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13 questions linked to/from How should we handle questions that are easily answered by Wikipedia?
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Should we burninate General Reference?
The General Reference closure reason has been a continuing source of contention.
I'm still not clear on what it is intended to accomplish (explanations I've seen have ranged from showing that the ...
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The many memes of SFF.SE
Just like our mother site we need a repository of our Memes :
It has become a more frequent occurrence where new users will be confronted by an engrained meme and be left sitting there scratching ...
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What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?
SciFi.SE's identity is still being defined, and as such there's a lot of unresolved confusion wrapped up in dozens of topics about what types of questions are acceptable.
Let's stop creating ...
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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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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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What should I do with a question on a book whose answer I find by "reading with more attention"?
I have been re-reading the LotR and, it being a masterpiece and a huge work at the same time, I felt the need to ask for clarification about a rather specific issue.
I got a good answer and accepted ...
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Culling list and recommendation questions
After many discussions, it has been decided that questions calling for lists of works (or authors, etc) or more or less personalized recommendations are not acceptable. The site FAQ has been adapted ...
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If one of the Answerama winners' questions gets closed, what should happen?
David91 won the contest today (July 5, 2012).
But his only question that is "eligible" is basically general reference!
Who is the President of Earth at the end of Season 4? <-- You can find the ...
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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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Why the Tom Bombadil question is not closed as a General Reference?
Agreed, this question is the must voted of the whole site.
Who or what was Tom Bombadil?
But it fit perfectly the "General Reference" pattern. Typing "Tom Bombadil" in Google lead to Wikipedia and ...
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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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What good questions are not about a specific work?
Most of the questions on site are about a specific SF work or universe. That's fine, but it's disappointing to have pretty much only questions of this kind.
In particular, most popular works and ...
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Is a question "General Reference" if it requires several articles to be answered?
The close reason for General Reference says:
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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