Questions tagged [status-completed]
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Is Fantasy in spec for this site?
Should fantasy be included in this? I know many people mix them up, and there are definitely cases which can be very hard to distinguish. So, the question remains, should we include Fantasy, or not ...
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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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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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Is it important to mark spoiler questions as such?
Since most of the questions here are going to be about films, television series and novels, perhaps it would be a good idea to mark spoiler questions with [Spoiler], or a spoiler tag?
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Should we change the name of this site to include fantasy?
We've already had one question that has basically decided that if people want to talk about fantasy here, it's okay, but the name sci-fi would discourage them. There have been other hints from other ...
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Add an alias of fantasy.stackexchange.com
My personal feeling is that the scifi.stackexchange.com name is off-putting to fans of fantasy and not scifi, and that if the site had been inclusive from the beginning (or fantasy) it would be ...
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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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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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Does SFF want to keep accepted answers pinned to the top or not?
Context: Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers
Stack Overflow has just stopped pinning the accepted answer to the top of the list of answers, instead ordering answers ...
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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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Tag Wars Episode I: Harry Potter and the Tag Cleanup
This is part of of the Tag Cleanup Effort discussed here.
Discussions on the mechanics of this process are being had in the Tag Cleanup chatroom and will be posted in this meta question once they've ...
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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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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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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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Could we get YouTube embedding?
Arqade has the ability to embed YouTube clips within a post as long as the YouTube video appears on a line by itself (example).
Searching about, I found 162 posts that reference "*.youtube.com" and ...
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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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Now that ISFDB has (finally) turned on https, can we edit all relevant links in one fell swoop?
ISFDB, the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, is used in a lot of answers on this stack. It was notorious for not facilitating https. That has now been fixed, if I interpret this related FAQ ...
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Tag warning for story-identification
So I read this Server Fault meta post, which says how to request tag warnings:
Open a new meta question under the tag tag-warnings with the proposed text and the tag to which it should be applied. ...
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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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Check in on the accepted answer being unpinned; do we want to leave it as is or re-pin it to the top?
Way back in September of last year we posted a meta asking if the community wanted the accepted answer to be unpinned from the top of posts. The vote was very close but an answer suggesting unpinning ...
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Chakoteya.net links are broken
Update
Per Rand al'Thor♦'s answer below, the site manager for Chakoteya.net is apparently unwilling or unable to make changes at their end to resolve this problem.
That being the case, our options ...
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New custom close reason: Future Works
Last year (2020) saw some changes to the question closure system across the SE network. These included changing the text saying "off-topic" in custom close reasons to "a community-...
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Should [memory] go down the memory hole?
This site has the tag memory, which is currently tagged on 17 questions and is very ambiguous. By my count, the questions are about the following:
Amnesia/Memory loss, 4
Specific memory removal, 2
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Audience-specific texts for custom close reasons: Scientific Solutions or Explanations
Last year (2020) saw some changes to the question closure system across the SE network. One of the changes was to introduce audience-specific texts for custom close reasons, so that the OP, close ...
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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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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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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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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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Do we need country tags?
UPDATE: in light of the voting on the answers below (+12 for "Nuke 'em" vs +3 for "Leave 'em"), these tags have been eliminated. french was already gone before I got to it, and I've just finished the ...
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Should we kill the opinion tag?
In Is “opinion” the new “subjective”?, it would seem the community decided to keep the tag around because it could be used to ignore this type of questions. However, two weeks later, only four out of ...
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What should we do with old meta posts about SE workings that no longer exist?
Occasionally, browsing through old meta posts on SFF, I come across questions about parts of the SE system that no longer exist or no longer function in the way described in those questions. E.g. ...
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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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User cards (?) seem broken for users with many badges
User cards (not sure what official SE name is) seem to be too small for fitting the info for users with many badges.
2 examples in 1 image:
This seems invariant as far as zooming in/out with Ctrl-...
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Deleted answers hard to identify
Deleted answers to questions are very difficult to tell apart from regular answers - the color difference is very small and easy to miss.
Color code is #F4EAEA, i think something slightly darker like ...
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Should [han-shot-first] be shot first?
We have a tag for Han Solo himself, han-solo, and a tag for the age old question of who shot first: han-shot-first.
Should we make the latter a synonym of the former?
Even though the latter has 8 ...
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Do we need a sci-fi and a fantasy tag?
Back in the beginning, I asked the question "Do we need a sci-fi tag?". We went for no, I purged sci-fi from the existing questions, and we kept killing the thing whenever it reared its ugly head ...
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What to do with the [author-identification] tag?
The author-identification tag is a mess.
Most of the questions under them are apparently just asking to identify a work (or series or collection) of sci-fi or fantasy. Most of them are also tagged ...
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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 the tag [2001] to [2001-a-space-odyssey]?
We have the tag 2001 for questions related to Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, used on 20 questions.
I propose we rename the tag to the full name of the movie — 2001-a-space-odyssey — ...
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Low contrast on many Meta design elements makes it hard to read
I think this was brought up in one of the posts on the new design, but I'll throw it up here as an explicit problem.
I don't know if it's my monitor/gamma settings, but I still have trouble reading ...
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web page colors render review question unreadable
I tried reviewing on meta for the first time today and was faced with this:
Nearly white text on a nearly white background seems a poor choice.
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Please change my name
Also related UUID displayed instead of username
There's a bug where my name is messed up, that's besides the point. Please change my name to 'Alex' (no quotes) because it looks bad.
I don't want my ...
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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?
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Sci-Fi site doesn't say "And Fantasy" in very many places in the SEN
In many places on the Stack Exchange Network, there is no mention of the Fantasy side of the Sci-Fi site.
For instance here on Meta when you ask a question:
On the little stack exchange widget:
On ...
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Proposed Additions to the FAQ
We've been hashing out what types of questions are on-topic and what types of questions are off-topic for a few days now, so I'd like to start preparing a draft of what will be added to SciFi.SE's FAQ....
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Audience-specific texts for custom close reasons: Lists of Works or Recommendations
Last year (2020) saw some changes to the question closure system across the SE network. One of the changes was to introduce audience-specific texts for custom close reasons, so that the OP, close ...
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Should we blacklist [tag:sci-fi]?
I see the tag sci-fi popped up about two weeks ago. As the consensus seems to be, it should not exist.
Can someone nuke it from orbit so it can't come back?
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Please add more choice to post notices
Answerama is causing an influx of quickie questions with one-liner answers. I have put up a few post notices on questions, to try to convey that we would like answers with more information. I used the ...
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Two missing user boxes on Election overview
The Election page shows an overview of all elections held for this stack, now that there's currently no election in progress.
The overview looks a bit off with two missing userboxes, since two former ...
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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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