15 votes

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 ...
Voltage Spike's user avatar
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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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10 votes

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 ...
Andrew T.'s user avatar
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10 votes

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 ...
clabacchio's user avatar
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10 votes
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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 ...
Catija's user avatar
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10 votes

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
Voltage Spike's user avatar
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10 votes

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 ...
balpha's user avatar
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8 votes

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.
pipe's user avatar
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8 votes

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 ...
MarkU's user avatar
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6 votes
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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.
Adam Lear's user avatar
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6 votes
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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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6 votes
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Was the "Tour" removed?

The tour is now back in the top bar drop-down menu. See the earlier version of my answer below, where SE said this was an unintentional change which they were fixing. It has now been fixed (at least ...
SamGibson's user avatar
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5 votes

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 ...
Arsenal's user avatar
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5 votes
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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 ...
W5VO's user avatar
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5 votes

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 ...
W5VO's user avatar
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5 votes
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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.
Jon 'links in bio' Ericson's user avatar
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I can't edit my old schematics

The problem appears to be that in older CircuitLab schematics, the image was saved as https:..., but in newer schematics, the image is saved as http:... Changing the text in the markup from https to ...
Math Keeps Me Busy's user avatar
5 votes

I can't edit my old schematics

tl;dr: The fix should be out in production now. Please let me know if you're still seeing issues with schematic-related links. Big thanks to Math Keeps Me Busy for the HTTP vs HTTPS pointer. I'm not ...
Adam Lear's user avatar
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4 votes

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 ...
Greg d'Eon's user avatar
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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. ...
Ecnerwal's user avatar
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4 votes
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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 ...
Taryn's user avatar
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4 votes
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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 ...
pipe's user avatar
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4 votes

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
Voltage Spike's user avatar
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4 votes
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Medal bug: Linking to wrong question

This has been fixed. More details (and haiku) on MSE.
Yaakov Ellis's user avatar
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4 votes
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Add syntax highlighting for the matlab tag

This is a good idea. I've set the language for the tag.
Null's user avatar
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3 votes
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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 ...
Shodipo Ayomide's user avatar
3 votes
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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 ...
Voltage Spike's user avatar
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3 votes

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 ...
Voltage Spike's user avatar
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3 votes
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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.
Null's user avatar
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