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29 questions linked to/from Should we burninate General Reference?
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Should "trivially easy to find" be a benchmark for moderating the site? [duplicate]
It's subjective, isn't it? What's easy to find for one might not be for another. Who gets to decide what's easy to find? The twenty-something with vast experience using the internet and frequent ...
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How should we handle questions that are easily answered by Wikipedia? [duplicate]
Examples:
What is filk and how do I find it? (see Filk)
What exactly were the Prophets? (see Prophets)
What is the precise definition of 'Steampunk'? (see Steampunk)
(and even the super-upvoted) Who ...
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Are Google-able questions appropriate? [duplicate]
I know it's only the first day, but plenty of the questions I've seen so far appear to be easily answered by doing a simple search.
"What author wrote Title?", "What actor played ...
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Why exactly do we still have a "General Reference" close reason? [duplicate]
In Mark Trapp's recent question about why the Tom Bombadil question was deleted, he mentioned a couple of points that really stood out to me. I never realized this, but apparently Scifi.SE is one of ...
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Did we effectively burninate General Reference? [duplicate]
I remember a bunch of discussions on the merits, or lack thereof, of the "General Reference" close reason. But in the past 5 months or so, I haven't seen a single question closed as such. Maybe there ...
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List of common abbreviations
I've been actively using a few StackExchange sites for some months now, and it seems common for some users (especially the more experienced ones) to use abbreviations in their questions, answers and ...
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Should we close questions for being "too trivial"?
Historically, it was decided that it was not required to have read a book/watched a movie to ask a question. This, of course, led to its own issues: the dreaded General Reference.
Of course, as a ...
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What sites should be considered general references?
We have a “general reference” close reason:
This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed ...
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Do we want to remove this line from the 'what to ask'?
Our main site's 'What topics can I ask about here?' page, has this under the 'what not to ask' section:
Facts easily found on a reference site: Who played X in Y?
However, this line was from the ...
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What should our FAQ contain?
Our site's FAQ consists in
the official FAQ, in which the first section is editable by ♦moderators and the rest is identical across all Stack Exchange sites;
the community FAQ, which consists of all ...
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I asked a dumb question, now what do I do about it?
A couple of days ago, I was wondering about an apparent redundancy in the closing words of General Hux's speech in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. What I should have done was sit on the question for a ...
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Is the answer appearing in the first few results of a Google search sufficient basis for a *potential* General Reference closure?
I know there are previous discussions on this, but they appear to be somewhat contradictory, and it is coming up enough that we should have a clear and current consensus.
In the original What sites ...
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Is general reference used inconsistently?
The general reference close reason reads as follows:
This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed ...
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Is there an explanation of duties for each milestone?
I could not find anything, but is there a detailed explanation on what is required of you once you hit certain rep scores?
At present having reached 3,000 posts (rep count, always mixing the two ...
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Does sci-fi have extremely low standards for questions compared to other stackexchanges?
I have noticed recently that a lot of questions that get asked are extremely easily answered with 10 seconds of Google.
Examples include:
What horse or horses played Shadowfax?
Who is the head of ...
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