Questions tagged [story-identification]
For questions relating specifically to posts with the [story-identification] tag on the main site.
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Multiple Neverending Stories?
We have an accepted answer for the first film, an accepted answer for the second film, and an accepted answer for the TV series (which is the dupe target for another question about the series, ...
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Changing the dupe target
Long ago I answered this identification question, call it A. Some time later John Rennie answered another question, call it B, which was closed as a duplicate of A. Just now I answered yet another ...
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Should I answer my own question if someone answered in the comments several months ago and still haven't responded to the request to post an answer?
A few months ago, I had written an identification question, to which someone gave a very possible answer in the comments, so I asked them if they could write an actual answer.
To this day, they haven'...
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Resolution of Duplicates in the Enderverse
This originally came up in association with Sci fi book where humanoid aliens murder a researcher by killing him and cutting him open, where the answer was determined to be Speaker For The Dead. My ...
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Can ChatGPT Answer Story Identification Questions?
Many of the questions asked on Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange have to do with story identification. But if you just need to identify a story, couldn't you just ask ChatGPT or just Google ...
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Answering duplicate story-identification questions
I responded to a story-id question with a comment suggesting that it's a duplicate. Several years went by with no word from the OP, and the question was still unanswered, so I decided to post an ...
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How should we handle [story-identification] questions that are word-for-word duplicates (or slightly reworded versions) of a prior question?
There are these two story-identification questions that seem to be asking to identify the same thing:
Anime with boy who can grow crystals on his body, posted in July 2021 and currently unanswered
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Would asking to identify a Manga Drawing Guide, be off-topic?
Tineye reveals that this image is from before 2009 and a reddit thread somewhere said it looked like from a manga drawing book, like "Super Manga Matrix".
Would asking where this girl came ...
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Are old school Martial arts films considered SciFi/Fantasy?
When you have people whose skin is indestructible, or who can poke holes in walls with just their fingers, or who can run up walls and seemingly float or fly, would that be considered SciFi/Fantasy? (...
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Where, Exactly, can the Works Searched for by This Exchange be Found?
There's a constant stream of story identification threads, and inevitably answers appear with paragraphs from the text to verify the story that's been looked for. Yet, when I click the link to the ...
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Should a querent be able to identify their question as the dupe of a question that has a matching unaccepted answer?
Ran into Story about students stuck in a black and white universe as a result of following some breadcrumbs from the Literature SE, and I noticed that What is this story I'm trying to remember, ...
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What tags should be used alongside story-identification, and similar questions?
I recently noticed a story-identification question with a lot of other tags, and I remember instinctively trimmed them down, as they seemed tangential to the I'd question. I can no longer find that ...
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Should I correct misremembered details in my question?
Yesterday I asked this question (Polar-dwelling youth finds an offplanet bride, but she dies, but he adopts exiles as his tribe) and today I found out the answer and answered it myself.
I have found ...
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Why was I asked to provide information already included in my question?
Who was able to teleport an item into the chest of his loan shark
I'm not sure why I was grilled so harshly when I included all the info I could remember that was relevant. How do I know he was a ...
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Late acceptances of story-identification answers
This story-identification question was asked on June 16, 2013; I answered it on July 1, 2013; and my answer was accepted today, April 23, 2021, almost 8 years later. Is this a record?
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Is it bad practice to ask a story ID question for something you managed to find just to mark it as a duplicate of another existing question?
So basically, there was this one movie I was remembering from a long time ago. After searching on several search engine, I was able to find it again.
Right after, I decided to search the title of the ...
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Can we dupe-close Story IDs when confirmation is given by what looks like the OP’s second account?
You may have seen this: a new user asks a story-identification question, then a second (also new) account gives the answer (or confirms an existing answer, though usually this deleted and transferred ...
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Should a question lacking detail and clarity be reopened if we have an answer?
Lately, we've been getting a lot of two line isekai questions, seemingly hit-and-runs where the question is incredibly barebones and we seldom see the person again. For one of them, Manga about a male ...
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Story-ID answers after an accepted one? Are they useful? [duplicate]
Recently, there've been a number of answers to accepted story-identification questions with possible matches to the question. In this case, it's one new user who's doing this to a bunch of questions, ...
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Can the story-identification tag be used for questions asking for movie identification?
I had asked a movie identification question on the Movies.SE site, but quickly I was told that the tag isn't on-topic there anymore.
Can I use the story-identification tag on this site, Science ...
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Is my story identification question on-topic considering the plot?
I have been trying to identify a movie that my dad told me about once. Unfortunately since the movies SE doesn't accept story id questions anymore, I want to know if I can ask my question here. The ...
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Is this truly a story-id question?
There's this question which is definitely a valid question. However, it's tagged with story-identification. Is this a valid tag and why? I honestly don't think it matches, but there doesn't seem to be ...
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Is there a preferred picture size for story ID questions?
Sometimes when I answer a story ID question I'll include a picture of the book cover, typically grabbed from Goodreads or some similar site. I generally try to choose what seems a sensible size for ...
