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The tag is used on nine questions, none of which are about events that are "current." The tag also does not reveal anything about the legal subject matter of the question, which is what tags on this site should be used for.

I recommend we remove it and prevent it from being used in the future. What do you think?

Based on the answers here, I will slowly remove this tag from existing questions — a few per day to not flood the front page.

In a few days when that is complete, unless consensus develops otherwise, I will request that the tags and be blocked from future use, with the message: "this tag is too time-sensitive and would not describe the legal subject matter of your question."

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    I wonder what's the original intent of that tag. If it's to warn the readers that the situation may change drastically, then the temporary post notice "current event" (one of the default post notices) might be more suitable. Commented Jan 27 at 6:06
  • @AndrewT. Thanks for the reminder! I will try to use that more Commented Jan 27 at 8:32
  • I would also suggest we crack down on current-event questions, as they can often be answered only after the event has been resolved. Commented Jan 27 at 13:47
  • It might serve as a useful signal for Q&As to review later, to add additional details or organise or moderate it, once it stops being a current event. But I wouldn't know if anyone uses it as such, and a generic tag probably isn't too well-suited to that purpose (as opposed to e.g. tracking this elsewhere or being more liberal with creating new tags for events, at least if such events get more than 1 or 2 questions). Commented Jan 28 at 8:47

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Yep, get rid of it.

It doesn’t age well, or at all, and it’s irrelevant to the legal questions.

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Nuke it from orbit and blacklist it

Assume that the year is 1945, but we had the internet and Stack Exchange. Someone might ask: "Is a nuke allowed under the Hague Convention?" and tag it current events. This question would, by far, not be current in 2025.

The same thing applies to any question some time after the event. it's exactly why we got, after a few weeks a dedicated tag. So the tag serves no purpose, I call exterminatus and blacklist.

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  • Has the tag been an issue before, or is this the first time it's come up? If this is the first time, the CM subteam handling this request (which is not the one I'm on now) will likely decline to blocklist it, since they only typically block tags if it's a recurring problem. Otherwise, simply burninating it (removing it from all questions it's on) is sufficient in most cases. Then if it crops back up naturally, it might warrant blocking the tag. Commented 2 days ago
  • @V2Blast it was used for very contentious questions in the past, which might warrant expediency Commented 2 days ago
  • @Trish I believe what V2Blast meant is, if this tag has been created, deleted, and then recreated again, considering there's a minimum reputation requirement (though quite low, 150 rep) to create a new tag. Commented 2 days ago

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