Questions tagged [proposal-name]
for discussions about an appropriate name for a proposal.
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What should we call this proposal?
Proposal: Digital Fabrication
Note: Now we are in Commitment, this questiuon has been superceded by NEW! Vote for the Name of this Proposal. NOW!
Suggesting names
Please answer in the following ...
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How should we craft the site description for “Technical Communication?”
Proposal: Technical Communication
NOTE: The site name has changed from "Documentation" to "Technical Communication"
I'd like for people to discuss the site description here.
Thanks!
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What should our site be called?
Proposal: Operations Research
UPDATE: Stack Exchange has made a final decision on the name of this site: It will be Operations Research. Further discussion below is welcome, but bear in mind that the ...
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Standardizing & Simplifying SE Site Names
This is a repost of an announcement/discussion on Meta Stack Overflow. I'm cross-posting here since this is where new sites are born and named, and because you may notice some proposal names ...
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Site Scope / Name Conflict at Documentation/Technical Communication
Proposal: Technical Communication
NOTE: As a newcomer to this proposal, I apologize for jumping in and kicking sand all over everything. But, I think this is really important to address now, before ...
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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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Great work! You're almost there!
Proposal: Maker Professionals
After a few failed attempts, we finally got enough support to give this subject a serious run. Congratulations! The proposal did a great job of attracting a lot of ...
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Expand name to include both Free Software and Open Source?
Proposal: Open Source
To some people, there is an important distinction between Free Software and Open Source Software, at a philosophical level. I'm not really interested in having that fight myself,...
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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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1answer
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Our site name changed. Is it final?
Proposal: Operations Research
Last night Stack Exchange changed our site name and URL from "Operations Research and Analytics" to "Operations Research".
Should we assume that is the final name? If ...
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3answers
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What should the site name and URL be?
Proposal: Graphics Layer Architecture
This proposal used to be called Computer Graphics Programming, but I decided to rename it to Graphic Layer Architecture, based on some input.
What do you think? ...
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What does a asterisk (star) in front of a proposal name mean?
In the "All proposals" view I noted that some proposals (obviously very new ones) are preceded by a star, e.g.
* Magic
at this moment. What does the star mean?
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how does naming work for new sites?
For new proposals, how are names and URLs selected? For example, Cross Validated is at https://stats.stackexchange.com/ so this is not an fully automated process, since the name and URL do not match.
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Literature or Books?
Proposal: Literature
Since I believe it's still possible to change the name of a proposal during the commitment stage, but it becomes much harder during beta stage, this seems like the perfect time ...
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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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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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Proposal for a “general” site on Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
Not every topic can have its own Stack Exchange site, so we're proposing a new site just about general-purpose "things."
For example, how about this question that doesn't fit into any existing sites: ...
