The Culture category includes proposals in subjects like language, religion, society, groups, and politics.
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Yoga and Meditation - spiritual or fitness
Proposal: Yoga and Meditation
It is certainly true that Yoga originated as a spiritual and religious practice. However these days it is typically thought of as related to fitness. So my question is ...
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Should this be a place for improvement of the English level only or for discussions about ways of its studying as well?
Proposal: English Language Learners
I think, that the help to the intermediate learners should should contain not only the answers on the subject itself(the English language), but on the processes of ...
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Japan Culture: Is Anime and Manga necessary since a specific SE site will be in beta soon?
Proposal: Culture of Japan
necessary
Looking at the description of the Culture of Japan proposal, I've noticed it says,
QAs: language, anime, manga
Also evident in this photo:
Since there ...
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Will EL&U be a General Reference site respect to ELL? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Drawing the lines between ELL and EL&U
Proposal: English Language Learners
Considering that EL&U is a complete repository of high quality answers on English ...
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Who We Are and How We Present Ourselves [closed]
Proposal: English Language Learners
In The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta, Robert Cartaino identifies seven primary areas we will have to address in Pvt:
1 On- and Off-Topic
2 FAQ
3 ...
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1answer
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Wikiquote covers this functionality
Proposal: Quote Overflow, sure WikiQuote already does this? A simple search on their site would answer most questions.
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What is rig veda? [closed]
Proposal: Hinduism
What is Rig Veda and what does it educates the way of living in Hinduism?
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3answers
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Isn't Buddhism a Religion?
Proposal: Buddhism
Shouldn't the description for Buddhism at least include the word religion? I understand this is controversial from the POV of many Western practitioners but Buddhism is a religion ...
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Dedicated chat room
Proposal: India
Do you think we should have a dedicated chat room for this proposal? If yes what would be the topic we would be discussing there?
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Should we allow questions and answers in Lojban?
Proposal: Lojban Language & Usage
Points to consider:
Yes: it's a good way to expand the corpus of the language.
No: the site audience includes learners. Beginners will not be able to read and ...
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1answer
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Is History of Religion an overlap?
Proposal: History of Religion
What questions would be on-topic here that would not be on topic at either "History" or one of the religion sites?
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Lojban: Participation guide & a dedicated chatroom available
Proposal: Lojban Language & Usage
Thanks for taking an interest in this proposal. If you're new to the whole Stack Exchange thing, here's a guide to how you can help make this happen.
If you ...
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What are the guidelines (next to the obvious ones) that new proposals should adhere to?
I am involved in the the currently proposed Q&A site Buddhism, and as a user who is relatively new to Stack Exchange I'm learning e.g. there what does and what does not seem to work in Stack ...
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Should the topic be limited to the 'popular' languages, and if, on which criteria?
Proposal: Languages
Should the topic of this proposal be limited to only those languages, who are quite popular and there are quite many fluent speakers with access to internet? Questions about ...
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1answer
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What languages should be allowed for questions and answers on this site?
Proposal: Languages
What languages should be allowed for questions and answers on this site? Should we allow asking questions (and answering them) in any language or we should promote English as ...
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1answer
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Why did the previous proposal fail and how can we avoid it
Proposal: Italian Language & Usage
The previous proposal failed after 2 years at some 60ish percent commitment I think. What were the reasons and how do you think we can avoid it this time
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Where can were advertise Internet culture stackexchange?
Proposal: Internet Culture and Memes
Is there any particular site this could go onto? I think Reddit would be a good place to start, but I don't know the best way to post it up there. It there ...
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Drawing the lines between ELL and EL&U
Proposal: English Language Learners
Since the proposal has been re-opened and given the excitement its closure caused, I think it is appropriate to further discuss the delineation between ELL and ...
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Reinstating the English Learners' Proposal
Proposal: English Language Learners
Following the conclusion of the Definition phase, this proposal was recently closed in support of our English SE site. After a lot of discussion here and ...
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On the Closure of English Language Learners [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
English Language Learners Continues…
Proposal: English Language Learners
I wasn't sure about the need for this site when it was proposed. But in keeping with the spirit ...
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1answer
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Should we discuss current affairs on the site: India?
Though current happenings would add a lot of content on this site but the content will surely be outdated very soon. I appreciate opinions on this.
Thank you.
Proposal: India
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Is it possible to ask a question all in Persian here?
While many of the suggested question for this proposal are a mixture of English and Persian, I am wondering if questions written all in Persian are allowed here as well. Since anyone who comes to this ...
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1answer
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Would this cover historical scandinavian languages too?
Would this proposal cover Old Norse, Old Norwegian, and Old Icelandic as well? Or would it be limited to the currently spoken Northern branch of the Germanic languages?
Proposal: Scandinavian ...
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What needs to be done to prevent this proposal from stagnating?
The Buddhism proposal was closed in committment and reopened less than 24 hours later as a new proposal.
This is good. It means someone is paying attention. With that said, what do we need to do to ...
