Questions tagged [duplicate]
The duplicate tag helps to identify possible duplicate proposals.
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History repeats itself (sometimes)
Proposal: Solana
This proposal for Solana was opened almost directly after the other one (proposed by the same user) was closed for widespread voting fraud. Is there any historical precedence for this?...
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Go to Electronics.SE! [duplicate]
Proposal: FPGA and ASIC is a small subset already covered on Electrical Engineering
Bring your questions there (or, perhaps, find them already answered)
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How is ProgramErrors different from Stack Overflow?
Proposal: ProgramErrors
The description of this proposal is:
Proposed Q&A site for who doesn't like StackOverflow spamming, Copied questions, etc.
What exactly does that mean in terms of scope? ...
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There're ~5000 questions tagged on SO related to "extended reailty"
Proposal: Extended Reality
Stack Overflow tagged questions: *reality
What is this proposal going to do that's fundamentally different from what SO already offers?
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How many times is "covid-19" going to be proposed?
Proposal: COVID-19 is a duplicate of at least the following (now deleted) proposals:
https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/124028/covid19 ("enthusiasts of the covid-19 pandemic"?)
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Epidemiology is on-topic at Medical Sciences
Proposal: Epidemiology
Epidemiology is on-topic at Medical Sciences Stack Exchange. The epidemiology tag there currently has 64 questions.
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Microsoft Windows is on-topic on Super User
Proposal: Microsoft Windows
Super User kinda already does this, the second most popular tag is Windows 7, then Windows, and Windows 10 is up there as well.
If you look at the Windows tags, they all ...
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Is Lighting Design proposal a duplicate of Electrical Engineering SE?
Proposal: Lighting Design
Lighting design primarily includes electrical designing of chips, and fixing them on boards, coupled with led lights, which glow and create thousands of patterns.
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Wildlife is On-Topic at The Great Outdoors
Proposal: Wildlife
The Great Outdoors SE has a wildlife tag, and it seems to be a fairly active tag, judging by the current questions
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Possible Duplicate of Cognitive Science
Proposal: Psychology
This site is possibly a duplicate of Cognitive Sciences.
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Duplicate of RPG/Arqade
Proposal: Toontown
As this is a role-playing online game, i think that this is on-topic at both RPG.se and Arqade.
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Duplicate of SFF.SE
Proposal: Star Wars
This is entirely cvered by BOTH Science Fiction and Fantasy and Movies SE.
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Darknet vs. I2P
Proposals: Darknet, I2P
The I2P proposal, proposed two months ago and currently in commitment phase, appears like a natural subset of the Darknet posposal from one month ago which is currently in its ...
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Duplicate of Linguistics
Proposal: Etymology
Questions about the etymology of words, or about the field of etymology, are already on-topic on the Linguistics beta site. The etymology tag is among the most-used tags there.
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It's on-topic on Deep Web, so please join the private beta
I'd like to highlight that I2P network is on-topic at Deep Web and it's already in private beta at:
http://deepweb.stackexchange.com/
To access the site just go to the proposal page and follow the ...
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How is this proposal any different than Arqade?
Proposal: Gamers
Gamers appears to be a general gaming site, which already exists in the form of Arqade.
How is this proposal any different than Arqade?
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Is "Programming Languages" a duplicate of "StackOverflow" and/or "Programmers"?
Would you agree that Programming Languages a duplicate of StackOverflow and/or Programmers?
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Possible duplicate of The Great Outdoors
Proposal: Ornithology
This is the third or fourth proposal about birds now. As I've pretty much said to all of them, bird watching is already on topic in The Great Outdoors
Tags:
bird-watching(16 ...
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The "Entertainment" proposal was already covered by a number of more-specific sites
Proposal: Entertainment
Different types of entertainment already have their own Q&A sites:
Arqade for videogames
Movies & TV
Anime & Manga
Role-playing Games
Board & Card Games
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What about Robotics?
It seems Artificial Intelligence is on-topic at Robotics SE.
The central problems (or goals) of Artificial Intelligence research include reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, communication, and ...
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Duplicate of "Arts and Crafts" and "3D Printing"
Proposal: Make
The text of this proposal reads:
Proposed Q&A site for people who fashion things with their hands, 3-D printers, cosplayers, costumers, glassblowers, makerspacers, robotics, ...
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Isn't DevOps a duplicate of Server Fault?
Development Operations is a broad topic and I believe it is already covered in Server Fault, Stack Overflow, and Programmers.
What is it about this topic that is not already covered by the sites ...
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Numerical methods a duplicate of computational science
Proposal: Numerical Methods
Proposal: Computational science
Is numerical methods a duplicate of computational science, which is in beta here: https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/ ?
