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What works and does not work about our reputation system?
This is a current question on meta.
The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working? What's not?
My answer: in addition to issues of it not helping broaden our cultural reach, it does not ...
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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"?
I have a question about my History Stack Exchange post: 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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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Is there actually "confusion" over why this was closed?
Havning previously commented on this closed question, I recently received a comment
could you vote to re open this? Unsure as to why it was closed.. as there seems to be some confusion as to if this ...
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The tag [orthodoxism] is not orthodox
I've always been uncomfortable with the orthodoxism tag here. It's a nonstandard term for what is normally called "Orthodoxy". The questions we have here appear to all relate to what is ...
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When are questions on heraldry on-topic?
I find the subject of heraldry fascinating, have answered a couple of questions here on this topic, and would quite like to ask some of my own questions.
I'm not quite sure, however, what the ...
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Upvoted answer deleted due to removed user
Yesterday, I posted an answer (that was upvoted) to a question that has been deleted (I assume because the user was removed).
world war two - Did Hitler want to prevent Soviets from Europe invasion? -...
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Winter Bash 2022 Millnery
Winter Bash 2022 is here on History.SE! Post a reply here to model your hats. Let's see what everyone is sporting.
Best looking and/or coolest gets ... er ... the highest score?
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Should the [lgbt] tag be used only for LGBT history or also about the history of specific LGBT people?
I was looking at the question Are there any photos of Arnold Murray? and got to wondering whether it deserves the lgbt tag. The question is about the same-sex lover of a famous scientist. Partners of ...
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Should there be a policy on History SE for the use of AI-generated answers?
With the public release of ChatGPT, which uses AI to create conversational responses to questions, there has been discussion of banning such answers from the SE network. At least a couple of SE sites ...
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Why use 'piled-up earth supporting a banner for indicating official rank'?
First, apologia for offending anyone. I honestly thought Why use 'piled-up earth supporting a banner for indicating official rank'? was on topic for history!
Second, how can we salvage this ...
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What new community roles should we ask for?
Help us identify new roles for community members
The above meta question asks what new roles are needed on Stack Exchange sites - that is, other than moderator.
I've made a suggestion that we should ...
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When and how did X and Y become allies?
This can be asked:
When and how did the USA and the UK become allies?
This can't be asked:
'Allies of evil' - US, England, Japan - and Australia? What about the rest of the UK?
Why, and what ...
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Can a request for historiography put a question like this in scope?
A question of this sort might be the following: Title: "Did Germany have a better strategy to win World War II than the one she actually used?" And the punch line might read, "what did ...
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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?
I was watching a video giving analysis of the the war in Ukraine. This is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNh0heEi1EY. Not for the first time, I found myself wondering why the focus of the ...
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is this community answer-shy? If so, why is that?
My question received at least 2 comments which could have been answers. The question's subject matter is changes in historical views over time. So it's clearly on topic here.
Yet, people not only ...
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How should moderators deal with comments, when should those be pruned, deleted or "moved to chat"?
The present situation regarding comments seems to be deteriorating. Bad comments stay, good comments go, and the site does not get any better with this.
Bad comments left standing
We all know what ...
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Is this proposed 'duplicate' question marked both wrongly and in a worse direction?
On Where can I find all Hitler speeches in original German?
it was proposed that this would be a duplicate of Where can I find a reliable archive of Hitler's speeches?
To this duplicate proposal ...
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Do we need a canonical question for how to find a famous person's grave site?
Recently there has been a spate of questions each regarding a single person, attempting to locate where that person is buried.
August Ferdinand Möbius
Armand Borel
Ernst Kummer
Édouard Lucas
Robert ...
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Sociology dataset
I'm looking for sociology datasets, such as one in this link (Fig. 1), which shows interactions between people, labeled based on their features, like age, race, or gender. It seems History ...
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Where might one ask a speculative "off-topic" question?
Just that. Can someone recommend some other sites, not part of SE?
Thanks!
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Question unfairly closed
I recently posted this question, I got the following set of three comments. Which I quote and try to understand one by one
India is nine times the size of Germany, and roughly the size of Europe west ...
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I added explanation of this question
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/69367/what-could-have-the-carthagian-do-to-prevent-their-genocide
People think I want to "blame" Carthagian by asking those questions.
The issue ...
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Are History.SE's moderators paid for their contribution?
Are History.SE's moderators paid for their contribution?
Coz, apparently, it requires a great amount of time reviewing the posts.
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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?
The question below pongs of antisemitism and was rightly closed.
Are there any kernels of truth in the Jewish story of Purim?
Currently we have a policy which spells out that any Holocaust-related ...
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Please try to _always_ explain editing of 'controversial' passages
A recent edit to the title of a question that made the Hot Network Question list removed a — in my opinion — quite significant word. This might change the meaning of the title or how it is read, thus ...
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How could I improve this closed/deleted question about colonization?
See the subject.