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how to get new questions voted
Proposal: Italian Language & Usage
I think we are doing fine as far as the number of followers is concerned (although I admit the increase pace has slowed down somewhat), but the problem of ...
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I can post maybe 20+ additional Example Questions, what can I do?
Among of the proposals I participate in, there are several I consider myself experienced enough. They are "...Language and Usage" sites, if that matters.
In addition to the limit of 5 questions, I ...
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Suggestion to Change the Title of the Existing English Forum
I support the idea to create a new forum for ESL people. On the other hand, the title of the existing English forum, English Language and Usage, becomes somewhat misleading in that case.
I naturally ...
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How are we going to tackle the problem caused by BIDI languages?
Since Persian is a right-to-left language and English is left-to-right, their combination either doesn't work or does not look good. What are you going to do about this issue?
Proposal: Persian ...
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Should we contact previous IL&U committers to tell them the proposal was restarted?
Proposal: Italian Language & Usage
To avoid this proposal being closed again, should we contact committers of the previous proposal to invite them?
EDIT:
How should we proceed in contacting ...
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Specifying: languages of the site
Proposal: Italian Language & Usage
Gilles and mac389 gave us ideas, about some topics that should be thought in the early stages:
Target public: natives or learners?
Questions written in ...
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Should we encourage writing in Italian only?
Proposal: Italian Language & Usage
Motivated by a response to my previous discussion, should we encourage people to submit and answer in Italian?
Despite the heavy editing that that requires, it ...
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1answer
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Should General Reference Questions be Allowed?
Proposal: Italian Language & Usage
Similar to the English Language and Usage SE, should questions that can be answered by using general reference resources not be allowed?
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when we use die, degli? [closed]
Proposal: Italian Language & Usage
dei is used with plural of un article
degli as plural of un' and uno
is that right?
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how we use comparative and superlative in Italian? [closed]
Proposal: Italian Language & Usage
can you give an examples?
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In what way does this proposal differ from English Language and Usage?
Proposal: English Dictionary
In what way does this proposal differ from the already very popular English Language and Usage stack exchange site?
All of the currently proposed questions are either on ...
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What are the basic disciplines that a Buddhist has to follow or keep? [closed]
Proposal: Buddhism
According to your knowledge, what are the basic disciplines that a buddhist has to follow or keep? Please share your thoughts or ideas.
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“Scandinavian” or “Nordic” languages?
Proposal: Scandinavian Languages
I still always confuse these two but I thought Iceland was not Scandinavia but was a Nordic country. Then again for linguistics the terminology could well be ...
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Questions about Paperwork or Identity Veriffications [closed]
Proposal: India
Questions based on procedures like getting a Voter ID , PAN , PASSPORT , AAdhar (UIDAI) , Caste ,Licenses , etc. The needed documents to apply for them , which further boils down to ...
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Create a new proposal “The World” or “Tourism”?
An entire stackexchange website for New York City? It would be more helpful for people to ask all questions related to any city in the world.
Proposal: New York
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Is it advisable to ask politics-related questions here on India?
Proposal: India
Can questions about political situation of India be asked and discussed on this proposal?
Revolutionary measures are needed to be control the pathetic situation India is facing. I am ...
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Would a site on Mormonism be redundant?
Update: It seems there's a consensus against the idea, so I've removed the proposal.
Some have suggested that since there is already a site on Christianity, a site on Mormonism would be redundant. ...
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Questions about National awards
Proposal: India
Should Questions about Civilian , Defence , Art ,Film awards , sports (eg. Arjuna award) etc in-terms of their individual contribution or for that matter Cricket in India and its ...
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Questions about bollywood
Proposal: India
Should questions about Bollywood or Indian Film Industry be allowed in India proposal?
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Questions about Indian Religions
Proposal: India
Can questions about Indian Religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism asked in this website. A site about Buddhism, Hinduism is on its way. But i don't think there is any ...
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Is General Reference a suitable close reason for English Language Learners [closed]
Proposal: English Language Learners
On EL&U we have the close reason "General Reference":
This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a ...
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Rename to Sanskrit Language and Usage
In keeping with the format by which other language sites are named, this site should be renamed "Sanskrit Language and Usage"
Proposal: Sanskrit Language
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How do we separate this site from the already existing English Language & Usage site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Defining topicality
Proposal: English Language Learners
The proposal of this site seems very similar to the English Language & Usage site. How do we differentiate ...
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There is a TV & Movies site, and there is a Music and Theory site, but where should one post questions about music and pop-culture?
As the title suggests, where can one ask questions regarding Musicians, bands, record albums, etc?
In my particular case, I was wanting to find out some information about the image on an iconic album ...
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Can we save indian culture? [closed]
Now a days no one follow their religion culture like hindu, muslim and so on. They are attracted foreign culture like dressing sense. No one has moral values, justice. Should we save indian culture?
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Why not combine “English Language Learners” with EL&U?
Proposal: English Language Learners
It seems the concern here is creating a separate forum for folks to ask basic English questions, and I can't help but wonder... why? There's already a forum for ...
