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Mention general references in FAQ
In https://ell.stackexchange.com/q/5069/54 (which is mentioned in Policy for questions that are entirely answerable with a dictionary) someone's asked what the word "scholarly" means. Please don't ...
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Translation Questions
This question has been closed as Off-Topic (I cast the final vote). There is this discussion on Area51 in regards to translation questions but there doesn't seem to be a definitive guide on whether we ...
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What is our expert self-serving, self-sustaining audience?
Stack Overflow is a site by programmers, for programmers. Programmers ask and the same group of programmers answers. Since askers are also answerers, the community can thrive.
Gaming is a site by ...
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Why is the order of privileges changed in Beta sites?
It makes sense to me that privileges would have lower reputation thresholds to have them in Beta sites because there are fewer users, so less opportunity to gain reputation. What I don't understand is ...
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What am I supposed to do with questions about Historical English (e.g., 'the sticking-place' question)?
My question here is What does ELL want us to do with questions about Historical English and about Etymology? The Help Center page explicity says they are offtopic. Yet some users, including some ...
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Rules about proofreading essays (IELTS etc.)
Can I ask about the grammatical mistakes in a paragraph?
For example, I have written an IELTS Task. Is it ok to ask for the correction?
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Angle brackets to indicate orthography
Choosing the right ‹angle brackets›
Linguists often enclose letters in angle brackets to let people know they're talking about orthography (the way things are written). But Unicode has ...
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Are thanks for the answers unnecessary?
I always wrote "Thank you for your answer" for the answers in the comment section, but sometimes they were deleted. Is something like that unnecessary?
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Are questions like "What is wrong with this sentence when compared to that other sentence" allowed on ELL?
Many of my questions are closed due to my English is awkward. Being non native English speaker it is very difficult for me to write like native English speakers. But I am continuously trying my best ...
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Let's clean up tags
I was browsing through tags, and I noticed that it was very messy. Lot's of tags that are off-topic, lot's of tags that could be easily merged, and lot's of tags that don't make sense. Here is a list ...
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Should we mark questions containing multiple sub-questions as "too broad" until they are split?
Having just carved up this question into two different questions, I think it might be worth us in future agreeing to mark questions containing multiple sub-questions as "on-hold" until the OP or a ...
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How to handle user making incorrect categorical statements?
I will acknowledge that the user whose comments I am complaining about is higher-rep than I am, and thus presumably more helpful and respected. Nevertheless, I have repeatedly seen categorical ...
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Why is ELL still in beta?
When will this ELL site be graduated? I mean, are they still deciding if they should continue it or close it? It would be great to see ELL in a new original design.
I mean, maybe 4 billions of people ...
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Answers and comments that tell the asker to accept the answer you've given
Some users trying to build up their reputation answer a question and then add instructions to new users on how to accept their answer, either in the answer itself or in a comment. While I don't think ...
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Should questions be disallowed because the OP thought they were about English but they're not?
This question — "Do PC screens in Australia scan from bottom to top?" -- explain the humour please — raises what I think is an interesting meta point. I've seen a few questions ...
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I had a discussion with a moderator, one side of the discussion is now removed
A few days ago, I posted an answer on meta. A moderator questioned the accuracy of aspects of the answer. I had an interesting discussion with that moderator in the comments.
It was a very sober, ...
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Synonymize [negative] to point to [negation]
Should the negative tag be made a synonym of the negation master tag?
negative has 33 questions, and negation has 118 questions.
double-negation has 5 questions. Currently there is not a double-...
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The Retagging Event -- Episode 2 (The Doom of "grammar")
The next TRE will be held on 2016/01/02 on Saturday, recurring every 3 days.
Since the community agreed with the proposed retagging of grammar, we're ...
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Good names for tags
How should we choose good names for tags?
Currently, I've got two principles in mind.
Where practical, use similar tags to those on English Language & Usage, and other Language stack exchanges.
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Informative vs. Concise: What's the best way to title a question?
A user recently asked a question about a sentence found in the Harry Potter series. The original title of the question was:
Meaning of "and yet" in the sentence "He'd just had the best ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2015
As your site is undergoing our new design-independent graduation process, you'll be enjoying your own run of design-independent Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community ...
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Pretentious writing tag
Why do we have pretentious-writing? Should we delete it?
I can’t think of a constructive use of it. I vote for removal.
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Should we have an official ELL -> ELU migration path?
As a follow-up to Should we begin migrating questions to ELU?, (and counterpart to https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7128/should-we-have-a-migration-path-to-ell).
Now that ELL is a ...
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Can I ask question which mainly is a correcting a sentence?
I try to write some scientific text. The sentence I wrote does not sound good to me, and also MS Word gives me this green line to consider the sentence again. In general I don't have any specific ...
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Why are some of the links on ELL not styled according to the color swatch in our design?
