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Should we ask popular but easy questions?
This search for "sneek vs sneak" points to a couple of Yahoo! Answers posts, like this one. There are many popular but simple English questions like these that point to Yahoo! Answers posts. These ...
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How to inform English language users about useful English language resources?
I want to be able to use ELU.SE to help promote proper usage of the English language (in specific: synonyms, definitions, and spelling). How can this link (below) be added into the FAQ section to let ...
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Why are answers being posted in the comments on the question?
For example: Etymology of "to coin a phrase"
I have seen this several times on this site, and it seems to be a departure from how things are done on other sites in the SE network and how ...
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In what way should I frame the question when I have to know whether the tense of all the words in a paragraph are same?
Example:
Condition variable is a variable on the basis of which the threads decide what to do and when to do. This variable is supposed to be shared among the threads, so it is necessary for us to ...
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'An Inspector Calls' by J.B. Priestley characters [closed]
I know this is not suited for this site but since the closure of the Literature Stack Exchange, I thought I may as well give it a go on here as it would be less welcome elsewhere!
In this play, the ...
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being “unaccepted” - clarifications
On April 12 I answered a question (about the usage of "awhile") which was, a bit to my surprise, accepted by the asker (Brandon Boone). Ten days later the asker decided that he preferred another ...
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Why the puncation related to colon closed as duplicate?
puntuation relating the use of colon
as duplicate of
Is it ever correct to have a space before a question or exclamation mark?
My question is about leading and trailing space. In question only ...
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Why is this question closed as duplicate?
may not vs can not on websites
Note that the title has been changed (not by OP). But look at the context and give me an idea, why is this duplicate question?
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Maybe have a tag for verb tense choice?
Disclaimer: This issue may have been discussed before, but I couldn't find it. Also, I don't know too much about the intricacies of tagging.
I've noticed quite a few questions asking for ...
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How to act when you are being serial downvoted
Today someone downvoted my answers serially:
The hostile downvoting activity took place within a short span of time. How should I act?
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How long should I wait for my avatar to update?
I updated my avatar at gravatar about 16 hours ago. It has not updated here yet.
This is what it should look like:
You can see what it actually looks like next to my post.
How long should I have ...
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What does “-10 User was removed” mean?
When I rollover my user name at the top of the main page, the first rep item listed is
-10 User was removed
It is not highlighted in red, so it doesn't link me to anything specific.
I can't ...
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New feature: request to re-open a question
I suggest EL&U introduce a feature to allow questioners to request a question be reopened. This is especially helpful for users who have thoroughly edited a question after it has been closed.
I ...
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Answers that are direct quotes from references: just right or GR?
Lately there are a number of answers to questions that are mostly copy-pasted quotes from references:
The origin of the term “Baker's Dozen”? and also another answer to that question
What is the ...
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What corrections should I make in order to have this question opened?
My question got closed:
Describing the preference of some time period's being closer to another time period that it forgoes
What corrections should I make in order to have it opened?
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Policy on translation-like questions?
I realize that the site has a policy of not accepting pure translation questions, but I had a question closed which I would describe as translation-like:
English equivalent for German "wie eine ...
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Literature is closing — what questions should we migrate here?
Our sister site Literature Stack Exchange is shutting down on May 4th due to a lack of activity. (So are Astronomy, Economics, Firearms, Healthcare IT and Theoretical Physics.)
There may be some ...
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The number showing the number of suggested edits still pending is not visible
The number that is showing the pending edits to review is visible on top of the page, but it is not visible in the review page.
Looking closely, the number is shown, but the color is too similar to ...
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Should one delete his answer if it's found to be poor?
Recently I answered a question on ELU, and later found that my answer was actually incorrect. I wasn't sure whether it was worth it to correct it, or delete since a proper answer was already chosen.
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I am not a happy camper [closed]
Yesterday I signed into chat to complain about the deletion of my Answer by Daniel δ and waiwai933 here. (Nobody had bothered to inform me.) Jasper Loy said he had flagged it for deletion because it ...
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Is a question on slang and how it'd be received amongst native speakers acceptable?
This is a bit borderline I suspect, so thought I'd ask here first, but is it acceptable to ask a question around how a slang term would be received by different speakers? The specific word is ...
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Dodgy duplicate closure
The question Difference between “while” and “whilst” was recently closed as a duplicate of What is the correct usage of “while” and “whilst”?
When it was first posted, the question asked for ...
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Allowing tag and style
As we read on "What HTML tags are allowed on Stack Exchange sites?":
We do not and will not allow table tags -- sorry. This is intentional
and by design. If you need a quick and dirty "table", ...
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Why can duplicates be marked as duplicates?
Should I use whose or which's? has been closed as a duplicate of several other closed duplicates (Usage of “whose” not referring to a person, Possessive "that's", Possessive connecting word for ...
