Questions tagged [story-identification]
For questions relating specifically to posts with the [story-identification] tag on the main site.
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Is there an alternate place to ask for story identification for non-sci-fi?
Unfortunately, this is likely an off-topic question, but one which is about said off-topicness. Occasionally, when browsing through story-identification items, one comes upon a request for a story ...
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How to ask a good story-ID question?
Our top tag is story-identification, with nearly 6000 questions, many of which are new users' first posts to the site. Many of these new users need some guidance on how to ask a story-ID question well ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Let's talk about Story ID requests for erotica
At the moment, so long as what we see on SFF is SFW, it is acceptable.
However, I'd like to discuss clarifying the scope of what is considered on-topic for SFF. Specifically requests for identifying ...
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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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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 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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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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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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Under what conditions is self-answering 'Story Identification' questions considered abusing the site?
In my view, the way story-identification questions are written is not useful for future readers.
For example, someone might ask:
"I'm looking for a [work] that I can remember from [time]. I can ...
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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 story identification questions still appropriate?
Despite Jeff's latest SE Blog post, I think story ID questions should still be ok here.
I think there can be good and bad story ID questions, and while the bad ones can fall into the categories Jeff ...
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Can somebody walk me through how to research these Identify these story-ID questions? [duplicate]
Is there any way to research and identify story-identification questions?
We have 2303 unanswered ID questions and while I wouldn't mind putting in the research effort, I have no idea where to start ...
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Should we tag (solved) story identification questions with the name of the author / property?
If an identification question has an accepted answer, it would make sense to tag it with the author's name. Or should we not tag it and leave it as a sort of trivia question for others?
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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.
I said:
They don’t accept them
Then, the ...
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Can I ask a story-identification question about a book I didn't read?
During my quest to find new books to read, I stumbled upon an interesting young adult fantasy series but I forgot to bookmark the page or save that info somewhere.
However, the series had a very long ...
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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 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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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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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?
Context
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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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 write a good story-ID answer?
Our top tag is story-identification, with nearly 6000 questions and nearly 7000 answers, many of which are new users' first contributions to the site. Many of these new users need some guidance on how ...
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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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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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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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Can scifi id questions from movies SE be migrated here? [duplicate]
Since movies SE have decided to ban id question and delete all the existing ones, I'm asking if it's possible to save part of its archive (scifi related questions) by migrating them here? And if it's ...
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Story Identification and review
In this story identification question there is this answer which in addition to answering the question gives a review of the themes in the book and seems to contain quite a few personal opinions. I am ...
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Can I add a note to my own incorrect story ID answer, explaining why it is incorrect?
Background
Over a year ago, a story ID request was asked, about a lone man manning some sort of space station. I answered it, and even though my guess wasn't the actual story the querant was looking ...
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Short but not too broad?
How short can a story identification question be and still be reasonably answerable? For example:
Firemen set fires, burn books
Sex-changing time-traveller is his own mother and father
Columbus has ...
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We have more than 1,200 unresolved [story-identification] questions >3 months old. Is that a problem?
This search returns story-identification questions that are:
Positively scored.
Completely unanswered. Downvoted and zero-score unaccepted answers do count, unlike the "unanswered" tab.
Not (...
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Is it bad form to ask the same story-id question here and elsewhere?
Particularly, in TVTropes' "You Know, That Show" section?
I would think the polite thing to do is, do that, but if you do get an answer at B, post it at A and vice versa. Right?
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Would a book collecting predictions fall under the scope of this site's story identification tag?
I am looking for a specific book that I read in my childhood (specifically, between 1986 and 1990), and while it would fall under the concept of "fiction" and indeed "science fiction", I am not sure ...
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Asking a question about a film that is not fantastic, but its protagonist believes he lives in a tolkienesque fantasy world [duplicate]
The main character is a misfit living with his mother. There are no supernatural or preternatural elements in the story aside from the protagonist's psychosis (he believes that he is living in a ...
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Can I ask about identifying a sci-fi puzzle book?
I was thinking of posting a "story identification" question regarding a series I use to read as a child. I do not think any book continued from the other, but there was a constant theme of a space ...
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I'm asking a Story-ID question. Should I include spoilers?
I plan to ask a story-id question shortly. So far I've described elements from the plot and a description of the characters but what should I do about spoilers?
Obviously asking
"Space opera, ...
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story Identification for non Sci-Fi or fantasy theme?
Is it possible to ask for a story identification where the story itself isn't really sci-fi or fantasy related? For example, a story like a memoir or fiction about old england.. or let's say somebody ...
