Q:

Burninate [hp] tag

The hp tag currently has 208 questions. About all of them are tagged with hp and another tag specifying the related product of HP which is the actual main tag of the respective question.
The hp tag doesn't provide any additional information in addition to the product-specific tags, it is a meta-tag. In fact, nobody can be a specialist in all the things HP. This is reflected in the question stats for the tag: many are bad or off-topic (or both). Generally, questions using only the hp tag without any product-specific tag seem to be overwhelmingly off-topic (e.g. they involve using HP laptops or printers).
Generally, people should, can, and do use the actual product-specific tag (which they almost always do already).

A:

Agreed.  Tags for companies are useless to SO.  We do not deal with companies; we work with the programming-related products they produce.
I went ahead and removed the tag from the remaining 200 questions (the other 8 were already done when I started).  The hp tag will be officially burninated when the tag-cleaning script runs tonight.

