Questions tagged [title]
For questions about "question titles"
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Why is it necessary for the question title to have more than 15 characters?
I was editing this post which had several mistakes, post, starting with the question title (it was ambiguous). The most reasonable title which I considered writing was "Will vs Would" since ...
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A suggestion for improving the quality of OP's titles
When the OP asks a question, the title box contains the hint
what's your language learning question?
so the OP duly types in his question:
What's the difference between these two sentences?
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What 'buzzwords' should we ban or give a warning about in question titles?
A little while ago I revealed my evilish devilish plans about question titles. Let's review what we did:
Write some FAQ.
Clean up some titles and lead by example.
Get some help from the system to ...
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Title Cleanup Event (TCE) - An invitation
Q: How should we fix the problem of bad question titles on ELL?
A: Basically, my approach consists of three major stages:
Make a meta post and teach people how to write good titles. (Done)
Edit bad ...
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How can I write a better title for my ELL question?
I have an ELL question; but the Stack Exchange format obliges me to write a title not shorter than 15 characters and not longer than 150 characters.
So, how do I write a good title?
Link to the main ...
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Changing the title of a somewhat unclear question to literally say that it is an unclear question, and nothing more
I just saw a question with a peculiarly meta title; when I looked at it, it seemed normal enough for the most part, except the title. Turns out, a high-rep user had rewritten just the title to ...
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Do you see the need for "buzzwords-in-question-titles" edits?
I see a pretty similar discussion (no, not that similar) here.
It's an ancient tradition in chemistry.SE to edit the buzzwords in question titles. (Don't think so? Take a look at these: 1, 2, 3, and ...
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Please use specific titles. Don't just ask "Is this grammatically correct?"
Today, I was looking over at the related questions module on a recent question, and it looked like this:
It would be nice if we could tell questions apart simply by looking at their titles. But ...
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Are there many restrictions in the title? How to know about that? [duplicate]
For example:
How to choose between as you say and as one said
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How should we fix the problem of bad question titles on ELL?
I have recently noticed that question titles are not well-formatted or not entirely representative of the associated question content.
The result is that this site seems to be like "Yahoo Answers", ...
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Avoiding using Expletives in titles
I think that we should limit expletives on our site, or at least with titles. I think that a few inappropriate words tucked away might be appropriate at times. However, in this question, it is used in ...
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