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I'd like us to participate in the three-vote close experiment
I support moving to a three close vote (if SE will allow it). The close review que has been hovering from 100-200 questions that need to be reviewed for quite sometime (at least 6 months) which means ...
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The "electrical" tag
I'm in favor of removing it. While one could argue that we do allow non-electrical questions (signal/control theory, embedded programming, HDL, history...), all of those subjects are on-topic because ...
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I'm not electrified by the existence of the blanket [electrical] and [electricity] tags, let's remove them, or at least blacklist them
I agree with you, but as I'm currently the only "active" mod (not active, really), I'll leave it open to collect some votes at least. And I hope that fresh new mod(s) will be willing to work on these ...
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I'd like us to participate in the three-vote close experiment
This is live.
I've reviewed the request and your recent history and I can definitely see that this will likely benefit the site. Thanks for your patience while we got to the place we could make this ...
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10
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Redundant [connectors] tag
I agree, the connectors tag should be merged with connector. If there are no objections, I will do this in a few days
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10
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Circuit editor missing from Ask Question page?
Fixed now, thanks for the report!
This was a bug I created over 10 years ago. Under specific timing conditions, it was possible for dependencies like the CircuitLab plugin to never start. Those timing ...
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I'm not electrified by the existence of the blanket [electrical] and [electricity] tags, let's remove them, or at least blacklist them
These tags look like a candidate for intrinsic tags.
Intrinsic tags are
term[s] that can apply to all questions on the site [...]
Hopefully, this meta post can also function as a formal request ...
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8
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Time to burninate [small-electronics]?
Currently (as of 2021-01-03) there are 174 questions tagged small-electronics, and based on the upvotes, number of answers, and general quality of the questions and answers, it seems there is some ...
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I'd like us to participate in the three-vote close experiment
I agree with OP, I think OP is the best. Let's do it!
But seriously, this answer is here so that people who agree can upvote, and those who disagree can downvote.
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What's wrong with the User Profile Page alignment?
Sorry about that. We accidentally included a wrong file in another file.
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The "shield" tag
Here's what I'll propose:
Retag all questions tagged shield that refer to EMC shielding to shielding
Get rid of any non Arduino shield questions tagged shield
Merge shield into arduino-shield and ...
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5
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Power electrical engineering tags
This sounds reasonable to me, though I'll admit I don't have a ton of experience in the specific terminology to have a strong opinion either way.
The proposed action would be:
The creation of the ...
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5
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The "electrical" tag
I was. I also blacklisted the tag. Please look over untagged questions to provide correct tags or vote to delete.
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What to do with all of these "STM32"-derived Tags?
I'm following the stm32 tag and the stm32f0 and the stm32f4 and I should probably follow the other STM32 tags as well.
Sure there are some peripherals in the STM32F7 I haven't used, but a lot of the ...
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5
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The "circuit" tag
Here are my proposed actions for this tag:
Start working on retagging all single-use instances of circuit using the SEDE query from Passerby right now. (Everyone can do this).
Delete the tag ...
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4
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Accepted
What is with the ground tags?
Grounding and Earthing are probably used interchangeably on this site and I agree they could be merged, possibly after looking at some statistics which I don't know how to do.
I think there's a big ...
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4
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More migration options
I don't know if it's changed or I just have some issue, but I NEVER see anything but the meta group for a migration option, and the meta group is usually not a good option when I think of migrating.
...
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Images for new users
In response to this Meta Stack Overflow request we have implemented a change that will sort of allow low rep users to post images.
If a user with <= 15 rep tries to post a screenshot, they are ...
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4
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The "electrical" tag
I've looked at this on and off over the past week. Now, I count approximately 10 questions with the single [electrical] tag, and some of these questions are very poor - they should be easy to deal ...
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4
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I'm not electrified by the existence of the blanket [electrical] and [electricity] tags, let's remove them, or at least blacklist them
These tags are intrinsic, they need to go away
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4
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Accepted
4
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Accepted
Add syntax highlighting for the matlab tag
This is a good idea. I've set the language for the tag.
NullMod
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3
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Accepted
Time to burninate [small-electronics]?
There isn't a need for this tag and I don't see a need for the tag, it doesn't follow the recommendation on tags because it's to 'meta'. If nobody else has a problem with removal, remove the tags ...
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3
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Accepted
Can we have cite button?
Thank you @Nabla for asking this, the community team has reviewed and we've made the change to the site.
The citation tool has been turned on by the team and you can find it below every post as you ...
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Remove the iron tag
Iron is definitely 'too meta' and describes too many different things.
The questions fell into three categories:
Iron soldering: These I remapped to iron-soldering-station there were at least 9 that ...
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3
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Accepted
Request for tag spelling correction: [differiential-pair] [sic]
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
I merged the tag into differential-amplifier so it is gone now.
NullMod
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2
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Accepted
Making [tag:simulator] a synonym for [tag:simulation]
There are (currently) 35 simulator questions, and 355 simulation questions. While there could be a distinction between the two tags, in practice there isn't.
Edit: With a community vote of 3 in ...
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Error for profile less info
The problem is that the CSS rule pointed out by Chris Laplante is clearly meant to apply only in the expanded view. To fix this problem, it should be changed to read something like this:
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What to do with all of these "STM32"-derived Tags?
I'd lean to having both tags (the general stm32 and the more specific families), but I'll leave that in the hands of voters.
Regarding the second half of the question, I'd say just merge the two of ...
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