Bad-practice, good-practices, best-practices, practice and programming-practices tags

Question

I notice there are five tags:

• bad-practice (10), good-practices (18) and best-practices (536),
• practice (9) and programming-practices (195).

I believe:

1. bad-practice must be removed in all cases and questions merged with one of the other tags,
2. good-practices must either be merged with best-practices, or if there is a subtle difference between those two tags, it must be explained in good-practices tag which currently has no description at all.
3. practice must be removed and questions merged with programming-practices.

Answer 1

Update

This is all done: bad-practice, good-practices, and practice have all been cleared.

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best-practices is a tag that's been nominated for the nuclear option. I've also added programming-practices to the list: I don't see it adding any semantic value to a question.

Because these are just catch-all tags, I'm a little hesitant to merge anything into them, but on the other hand, we're only talking about 37 questions tops.

1. bad-practice isn't adding anything to the questions and can safely be removed. There are only 9 questions, so this can be done manually.
2. I'm comfortable with merging good-practices into best-practices: from what I can tell, they're used interchangeably (I guess it's a regional thing).
3. practice could, in theory, be used in the training sense, but in practice (no pun intended), it's added no semantic content to the questions it's on. These questions should just have the tag manually removed: I'd rather we didn't create a synonym for a tag that can be used in different senses, especially as a synonym for a honeypot tag like programming-practices.

Answer 2

I think that all of them should be removed.

I just don't see what value any of them add to a question (can someone explain their value?). Instead, use tags to describe what you are talking about, not some meta-information. My biggest problem is that what is considered "bad" or "best" practices change over time (do we want localized tags?) and vary depending on project and organization. All answers should be providing good (the best) advice and practices given the situation described in the question.