Questions tagged [proposal-scope]
For discussing the scope of proposals.
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Is a "Shopping" site even possible on StackExchange?
Almost every site that I've seen on the SE network contends that Shopping Questions are taboo and off-topic.
Likely this is due to trying to prevent opinionated answers or lengthy discussions back ...
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Speedcubing on topic here?
Proposal: Puzzling
Speedcubing is the act of solving Rubik's cubes and other closely related puzzles quickly. It's sort of a half-sport, half-puzzle activity. There's already a Sports site, but so ...
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Disagree with an ethics site because it is entirely subjective and opinionated
Proposal: Ethics
I disagree with this proposal, I do not think it is a good idea to open up a place to discuss ethics.
My reasoning behind this is that ethics is something entirely based on opinion, ...
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DRM Removal in or out of scope
Would questions about non-commercial usage Digital Rights Management DRM removal be on topic?
Without doubt, piracy type activity is out of scope.
General discussion about DRM would seem to be in ...
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Data about spacecrafts and physiological aspects of being in space on topic?
Proposal: Space Exploration
Would the questions about the parameters of spacecrafts and about the physiological aspects of staying in space be on topic on the site?
I would like to ask a questions ...
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Boundary between space exploration and aviation and aerospace sites
Proposal: Aviation and Aerospace, Space Exploration
There is some overlap between Aviation and Aerospace and Space Exploration.
Definition of Aviation and Aerospace:
Proposed Q&A site for ...
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Why limit this to TOR?
Proposal: Tor - online anonymity, privacy, and security
Why not expand this proposal to other anonymizing networks - Freenet, I2P, and others?
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"SO in Language" proposals scope
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in Russian)
Shouldn't SO translations be mainly devoted to language- (country-) specific questions, for example:
Questions about APIs of local sites/services (ex. VK, Mail....
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On or off topic: Cosmology?
Proposal: Astronomy.
Cosmology and Astronomy are closely related and a few of the example questions look more like Cosmoloy to me:
What does the future of the universe look like?
Does the cosmic ...
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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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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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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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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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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 https://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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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 to propose a new site?
How to create a proposal and what will be limitation to create a proposal?
I have checked on "AREA51" for create a proposal but didn't get solution.
This question may be repeated.
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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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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 smaller ...
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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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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 EL&...
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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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Which Geo/Earth Sciences proposal to support?
Proposal: Geoscience
We are leaning towards creating a community for the EarthCube audience, basically collaborative 'cyberinfrstracture' for the Earth Sciences. Specifically we are working on the ...
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Avoid recommendation questions
Proposal: Genealogy
There are a number of proposed questions that amount to requests for service/software recommendations:
What are viable alternatives to the GEDCOM format?
How can I digitize my ...
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Should questions about Astronomical software be allowed?
Proposal: Astronomy & Astrophysics
Both professional and amateur astronomers/astrophysicists use a lot of software either for image processing or data analysis. So should queries related to those ...
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Would SE consider a site that wanted to use the SE framework, but not implement the same rules and guidelines?
I would like to propose a site that is focused on a community rather than a topic, and that would follow slightly different rules than most SE sites.
Would SE allow this?
For example, a site for ...
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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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"Sales" is too broad a scope
Proposal: Sales
What would this site's purpose be? Its current description is basically "Oh, it covers sales", but in what sense? This is quite a broad topic, so without more targetted specifics, ...
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Can language based Stack Overflow proposal regrouped the most popular stack exchange sites (SO, SU, SF...) using tags
There's many stack overflow languages based proposal on area51
Stack Overflow (in French)
Stack Overflow (in Persian)
Stack Overflow (in German)
Stack Overflow in Polish
Stack Overflow (in Chinese)
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Conflict with programmers.stackexchange?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
I think that this proposal is going to conflict with programmers.stackexchange.
How exactly will this proposal be substantially different ...
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What about money?
Proposal: Sustainable Living
Modern money is created via interest bearing debt. The only way to pay back that debt (which is larger than the original loan) is with new debt. Thus, debt grows ...
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Would it be worth including space & planetary sciences?
Proposal: Astronomy & Astrophysics
As the Astronomy proposal didn't get enough participation, would it make more sense to broaden the proposal even further to specifically include:
Solar physics ...
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Rationale for other.stackexchange.com
Proposal: Other
It seems rather often, and to the chagrin of many loyal Stack Exchange users and the entire community, that some questions have no place to go. See What happened to "What real ...
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Tagging questions [closed]
Proposal: Zend Framework
Once the proposal is accepted and questions start to flow, we should enforce a specific minimum tagging for each question. This basically boils down to requiring one of the ...
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Is it possible to create a webstie for Language interpretation?
google translate is not good, and there's no forum or Q&A website dedicate for professional translation. So is it possible to create a section for that. Where users can post words or small ...
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Windows Phone Developer questions should stay on StackOverflow
Proposal: Windows Phone
As per the comment in 'Announcements' from Mick N, this site should not be targeting developers and WP developers should continue to leverage Stack Overflow.
Can the site ...
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What kind of cosplay questions would be allowed?
Proposal: Anime & Manga
The description for the proposed Anime & Manga SE states "Proposed Q&A site for anime fans, otakus, cosplayers, doujin producers, etc."
Right now, the only sample ...
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Is a topic covered by another proposal really supposed to be discouraged?
Let's say you have a topic. It's a broad topic. Someone comes along and makes an area 51 that covers a subsection of that topic. I see only a limited number of options
Let the topic stay open ...
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Is Behaviorism within our scope?
Proposal: Cognitive Sciences
Behaviorism has widely been regarded as an affront to Cognitive Psychology but many findings of Behaviorism are still extremely relevant to psychology today.
Are ...
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Poker Proposal - Bad Beat Story Posts
Proposal: Poker
Have you discussed how "bad beat stories" would be handled? Would they be allowed with a unique and/or exclusive tag? Would they be shunned altogether?
I've just seen many poker ...
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Scope of Computer Science (non-programming)
Proposal: Computer Science (Non-Programming)
I am having trouble with understanding the scope of this proposal. (Partially because of attempts to merge it with other CS proposals.) My first ...
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How can we better serve the CS community on Stack Overflow?
Proposal: Computer Science (Non-Programming)
Gotta admit, I see the point of this. From the look of the proposed questions so far, this would be a solid resource for CS students, who may well find ...
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