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Link to Mythology.SE in the Tour

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Where is HSE regarding the current strike?

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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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Why did my question get a downvote?

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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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How is History SE not like Skeptics SE?

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Is History the right site to ask why success in war seems to be usually measured in recent gains in area and not damage to the enemy fighting ability?

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is this community answer-shy? If so, why is that?

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How should moderators deal with comments, when should those be pruned, deleted or "moved to chat"?

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Is this proposed 'duplicate' question marked both wrongly and in a worse direction?

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Sociology dataset

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I added explanation of this question

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Are History.SE's moderators paid for their contribution?

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Do we need to broaden the 'higher bar' policy to all questions relating to the history of the Jews and Jewish matters?

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Please try to _always_ explain editing of 'controversial' passages

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How could I improve this closed/deleted question about colonization?

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Why is it ok for a single person to close a question based on speculation?

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Source Request: Danish State in the Early Modern Period


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