Clearly there is a build-up of terms which were added by spammers. The majority of terms in the "keywords" taxonomy, used by documentation ("book page" and soon, "book listing" content types) is garbage, either accidental terms or (mostly) crap from spammers. See this screenshot as an example:

Garbage terms in keywords taxonomy

This is a pretty random sampling... really most of the terms in this taxonomy are worthless or clearly spam. It's definitely not helping the usability of the auto-complete for this vocabulary.

IMHO, only "trusted users" (e.g. those who didn't just create their accounts on d.o.) should be allowed to add any keywords, i.e. let's say "newish" users might add existing keywords to a page, but not add new ones to the taxonomy. Then we should ideally have a way to vote up/down each keyword added to a page to remove the riff-raff.

Anway, I'm not sure I've correctly tagged this issue, but jhodgdon said it belongs here (somewhere).

Cheers!

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I'd prefer to handle this with #969990: Make orphan terms easily deletable rather than requiring approval processes and adding new functionality. The garbage terms aren't really hurting anything, other than making the DB bigger than it needs to be.

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lomo commented

Well, they do make it harder to easily select an appropriate term, but I agree that this falls into a "duplicate" issue category. ;-)

Ideally, we should also use Taxonomy Manager to consolidate a lot of "similar terms", once the garbage has been eliminated.

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lomo commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Closing as duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/969990