Should the tag [libraries] be allowed?

I just found out that the tag libraries is blacklisted; I suppose it's because this is the name of the site and all questions seem to be relevant to libraries. However, this is not true: the site is about library and information science, which includes questions about archives and museums among other topics not related to libraries. For this reason I'd like to allow libraries next to museums and archives for questions about libraries as general institutions.

Jakob

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Answer by jonsca

Why not just use museums and archives as necessary, since those are probably going to be the exception not the rule? If say, less than 5% of our questions are for other institutions, then retagging the other 95% as libraries sounds like it would be counterproductive.

As a whole, SE would like to avoid the so-called "meta" tags (in the sense of all encompassing, not in the sense of "Meta.Libraries", e.g., something like programming or computing on SO, etc.), as they are largely implied by the sites that house them.

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• Jakob: Ok, thanks for the response. However, I'd favour not voting my question down, but this response up unless someone considers my question as not constructive.
• jonsca: @Jakob Voting works a little bit differently on the meta sites. Since no reputation is at stake, people take it as a means of expressing agreement or disagreement on a proposition. It's definitely not a critique on your question or you, just the subject matter. I personally did not downvote you.
• Jakob: Ok. By the way I thought about the [tag:libraries] tag because this question was tagged [tag:public-libraries] while it applies to any library types. I just retagged it.
• jonsca: @Jakob That's fine. It wasn't appropriate there, but make sure that the question isn't particular to public libraries (e.g., a question about a public library board made up of citizens or something).
• 1. Alan Thomas II: Yes, I think that the type-specific tags should be used when something's specific to a specific type of library or museums or archives or what-have-you and not when the question isn't really; "libraries" is just too general to result in anything other than metadata clutter. (Who's going to browse or follow the general "libraries" tag, realistically speaking?)