... May I ask a question about it?

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Nov 1, 2012 at 18:16	comment	added	Beofett		@DVK His question, as it stands, can be paraphrased as "is reading/watching the actual material in question a fundamental requirement to asking any questions about it". My answer is quite plainly: no, that is not a requirement. The angles I address are simply to make clear that the fact that it isn't a requirement does not provide an excuse for not following any of the other rules. Even assuming the question pre-supposes that the question should otherwise be left open (I disagree, btw; nothing about the question implies that, nor is it actually relevant to the question), my answer stands.
Nov 1, 2012 at 18:06	comment	added	DVK-on-Ahch-To		@Beoffet - this covers completely obvious angles. I think what Gilles was asking was a very specific situation where the answer is NOT on Wikipedia (or at least not easily foundable there without reading the book first - e.g. knowing specific terms to search for); but IS easily answerable by "well, the answer is in the book, on page XX, quote YY". In other words, the meta-question pre-supposes that the question is NOT an obvious VTC candidate by the usual rules (GR/dupe/etc...).
Oct 30, 2012 at 19:50	history	answered	Beofett	CC BY-SA 3.0