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How to put question name in comment?
I've seen comments linking to other SE questions where the comment name is shown instead of just a meaningless hyperlink. How do I do that?
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Rep value: is there a bug?
As it is displayed here (http://awesomescreenshot.com/0793z416f) my real value rep is 613, but on my user profile I read 15.
How is this possible?
Is there a bug?
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Place to get grammar check for short text
I have a few sentences in English (I am not native speaker) — abstract for my thesis. However, my English is not very strong and I would appreciate a grammar check by someone more skilled in English. ...
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Is there any way I can embed a small piece of recording on ELU?
I want to know whether there are any ways I can embed recording on this site? I have a little piece of recording and I've listened many times but still can't clearly understand what the man is saying. ...
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Why was question about origin and meaning of “rackers” closed as basic?
Why was the question about origin and meaning of "rackers" closed as basic?
Not only I was surprised in this choice, but other ELU' member ("asking for an explanation of a line of Shakespeare is just ...
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List of general references
The FAQ states:
But please, don’t ask any questions about these topics. They are out of scope for this site.
. . .
general reference
This question is too basic; it can be ...
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Can we add Linguistics SE to the migration path list?
I know they are in beta but the following question begs to be migrated to [linguistics.se].
Distinctive Features of English Dipthongs.
I wonder if our passing relevant questions to other SEs would ...
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Minor CSS issue in the vote-to-close window
If I click the "close (x)" link on a question that I have previously voted to close, I am present with a window similar to what is seen when I first clicked the link. The biggest difference is that ...
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How can I be signed in on meta, when main doesn't know who I am?
Once again I appear to be persona non notata in main, since the login tells me there's nobody with my email address, but here I am on meta, complaining about it, with my name at the top of the page.
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Deleting answers to closed questions
About the particular question Is this sentence correct...?, there is a dispute about how to handle closing and deleting. The timeline of what occurred is as follows within a rough two hour period:
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Do retags count as an edit?
For the badge "strunk and white", do retags count as an edit?
Or is it necessary to change the letters in the title and the body?
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Edit restriction for too-few characters improperly applied
You are allowed to edit even a single character in the title of a question. I recently did this (without edit privileges) for a question that had a confusing (yet obvious after reading the question) ...
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Where should we redirect legitimate but closeable non-SE questions?
Many questions, that are good in some sense, get closed; some are appropriate for other SE sites, some are better for discussion, some are for lists of words, etc.
To answer these questions would be ...
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The “privileges” page doesn't render well in Safari
The page that displays which privileges the logged-in user has and how close they are to achieving the rest appears to ahve a display error:
That's Safari 5.1.4 on Mac OS 10.7.3. See the ...
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Long question titles cut off on badge page
On the "recently awarded" page for badges, questions with long titles are cut off, like so:
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Finish removing the [untagged] tag
Earlier I'd flagged a question that was tagged untagged, which has been fixed. However, there are still questions tagged as such... I'm reasonably certain that this is not a tag we'd want to ...
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Bug squash request
In the Users page (either the quarter view or year view), when I hover over Barrie England's rep, the popup shows the amount twice (along with the total rep):
In the week, month, or all views, or ...
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Why is this question off-topic?
Why don't English-speakers give the name "Jesus" to their children? was closed as off-topic. However, the FAQ clearly states that word-choice questions are on topic. Where was the ...
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Can the question of the following kind be asked here?
For an English learner, s/he may have such difficulties when reads texts in a book:
"I don't understand some sentence because there are several words, say, X, Y, Z, I can't understand. Then I ...
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Merge [borrowing] into [loan-words]
It seems to me that borrowing should be a synonym of loan-words (which already has foreign-words as a synonym).
I can't propose this, because I don't have enough reputation (do I need to reach the ...
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Bad link in question to OP's profile
On this question by Eamonn, using the link by the question itself to view his profile shows a blank "about me" box on the right-hand side. Eamonn notes this himself in an "answer" he posted - and ...
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Why are tag synonyms so hard to suggest and vote for?
I haven't paid much attention to tag synonyms before, but today I notice there's one question tagged blend-words, and three tagged portmanteau-words.
I thought I'd do something useful and propose ...
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Would this question be on topic?
I'm unsure that this question would be on topic as it could prompt a list. If it isn't, can I rescue it?
Words that can be a Noun, Verb or Adjective.
I was posed a question the other day:
"Can you ...
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Delete [puzzle] tag
I just noticed there were 4 questions with puzzle. I think it's a worthless tag, so I removed it from those four questions. Assuming that's a sensible thing to have done, what needs to happen to get ...
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Which is the duplicate?
What is the plural of the word “index”? asked Sep 16 '10 [on this site].
Indexes or Indices? asked Jun 16 '09, migrated from stackoverflow.com 3 hours ago.
Clearly these are duplicates of each ...
