archetype it's most likely about the pen artist.
Which I explained before in a comment to another user, that deleting tags (especially artist tags) would make it much harder for other users to blacklist certain things. Which is selfish, and not one person's call to make. Polls also implied that its not a one sided decision and that people are on both sides.
Black listing tags is an easy and much simpler process/solution anyway to everyone's troubles.