For discussing the scope of proposals.
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Very limited scope of Vehicular Stunts proposal
Why would you want to limit yourself to Vehicular Stunts? Why not a site on "Stunts" in general? Right now the site's scope is very limited and I doubt enough people would be interested in supporting ...
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Is 'Culture and Life in China' a duplicate of the 'Chinese Culture' proposal?
Isn't the Culture and Life in China proposal a duplicate of the Chinese Culture proposal?
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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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No, really: what part of this isn't already on-topic for Stack Overflow?
Proposal: Laravel
Update - Laravel will not be launched as a separate site at this time
Thanks to everyone who took the time to leave feedback here. The team discussed this extensively, and we all ...
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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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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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How would this proposal be different from the failed Literature.SE?
Proposal: Text Interpretation and Analysis
This is not to say that I don't see some core differences already, I'd just like to see what the reasoning behind a new proposal for something along the ...
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Exclude “lower case semantic web”?
Proposal: Semantic Web
There may be various definitions of the Semantic Web. Some may use it for anything "semantic" related to the Web, for example semantic use of HTML, using Microformats, using ...
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The Biology beta has an Orinthology tag, is this proposal redundant
The Biology beta already had an ornithology tag. Is the Ornithology and birdwatching proposal redundant or in competition with the Biology beta. How can we inform users of the Biology beta that are ...
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Will I be able to discuss the technological aspects of “gamification”?
I am also active for "Programmers", and I would like to know if the "gamification" site will also cover the technological aspects, such as the development, usage, implementation or integration of ...
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How is Interior Design different from Home Improvement?
Proposal: Interior Design
The Home Improvement site is already available. How is Interior Design different from Home Improvement?
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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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Are microcontroller questions welcome?
Proposal: Embedded Programming and Design
Would this SE by the go-to place for all uC questions? My expertise (what little there is) is in 8 bit micros and programming in C. It's difficult to gauge ...
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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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Handling Open ended questions
Most of the interview questions posted on Stack Overflow are deemed "Open Ended" and closed by moderators. Being open-ended does hurt the core value of the question and the site. How is this site ...
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Life Hacking duplicate of Life Improvement?
Is Life Hacking a duplicate of the Life Improvement proposal?
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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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Can the scope be widened to include other intro platforms?
Proposal: Arduino
Although Arduino is a very popular platform, there are others that appeal to the same kind of users. Raspberry Pi, Basic Stamp, and Propeller are some examples of easy to use ...
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Scope of moderation questions concerning specific platforms?
Proposal: Moderators
How should questions concerning moderation with a specific application be handled? Say for example, if I had some technical question about Reddit or vBulletin that was about a ...
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Vegan Hacks proposal is subset of Seasoned Advice?
There already is a 'Seasoned Advice' site and it currently has 52 questions tagged 'vegan'. Why do we need a separate vegan site?
Proposal: Vegan Hacks
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Text Editors, Scripting, and General Definition
Proposal: Editors
Concerning the scope of the proposal, I'm wondering whether questions concerning Emacs Lisp and VimScript (and the like for other editors, VBA comes to mind) should be on this site. ...
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Could this be expanded to all types of editors, such as LyX, Word (and friends), TeXMaker, etc.?
Proposal: Text editors
Change title to Editors.
This would definitely increase the scope of the site to a more general audience; far more people have issues fiddling with Word or configuring LyX ...
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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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If this isn't a duplicate of EE, might want to consider elevating fewer electronics-heavy examples
Proposal: Arduino
The last iteration of this proposal was closed as a duplicate of http://electronics.stackexchange.com/, where Arduino is a pretty popular topic. If there are aspects to this topic ...
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How do we draw the line between E-readers and general purpose tablets?
Proposal: E-books and E-book Readers
I'm going to assume that this site won't be a clearing house for any question on any device that one might read a book on. Questions on reading apps are likely ...
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Proposal: Why don't we have a mobile.stackexchange.com? for android developers and ios alike?
We have an apple one, but there are a lot of mobile developers that develop cross-platform - why not have a stackexchange devoted entirely to mobile development ios and android? There are so many ...
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Scope of Embedded Programming
Proposal: Embedded Programming and Design
Let's discuss how far "up" or "down" this site should go. Which belong here, which are better left to SO, EE or elsewhere.