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How to choose the best hub question: a case study
Today, I came across a situation that makes for a very good illustration of the reason for my most recent meta question -- several questions have been asked, answered, and/or accepted about an old TV ...
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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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How to ask a good (Western comics) story-ID question
Copied from Valorum's guide's question on video game identification.
We seem to have a pretty regular number of story-ID questions specifically focused on finding half-remembered Western comics.
Our ...
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What are the criteria that make for "better" quality questions and answers for story identification questions?
I spend a lot of time patrolling for duplicates in story identification questions. One issue that repeatedly comes up are the differing definitions of "quality" held by various users when deciding ...
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Can a identification question be marked as a duplicate of a question with no accepted answer? [duplicate]
I believe that these two questions have the same answer.
Anime: main character equips a horned helmet to fight monsters/criminals, pulls out a sword from his arm
Anime: Dying alien robot merge his ...
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Should we allow fan-fiction identification? [duplicate]
I like story-identification. While the questions are sometimes bad, some are really well written and fun to look for. However, fan-fiction identifications are...subpar most of the time. Many are just ...
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Are story identification questions with no story on-topic? [duplicate]
On a post I recently put a bounty on, a user said:
This might be a better question on the Arqade Stack Exchange -- they do video game identifications.
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They don’t accept them
Then, the ...
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Would a western video game identification question be on-topic?
There's a video game that takes place in a town in the wild-west that I remember vividly, but I can't find any pics or proof online to be able to post in the Arqade community. Reading the description ...
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Should this question have [novella] and [short-stories], or just [books]?
I was recently looking at questions about short stories that don't have a media tag when I came across this question (emphasis added):
I remember reading an amazing short story/novella...
I do not ...
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Author tags on story identification questions, when OP has a hunch
This is not a duplicate of Should we tag (solved) story identification questions with the name of the author / property?.
In Chat, I asked the other users if this question should have the ray-...
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Story identification titles
Story identification is a big tag here. There are a lot of questions on it. There are a lot of bad questions, and a lot of good questions. One thing that could be improved on many are their titles.
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How to find a story-ID answer?
story-identification is a big tag. I've read How to write a good story-ID answer? and How to ask a good story-ID question?, but neither answers my larger question: how do users here find the answers ...
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Is there a consensus on tagging solved story ID's with the name of the author/story?
There is this meta question, which doesn't have an accepted answer/practice associated with it.
I am asking, because this question was edited citing the above example, and promptly re-edited ...
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How do I locate the question I previously asked?
I am new to the site and I do not understand how to locate the question I asked yesterday. Can anyone explain to me how I find my own question and any possible answers to it?
Please note that I am ...
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Guardians of the Flame ur-answer unaccepted
Generally, our policy for closing story-id dupes is that only accepted answers can be marked as dupes, or can be marked as the answer that the others are dupes of. The various Guardians of the Flame ...
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Is a story identification question on-topic if it doesn't include genre defining elements?
I have several times seen people have an issue when asking story identification questions, simply put the details they remember from the story don't make the genre plain to those reading the question, ...
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What do we do about almost duplicate story identification questions, where different editions of a work may differ?
This question: Story about aliens nicknamed 'Eechees' who have created a network of tunnels on Mars, raised an issue about duplicates. (The querent has not confirmed/accepted an answer yet, ...
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Should we have a tag for original web content?
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Tonight, we discussed in chat how some story-identification questions might use a tag to point out that the story tackled was originally read/watched/heard/whatever online. The discussion ...
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How to ask a good (video game) story-ID question
We seem to have a pretty regular number of story-ID questions specifically focused on finding half-remembered video-games stories.
Our top tag is story-identification (with over 10,000 questions) and ...
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How to ask a good (fan fiction) Story-ID question?
We seem to have a pretty regular number of story-ID questions specifically focused on finding half-remembered fan-fiction stories.
Our top tag is story-identification with over 10,000 questions and ...
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Should we prefer questions with accepted answers when closing identification requests as duplicate?
A couple of days ago, a story ID request was closed as a duplicate of another one.
Both have an answer which is correct, according to the querant.
But I saw that the one that was closed as a ...
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How to ask a good (anime/manga) Story-ID question?
We've seen an influx of anime and manga story-id questions since Anime:SE stopped accepting them in 2016. Our top tag is story-identification with over 10,000 questions and we already have an ...
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"Magic Link" for How To Ask A Good Story-ID Question?
A large number of story-ID questions come in with insufficient detail to be usefully answered, and there are several people here who point this out, usually commenting with a link to How to ask a good ...
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Are secondhand story ID questions OK?
Recently, someone asked this:
Short story about a starship captain who's only eligible to run for President of the USA if you don't allow for time dilation
The asker states that they did not ...
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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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How much dystopia is needed to be on-topic? [duplicate]
I have an idea for an ID question, but I'm not sure it's on-topic. I think it's set in the near future, in kind of a dystopian-esque country, but pretty much everything else was normal, and the ...
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Which ID questions do we want from Movies & TV? [duplicate]
Our sister site Movies & TV has decided to ban ID questions. All of their thousands of existing ID questions are now closed and locked, and many of them are slated for deletion over the coming ...
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