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Tag creation/deletion crieria for Software Development?

Ok so we have fairly lax tagging rules here, as do most Codidact sites. Recently the Electrical Engineering community has started a clean-up of strange and off-topic tags. I wrote this over there: [Tag creation/deletion criteria](https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289416). 

Those who have a background at SO might recognize the huge system problems SO has with "tag burnination" described in the question of the linked post. I do not wish that Software Development makes the same mistakes as SO did, and that we can dispose of bad tags much more effortlessly.

But some manner of rule set is still needed before someone goes ahead and deletes tags - from the link, I made this draft for a tag renaming/deletion criteria:

> A tag must fulfill all of the below requirements or it may get renamed or deleted:
> 
> 1. A tag must be named appropriately, considering [Tag naming guidelines](https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289204).
> 2. A tag must be on-topic, meaning it has to be related to Electrical Engineering. 
> 3. A tag must be unambiguous in the context of Electrical Engineering. It should not mean two very different things at once.
> 4. A tag must add at least _some_ meaningful information regarding what the question is about.
> 5. A tag should not be too localized/specialized, but about some well-known term in Electrical Engineering. If it is unlikely that other posts will ever use the tag, it is too localized.

Replace Electrical Engineering with Software Development and this could as well apply here too, since this is a quite similar technical engineering community.

Should Software Engineering adopt similar guidelines and tag deletion criteria?