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How is this proposed site different from the epidemiology SE proposal?
Proposal: Disease
I think there's too much overlap between this and the epidemiology SE proposal.
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Would fluid mechanics be on topic?
Proposal: Mechanical Engineering
I don't see fluid mechanics in this site description... would it be on topic?
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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 ...
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Answers to sample questions
Proposal: Public Health & Epidemiology
It seems there are some answers to the Example Questions posted. I don't think these are appropriate and might give the misleading impression that this is ...
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Is this the right place for search engine optimization questions?
Proposal: Information Retrieval and Search Engines
I was searching for a SEO Q&A site under SE, but I couldn't find any. Searching in the proposals gave this one as the first result.
So it's ...
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Scope of questions on a particular project
Proposal: Distributed Systems
Are questions that relate specifically to Hadoop and its internals on topic here? And also about its related projects, like Pig, Hive, ... ?
I've been having trouble ...
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Are we entertaining sensationalized claims or keeping this academic?
Proposal: Marine Science
I've posted a few sample questions on Marine Science that I think might get asked by the less scientific user:
How many shark-related deaths have there been?
Have sharks ...
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Shouldn't this be “Statistics Data”?
Proposal: Data
If you're going to call it 'Data', why does it have to be all about statistics data?
There's plenty of other stuff out there that's not always the easiest to find / use / etc. I ...
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How does Disease differ from Health?
Proposal: Disease
How is this any different than the Health proposal?
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Chemical Engineering part of Engineering and Chemistry
Isn't Chemical Engineering a duplicate? Technical questions can be answered in Engineering while more scientific questions should be asked Chemistry.
So instead of opening many sites we should ...
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Why do we need a CFD site?
Proposal: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
At the moment, the Computational Science stack exchange site is in beta and has 13 questions tagged with fluid-dynamics, and there is already a cfd tag ...
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Proposals to merge Public Health and Epidemiology with other Area51 prosposals
@shimmy asks: Why not merge the [Public Health & Epidemiology proposal] with [the Health proposal] which has twice as votes as this one?
note: @shimmy asked this in the announcement section of ...
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Audience of 'Computational Fluid Dynamics'?
Proposal: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Who is the audience of this proposed site?
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Why not call it oceanography?
According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanography Marine Sciences is a synonimous of oceanography, so why not call this forum oceanography. Maybe it's can attract more people ?
The ...
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Merge Neuroinformatics with the existing Cognitive Science proposal?
Proposal: Neuroinformatics
I have brought this topic up on Meta.cogsci, and we would like to know if joining the proposed Neuroinformatics with the existing Cognitive Science beta would be amenable?
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New Proposal: Memorization Techniques [closed]
I've been reading Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer and feel that a place for questions and answers about memorization techniques would be terrific. I read The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne and ...
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Please can a moderator delete my “unregistered user” commitment so I can register using my StackExchange account?
Proposal: Chemistry
I accidentally committed to the above proposal as an "unregistered user" (see this question). There seems to be no way for me to undo this. Since this proposal will likely go into ...
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Game Theory needs a central place for discussion
Proposal: Game Theory
Will Game Theory.SE be able to bring Game Theorists together?
If I want to ask a question about Game Theory, it's not clear whether I should ask on Math.SE or Theoretical ...
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Consider merging with logic?
Proposal: Critical Thinking
As both proposals concern very similar topics, and certainly complement each other well...
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Changing the name to include “plant sciences”?
Proposal: Botany
Anybody thinks this should use the more typical name "plant sciences", or maybe more specifically "Botany and plant sciences"? Traditional botany tends to be associated to taxonomy, ...
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How is human system sustainability different from environmental system sustainability? [closed]
Proposal: Sustainable Living
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How will this help?
Proposal: Data
Not to be a downer or anything, but how will a SE site help you find data? Seriously, who is going to know "How many people have immigrated from Canada to the U.S., and vice versa, ...
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Who is this for?
Proposal: Information Retrieval and Search Engines
Is there a clearer definition that would be possible? Right now it sounds like the user base is people creating search engines. Is this right? I ...
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Better wording for the description?
Proposal: Information Retrieval and Search Engines
Wouldn't it be better not to use Google's mission statement in the framing of this proposed site?
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What makes a good question?
I have been reading comments in closed questions, and I have to admit that at this point I have no clue how to compose a good question.