I was reading over a question on EL&U's meta site about a graphical problem and when I looked at their help center I noticed it incorporated the colors and fonts of their main site, while our help ...
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When you make a new tag, please write a description
I'm editing this to bump it, because I've been finding a lot of tags with no descriptions and few questions associated with them. If you feel like we need to group a certain set of questions with a ...
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The community managers owe the ELL community, the moderation team, and me personally an apology
Suppressing community voices, selective comment picking off, window dressing.
What is going on with you, Stack Exchange Community Managers?
5,769 voters were eligible, 1,146 visited the site during ...
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I want to talk about some recent corrections
One of my questions has recently been edited and I’d like to know why “is gone” is used was changed to “is gone” used, in fact people use that thing rather than is gone uses something, i.e. this gotta ...
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Can I post a question I've already asked, but with more detail?
I asked a question in ELL and got one detailed answer which I accepted. But later, I realized I still have queries and that that answer raised further questions. Also, my original question remains ...
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Descriptivist versus prescriptivist approach in describing 'correct'
I ran across an interesting comment in response to the following question about whoever vs whomever.
The OP asked for "correct" usage. I assume they don't care about what's colloquially ...
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Found a question that needs a better answer? Why not offer a bounty?
So we currently only have one featured question, but we have more than a thousand positively scored questions with one or zero answers. If you have earned enough reputation to access all the ...
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Is it on topic to ask about English advice given by ChatGPT?
This question
Can "neither do I" apply to both disagreement with positive statement and agreement with negative statement?
asks whether the advice given by ChatGPT (we can use 'Neither do I' ...
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How to edit question tags
Item 1 in the Plan in The Great Re-Tagging Call to Arms is
When you view a new question (especially if the question has only 1 tag), compare its tags to the question's content. If another tag ...
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Is it better not to say thank you?
If I type thank you, I can't post it.
So it is better not to say thank you?
Thank you is up voting the answer?
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Should we not use "verbs" instead of "verb"?
Our tags are normally using the plural, especially when they are about a grammatical category.
articles
adverbs
adjectives
modal-verbs
Since the last is not modal-verb, should not we also use verbs ...
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Let's get critical: Mar 2015 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love English Language Learners Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive ...
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filter for questions
I want to create a special (over)view for questions. I think of at least the following:
no answers at all (or, alternatively, with answer(s) but no accepted answer);
not closed (for whatever reason);
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Community Promotion Ads — 2019 [duplicate]
2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of Community Promotion Ads! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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How was this edit rejected?
https://ell.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/26336
How is that edit rejected and the user rejecting it now has this version there
Many times I heard these words interchangeably. I want to ...
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Answering off-topic questions
I have been criticised for answering off-topic "is this correct" questions, which I accept, but others are still doing so without censure. What is going on?
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Why are there [archaic], [early-modern-english], and [history] tags?
According to the Help Center…
This is not the right site for questions about:
Etymology, evolution of the English language, or historical English - see english.stackexchange.com instead.
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When are questions about pronunciation acceptable?
The following question was asked on the main site: How to pronounce 'll after ll?
Despite the question being based on something read on a book, I think that pronouncing a word ending with ll ...
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Where else for help on English Reasoning Questions?
If StackExchange offers no other helpful site, would you please suggest free, online sources of help?
Sadly, I live in an area with barely any native English speakers, and likely no person who has ...
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The help text is missing a white space between two words
The text shown in the Markdown help for the pre-formatted text says:
Indent four spaces to create an block of preformatted textdisplayed in a monospaced font
It should be "preformatted text ...
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Community user locks post, preventing user from making clarifying edits
The question What is the correct form in this case? was (quite correctly, imho) closed recently. I posted a comment asking the OP to edit in further details, with a view to having the closure reviewed....
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What does "(deleted)" mean in the page listing my close-votes?
When looking at the page showing my closure votes, I noticed one of the entries shown (deleted).
What does that mean? As far as I can see, the question has never been deleted.
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Tag merging academy
First of all, a discussion in chat has brought us these ideas that if there's a tag to be discussed about, why not a single post that covers all? Please comment on this post and let me know if such ...
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Tag Overflow shows how tags are related, or need work
Tag Overflow is a great tool for visually comparing:
How many questions have each tag.
The overlap between tags.
Which tags have lots of unanswered questions.
You can even filter it by a tag.
Piotr ...
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If there's only two or three possible contexts for a question, don't vote to close it as unclear, too broad, or Details Please
I see a fair number of questions getting close votes, and even sometimes getting closed, because there's more than one possible answer based on different ways to take the question. Sometimes that's ...
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Why did my question get so many views?
I asked many questions, but one of them ("in this regard" vs. "in this respect") by far has the most views with 18K viewers. The next one has just 2K viewers.
That question seems ...
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