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What is the typically preferred length of an HistorySE answer and what factors influence that?
One banner says: "We are looking for long answers", and additionally we look for sources, proper attribution and quotes – instead of plagiarism – and within context for links:
Provide context for links … As a personal observation I estimate that my long answers do much better than my short ones, vote-wise, but the long ones get criticised for being long. …
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How should we deal with answers reading the question a bit differently than OP intended (fra...
Questions have to be framed by the original poster, and we demand of them to do that as narrowly as they can to enable us to post specific answers. … Doppelgreener on rpg:SE
These kind of answers can be found frequently on History:SE, but we have not discussed this before. …
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How to enforce much stronger standards for answers touching Nazi/Holocaust topics?
Sometimes answers written off-hand from memory rely on false memories or have mixups in them. Nevertheless, it seems the subtle effects are quite insidious. …
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Suggesting improvements to the "Citation needed" label or post notice
Some answers do not meet the desired quality standards. Frequently these quality problems are caused by a lack of citations and/or sources/references. … Ideally these answers then get a "Citation needed" label attached to them that should encourage the poster to improve the answer. …
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How do we tell a user to improve the quality of his posts when comments do not suffice and v...
Member for 14 days, 30 answers all over the place and quick succession, and ~300 rep earned for quite questionable content. … Note: Just to counter all these upvotes on subpar answers posted in such quick succession would bring a single user just playing by the rules and vote according to own quality standards when those posts …
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Why are anachronistic, ahistorical & prescriptive wrong answers preferred over those to the ...
gets two answers. … Well, I mean disliking my answers is nothing new here for certain demographics and user circles. Also, I know perfectly well that the accept tick can be arbitrarily applied, per design. …
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Is this proposed 'duplicate' question marked both wrongly and in a worse direction?
On other SEs I have seen the practice of marking the older Q as 'the dupe', if the newer Q gets the better answers. … Even if it were any form of duplicate, since it seems SE policy requires to merge/close towards answers, better answers, and thus towards the newer question. …
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