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Update to the help center's "What topics can I ask about here?"
Take a look at the current text of the help center page, What topics can I ask about here?. There are a few different issues with this page as it stands:
Description
The site description ("SL.SE is ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
Sustainable Living's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them ...
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Is [waste] different to [waste-minimisation]? Should they be combined?
In the process of suggesting an edit to this question I noticed we have both a waste and waste-minimisation tags.
Both have fairly substantial use (94 and 21 questions respectively). From what I can ...
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Should we keep the [aquarium] tag?
The aquarium tag is used on only two question. It may be overly specific. The best tags offer value beyond a simple keyword search, and in this case both questions already include the keyword in their ...
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Synonomize tags on Meta: on-topic vs. site-scope
We have two tags here on Meta that seem to cover exactly the same content.
on-topic
site-scope
Could a moderator please add on-topic as a synonym of site-scope?
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Tag suggestion: "best practices"
After asking a question about types of dishwasher detergent, I realized that I see a lot of questions asking the "best way" to do something. For example:
Best way to store vegetables in the fridge
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Map of related tags
I put together this mind map to represent approximate relationships I see between tags. Many tags do not fit well into a tree structure, so I've taken liberties in a few areas.
Hopefully this is ...
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How long to wait before enacting decisions from Meta?
In general, how long should we wait for community feedback before confirming and enacting decisions on meta? For example, I recently asked whether we should burn a tag and the response was positive, ...
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Is air-conditioning a synonym for cooling?
We have two separate tags, cooling and air-conditioning. Right now these are not synonyms, but I wonder if they should be.
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The inverse tags, heating and space-heating have already been ...
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Should questions about perpetual motion machines be preserved?
We have two questions on this site about perpetual motion machines.
Solar energy without the sun: Super LED light on top of solar panels?
Getting power from an innovative new mechanism
Both questions ...
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Should we keep the tag [green-construction]?
The tag green-construction doesn't seem to offer much specificity. It's clearly not about painting buildings green, so "green" in this sense really just means sustainable, which is already implied by ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election
The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Difference between 'carbon footprint' tag and 'greenhouse-gas-emissions'?
We have two related tags that I feel overlap largely but IMHO are distinct enough to keep them as separate tags; carbon-footprint and greenhouse-gas-emissions. Assuming other people agree the tags are ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore Moderator election
Summary: Sustainable Living Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on February 24, 2020 to bring in two more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the ...
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