propose merging of two existing proposals into one proposal. On topic questions from both proposals should be considered on-topic on the final proposal. In general, if a site makes sense as part of a bigger site, it's better to have one big site than a bunch of little niche sites.
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How is Maine's “Educational Technology” totally different from all other “Educational Technology”?
Proposal: Maine Educational Technology should be an obvious subset of Educational Technology.
Even the proposer indicates such in his discussion post.
What, therefore, warrants such a limited site ...
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There's almost 5k questions on SO already for Yii
Proposal: Yii framework is already covered by Stack Overflow
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Proposal: Merge Anthropology and Sociology
Proposal: Merge Anthropology and Sociology.
These two social sciences seem to cover a lot of the same ground, so much so that many universities merge the two into one program. Perhaps we should do ...
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Please merge the proposals about law and legal matters into one
There are several of them and it is not clear how they differ from each other.
So I think all of them should be merged into one general proposal about law and legal matters
unless their supporters ...
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This would probably fall under the Embedded Programming and Design Proposal
Beaglebone would fall under Embedded Programming and Design, no need for a separate site. I also proposed that the Raspberry Pi site would as well. the EE site doesn't seem to want these types of ...
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Apiculture is a duplicate of Bees and Beekeeping
The proposal Apiculture has exactly the same scope as the Bees and Beekeeping proposal. I think it should be merged with the Bees and Beekeeping proposal.
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Duplicate of Audio-Video Production?
Proposal: Transcoding
I believe this is a subset of Audio-Video Production.
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Would merger of Augmented Reality with Wearable Computers be profitable?
Proposal: Augmented Reality
Proposal: Wearable Computers
Of course I'm not suggesting these two are duplicate. There is a significant area of Augmented Reality that is not wearable (automotive, ...
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Visa & Immigration a subset of Travel.SE
Proposal: Visa & Immigration
I am afraid the topic of visa and immigration overlaps too much Travel.SE. Two tags of the latter cover these questions: customs-and-immigration (100 questions) and ...
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When a private beta is closed, are the questions merged with a living site?
I was part of the Digital Presernation private beta which was just closed today.
I'm hoping that all the questions and answers that were created during the private beta are being preserved by rolling ...
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Duplicate of Competitive Programming?
Proposal: TopCoder
Possible duplicate of Competitive Programming (CP).
While I get why some people may want TopCoder to be separate, I don't think that this is a good idea because either:
The ...
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Benefits of a broader, more encompassing legal site to absorb all the fragmented legal proposals
Proposal: Legal Doctrine, Policy, Practice, and other law-related topics.
I believe the web can benefit from a broadly-focused legal Stack Exchange site. There appear to be four law-related proposals ...
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“Networking” again?
Proposal: Networking has been tried in various forms (all of which are gone now) many times.
All have been closed as duplicates of Server Fault.
Why do we need another networking proposal that ...
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Can I include MBA related discussions here or should I create new proposal for it?
Proposal: Education
Hi.I want to discuss about MBA and other factors related to it; like institutions,universities,opportunities for MBA people,etc.
I am confused as to should I discuss it here, in ...
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Merge Health Care,Medicine and Connected Health should be merged to make single Medical.se
I think
Proposal: Health Care, Medicine,and Connected Health should be merged to make a single medical.SE which may gather more traffic and can be a successful site.
In current state they are not ...
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“Rumor Countrol” is “Skeptics” - but with a less-useful name
Proposal: Rumor Control sounds like a bad version of Skeptics. How does it differ?
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Possible duplicate of India and Indian culture?
Proposal: My India My Problem
Possible duplicates:
India: India
Indian Culture: Indian Culture
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Can we merge Telephony, Telecommunications to 'ProtocolStack'
Proposal: ProtocolStack = Telephony + Telecommunications + BT + NFC + GNSS/GPS + WiFi
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My suggestion is having a StackExchange website specifically for connectivity domain concepts and standards. ...
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Should we try to unify the fabrication and manufacturing proposals?
Proposals: Fabrication & Manufacturing
We currently have a plethora of Area 51 proposals skirting around the subjects of fabrication, manufacturing and design of physical objects, including the ...
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Not stackoverflow duplicate
Proposal: Editors
I don't think this is a stackoverflow dupe. Maybe a super user dupe, but I think not. The idea is to get both groups of people, developers and users and also be open to questions ...
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Duplicate of United States of America
Possible duplicate of: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/50261/unites-states-of-america
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Is this similar to Astronomy & Astrophysics
Is this going to be similar to Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Proposal: Space Exploration
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Isn't Airsoft a subset of Sports and/or Weapons?
Proposal: Airsoft seems like a duplicate/overlap of Weapons and Sports.
How does it differ from those established proposals/sites?
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Merging the three different metalworking proposals?
Proposal: Sheet Metal & Welding
Proposal: Blacksmithing
Proposal: Metallurgical Engineering and Material Science
I can understand why you may prefer a site apart from something generic like ...
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Atheism and Agnosticism already closed in favor of Philosophy [duplicate]
Proposal: Atheism and Agnosticism has been tried twice before.
