I have deleted identification-request tag and added missing tags as mineralogy, petrology or sedimentology from questions that are related with field or theorical geology (example). Also questions about clouds and meteorology instrumentation to facilitate the deletion task.
Then if a "ban" is applied to every question that has the tag those questions will be saved (I still don't understand how is gonna this be solved).
For all questions related with fossils I started to do it, but I was told not to do it from other reviewers.
I completed the review.
The result is:
Questions taged with identification-request (392):
- Questions asking to identify his mineral or rock (388, we are closing everyone, will be done in some days).
- A few questions about fossils (4). (Are fossils questions going to be deleted too?)
My sugest is to retag them (and delete the word rock from title) to leave the list clean of questions we don't want to delete, but as you wish:
I have found this fossil tooth, could it be pliosaur ? Or maybe theropod?
What is this strange fossil I found?
What type of fossil is this found at northern Ohio?
I am for accepting fossils questions, but if you wish not too, you can see the rest of questions asking to identify a fossil on fossils tag, that has only 60 question in total. It does not represent a traffic trouble and fossils can be very commonly identified from morphology are my reasons.
I hoppe it is correct with the thougths of the community, facilitating the deletion task (and the process of including the tag in a black list, if it is done).