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5 votes

2 answers

149 views

Unanswered questions with answers or partial answers in comments

MCWMod

32.4k

answered 2 days ago

3 votes

1 answer

39 views

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

T.E.D.Mod

118k

modified Nov 7 at 15:05

4 votes

1 answer

153 views

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

justCal

38.7k

answered Nov 2 at 2:03

2 votes

1 answer

213 views

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

Fizz

5,090

modified Oct 21 at 15:01

3 votes

3 answers

227 views

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

rumtscho

999

answered Oct 17 at 12:17

-7 votes

3 answers

192 views

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

T.E.D.Mod

118k

answered Oct 5 at 14:07

0 votes

0 answers

48 views

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

uhoh

1,775

asked Oct 3 at 0:45

3 votes

1 answer

72 views

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

CDR

987

answered Sep 12 at 16:16

5 votes

1 answer

34 views

Can someone fix a typo in this tag?

CDR

987

answered Sep 5 at 20:14

44 votes

35 answers

7k views

Why did my question get a downvote?

MCWMod

32.4k

modified Sep 4 at 13:56

0 votes

0 answers

22 views

Are reference requests or solicitations for book recommendations allowed?

Andrew

197

asked Aug 22 at 19:56

1 vote

1 answer

56 views

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

T.E.D.Mod

118k

answered Aug 17 at 15:25

12 votes

2 answers

267 views

Where is HSE regarding the current strike?

Moishe Kohan

6,263

modified Aug 3 at 14:32

5 votes

1 answer

70 views

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

Robert ColumbiaMod

3,544

answered Jul 9 at 15:24

7 votes

2 answers

72 views

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

Robert ColumbiaMod

3,544

answered Jun 18 at 11:28

3 votes

0 answers

32 views

Link to Mythology.SE in the Tour

CDR

987

asked Jun 7 at 18:57

1 vote

0 answers

32 views

Are squad tactics on topic?

Vorac

1,087

asked May 28 at 3:37

4 votes

2 answers

135 views

Are comments a forum for (possible) trolling?

Stand with Gaza

961

answered May 21 at 21:09

-3 votes

1 answer

101 views

Please ban Wikipedia links

MCWMod

32.4k

modified May 21 at 21:03

1 vote

1 answer

31 views

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

T.E.D.Mod

118k

answered May 18 at 18:36

2 votes

1 answer

42 views

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

CommunityBot

1

modified May 13 at 18:09

1 vote

1 answer

110 views

Question unfairly closed

CommunityBot

1

modified May 1 at 14:06

14 votes

8 answers

502 views

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

MCWMod

32.4k

modified Apr 26 at 11:45

10 votes

4 answers

296 views

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

MCWMod

32.4k

modified Apr 20 at 18:53

1 vote

1 answer

33 views

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

T.E.D.Mod

118k

modified Apr 18 at 13:57

10 votes

3 answers

430 views

What is the community criteria for referencing religious sources?

MCWMod

32.4k

modified Apr 17 at 12:10

6 votes

0 answers

40 views

I don't like [u]

T.E.D.Mod

118k

modified Apr 10 at 23:03

18 votes

6 answers

602 views

Site policy for very heavily-trolled topics

MCWMod

32.4k

modified Apr 10 at 12:05

8 votes

2 answers

583 views

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

MCWMod

32.4k

modified Apr 10 at 0:19

13 votes

0 answers

383 views

Meta-meta Site Policy on History.SE — FAQ

MCWMod

32.4k

modified Apr 10 at 0:14

1 vote

0 answers

17 views

May we deprecate the [policy] tag?

MCWMod

32.4k

modified Apr 7 at 12:58

5 votes

2 answers

401 views

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

MCWMod

32.4k

modified Apr 6 at 0:23

9 votes

1 answer

184 views

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

MCWMod

32.4k

modified Apr 6 at 0:17

2 votes

0 answers

41 views

What works and does not work about our reputation system?

Ne Mo

14.3k

modified Mar 9 at 20:34

4 votes

1 answer

61 views

2022: a year in moderation

CommunityBot

1

modified Feb 25 at 21:03

1 vote

0 answers

37 views

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

user1147844

27

modified Feb 11 at 19:21

11 votes

1 answer

621 views

Is the History Stack activity experiencing a major downward trend?

justCal

38.7k

modified Feb 1 at 23:48

1 vote

1 answer

56 views

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

CommunityBot

1

modified Jan 16 at 3:03

7 votes

2 answers

67 views

The tag [orthodoxism] is not orthodox

Ne Mo

14.3k

answered Jan 4 at 21:57

2 votes

0 answers

52 views

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

Spencer

5,275

asked Jan 3 at 20:43

3 votes

2 answers

118 views

Winter Bash 2022 Millnery

T.E.D.Mod

118k

modified Jan 2 at 20:13

4 votes

2 answers

74 views

When are questions on heraldry on-topic?

T.E.D.Mod

118k

modified Dec 19, 2022 at 14:17

2 votes

1 answer

69 views

Upvoted answer deleted due to removed user

T.E.D.Mod

118k

modified Dec 19, 2022 at 2:30

4 votes

0 answers

49 views

What new community roles should we ask for?

Ne Mo

14.3k

modified Dec 1, 2022 at 10:59

0 votes

0 answers

60 views

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

CommunityBot

1

asked Nov 30, 2022 at 8:55

-1 votes

1 answer

76 views

When and how did X and Y become allies?

J.A.

101

modified Nov 27, 2022 at 14:11

1 vote

1 answer

34 views

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

Giter

4,004

modified Nov 25, 2022 at 14:10

3 votes

2 answers

151 views

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

Jan Murphy

156

answered Nov 12, 2022 at 3:30

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