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Unanswered questions with answers or partial answers in comments

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What to do with an old answer if I want to change it completely

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6-month ban, 1 question, banned again, why?

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Shouldn't a question strictly about Kievan Rus get its own tag and not one about Russia (or Ukraine)?

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Shouldn't this description under "Russia" tag be changed?

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Is it immoral to post a history-related photo like this one or not?

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What's actually wrong here? Should we always avoid even mentioning or citing the present within a question post?

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Why was the question about Nikolai Gogol's family name closed?

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Can someone fix a typo in this tag?

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Why did my question get a downvote?

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Are reference requests or solicitations for book recommendations allowed?

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Question closed for "promote or discredit a specific idea, theory, cause, group or person"?

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Where is HSE regarding the current strike?

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Disambiguate [indian] (or merge it into [india])

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Is asking about the reason an old noble family chose their last name on-topic here?

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Link to Mythology.SE in the Tour

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Are squad tactics on topic?

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Are comments a forum for (possible) trolling?

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Please ban Wikipedia links

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Can we resurrect a deleted post so I can clear a notification in my inbox?

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Should the [lgbt] tag be used only for LGBT history or also about the history of specific LGBT people?

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Question unfairly closed

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Are requests for references appropriate on History Stack Exchange?(revisited)

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Should there be a policy on History SE for the use of AI-generated answers?

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Is the main site a right place to ask after an idiom I cannot seem to find?

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What is the community criteria for referencing religious sources?

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I don't like [u]

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Site policy for very heavily-trolled topics

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How do we determine site policy, how do we reach consensus about it?

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Meta-meta Site Policy on History.SE — FAQ

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May we deprecate the [policy] tag?

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Why do we continue to re-open low-quality questions and upvote these together with low quality answers?

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

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What works and does not work about our reputation system?

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2022: a year in moderation

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How exactly did Larry Wu-tai Chin's leak (of a classified document in Oct. 1970) allow China "to reap the maximum political benefits"?

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Is the History Stack activity experiencing a major downward trend?

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Where might one ask a speculative "off-topic" question?

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The tag [orthodoxism] is not orthodox

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Is there actually "confusion" over why this was closed?

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Winter Bash 2022 Millnery

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When are questions on heraldry on-topic?

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Upvoted answer deleted due to removed user

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What new community roles should we ask for?

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Why use 'piled-up earth supporting a banner for indicating official rank'?

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When and how did X and Y become allies?

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Can a request for historiography put a question like this in scope?

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Do we need a canonical question for how to find a famous person's grave site?


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