I took to boosting this proposal because I think that CQA is a ...
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Should Information Retrieval be combined with Natural Language Processing?
I'm curious whether the Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing proposals could be usefully combined. There seems to be a lot of inherent overlap between them, and it could help build ...
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What's are some options to handle query spelling mistakes? [closed]
Proposal: Information Retrieval and Search Engines
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Aren't questions on research-related Q&A sites often paper surveys in disguise? Discuss!
Trying to establish a Q&A community on a research field, an interesting open point for me is whether many questions related to the research field are simply questions that can be answered by doing ...
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Will we need MathJax/any other formatting here? [closed]
/Proposal: Chemistry
Related: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/128238/adding-mathjax-to-specific-questions-only/128240#128240
Most SE sites use MathJax for mathematical formatting. Will ...
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We need more votes on example questions
Proposal: Logic
The proposal is too quiet and we are still lacking 36 questions scored 10 or more.
So, I would like to ask everybody following this proposal to vote on existing example questions. ...
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Are the sample questions appropriate for the tone of a Natural Capital online community [closed]
Proposal: Natural Capital
I've started questions based on actual questions that have been fielded to me via email on my specific project. However, they might be to tool-centric. I'm not certain how ...
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Chemicals in the food that we consume
We consume food which contains lot many chemicals, excluding carbohydrate / protein / vitamins, which a lay man can easily understand. What about discussing these aspects in the propose forum.
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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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How is Econometrics different?
Proposal: Econometrics
Proposal Research Economics
Site Economics
How is Econometrics not overlapping with the other two?
Specifically, please give a few example questions that would be on-topic ...
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Computational Chemistry, official location?
Proposal: Chemistry
As many of you may know, or perhaps have already previously discussed, computational chemistry already resides in the 'Computational Sciences' community. I've just recently ...
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Neuroinformatics a subset of Bioinformatics?
Proposal: Neuroinformatics
I've only worked with Bioinformatics peripherally, and a few years ago, but how is Neuroinformatics NOT a subset of it?
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The reasoning behind the Critical Thinking proposal
Proposal: Critical Thinking
After spending a lot of time on the Skeptics.SE site and noting the high level of closed questions, I think a similar site that is more "easy going" would be a good idea.
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Computer science: the audience description is now wrong
Proposal: Computer Science
The title of the computer science proposal is now presentable, thank you. The site description has also been edited, but that edit threw out the baby with the bathwater. ...
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Duplicate of the Geoscience proposal?
Proposal: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Duplicate of Geoscience? - which also aims to unite the various "geosphere" proposals.
Or at the very minimum, there's a significant amount of ...
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Scope of the Earth, Atmospheric, and Environmental Science Stack Proposal
Proposal: Earth, Atmospheric, and Environmental Sciences
I do believe that this stack has the potential to be more active than the individual proposed stacks of Geology and Paleontology - given that ...
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Merge and Change of Name of AI + ML + NLP/CL Proposal?
I thought about it again, and maybe if we can apply a good tagging system there would be a chance that those three proposals could live together on the same SE site and would not compete about the ...
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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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Is Mechanical Engineering a duplicate of Engineering?
I think that the proposal Mechanical Engineering is a duplicate of Engineering. The latter was even called "Mechanical Engineering" originally! cite
The placement of this proposal under the ...
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Is Data is a dupe of stats.SE?
@mbq suggested that Data may be a dupe of Statistical Analysis. Are these questions are really out of the scope of statistical analysis? To test this, I asked a question there which got closed for ...
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Why was the future studies proposal deleted, but less frequented and older proposals still exist?
I have no problem if too less traffic for this site, but there are proposals twice as old and not gaining any new followers or questions in the same period of nov-dec, who are still not deleted, like ...
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Would like to represent Neurorehabilitation
I'm a physician specializing in pain medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation. We work with stroke, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury patients. Wondering if there is room here ...
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The experts need not be researchers
Proposal: Popular Natural Science
I agree that research level experts might not be interested in answering a lot of beginner's questions. But then, most beginner's questions don't require a research ...
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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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Has the NLP visual model been tested reliably, if so to what end? [closed]
Proposal: Cognitive Sciences
According to the NLP visual model fast flickers of the eyes in left/right and the 4 diagonal directions map to simple cues related to how a person is thinking. Thease are ...