Most recently it was closed in favor of taking all questions to Philosophy.
Why does this need to be proposed yet again?
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How about merging Big Data with Data?
Proposal: Big Data
It seems that we don't have a critical mass of users.
So how about:
Merging with Data?
BTW: Bear in mind that there are already Cross Validated (for statistics) and Database ...
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Aren't all of these questions valid on Arqade?
Proposal: Retro-Gaming and Modding
I can't help but note that all the proposed questions are valid for Arqade or GameDev (or bad questions in a more general sense), and wonder why we need a new site ...
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Duplicate of Electronics and Stack Overflow
Proposal: Embedded Programming and Design is a duplicate of Stack Overflow and Electronics.
Why does it need its own site?
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Why propose this, when Sustainable Living would do all this and more?
Proposal: Renewable Energy Technology
This would appear to be a subset of Sustainble Living. Anything that could be asked here, could be asked there. And on top of that, Sustainable Living is almost ...
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How much overlap is there with The Workplace?
Proposal: Career Development
Seems like the lines between what belongs here versus on The Workplace could be really blurry. Could the unique aspects of this proposal be rolled in there? Or is there ...
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Why bundle “Law” and “Government”?
Proposal: Law & Government
Why bundling the two?
We currently seem to have three different proposals that cover the "Law" part (and should be probably merged):
Rules and Laws
Legal
Legal ...
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Why should Sanskrit language and usage not be merged with Indian languages?
Proposal: Sanskrit Language
Granted that Sanskrit is of special interest being an old language, It would get both sites off the ground faster if the Sanskrit one and the Indian languages stack ...
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Other Alcohol sites too specific to make critical mass
Suggest merging Beer, Wine, Whiskey, Mixology, and any other similarly themed proposals in to Alcohol, otherwise these topics will never reach the critical mass which will enable them to flourish.
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Should Audiophile Join forces with the Hifi/TV proposal?
Proposal: Audiophile
A discussion here concerned the inclusion of audiophile-types on the HiFi/TV proposal. Food for thought.
Also, just my 2 cents...
My conception of an Audiophile (I consider ...
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Too similar to Server Fault
Proposal: Big Data
This seems too similar to server fault. Or am I missing something?
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Should Hacking and Repurpose Hacking be merged?
Originally, we had a Hacking proposal. Then a bunch of people came in and complained that there were too many different types of hacking included in one place, and those people thought others might ...
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Merge with Game Theory?
Proposal: Voting Theory
It might be premature, but I formulated the Game Theory proposal in direct response to this proposal. In my view, this proposal is a strict subset of game theory. This ...
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How is the “Rules and Laws” proposal different from the “Legal Questions” proposal? Should they be merged?
Proposal: That Rules and Laws and Legal Questions merge
These seem pretty similar. Should they be merged? If so, what should the resulting merger be called?
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Superuser on-topicness
Proposal: Retrocomputing
For what it's worth, I asked last year if vintage computers were on topic at SuperUser and got an affirmative answer. Here's the meta post about it.
While something being ...
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Are Amateur Radio questions on-topic on Telecommunications? Should the proposals be merged?
Proposal: Telecommunications
Proposal: Amateur Radio
Wireless questions and "any kind of communication related technologies" are on-topic per the description of the Telecommunications proposal. The ...
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Cant Relationships and Dating proposal be split on allready existing proposals?
Creating multiple small separate sites is frowned upon by the SE guild-lines but also it has a lower chance of success. (relationships proposal already failed once in the past) I think dating and ...
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Can proposal “Microsoft” be closed?
I recently viewed the Microsoft site proposal on area51.stackexchange sites
my opinions were two
if the question related to microsoft software products we can ask at superuser.se
if the question ...
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Is there any part of this proposal that is not already on-topic on User Experience?
Proposal: Gamification
Gamification is on-topic on topic on User Experience and pretty much all of the answerable/constructive example questions would be perfectly on topic on User Experience (while ...
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Command line tools are covered on Super User, et al
Proposal: Command Line Tools (GNU and others) is encompassed on Super User, Unix & Linux, Stack Overflow, etc.
Why split it out?
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Should this proposal be merged with Travel?
Proposal: Expatriates
Considerations:
Visas — all expats, unless they become naturalized, anyway obey visa requirements. Those requirements may be different (e.g. between tourist/guest vs. ...
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Related Stack Exchange sites to information retrieval and search engines
Proposal: Information retrieval and search engines
You should at least have a look for related Stack Exchange communities and consider joining them. Webmasters.SE for search engine optimization has ...
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Merge “Telecommunications” with “Distributed Systems”?
Proposal: Telecommunications
Telecommunications and Distributed Systems overlap a lot (although the scope description of DS is a bit incomplete at the moment). I propose merging these proposals.
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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 ...
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Neuroscience is on topic on Cognitive Sciences and Biology
Proposal: Neuroscience
As an active user on the Cognitive Sciences** site, I would invite you to bring your neuroscience questions to the site. By and large, they will be on topic there. Cognitive ...