IDE, tools, configuring the ...
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DITA - Do we need a site for just this?
Proposal: DITA
DITA is, for all intents and purposes, an XML file format that has a particular series of tools built around it. It's mainly used as a markup language for documents, with an ...
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Schools, learning, undergraduates
Proposal: Schools and learning
Proposal: Undergraduates
In two days, two proposals got added: Schools and learning, and Undergraduates. Is there any difference in scope? Let's answer for each ...
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Would modern metalworking be allowed?
Proposal: Blacksmithing
Do you think modern metalworking could be allowed?
I mean welding, not-digital turning/milling, grinding, electric point-welding, and general subjects related to production ...
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Is the 'Yoga and Meditation' proposal really also about meditation?
Proposal: Yoga and Meditation
The proposal name is 'Yoga and Meditation', but in the proposal description I only read about Yoga. There is no mention of meditation. Is this site really about both, or ...
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How can we make the Autism proposal more inclusive?
Proposal: Autism
How can we update the proposal to be as inclusive as possible of the wider Autism Spectrum Disorder community without losing the site's focus?
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Scope too broad and unspecific?
Proposal: Health & beauty
I wanted to propose a site with a hygiene scope myself, but stumbled upon this one.
If I had proposed site I probably would have called it something along the line of
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Medical and Health Questions
Proposal: Nutrition
Although the whole Nutrition scope of the site has health implications – Nutrition simply is one of the most obvious factors to health – I think the site has to draw a line ...
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create a proposal
How to create a proposal and what will be limitation for create a proposal?
I have checked on "AREA51" for create a proposal but didn't get solution.
This question may be repeated.
thanks
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Are eReader apps on topic or not?
Proposal: E-books and E-book Readers
Are apps like the iOS/Android Kindle app on topic for this proposal? Generally they may be on topic on the Apple/Android/Super User/etc sites related to whichever ...
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English for Language Users
Proposal: English Language Learners
My basic issue is that ELU is for linguists, etymologists, and (serious) English language enthusiasts.
ELL is supposed to be for English learners
And we still ...
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How is Software Engineering Research different from conducting a literature review?
Proposal: Software Engineering Research
It seems to me that there is a potential weakness with having these research-related sites: SE sites are Q&A sites, but research is not simple Q&A. The ...
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How to revive this proposal
Proposal: Recreational Boating
When a proposal is filed but the proposer isn't been on that long what to do if someone wants to revive the proposal. As it is presented wrongly: the name, the category ...
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Should questions about improving ones looks or health be posted in the Proposal “Health & Beauty”?
Proposal: Life Improvement
Proposal: Health & Beauty
Should questions about improving ones looks or health be posted in the Proposal Health & Beauty?
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Is this proposal needed, considering Academia can be expanded in scope via its Meta?
Proposal: Undergraduate
The academia S.E. doesn't cater for undergraduates :(
by proposer.
I doubt that a new site is really needed for undergraduates, and this site appears to support a ...
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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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Storage Area Networking
StackExchange has Serverfault, stackoverflow, superuser and other technology sites and they are working very well. I have also seen a proposal for virtualization and cloud computing too.
I think if ...
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How can the proposal definition for Postgrad Mathematics be improved?
Right now, the proposal definition for this site says that it's for the questions that don't fit Mathematics and don't fit Mathematica. This isn't a good definition for a site, considering that a ...
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Recommending Software
Proposal: Software Recommendations
Would this work in a reverse way as well? Say I have built an application, could I recommend it here?
I know there's a fine line between recommending and ...
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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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Geoscience scope — include planetary, solar system, solar-terrestrial sciences?
Proposal: Geoscience
Interpretations differ as to whether geosciences include space and planetary science. From the list of AGU journals or the 2012 list of EGU General Assembly sessions, it probably ...
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How do I go about setting up a homework site?
I teach mathematics in a university. I want to encourage my students to ask and answer questions from each other to build a sense of community. Thus the proposal for a homework site.
I want a ...
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Temas de bases de datos [closed]
Proposal: Stack Overflow in Spanish ¿Qué nivel de interés hay en Oracle, SQL Server entre otros, y en forma más abstracta en modelización relacional de datos? Estos temas, ¿deberían estar en SO en ...