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Ethereum questions are welcome on Bitcoin.Stackexchange
Proposal: Ethereum
Hey folks,
I see that your proposal is gaining quite some speed, and wish you best of luck!
However, I was wondering, whether you are aware that questions about all ...
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Science Books a duplicate of Writers?
Proposal: Science Books
We already have Writers.SE, which ought to help with most aspects of writing, including those of writing science-related books. And most questions about the science about one ...
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Duplicate of Embedded Systems that just entered beta
Proposal: Embedded Systems
This appears to be a duplicate of the Embedded Systems site that entered private beta about 10 days ago.
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How does this differ from physics.se?
Proposal: physical theories
It looks to me like everything on-topic for this proposed site would be on-topic for physics.stackexchange.com -- except for the "discussion" bit, which is off-topic ...
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Open Science is a duplicate (subset) of academia.SE
Proposal: Open Science
I'm going to go further than the related question Should open science questions just be asked on academia.SE?
I can't see any reason why this isn't a subset of Academia.SE, ...
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Wouldn't (almost) every question here be on-topic for Seasoned Advice?
Proposal: Coffee
Looking at the sample questions for this site, it look like, other than the open-ended question about opening up your own coffee shop, every question here would be on-topic for ...
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Is this a duplicate of Puzzling.SE and Riddles.Area51? [duplicate]
Proposal: Puzzle and Riddle Challenges
We already have the Riddles proposal for riddles and the Puzzling Stack Exchange site for puzzles. How does this proposal fill a niche that is not filled by ...
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Isn't "Ask FullFact" just a subset of skeptics.SE?
Proposal Ask FullFact is for "anyone who wants a statistical claim made by UK politicians, or the media, to be factchecked"
But any statistical claim made by a UK politician would count as a notable ...
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Covered by Arts and Crafts?
Proposal: Origami
Is this not covered under Arts and Crafts proposal?
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Duplicate of Earth Science?
What makes Flat Earth Studies stand out from the existing Beta site Earth Science?
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Would this be a partial duplicate of Computational Science?
Proposal: Physics homework questions
Computational Science's Tour page says,
Computational Science is a question and answer site for questions and answers about computational methods used in ...
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Did Joel Spolsky just renounce "merging season"?
NOTICE:
Since this site is now in beta, it is time to have these conversations with the folks who are actually building this site. Please bring your comments and discussions to this site's 'meta' ...
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Relationship of Open Science to Open Data?
Proposals: Open Science and Open Data
There is an existing beta called Open Data. It's been around for about 16 months, and looks like it could use a hand in generating critical mass. I'm not an ...
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Duplicate of Musical Practice & Performance?
Proposal: Songwriting
Wouldn't this draw users away from the site specified all question here would be on Topic at that site
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Already covered by CR and SO
Proposal: Is my code right is already amply covered by Stack Overflow and Code Review.
And what wouldn't be covered thereon, are most likely homework-type questions, which are typically frowned-upon ...
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What would be on topic at this site that is not on topic at History Stack Exchange
Proposal: History of Science And Mathematics
What would be on topic at this site that is not on topic at History Stack Exchange?
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Duplicate of Personal Productivity?
Proposal: Mental Fitness
Isn't this site a duplicate of Personal Productivity? Seems that lots of these questions would be appropriate there too.
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Why the "Computer Graphics" proposal is unique
Old Proposal: Computer Graphics
New Proposal: Computer Graphics
While Stack Overflow is a great site, it is meant for specific programming questions. From the official help page:
What topics can I ...
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Would the Woodworking site duplicate the Home Improvement site?
I created a proposal for a new SE site on Woodworking. This new site may have some overlap with Home Improvement. Are there enough new topics to warrant a separate site?
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Don't allow votes as duplicates of closed proposals/beta sites
Proposal: Economics
I noticed that the economics proposal was marked as a duplicate of Economics (Update: no longer listed as a possible duplicate), which seems reasonable if you don't check the link,...
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Is "Music Fans" a duplicate of music.stackexchange.com?
Proposal: Music Fans
Is "Music Fans" a duplicate of music.stackexchange.com? That site is
for musicians, students, and enthusiasts.
"Fans" are enthusiasts, after all.
Their site suffers from a ...
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Why do people persist in creating duplicate or subset proposals rather than supporting pre-existing proposals?
My observation of the Stack Exchange (SE) Beta Sites, is they need as much consolidated support from user to get them launched, up and out of Beta. Many fail. Once a site has become a thriving success,...
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Possible duplicate of Webmasters
Proposal: Web Design
HTML / Javascript / CSS and many other tags are already handled by Webmasters site.
Why would you start a separate proposal for web design?
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