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Should we move to 3 close votes?
My understanding is that there's been an update where a SE site can close questions on 3 votes as opposed to 5. The same applies to reopen votes, moving from 5 to 3 votes needed to reopen a closed ...
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What is the "aviation-culture" tag for?
We currently have a aviation-culture with 7 questions.
3 of them are closed, with a 4th that probably need migration.
The other 3 do not seem to be needing such a tag, imho.
What is this tag for? Do ...
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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top?
Stack Overflow is not pinning the accepted answer to the top any longer.
What would we like for our site?
Keep things as they are, as the right answer is not changing in aviation as it does for code.
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Proposed edit to "Don't ask" help page
A little background; moderators asked for the ability to edit all help pages, this has been declined for reasons I don't need to go in to, however we have been told that there is a process for ...
JamiecMod
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Do we need a [homework] tag?
This question is currently tagged with homework. I had previously removed this tag from some other questions, but since it keeps reappearing, it is probably best do discuss it here on Meta.
The topic ...
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The [procedure] tag is very vague
The procedure tag is very vague. It's been used 127 times, from taxiing to ATC to weather decisions to starting a propeller to approach procedures... the list is long. No clear "topic" or clear usage ...
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Tag merge: [legal] → [regulations]
During a discussion I had with @ymb1 on "Do we need the "legal" and "legislation" tags?", we came to the idea of merging the legal tag to regulations.
The description for legal is
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Merge [boeing-747-8] → [boeing-747]?
I don't know why the -8i/f variants get special treatment, since the same is not done for the variants of the 737, 777, etc.
Unless I've missed something, I request a tag merge for boeing-747-8 x27 → ...
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Merge and rename: [airman-certification] and [licence]
I can't tell the usage difference between airman-certification x116 and licence x33.
The usage guidelines are:
Airman Certification is for questions related to obtaining certificates and ratings ...
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Do we need the [gnss-gps] tag?
I noticed that we seem to have two tags for the Global Positioning System: [gps] and [gnss-gps]. These two tags seem to have exactly the same meaning—namely, the Global Positioning System, which is a ...
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What should we do with the "737 Max high speed stall" question?
This one in particular.
It was originally closed as "unclear what you are asking". Got edited, but failed to be reopened.
Got edited again to include an answer that was given via email, purportedly ...
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Should we have a tag popup also for "accident-investigation"?
In the last few days there have been a few questions using the accident-investigation tag that deal with an ongoing investigation and thus tend to be borderline on topic, if not fully off-topic.
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What should we do with the afd tag?
The afd tag refers to the FAA's Airport/Facility Directory, which was renamed to the Chart Supplement in March 2016.
Right now we only have 4 questions tagged afd but what should we do with them? ...
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Should we merge the simulator and flight-simulator tags?
Right now we have two simulator tags:
flight-simulator has 33 questions
simulator has has 12 questions
There doesn't seem to be any obvious reason to have both. Should we merge them, and if so, into ...
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Blue color is too vivid
We already have a few posts describing the blue voting arrows. This post is about the blue text at the front page:
The blue color is way too attractive to the eye. For an
exercise, try scrolling ...
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Do we need two (g430/gns430) tags for the same thing?
Do we really need both the g430 and gns430 tags?
Currently they have been edited to have
the same wiki g430 and gns430
they are in the review queue to have the same wiki excerpt:
Questions ...
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Is [recovery] a meta-tag?
Is recovery a meta-tag and thus worthy of being removed? In particular, it seems to fail the first test:
If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag. Every tag ...
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Why do you have to have votes on a tag before you can suggest a synonym?
Looking through the pages of tags I noticed many that are the same. An example are the tags usaf and us-air-force. At this point nobody has made a synonym for them. I was surprised to find that I can'...
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What the loading tag refers to?
Browsing the loading, I find questions related to:
loading and unloading payload
load factor (upward accelerations)
I would like to clarify editing the description of the tag, but I'm unsure which ...
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Why is the site blog not link in menu?
We have a blog at http://aviation.blogoverflow.com/
It is said to be official blog for us.
Why is it not linked to when I click from blog link from the top left hand corner menu?
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Merging [eu] and [european-union]
Tags eu and european-union have identical descriptions:
For questions specifically related to the EU, but not specifically to a member nation
Although the latter category has more questions ...
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Merging [aircraft-identification] and [aircraft-recognition]
There are currently two tags with the same meaning, with most questions belonging to the former: aircraft-identification and aircraft-recognition. One of the few questions in the latter category is ...
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"faa-wings" tag
I just edited a question about FAA regulations applying to aircraft wings incorrectly tagged "faa-wings"
I added a description (based on copying chunks from Wikipedia and an FAA document) to the tag ...
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Do we need a separate [airbus-a319] tag?
This question brought to my attention that, as of 2 months ago, there is now an airbus-a319 tag. It has exactly 2 questions and no tag wiki. For nearly all, if not all, other aircraft types, we do not ...
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Add tag specific popup to [accidents]
It appears that Tag Specific Popups are available for use across the network, and apparently they're 'trivial' to add.
Should/could we add one to accidents? Someone can post an answer with some ...
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Should the "incident" or the "accidents" tag be renamed?
We have a incident (singular) tag and a accidents (plural) one.
Should we change one to have both singular/plural?
If yes, which one?
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What topics can I ask about here?
In the help center, we have an important question unique to Aviation.SE which is:
What topics can I ask about here?
Please look around to see if your question has been asked before. It’s
also OK to ...
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remove mas370 tag
there are currently 6 mas370 questions (of which 2 are closed). However each of these could be asked without referencing the missing plane.
I suggest removing the tag from these and removing the tag ...
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Training or flight-training, maintenance-training, and atc-training?
How should we use tags like training? It is a general topic, and I suggest using more specific tags since we are targeting more than just pilots so that we can find questions a little easier: flight-...
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When should FAA -vs- FAR (and other regulatory) tags be used?
So I've been using (and see others using) the FAA and FAR tags somewhat interchangeably, and there are a lot of questions with both tags since people ask questions about "FAA rules" instead of the ...
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How should we describe the "Aircraft" tag?
aircraft is an odd duck. I'm not sure it's a bad tag (certainly there are some generic things that apply equally to a glider, an airship, and a transport-category jet for which "aircraft" may be the ...
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UAV is the technically correct term
Currently, the tag drones has been created. The term drone is a commonly used phrase but is not the technically accurate term which is what should be used on Aviation.SE. Unmanned aerial vehicle or ...
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Remove regulation tag while we still can?
I would suggest to remove/block the regulation tag while we still can; would it be possible to have a notification or something if the asker selects regulation ...
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Rename tag class-bravo to class-b?
The FAA refers to the different types of airspace as Class A, B, C, D, E, and G. On the radio, B and D can be easily confused, so we use phonetics (Bravo or Delta), but when written it is not used ...
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What should we call our chat room?
Most SE site chat rooms get a clever name at some point. What ideas do you have?
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