Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Add support for tables
On this particular SE site, we'll occasionally have to post lists of items with multiple, ordered pieces of information in each list entry. I.e. what would normally be formatted into a table. But SE ...
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A question was chosen as a Hot Network Question simultaneously 26 times, according to the revision history
Why is this chapter called “The Lightning Struck Tower”? was chosen as a Hot Network Question. Not very odd, but what is odd, as you can see, is that this action was recorded 26 times. I checked the ...
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Favorite Question notification
It would be helpful if a question could be marked so that you get a notification when there is new activity. Just something like the red notification you get when a comment gets a response.
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How should SFF's “Ask Question” page be customised?
The "Ask a question" wizard is now live network-wide: The new ask page is now live on the network!. Ours is very plain right now, but parts of it are customisable: (shortened; see the main Meta post ...
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Merge [genre-trope] into [trope]
genre-trope has 8 questions.
trope has 45 questions.
According to its description, a genre trope is a trope that's only applicable to a given genre. Of course, having a Stack dedicated to a cluster ...
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“Possible dupe” popup won't go away
I keep getting the following popup on a question I asked recently:
I've already edited my question to clarify why it's not a dupe of the suggested question. I've also selected the "No" option and ...
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Can we fix broken Memory Alpha links?
It appears that at some point in the recent (distant? I don't know) past, Memory Alpha changed its domain from memory-alpha.wikia.com to memory-alpha.fandom.com. Given the copious number of times ...
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Add a new tag for Apple TV+ “For All Mankind” series?
As I have understood (still new here), the current policy is that all individual works get their own individual tag; so, should we add a tag for the Apple TV+ alternate history series For All Mankind, ...
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Rename [aladdin-disney] to [aladdin-1992]
We now have aladdin-2019, but we've got a lot of potential tag confusion with aladdin-disney (which is now vague). For the sake of clarity and consistency, we should rename the tag to [aladdin-1992]
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Incorrect text colouring on earned bounties in the Reputation tab
Looking at my Reputation tab for yesterday when I earned a bounty and the text of it is green, same as normal positive reputation events, and it has the blue bounty background.
I believe it should ...
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Can this question be undeleted?
With the recent introduction of the Lifejacket and Lifeboat badges—and the disappearance of Tumbleweed—it occurred to me today that I ought to post a meta bounty on my own Tumbleweed question. ...
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Need more contrast on the close screen
See the text right in the middle, above the "[14] Is wikia.com general reference? (2)"? Can you read it? Because I can't. The highlighted text below the same line is the same color, for ...
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Strunk and White progress link leads to 404 page
When I access the Strunk and White 'badge count progress' button on meta, it leads to the 404 "page not found" page for the low quality review queue
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Lost my account and need help to retrieve it
I am Ihor Sypko, and once accessed stack exchange via
Ihor.Sypko@dot.nj.gov which is no longer active since my 2016 retirement. I'm in need of help to get back to it.
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Automatic tag clean up and the long tail
Stack Exchange sites have an automatic tag clean up system that removes tags with only one use after 6 months. However, it seems like this is detrimental to SciFi Stack Exchange, which has a long tail ...
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We need to fix [star-trek-enterprise] description
I can do it myself, but to be honest I wouldn't know what to write instead of what's already there.
The current description begins with:
"Star Trek: Enterprise" is the most recent Star Trek live-...
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Can my question be lifted out of hold status? Can you specifically tell me how to improve it, because I have edited it
I have a question about my Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange post: What's so special about Harry Potter?
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Can [water] burn?
water
We currently have 18 questions tagged [water]. Going through these, I fail to see the value of the tag. No-one is following the tag and I would be surprised if we had any "water experts" within ...
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Please re-open this question about Hulk vs Superman
Hulk vs. Superman - did they ever fight? Who won?
While this LOOKS like a Shark-vs-Gorilla, it is actually fully and eminently answerable... because there WERE comics in which Superman fought Hulk:
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Custom close reason needs an update [duplicate]
One of the off topic close reasons contains a link to come talk about it in chat
Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they do not fit our questions and answers format. ...
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54 story identification questions incoming from Movies & TV at 23:00 UTC 2017-02-05
This is just a heads-up: per the request of the membership of this site, I'll be moving 54 ID questions from the Movies & TV site to Science Fiction & Fantasy today.
What does this involve?
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Literature is closing — what questions should we migrate here?
Our sister site Literature Stack Exchange is shutting down on May 4th due to a lack of activity.
There is some overlap between the two sites: written SF is on-topic on both. So there are questions on ...
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Can this post be un-community wiki-ed?
Bit of a boring one, this one.
As per this can a moderator please change this post back to a Dark Lord post from a community wiki?
I'm on mobile and I simply pressed the wrong button. I assumed I'd ...
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I have Infinitely messed up a new MCU tag!
So in light of a new question about Thor: Ragnarok, which was really asking for information that will come out (and was answered by) material in Avengers: Infinity War, I decided to create a tag for ...
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Do we really need film/TV Show/Franchise tags in meta?
I noticed that here on meta there are many Film/TV show and franchise tags, like:
star-wars
star-trek
disney-star-wars
On the main site they make sense but do we really need them on meta too?
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Should we edit the help centre to mention Worldbuilding?
