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Is Scambaiting in the scope of this site?
Proposal: Social Engineering
Are questions about scambaiting (how to do it well) in the scope of this site?
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Convincing end-users [closed]
Proposal: Digital Preservation
What are some strategies for convincing end-users who are not information professionals that long term digital preservation is in their best interests?
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Why “Intellectual Property Law” was closed
Proposal: Intellectual Property Law
Area 51 has failed this proposal miserably. We looked deeply into the behind-the-scenes issues of creating an "Intellectual Property Law" site and we felt that ...
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Why “Laws & Legal Questions” was closed
Proposal: Laws & Legal Questions
Area 51 has failed this proposal miserably. We looked deeply into the behind-the-scenes issues of creating a "Laws & Legal Questions" site and we felt that ...
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Why “Software Law” was closed
Proposal: Software Law
Area 51 has failed this proposal miserably. We looked deeply into the behind-the-scenes issues of creating a "Software Law" site and we felt that this proposal should not be ...
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2answers
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Pharmaceutical SE?
This idea just stroke me: isn't pharma a perfect area of knowledge to benefit from a stackexchange site? I am not into that field, but supposedly it is pretty complicated with a lot of different ...
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1answer
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Is it illegal for lawers to use the “Laws & Legal Questions” site?
Proposal: Laws & Legal Questions
I have recently come across this question on skeptics, and it is making me wonder if there is a problem with the Laws & Legal Questions proposal. The question ...
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Are “rules of the court room” in the scope of the “Laws & Legal Questions” proposal?
Proposal: Laws & Legal Questions
Would questions about "rules of the court room" be within the scope of the Laws proposal?
An example question I was thinking of was: "Can someone who is ...
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What the scope of the Security & Protection proposal includes
Proposal: Security & Protection
When I created it, I had intended it to cover (at least) the following topics:
This site was intended for security professionals and enthusiasts such as:
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3answers
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What to do about the name “security”
Proposal: Security
I am a little concerned, that with the site IT security being labled as "security" on the bottom of every site, and with the url being "security.stackexchange.com", there will be a ...
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2answers
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Broaden the scope?
Proposal: Fabrication, Welding & Machining
Would there be any interest in widening the scope to include metallurgy within the proposal? It might bring some interesting technical discussions to ...
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2answers
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Use of Resident in the tagline?
Proposal: Medicine
The current tagline is:
Q&A site for medical students, residents, researchers, and academics
'Residents' isn't a global term - perhaps it should be replaced with ...
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3answers
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Expansion of Lockpicking to Locksmithing?
Proposal: Lockpicking
Should lockpicking be expanded to locksmithing? The description can include "lockpicking, emergency entry, and lock security" which would cover the scope of lockpicking, but ...
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3answers
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Ponder DP in the abstract or confront it in the concrete?
Proposal: Digital Preservation
The questions on this site seem to fall into two categories, the abstract/definitional/policy (What it fixity? What is the necessary makeup of a DP task force?) and the ...
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“Mathematics Teacher Educators” - change name suggestion
Proposal: Mathematics Teacher Educators
Am very interested in Mathematics K-12 education, and I think there is a place for this.
However, being based in the UK, I have no idea what the "Association ...
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Should this be in the Technology category?
Proposal: Fabrication, Welding & Machining
Since this proposal mainly involves tools, equipment, materials, and working with them, it probably belongs in the Technology category, instead of ...
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2answers
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What is “CoWorking”?
Proposal: CoWorking
Am I missing something here? As far as I can tell, it's just working together with other people, as in co-workers. Is there some alternate term that this is meant to get at and is ...
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1answer
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Is this proposal going to do any better than old, dead Freelance Workers proposal?
Whilst searching for something unrelated, I found Freelance Workers which died in private beta due to lack of traffic.
Will this new proposal do any better? Adding "self employed" does widen the ...
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Can we merge CAD/CAM in with the Engineering Proposal?
Proposals: CAD/CAM Software, Engineering
I don't think there needs to be a separation between these topics, as most engineers use CAD/CAM daily, it's part of their job, it's part of being an ...
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What's a good the description for the Engineering Proposal?
I'm looking to change the description of the Engineering proposal. Currently it's "Q & A Site for professional Engineers (not the ones that drive trains)."
Keep in mind that originally this ...
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What is the relation between Laws & Legal Questions and Rights?
How are http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/38470/civil-political-and-human-rights related to Laws & Legal Questions proposal?
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Meaning of Libraries & Information Science
Proposal: Libraries & Information Science
What is the meaning of Libraries & Information Science and how it's so different than Library Management?
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5answers
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Privacy is not Information Security
Proposal: Privacy
A Privacy exchange was proposed in the Technology category some months back but it was misplaced. There is a growing profession revolving around privacy that expands beyond the ...
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Query: Are questions related to skin troubles like pimples, tanning, pores, scars, and their treatments allowed to be asked here?
Proposal: Dermatology and Dermatopathology
Are questions related to the treatment of skin troubles like pimples, tanning, pores, scars allowed to be asked here?
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Teaching should include Learning as well
Proposal: Teaching should also include learning and psychological learning styles. This would broaden the scope of not just teaching, but also methods teachers use to help pupils learn and employing ...
