Should strings be a synonym of text? I think string-manipulation has a good rationale for questions involving StringReplace and other transformations, but for processing, importing and exporting textual data in the form of a String, is there any real distinction between text and strings?
And if there is, could someone please add it to the relevant tag-wikis? (text, string-manipulation and strings (to be created)).
Following Sjoerd's argument, I would sugges the removal of text, as if it is understood as a style, the question should be tagged as stylesheet. If Text refers to a corpus, I would rather go for string-manipulation (because any string would certainly involve some manipulation). If however Text refers to Text (the graphics primitive) then one can use graphics.
(If you think that there is a strong distinction between using strings and manipulating them, than we should keep both strings and string-manipulation, but I would not know what to write in the wikis to make this difference clear).
I don't think Text should be a synonym of Strings or vice versa, as Text could also relate to the Text style in the FrontEnd which has (almost) nothing to do with the programmatic use of Strings.
text is highly inconsistent, making it a "bad" tag. Although I agree with you that it shouldn't be a synonym, I guess the only way is to prevent its usage
One can store data in strings without necessarily performing manipulation of the string itself. Strings may also be used as option names or DownValues keys. These uses may warrant strings apart from string-manipulation.
