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Shouldn't these two tags be synonyms?

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Names of people and places

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New wording for our message: “What research have you done?”

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Why is this question on Romanian Communism deemed “primarily opinion based”?

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Shouldn't we be less harsh with respect to asking for prior research?

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Why was my question closed even though it perfectly lies within the boundaries of history?

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Standard comment situations: suggestions for close votes and down votes

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How does one reopen a question that has no reopen option?

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History.SE and Health.SE have identical favicons

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Should we add more banners of the type 'citation needed'?

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Can we flag answers because they lack sources?

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What's our opinion and resulting policy regarding the new Hot Network Questions features?

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Why did a moderator uniterally remove from HNQ 'Why command hierarchy, if the chain of command is standing next to each other?'

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The tag [nazi] is redundant with [nazism] and [nazi-germany]

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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!

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Are HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) questions on topic?

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Surprisingly few people related tags

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What should we do with potentially offensive usernames?

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Dealing with abusive comments

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Why did my question get a downvote?

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Should we close questions with answers?

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unsure this question would belong in law or history or elsewhere?

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What to do about “caesar” and “julius-caesar” that currently mean the same person?

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Do we want a Cyprus tag?

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What is the best way to link to google books?

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Is the “How things work” analogy valid?

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Do we object less to sexism than to racism?

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Creating / adding new tags for existing questions without swamping the home page

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Dealing with questions from younger users

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Consistency of quality standards and Hot Network Questions

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Should questions be edited that were recently put “on hold”?

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Can the mods email a possibly disgruntled user?

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Question about the historical language of a city

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Is there a “leader board” for bounties?

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What is the intent of the 'world' tag?

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Is it OK to ask for the religion of a specific person?

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Why did I get an upvote?

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How to graduate from Beta

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What's wrong with this question that asks if there was slaves that were treated well?

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Is it allowed to ask what's the origin and how a certain stereotype expanded?

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How to enforce much stronger standards for answers touching Nazi/Holocaust topics?

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What should be our policy on requests for sources or references?

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Are questions about data sources acceptable here?

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How should we deal with answers reading the question a bit differently than OP intended (frame challenge)?

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Are there new rules for autodeletion?

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2018: a year in moderation

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