Duplicate terms may be added to a taxonomy and dupes are simply created by adding a hyphen and auto-incremented numeral. This is unexpected behavior. Each term in a taxonomy should ideally be uniquely named, and a warning should be supplied if a duplicate is entered to prevent unwanted term dupes.

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neofpo commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Aso somehow related to these bugs:

http://drupal.org/node/168709
http://drupal.org/node/164532#comment-588773

Also, I can confirm this bug at 5.7 at two situations:

1. Using taxonomy module UI to add a new term (it allows duplicate names there).
2. While using TAC http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access module, I lock the creation of a certain term to a role. However, with free tagging enabled, users from that role can still create a tag with that forbidden name. However, it will be a duplicate of the already existing forbidden one.

This really can mess up a site (I don't even have to explain why). I hope this gets an official patch at the next release.

Thank you for your attention.