The automatically/by-roomba deleted question is:
How/Why do mainland people end up in an empire's colony? Eg Spaniards in the Philippines?
I thought it was pretty good.
But moderator ...
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Why is it ok for a single person to close a question based on speculation?
Which factions of the Japanese government were in favor of racial hygiene practices during WW2 and prior to WW2?
The question was asking if there were more factions and people who supported racial ...
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Source Request: Danish State in the Early Modern Period
I'm hoping that the logic we had where source requests in Meta, i.e., questions which are open-ended, are okay is still valid.
With that in mind, I am looking to find books relating to Denmark in 16th ...
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"No longer needed" comment flag for merged question declined
I raised a "no longer needed" flag on a comment in Where do Bulgarians originate from?
The comment suggested a duplicate question, specifically What were the origins of the Bulgarian people?....
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FYI: new biblical archaeology magazine
For those interested in biblical archaeology, a new magazine has recently been published:
Let The Stones Speak, with potentially interesting topics.
E.g. this first issue includes Top 10 Biblical ...
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Do questions about current events of historic significance belong here?
So, I have a question that is related to the currently (Feb 24 2022) ongoing military events in Ukraine. It would be titled as "Why are the casualties on both sides in the Ukrainian war so low ...
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Are questions asking for deciphering texts on paintings (or other objects) allowed?
This question, What's the text in "Mystische Jagd" by Martin Schongauer?, just got asked on Arts & Crafts SE.
The user presents us with a painting in which a Latin text in Gothic script ...
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How reliable are the sources we use?
Background
I grew up in the USSR. I read the book 1984 in the year 1984 (it was a set of photographs, page by page, of a book printed in the West and smuggled into the USSR).
My only source of ...
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Is the History Stack activity experiencing a major downward trend?
When looking at the year in moderation post, I did a little digging, and checked the question counts over the last 10 years using the search is:question created:year. We get the following numbers:
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Disambiguate [indian] (or merge it into [india])
The indian tag has 20 questions and no tag wiki or excerpt, and (as far as I can see) except for How did Pocahontas die?, all questions are about India's (former) inhabitants or languages, for which ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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How should we recognize our anniversary?
Our ten year anniversary is coming up. There are rumors that SE corporate is going to give us an anniversary gift. While I'll be happy to celebrate our collective achievement, I wonder how we should ...
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Why is this question considered opinion based?
This is about this question:
How might one guesstimate the "true" odds at Fort Donelson? [closed]
I'll concede that the title is somewhat broad. But I did my best to suggest objective, ...
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Why was the question about whether the West ever influenced Indian elections closed?
This
Did the West influence Indian elections?
seemed like a perfectly fine question to me.
Given the history of US interventions in South America, one might suspect that the US may have intervened in ...
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Why was my question on 'why didn't the Allies discuss the possibility of a homeland for the Jews in occupied Germany' closed?
I asked a question on why the Allies didn't discuss the possibility of a homeland for the Jews in occupied Germany as part of the war reparations for WWII.
After all, Germany was split in half, with ...
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Please merge the 30-year-war tag into the Thirty Years' War tag
A recent question was tagged 30-year-war, but there is also a thirty-years-war tag and the former should be merged into the latter. Since there are so many questions with the former I guess an alias ...
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Should we unpin accepted answers from the top of the list?
Today we changed the way we sort answers on Stack Overflow. We no longer pin the accepted answer (with the green checkmark) to the top of the list of answers. By default, we now sort strictly by votes ...
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Commenting a particular question crashes Android Chrome
I wanted to add a comment to this question.
Either those are very small trees, or that is a very large monk.
When I hit "add comment", Chrome crashes.
Bizarrely, it's only this question. ...
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Can we please get a tag for Sri Lanka?
Sri Lanka, officially known as The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country located in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean near the equator, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, ...
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Etiquette/customs/ethics of showing flags or symbols in questions?
I fully figure and support a swastika flag would be off limit. We know what goes with that.
We also have flag identification tags, flags are on topic.
The Confederate flag would seem off limit, ...
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Why are anachronistic, ahistorical & prescriptive wrong answers preferred over those to the contrary with direct evidence from medieval manuscripts?
A question with the focus on
(To clarify, I am asking whether there was typographical error in the aforementioned chronicle)
What is the reasoning behind these huge numbers for participants in the ...
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Do we need to clarify what we mean with "famous persons" on our ask/on-topic help page?
A recent question asked about family relatedness and relationship status combination of people: Is the former adviser to the prime minister Dominic Cummings related by marriage to Andrew Wakefield?
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Is it ok to ask a factual question that is linked to an opinion based question?
I asked a question that I've since deleted, pending feedback here on meta, since it was heavily downvoted and received several votes to close.
I believe that the actual question was ok. My ...
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Will uploaded images, that are no longer referenced, be removed?
I uploaded an image for this question: Is it just a coincidence that the locations of three cities in North America share a unique geographical similarity to three cities in Europe?.
I accidentally ...
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