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What is the community criteria for referencing religious sources?

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How should we recognize our anniversary?

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Why wanting to know the reasons why a certain and specific historical fact have a certain consequence is considered propaganda?

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Standard comment situations: suggestions for close votes and down votes

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Why is this question considered opinion based?

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Why did my question get a downvote?

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Should we unpin accepted answers from the top of the list?

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Why was my question on 'why didn't the Allies discuss the possibility of a homeland for the Jews in occupied Germany' closed?

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Why was the question about whether the West ever influenced Indian elections closed?

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Please merge the 30-year-war tag into the Thirty Years' War tag

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Commenting a particular question crashes Android Chrome

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Can we please get a tag for Sri Lanka?

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modified Aug 20 at 15:09 T.E.D.Mod 107k

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Etiquette/customs/ethics of showing flags or symbols in questions?

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modified Aug 7 at 15:51 Italian Philosophers 4 Monica 6,512

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Do we need to clarify what we mean with "famous persons" on our ask/on-topic help page?

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Why are anachronistic, ahistorical & prescriptive wrong answers preferred over those to the contrary with direct evidence from medieval manuscripts?

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Is it ok to ask a factual question that is linked to an opinion based question?

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Meta-meta Site Policy on History.SE — FAQ

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Will uploaded images, that are no longer referenced, be removed?

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Are comments a forum for (possible) trolling?

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Some of my comments that I believe relevant have been deleted

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Does anyone use any offline tools to help compose their answers?

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Why was suggesting the subject of a photograph was a woman criticised as a possible 'insult'?

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Why was this question closed as "off-topic"?

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answered Jun 9 at 15:49 T.E.D.Mod 107k

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Merge the [european] tag into [europe]

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Does a question about "where a people may come from originally" fit to History Stack Exchange?

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answered May 31 at 0:08 Pieter Geerkens 67.1k

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Why was this question closed as being "opinion based?"

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Are motives part of history, or is supporting claims about motives too difficult if one wishes to avoid relying upon opinions?

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Are you giving me the silent treatment because of a question I asked?

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answered Apr 24 at 20:30 T.E.D.Mod 107k

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What is the policy concerning previously destroyed accounts returning under new names?

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Requests for references

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Would it be on topic to build a castle, question by question? [dupe]

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Would this question be on topic on the main site?

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What should we do with potentially offensive usernames?

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Is it okay if you unfreeze my Speculative History Discussion?

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Why is my question still off topic?

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A Cautionary Tale

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I'm new at History, but why such a fast closing on my questions?

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A modest proposal for flawed questions from new users

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Could we get a tag for the Reconquista?

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Strange choice of related question

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Looking for suggestions for revising a misunderstood question

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2020: a year in moderation

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Let's ask about Japan

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Are questions that ask "What was the significance of...?" appropriate for this site?

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answered Dec 21 '20 at 17:40 MCWMod 30.2k

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Illegitimate rollback — the Al-Andalus included territory that is now part of Portugal

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Scope - ye demisse of ye yorne

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Find long-ago-deleted questions that I'm still working on?

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answered Dec 14 '20 at 7:51 SemaphoreMod 93.8k

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