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Use if the question you're asking is designed to reflect different opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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Code Reviews on topic?

There are two related questions here: Question 1: Reviewing proof scripts? I just formalized a type system in Coq (and I'm almost certain it is not "idiomatic Coq"), would it be appropriate ...
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Renaming "extensional-equality" to "extensional-type-theory"

Is there any better suggestion or reasons against changing extensional-equality to extensional-type-theory? As Couchy suggests, the current tag is slightly ambiguous. If there is no objection, I think ...
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Are questions about categorical logic on topic?

Are questions about categorical logic and the related category theory are on topic on this website? Categorical logic is strongly connected to type theory and the semantic of (many) proof assistants, ...
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How to write a tag wiki excerpt?

I'm hoping to establish some sort of guideline for writing tag wiki excerpts (or usage guidance). Examples of tag wiki excerpts I find usually fall into two categories. The first references the tag ...
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Should I create tags for common components in proof assistant implementations?

I'm asking questions about certain type-checking phases of a proof assistant (conversion-check, elaboration, ...
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How detailed should tags be?

I saw a tag coq-definition. Should there be $\forall l\in \text{ProofAssistants}, l\text{-definition}$ tag? Should there be like ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results

Moderator election #1 on Proof Assistants has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are: They will be your initial pro-tem moderator team — please thank them for ...
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Candidate changes in 2022 Moderator Election – review your ballot

TL;DR: There's been a change in the candidate list for the 2022 Moderator Election. If you've already voted, you should confirm your votes still accurately represent your preferences. Details follow. ...
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How can the actual count of those eligible to vote be determined?

In the election chat room I gave a count of the number of users allowed to vote: 126 users. I did this by looking at the users page and just counting them by hand. It started a series of others ...
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What is wrong with the question "Formalizations of unsolved problems"?

There are comments suggesting that the question Formalization of unsolved problems should be closed because it doesn't contain the big-list tag. I don't understand this. Am I missing something? ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election

The 2022 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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Leaving Private Beta & Initial Pro-Tem Moderator Election!

Congratulations! You've met the participation and engagement expectations for an active private beta site and will be going into public beta tomorrow! As we’re getting ready to wrap up the private ...
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Is there a post that compares major proof assistants?

Is there a post that compares major Proof Assistants and provides suggestions of when to use each one, e.g. comparing: Agda, Coq, Idris, Isabelle, and Lean? With suggestions If not, can create a post?
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How to get more daily views?

The weakest point on the Area 51 Site is our views. We need to get a lot more if the site wants to leave beta. But, how can we do this? As it says: Eventually, 90% of a site's traffic should come ...
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Should we have a Citation Helper?

It looks like a great deal of questions so far are about theoretical aspects of proof assistants and the underlying type theories. The answers to these questions rely on academic papers and conference ...
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