Earlier today I was explaining to the OP of a speculative what-if question why that kind of question is off-topic here and better suited to Worldbuilding SE. I like to support my arguments by links to ...
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Can we please increase our tag length?
Request
Currently, our tags can be a maximum of 25 characters.
Maximum tag length on Literature has been increased to 32 characters.
The theoretical limit is 35, according to Shog9.
This can be ...
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Should we make a tag for “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” What should it be?
I've noticed we have some questions with the blade-runner and with the phillip-k-dick tags1, which are actually not about Blade Runner, but the original novel. I tried to create a do-androids-dream-of-...
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Should we rename [tmnt] to [teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles]?
tmnt (21 Q) does not show up on a search for 'teenage' while asking a question, nor is teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles a synonym or anything. If I hadn't clicked on a tmnt question, I would have no idea ...
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SSL Certificate Still Invalid
Was a little surprised to see this screen when I attempted to switch to Meta:
I know that this was already commented on (SSL Certificate not valid here), but that was about a year ago. Has no ...
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About destroying the [environment]
I just noticed that we have an environment tag. It's used on 12 questions, 11 of which are ID questions (ten story-identification and one episode-identification), the last one being Where does the ...
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Should [dc-animated-universe] become the primary tag name rather than [dcau]?
DCAU is the abbreviation for the franchise called the DC animated universe. On this site the primary tag used for it is dcau, with dc-animated-universe as a synonym. But there is no length limit issue ...
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Site CSS is broken, un-visited links appear blue, alignment in user profiles is off
Noticed this issue about an hour ago, see chat.
Issue 1
CSS issues are causing all unvisited links to appear blue until visited, at which point they go the normal redish:
Issue 2
When you visit a ...
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Overflow in Chrome 41
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.118 Safari/537.36
Bug report on Meta.stackexchange.com
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CSS Weirdness on both Main and Meta
CSS for both the Main and Meta sites seems to have changed sometime in the last 24 hours. Links are now confusing as hell. There's a baffling mixture of light red, dark red, and blue coloring all ...
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Is it time for [villains] to get their just deserts?
I recently noticed that we have a villains tag with 26 questions. Glancing through the list:
most of them (sixteen?) are just random questions about characters who happen to be villains: for example, ...
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Meta sci-fi blog link wrong
On the main Sci-Fi site is this link:
blog
which goes (correctly) to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Blog.
At the bottom of this (meta) page the link is:
blog
which goes to the Stack Overflow ...
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Request to undelete answer that has been edited into correctness
Science Fiction Short Story about Computer controlled Utopia
The author wrote a follow-up that was actually a modification to their question, and it was deleted. They have since added the answer, but ...
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Do we need [children]?
We have a children tag that is currently on 48 questions. To wit:
Offspring that have not yet fully matured or reached the designated
stage of adulthood.
Of these, fully 43 are story-...
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Synonymise [influences] and [inspiration] tags?
The tags influences (23 questions) and inspiration (26 questions) both seem to have roughly the same meaning: they're both for questions about where an SF/F author's ideas came from, what influenced ...
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Let's solve the [mystery]
I just noticed that we have a tag mystery. Its tag wiki excerpt rather unhelpfully says:
a mystery is something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain. Or a novel, play, or movie ...
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Should [dc-movies] be merged into [dc]?
Now that we have the top-level tags marvel and dc for questions about any Marvel or DC properties, there's been some chat about whether we need certain subtags. Obviously it's worth having subtags for ...
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Not receiving any reputation change notifications
I can't receive any Notification about reputation change.
This is how my notification tab looks like right now:
This is my actual reputation tab:
As you can see, the rep gained today is not ...
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Tags for The Expanse book series and TV series
The Expanse is the name of both a series of novels, and the TV show based on that book series. They both share one tag, the-expanse. Is that OK? Should they be split up? If so, how?
(In addition, the ...
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Should the marvel/DC-comics tag be changed to just marvel/DC?
Marvel has long ago moved past only supplying comics for its audience, and now boasts a thriving film and TV section as well. The same can be said about DC.
I think that by changing the tag to just, ...
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Should we add the [star-trek] tag to all of the Star Trek questions that don't have it?
I've just searched for questions tagged star-trek-tng without being tagged star-trek. There are 79 of them, right now. (Here's where you can find them.) There also star-trek-tos, star-trek-voyager, ...
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Tolkien tags - the way forward
Jason Baker's answer to Let's figure out our Tolkien tags provides an excellent description of the situation as it currently stands with tags related to the Tolkien legendarium, but it doesn't really ...
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Markup glitch: “Tagline to show on mouseover”
I just saw this ad:
on a SF&F page (it was here, although I doubt that it matters).
I moved my mouse pointer over it
and the text “Tagline to show on mouseover” appeared.
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Do we want a feed of bountied (featured) questions in Mos Eisley?
One of the reasons to place a bounty on a question is to attract attention to it. Either to get a better answer, or to get any answer at all.
So how can we draw more attention? By advertising it in ...
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There is an incorrect(?) tag “thelegobatmanmovie” which prevents me from creating the correct(?) “the-lego-batman-movie” tag
There is an incorrect(?) tag thelegobatmanmovie which prevents me from creating the correct(?) the-lego-batman-movie tag.
How should this be handled?
