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How is my question about slave clothing opinion-based?

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Why two similar questions were treated differently?

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Are questions that ask “What was the significance of…?” appropriate for this site?

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Why were my questions on mercenaries in Africa closed?

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Definition for the “Yahwehism” tag, and how it relates to the “Judaism” tag?

discussion tags

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

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Why did my question suddenly become popular?

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How to deal with answers consisting mainly of a quote by a biased historian

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Why didn't my answer get more upvotes?

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Does moving entire comment sections to chat defeat the purpose of comments?

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Why did my question get a downvote?

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What is meant by “correct term” here?

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When do we consider a question to be easily answered by “a simple search”?

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answered Jan 21 at 15:38 Mark C. Wallace♦ 27.3k

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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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Is singling out a type of people for removal from countries rude or abusive?

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Should we merge [sumeria] into [sumer]?

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Can I transform a poor question?

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2019: a year in moderation

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answered Jan 3 at 17:31 T.E.D.♦ 91.2k

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Comments vanishing?

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answered Dec 27 '19 at 21:27 T.E.D.♦ 91.2k

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Meta-meta Site Policy on History.SE — FAQ

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Do we have or need a policy concerning publication of information which may involve living individuals?

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Is there a notability criterion or not?

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answered Dec 18 '19 at 18:53 PhillS 2,300

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

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What is the Mother of Dragons hat for?

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I have been a member of this site for almost 8 years and I have >1000 rep. Why am I being instructed on how to ask questions?

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Shouldn't we actually give the 'single link' that answers an off-topic “too basic” question?

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Is there any way we can improve the quality of questions on this site?

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modified Dec 7 '19 at 13:51 Denis de Bernardy 21.5k

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How much research should one do before asking a question?

discussion research

answered Dec 3 '19 at 7:50 TheHonRose 6,643

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Why did my answer get a downvote?

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answered Dec 2 '19 at 0:28 Lars Bosteen 76.4k

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“Why Japan cannot 'apologize' enough for World War 2?” being put on hold for “off-topic” (too basic) and swiftly deleted?

discussion close-reasons closed-questions

modified Oct 30 '19 at 6:19 Graviton 1,292

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Proposal to permit reference questions on SE

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Shouldn't these two tags be synonyms?

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answered Oct 13 '19 at 15:21 Semaphore♦ 85.4k

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Names of people and places

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answered Oct 10 '19 at 4:45 Denis de Bernardy 21.5k

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

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modified Sep 30 '19 at 20:35 Pieter Geerkens 54.5k

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

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modified Sep 30 '19 at 13:59 Mark C. Wallace♦ 27.3k

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

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answered Sep 21 '19 at 22:40 sempaiscuba♦ 67.6k

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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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modified Sep 7 '19 at 12:10 Mark C. Wallace♦ 27.3k

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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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modified Aug 23 '19 at 14:37 sempaiscuba♦ 67.6k

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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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answered Aug 15 '19 at 9:31 Semaphore♦ 85.4k

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

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answered Aug 12 '19 at 3:18 Semaphore♦ 85.4k

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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!

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answered Aug 2 '19 at 4:39 Denis de Bernardy 21.5k

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