- Questions about scraping amazon.com itself should use web-scraping, as well as relevant technologies
- Questions about selling, buying, or doing other user-level stuff on Amazon should be closed, not retagged. There’s a solid chunk of non-programming questions in several categories as well.
- Questions about various services by amazon should use the respective specific tags, such as:
- amazon-web-services for AWS
- amazon-dynamodb for questions about DynamoDB
- For questions about the amazon selling partner API, as well as its subcomponents, such as the orders API, listings API, etc. (see Amazon’s docs for the full list), use amazon-selling-partner-api
- For questions about Amazon virtual machine, use amazon-web-services; other specific tags for specific offerings (such as amazon-ec2) may be applicable as well, if explicitly mentioned in the question
- For questions about Amazon’s in-app purchase SDK, use amazon-in-app-purchase
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The amazon tag is in the process of being burninated. You can help out by reviewing the questions with this tag, and…
- editing questions to improve the question and remove the tag (retag-only edits are best left to users with full edit privileges; i.e. > 2k reputation),
- flagging/voting to close questions that are duplicates/off-topic/unclear/too broad/opinion-based (users with < 3k reputation can help quite a bit by flagging questions for closure, which helps keep the Close Vote Review Queue full),
- filtering for questions with this tag in the Close Vote Queue,
- voting on questions with this tag,
- voting to delete the questions with this tag (after they have been closed, and only if the entire Q&A contains nothing of value). However, keep in mind that at the end of the burnination process all closed questions containing this tag will be deleted semi-automatically. Thus, there’s rarely a need to vote to delete these questions.
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