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1answer
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What is the reasoning behind the name change from “Professional Matters” to “The Workplace”?
Proposal: The Workplace
As I said in my answer to the Merge career proposals discussion, I rather liked the fact that the old name, Professional Matters implied both that the site was for Matters ...
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1answer
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Title of Library Proposal
Proposal: Library & Information Science
There has been some discussion about the naming and scope of what used to be the Libraries proposal (and is now the Library and Information Science ...
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1answer
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Surely 50 users with 200+ rep on somewhere else would be enough?
Proposal: Library & Information Science
It just seems so unfair that Libraries and Information Science, with its huge number of expert committers, can't get over the line to beta.
I understand ...
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Should Gemology categorized as a science or a profession?
Proposal: Gemology
As per the title, should Gemology be categorized as a science or a profession? From a scientific standpoint it is a geoscience in line with mineralogy but contextually it tends to ...
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1answer
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Can This Site Be For K-12 Students?
Proposal: Computer Science Education
Is this site for Computer Science Students also?
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4answers
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Are experts in Law willing to share freely for what they normally get paid for?
Proposal: Laws & Legal Questions
Laws & Legal Questions still seems to be struggling to get into the beta stage from lack of commitment. If I saw the statistics correctly, I think only 8% ...
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1answer
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Move to Computer Science proposal?
Proposal: Computer Science Education
This proposal seems to be struggling to reach even commitment phase. I think the focus it seems to have can be dealt with on Computer Science, a newer proposal ...
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How would this site be different from BIOSTAR? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Successor to BioStar
Proposal: Bioinformatics
Although I like the idea of starting up a bioinformatics site. I have to ask how this site would be different from ...
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American only or any country? What language?
Will Laws & Legal Questions be for
International Law?
American Law?
Law from any country?
In the later case, will questions be allowed in any language?
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5answers
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Merge Software Law, Intellectual Property Law into Law
Proposal: Merge Software Law and Intellectual Property Law into Law & Legal questions
The reason why I think they should be merged is that they form a hierachy
Law
IP Law (merge Software into ...
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You do realize that 'Libraries & Information Science' is not the same as 'Libraries', right?
Proposal: Library & Information Science
You'd have almost been better off merging Libraries with Books.
LIS deals more with the theory of how information is organized. Now, an MLS (Master of ...
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2answers
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What is the value in having the word “professional” in the description of the Engineering proposal?
Proposal: Engineering
Is labeling this proposal professional engineering intended to limit the community to people who have passed the PE exam and questions likely to come up in their line of work?
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1answer
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Should we promote the Transportation proposal on existing SE sites?
Proposal: Transportation
It seems to me that there are probably significant numbers of people on some existing SE sites that would be interested in a Transportation site. The most obvious example is ...
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Is there a time limit put on proposals gaining momentum before they are closed?
The proposal http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/36202/transportation has been closed because "This proposal does not clearly state who might use the site, or what questions would be on-topic."
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Interlibrary loan procedures [closed]
We are currently thinking of changing our lending/borrowing procedures for ILL.
We now allow patrons 8 current requests pending/received - considering changing this to 10.
We currently do not ...
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3answers
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Is this just for private health care IT, or will questions about NHS IT be welcome? [closed]
Proposal: Healthcare IT
Given how different the UK health service (free at the point of use) is to the USA health system (left on the road side if no insurance cover). Do we need a separate site ...
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Healthcare IT: Time to try renewing your commitments? [closed]
Proposal: Healthcare IT
It looks like Healthcare IT is just missing the commitment score component of it's threshold for moving toward the beta phase. While of course the answer for part of this is ...
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1answer
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What is the definition of the word **Residents** in the SE site Medicine?
The description of the given site at the moment:
Proposed Q&A site for medical students, residents, researchers, and
academics
Residents refers to many things. I want that the description ...
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1answer
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Stress the role of this site for medical students
Proposal: Medicine
I think is important for this site to become also a place where medical students can ask questions and share hints about study material and sort.
So questions like, "which book ...
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5answers
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Educators/Education: Multiple proposals needed?
Proposals: Educators, Education Technology, Mathematics Teacher Educators, Computer Science Education
Titles/Followers/Descriptions:
Educators
Followers: 57
teachers, professors, tutors, ...
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What special accomodations do cats need after spaying? [closed]
Proposals: Pets, Animal Health and Behavior
My 2 cats are being spayed today and I want to make them as comfortable as possible. What can I do to help them recover from surgery?
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1answer
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Is there a Stackexchange site (or proposed site) for social media marketers?
Specifically, I am wondering if there is a stackexchange site where marketers working in social media marketing can go for information and where they can build an online reputation for their knowledge ...
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Disclaimer to make it clear that the site isn't offering professional advice
Proposals: Medicine, Software Law, Intellectual Property Law, Laws & Legal Questions
All of these proposals are for sites in fields in which only accredited professionals should be offering ...
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1answer
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Should the Law & Legal Questions be more about theory or practice?
Proposal: Laws & Legal Questions
I really hope this site goes to Beta, but I am concerned over it's focus. Yes people need to know more about the theoretical and philosophical aspects of law, but ...
