Why do we have a [translation] tag?

Question

Translation is off-topic, as has been agreed many, many times here on meta in past discussion. So why do we have a translation tag?

If there is a good reason for keeping it, please make it. I don't see one, but I suppose there exists that possibility.

If there isn't, please help go through the open questions tagged translation and either close them if they were initially missed but should have been closed, or retag them if they are not truly about translation. Once we've done that, we can delete the remaining questions that don't belong here and purge the tag.

Answer 1

I think you're taking the 'translation' tag too simply as 'this is a request for translation'.

It is very appropriate to keep the 'translation' tag for questions that are motivated by a translation process, either from or to English, because that informs about the issues, how explicit the definitions and nuances must be, cultural differences. All questions on ELU are supposed to be about the English (directed towards the nuance of the English), but that doesn't mean that knowledge of the foreign terms and the translation process are not relevant.

So, I feel that the 'translation' tag should be kept.

Of course, closing questions for being inappropriately about translation (simply 'what is the English for the word X in language Y?') or adding additional tags is a good suggestion.