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How can we improve the wording of the Diving proposal?
Proposal: Diving
"Diving" as a title might have other meanings in addition to scuba diving.
In addition, the wording in the description isn't very good, especially with the "and curious about" ...
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Does this proposal have an identity crisis?
Proposal: Marine Engineering
As a professional in the marine industry for over 30 years I am somewhat confused by the title and proposed questions for this site.
As I understand it the term "Marine ...
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Scope Discussion: Building Performance AND Building Information Modeling together?
Proposal: Building Performance Simulation & Analysis
Building Energy Modeling (BEM) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) are two seemingly separate domains when looking at tools, existing ...
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2answers
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Suggested name change to Artificial Intelligence
Proposal: Machine Learning
Machine Learning is a large enough sub-field of Artificial Intelligence, I figure we might as well change the name (+ description) of this proposal to Artificial ...
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Suggested name + description change
Proposal: Interview Questions
Programming interview questions are very similar to those asked in programming competitions and these questions are also of interest to people outside of these 2 ...
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Data Science Proposal
Proposal: I think its good time to have a Data Science community. The basic goal is that people from different disciplines like health, education, economics, agriculture, advertisement, etc working ...
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Proposing to change name as “Indian Languages and Usage”
Proposing to change name as "Indian Languages and Usage".
Proposal: Indian Languages
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Done! Now restore this site to ESL (“English as a Second Language”)
Proposal: English Language Learners
A Brief Background — 6 months ago as part of the Area 51 process, this proposal was renamed from "English as a Second Language" to "English Language ...
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Could “music producers” be a little too specific-sounding?
I'm thinking a name like "music producers" might scare people away. Even changing it to "music production" might make things sound less exclusive. Does it sound too specific?
Proposal: Music ...
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Wouldn't “Miss Manners” be a better name for this proposal?
Proposal: Etiquette
There are good arguments in this discussion. But 'Etiquette' is, as commented, archaic. With the defining reference to Emily Post-style newspaper Q&A, wouldn't 'Miss Manners' ...
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Alternative name & domain / nombre y dominio alternativo
Proposal: Stack Overflow in Spanish
The xx.stackoverflow.com naming scheme makes sense, but I also like d12odepila.stackexchange.com [desbordamiento de pila]. The use of the abbreviation refers to ...
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Rename “Repurpose Hacking” to something else
Proposal: Repurpose Hacking
I've never heard anyone call the act of repurposing a device "repurpose hacking" - either repurposing or hardware hacking. At the moment, it's a clunky and misleading ...
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Should the Genealogy Proposal Name Include “Family History”
Should the "Genealogy" proposal be renamed "Family History" or maybe "Genealogy and Family History" or "Family History and Genealogy".
GeneJ proposed this to me with the reasoning that the word ...
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'How to Hire', where providers inform seekers of best practices.
I recently proposed How To Hire to Area51. I would love some feed back. The idea of professionals informing service seekers seemed valuable and inspired the proposal. Just wanted to see if others felt ...
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Rename to Housekeeping to differentiate from DIY
Proposal: Housework
Can we rename Housework to Housekeeping to differentiate it from DIY? The proposal has minimal overlap with DIY, but the name makes it easily confused with that site.
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9answers
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What should we call this proposal?
Proposal: Digital Fabrication
Suggesting names
Please answer in the following form:
A Suggestion section with a name suitable for this proposal.
A Domain section suggesting a suitable domain name ...
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2answers
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“Personal Manufacturing” or “Desktop Manufacturing”?
Proposal: 3D Printers, Laser Cutters, & Personal Manufacturing
It's time to establish a final site name for this proposal. The current name ("3D Printer, Laser Cutters & Personal ...
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New proposal Painting [closed]
Can we start a new site Painting, for those who are interested in painting.
People who are beginners can ask advice to experienced people.
Also it will be helpful in finding the values and details ...
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Should this just be called Neuroscience?
Proposal: Neuroinformatics
According to the INCF strategy overview:
There are three main directions where neuroinformatics has to be applied[2]:
the development of tools and databases for ...
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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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Call it “Computer Graphics, Modeling and Animation”
I see fuzzy boundaries between the various categories. Anyone doing 3D must necessarily work in 2D at least for textures. One can't do much in animation without working in 3D generally. Suggesting ...
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What should the Theoretical Physics sub-domain be?
Proposal: Theoretical Physics
Theoretical Physics is at 96% commitment now! That means that launch is probably imminent.
You need a URL sub-domain though. And, well, you can't take ...
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2answers
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Rename 'Healthcare IT' to 'Health IT' to include the IT targeting non-care aspects
I suggest a rename of 'Healthcare IT' to "Health IT".
I can see the name "healthcare IT" being unnecessarily limiting in the future because it will artificially exclude the health IT approaches to ...
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Changing title and scope to be explicitly inclusive of IC design
Proposal: Programmable logic and FPGA design
By votes, it's clear that there's support for explicitly including IC design for this proposal. Given that this proposal has taken a very long time to get ...
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Does “3D” give the wrong impression?
Proposal: 3D Graphics, Modeling & Applications
The most popular sites on this topic (CG Talk and CG Arena) went with CG over 3D. I'm wondering if this isn't a good move - especially since when ...
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French language title?
Proposal: French Language & Usage
Should not the name of this site be changed to "Langue et usage français" or similar? It doesn't appear to make sense that the name and description of a site ...
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Books is a bad organizational name for a proposal, overlaps with Sci-Fi and others
Ok, so Books right?
What about novellas, or short
stories?
What about
e-books?
What about Sci-Fi books?
If one went to a major university and asked to major in books, the counselors would ...
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Can a Stack-Overflow proposal in a different language be called xx.stackoverflow.com where xx is the language itself?
Desarrollo de Software en Español
Stack Overflow (in French)
Stack Overflow (in German)
Stack Overflow (in Bengali)
Stack Overflow (in Hindi)
Stack Overflow (in Italian)
Stack Overflow (in ...
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URL for “Motor Vehicle Maintenance and Repair” [closed]
Proposal: Motor Vehicle Maintenance and Repair
When launching a new site, we need to come up with the web address for that site.
http://money.stackexchange.com
http://bicycles.stackexchange.com
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