Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Use of the word “Space” in a tag
So far, we have the following tags with the word space in them:
space-law
space-medicine
space-shuttle
deep-space
space-station
space-weather
space-junk
space-life
space-telescope
space-elevator
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What to do with overly generic tags?
We have a number of tags so far that seem overly generic, and that don't seem to add a whole lot to the questions they're used on. In particular I'm thinking of engineering, experiment, and technology....
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Is military use of space on topic? Is weaponry testing on topic?
There are military aspects of space exploration.
The space technology is hugely impacted by the military needs and applications on the levels of spacecraft designs, available technologies, ...
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Custom close reasons
Once we get out of the private beta and have our own mods we will need to think about the custom close reasons that each site has.
This might be a good time to throw some ideas out there as to what ...
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Tag Synonym Requests
Please collect your tag synonym requests here, to keep it all in one nice convenient spot. Basically, if you see two tags that are identical or nearly so, please let us know here so it can be fixed.
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Moderator Nominations
If your meta site does not have a post to nominate Moderators, start one now! Pro Tem appointments will begin about two weeks after the site is created. The more guidance we receive, the more informed ...
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How can we work to include more professional questions in this site?
So far, I've seen some great questions, mostly on the theoretical level. As Robert Cartaino mentioned on this question, we are lacking in questions in general that are "Real World" problems, the types ...
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Is 'feasibility' a useful tag?
I created feasibility for Could a partial space elevator be practical and useful?, but I am wondering if such would be a useful tag. (I do not remember if I read the article/blog post about the evils ...
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What should our FAQ contain?
We don't need to have an answer to this now. It's just a good thing to start thinking about soon.
What should our FAQ contain?
For example and inspiration, here's Super User's FAQ:
Super User is for ...
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Is extraterrestrial planetary exploration (eg. Mars, Europa, Enceladus, Titan) on-topic in Space Exploration?
"Space" in space exploration could mean many different things to many different people here.
For example, I would say that almost everything that the NASA JPL does with government or corporate ...
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Tags: “moon” / “earths-moon” / “luna” / “lunar-*” / “moons”
How should things relating to Earth's moon, "Luna"/"The Moon" be tagged. The usual way of distinguishing between our moon and moons in general is to capitalise the word when referring to Earth's moon. ...
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Policy on recycling example questions from Area 51
I've not followed a proposal all the way though beta before. We have example questions that are submitted in the definition phase.
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/43283/space-exploration?...
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What should distinguish [tag:health] and [tag:medical]?
Currently each tag only has one question (and neither tag has a wiki summary).
For health the question was Would wearing heavy clothing be enough to solve the health effects of reduced gravity on ...
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Tags: humans, health
I just put in a tag wiki edit request for humans because the current questions are all human physiology. I then saw a question tagged health that is also about human physiology.
I am wondering which ...
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Is space weather, solar-terrestrial physics, etc., on-topic?
Is this question on-topic?
What, if any, plans have been made for handling events like a geomagnetic reversal?
I'd say this is rather a question on geophysics, space weather, solar-terrestrial ...
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Are stratospheric balloons on-topic?
NASA, ESA, DLR, CNES all have stratospheric balloon programmes. Technically, they don't reach space, only the stratosphere. However, they're commonly used to test space equipment, and the view from ...
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Where is our demarcation line between Space Exploration and Physics?
There are quite a number of question topics that could fit on either. Do we have thoughts on what will make a question better fit here or on Physics?
If it asks for mathematics, does that make it a ...
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Rules for “Science Fiction” questions
Are there any rules we want to establish for science fiction-style questions (like this one)?
I know Physics.SE doesn't allow any Sci-Fi style questions in any form.
Do we want to adopt a policy ...
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Tags: space-law vs. international-law
I've started on the tagging, and I've already noticed two related tags: space-law and international-law. The few questions I've noticed could be tagged with either, as far as I can tell.
Are we ...
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Should we disallow the Exploration tag?
Should we disallow the exploration tag? I don't think it's going to be very useful, since theoretically this entire Stack Exchange site is about Space Exploration.
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What should our chat room's name be?
"Space Exploration" is the default name for our chat room, but that's a little on the bland side. What would be a fitting name for the default SpaceEx room?
