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Is ELL getting too PC ("Politically Correct")?
I didn't like the question, and I'm not sorry to see it gone.
If someone is truly confused about the words least and less, surely it's not too hard to contrive an example sentence that would raise ...
J.R.Mod
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Stop throwing "Proofreading" close reason at questions that are clearly limited to a single point of concern
A native English speaker understands the language on an innate level that can be hard to articulate. I think this can cause someone to consider something to be obvious, when it could never be obvious ...
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An emerging pattern of "research" close votes
The "Please edit to add the research you have done" part of that close reason is easy to abuse, but it does have a purpose. I think that the "lack of research" attitude could be ...
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Let's rewrite the "Proofreading" close reason
Here's a tweak of Nathan's text that tries to concisely define proofreading as part of the close reason.
Questions asking for someone to find and correct errors or improve the phrasing of a block ...
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Should I close a question because the answer is "typo"?
I have seen previous questions based on typos getting closed. Here's the proof.
I'm personally for closing them, since
they won't benefit anyone else.
the answer would shift from being based on ...
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Explain to me why you are throwing your close votes at this question
Not a downvoter nor did I vote to close, but the quote is obviously referring to oral sex.
No vulgar terms, indecent or offensive words were used but the description is explicit, it doesn't leave much ...
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Is ELL getting too PC ("Politically Correct")?
I think certain language should be avoided on sites like ELL, not so much because it is deeply offensive, as because it is likely to trigger exactly this sort of debate.
I propose a new law of ...
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Stop throwing "Proofreading" close reason at questions that are clearly limited to a single point of concern
The problem with this usage of "Proofreading" is that the close text pretty much tells people "go away, your question is bad and doesn't belong here".
Proofreading questions are off-topic unless a ...
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Let's rewrite the "Proofreading" close reason
I pondered this for a bit and came up with this (526 characters, in case the 600-character limit for comments applies to close reason definitions):
Questions asking for general proofreading for any ...
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Is ELL getting too PC ("Politically Correct")?
Ultimately, like it or not, these offensive words and phrases are a part of the English language. I don't think that closing questions based on example sentences that might offend someone is justified....
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Explain to me why you are throwing your close votes at this question
It's not just a valid question. It's an interesting and productive question.
There do exist edge cases such that transitive verbs in their ordinary transitive senses don't have explicit semantic ...
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Why is this question about "noun for splitting" off-topic?
It isn't.
I don't know why two people voted to close it, but as far as I can tell, they were wrong. The close reviewers unanimously agreed on that.
(Some people would make the argument that this is ...
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I see in hindsight that a question might have been better for ELU. It has close votes now
There is nothing wrong with the question (being posted on ELL).*
I think the comment was an unfortunate one. It shouldn't have caused you any concern. It probably should be deleted, as it is not ...
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Closing the first question as a duplicate of the second question
Take a look at Should I vote to close a duplicate question, even though it's much newer, and has more up to date answers?
The consensus in deciding things like duplicates is highly situation-...
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Why are there so many apparently erroneous proofreading close votes?
I think that the discrepancy is caused by different understandings of what "identifying a specific source of concern" looks like. Some folks would like to see an explicit statement of "I'm not sure ...
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Can we please stop closing non-basic questions on spelling, meaning, or pronunciation?
In my opinion, you are confusing an interesting bit of context with a good question. If I had a question about the usage of "see" in the phrase 1888 saw the rise of temperance groups would I be able ...
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Is ELL getting too PC ("Politically Correct")?
I do not think it would have been appropriate to change the original poster's example from "gay" to "silly".
One or both of the following analyses applies:
Perhaps the original poster thought "gay" ...
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EL&U.SE vs ELL.SE
Yes there are things which would be on-topic on the ELU.SE site and not on-topic on the ELL.SE site.
ELL is aimed at those who are learning English. Questions need not be from people who are actually ...
David SiegelMod
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Will this question be put "on hold" as proofreading?
King ordered Mary to work in Court, but she doesn't like it because she thinks by this way king will meet her always & she also thinks king will seperate her & husband.
It's a long sentence. ...
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What to do with old questions without context?
My two cents: feel free to vote to close if you stumble upon them, but don't go actively hunting for them. Closing a question is most effective before it gets an answer; afterwards, it's more of a ...
GlorfindelMod
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Is this question really unclear?
From the OP's profile page I see a lot of questions that share the same characteristic: lack of details.
The verb "equate" in mathematical sense
The question although clear consists of just ...
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Is ELL getting too PC ("Politically Correct")?
This isn’t an explicit response to the question, but I want to point out where we might have been able to handle this situation a bit better. Also, I want to make perfectly clear that questions about ...
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Should this question be closed?
No, not proofreading. Proofreading would be something like:
Hi can you tell me if this sentence is right? "The marketing director showed the annual profits to distribute equally between the ...
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I see in hindsight that a question might have been better for ELU. It has close votes now
I think it's not so much that the question really is "nuanced" - it more that by its very nature, ELL is likely to have a high percentage of users who are interested in knowing what's grammatically ...
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Let's be more careful with closing
I'm editing my answer to bump this discussion, because I think we need to talk about it again. We just closed two questions as duplicates of each other. The first close votes happened around the same ...
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Let's be more careful with closing
My comment made me curious: How many closures are unjustified?
So I asked rene to write a SEDE query (Thanks rene!) to find out. The query gives you the links to all of the questions that received ...
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Let's rewrite the "Proofreading" close reason
This was the final close reason that we got to fit within the character limits:
Questions asking for someone to find and correct errors or improve the phrasing are considered requests for ...
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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
What I notice about the questions Nathan has used as examples is that they are conspicuously bare of any explanation from the author of what prompted the question, what they find confusing about it, ...
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Why is this question about "noun for splitting" off-topic?
Yes that's the idea. Also it would have been a better/more detailed/acceptable question (in my mind) if you had listed some of the synonyms you had found and mentioned why they weren't acceptable, or ...
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Let's rewrite the "Proofreading" close reason
Here's my more concise version of what Nathan Tuggy wrote:
Questions asking for general proofreading for errors or poor phrasing are off-topic. Please edit to focus on a type of error or a few ...
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