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And then there were three
As some of you may be aware, a new moderator agreement is due to come into force next month. I have declined that agreement, and so will cease to be a moderator on History:SE when it comes into ...
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Meta-meta Site Policy on History.SE — FAQ
This is the central repository for how we do things on History.StackExchange.
This complements and extends our Help-Centre, which is limited in space and slow to change.
Welcome to new users
FAQ: ...
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What is not in scope?
History Stack Exchange is for historians and history buffs. Denialism is not history; denialism is not in scope for History Stack Exchange. Questions or answers that rely on denialist sources or ...
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What is the intent of the 'world' tag?
Is world intended to be about global history aka "world history"? The SE description isn't too clear to me, although it does seem to lean in that direction
Questions related to the history of the ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Why was this question closed as being "opinion based?"
Here is the question. Because I purposely constructed to be NOT opinion based, and cast it as "historiography."
I can understand why a question like "Could the Axis have gotten a ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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I don't like [u]
A question was tagged with the single letter u. This is the only question with this tag, the tag name has no intrinsic meaning and is probably a typo, and the tag's wiki is empty/nonexistent. Can we ...
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Are there any ways in which we can get more users to visit History meta?
Looking at the posts over the past couple of weeks, it's evident that getting more people to visit meta, taking a little time to inform themselves and to see what others' concerns and opinions are, ...
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Request for references when other sources have failed
This is an entirely personal problem, but am not convinced it is unique. I have been trying to find information on London's Foundling Hospital (Coram's Hospital) and can discover very little either ...
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Recruit Two Historians by the End of June
So I know of at least two friends who are historians, one with a bachelor's degree and another who is a graduate student currently studying the development of socialism throughout the twentieth ...
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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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When asking whether a source reflects historical consensus and why/why not: Guidelines for prior research
(thanks to Pieter Geerkens for motivating this question)
I recently asked a question on History SE. In that question I did some prior research, and found a paper with what seemed like a close-to-...
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Help me make this question more focused: US government revenue breakdown
I have a closed question on history SE that is too unfocused. I have been trying to improve it but it has recently been auto-deleted. Per this question I am soliciting feedback on meta about what to ...
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What is tag [roman] for?
At the moment, History SE has tags ancient-rome, roman-empire and roman-republic. What exactly is tag roman for?
Using a single adjective as a tag name is not very descriptive, is it?
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