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On Area 51, there were at least two proposals. Both were deleted.

Proposals with insufficient activity are subject to removal. Occasionally, proposals may also be removed for reasons of moderation: spam, off topic, abuse, etc.

If I may ask, were these removals due to "insufficient activity" or due to military-related matters being considered off-topic?

The reason I ask this question is that I see no point in gathering a few people and attempting to start a new SE site that will never take off due to its being considered off-topic.

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  • Purely for the military, I think not. But Politics SE has a military tag, have you seen it?
    – Ollie
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 19:59
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    Those proposals were probably closed due to a lacking community. You first need to find and organize your experts, then start the proposal and have all your experts commit. Sites are not started out of thin air and SE will not do the leg work that is needed to engage with the experts you need.
    – rene Mod
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 20:01
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    @rene "Probably" is not good enough. I would like to be sure.
    – Rodrigo de Azevedo
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 20:02
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    @RodrigodeAzevedo Only those who closed the proposal can say for sure.
    – Ollie
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 20:03
  • @Ollie I suppose that defense policy would be on-topic at Politics SE, but actual warfare not so much.
    – Rodrigo de Azevedo
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 20:09
  • The link at the end of your question seems to point to the wrong Area51 question.
    – wimi
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 20:13
  • @wimi What do you mean?
    – Rodrigo de Azevedo
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 20:16
  • @RodrigodeAzevedo at the end of this question, there is a link that says "Is there interest in a military SE?". But that link points to a question about "a separate community for Ionic".
    – wimi
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 20:18
  • @wimi My goal was to emphasize that there have been proposals to create a Military SE. If a question has been closed is not enormously relevant, I would say.
    – Rodrigo de Azevedo
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 20:21
  • @RodrigodeAzevedo there seems to be some misunderstanding here. Your question has a link to this question: Don't we need the seperate community for Ionic?, which has nothing to do with military. It is about an app development framework.
    – wimi
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 20:30
  • @wimi My question links to question #28148. When you click on it, do you get redirected to question #28107?
    – Rodrigo de Azevedo
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 20:35
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    @RodrigodeAzevedo yes. I see, this is really weird...
    – wimi
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 20:37
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    @RodrigodeAzevedo ok, I see what happened, it is this. I was automatically redirected from an unanswered duplicate question to its duplicate target. Why those two Area51 questions are duplicates of each other, I have no idea... It might be that other users with no account on Area51 get redirected in the same way as me.
    – wimi
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 20:44
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    It could be a good proposal. There is a fine difference between military tag of Politics and what a general military.se would be. I can guess dozens of military topics which are off-topic for politics as well as history.
    – Severus Snape
    Commented Sep 21, 2020 at 2:23

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There are very few subjects that are considered "off-topic" on Area 51. This is not one of them. Both previous proposals mentioned were automatically closed and deleted by the system, one due to lack of activity and one due to a year having passed without making it to the commitment phase (back when the time allotments were longer - that is now reduced to four months).

If you have an interested community already established, there is nothing preventing you from pursuing a site for the topic.

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