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Provide a template for proposals?
Currently, clicking Start Proposal starts you with a blank text box. There is some general advise in the "Posting Tips" box. However, it is not clear what exactly the format should be, what points are optional and what is mandatory.
The natural reaction is to look at existing proposals and copy from them. The good news is that the they are pretty consistent and uniform (the two that were there, and I copied them in my third :) ). The bad news is that they are quite elaborate and seem like a daunting task.
Do we want any sort of general pattern in proposals? For example, should they all have the headers: Site name, Description, Topics, Exclusions, Overlaps? If there is an expectation of some pattern, it would be nice if the text box began prefilled with the desired formatting and placeholders/template.
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I've added a template to the help, linked from both the "how to propose a community" help topic and the posting guidance when you start a proposal post. We don't yet have a way to pre-populate the editor (like GitHub does), so it's still a manual process, but I hope "follow link, select the stuff in the code block, copy, start proposal post, paste" is easier than copying from other proposals.
Please let us know how this template is working and what adjustments would make it easier to use.
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