tag">opening-songs</a> all should burn. </p>
 49: <p>I hadn't thought about it like that, but it makes sense.</p>

<p>I read <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/32041/208518">this post</a> where it says:  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Tags are for sorting your question into specific, well-defined categories. Each tag should by itself refer to a specific category. If a tag only makes sense when used in combination with another tag (like '2005' with sql-server, 'visual' with 'studio', or '3.5' with .net), it's a bad tag.  </p>
</blockquote>

<p><strong>But in the same logic the <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-abilities" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;character-abilities&#39;" rel="tag">character-abilities</a> tag should be treated in the same way, right?</strong>  </p>

<p>In the same post, it is also said that:  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Tags are not for indexing your question. This isn't audio or video. Stack Overflow and Google can index your question just fine based on the text of your question itself. </p>
</blockquote>

<p>And  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Tags connect experts with questions they will be able to answer.  </p>
</blockquote>

<p>As far as I know, there aren't any 'characters' experts. Perhaps you can be an 'expert' in some specific series' characters, but not in characters in general.</p>

<p>So according to that logic: <strong>yeah, it should be burnt to ashes!</strong></p>
