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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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Rules about proofreading essays (IELTS etc.)
Yes and no.
You cannot paste a paragraph you have written, and ask the community to identify the mistakes. That is called "proofreading", and it is expressly off-topic.
So, you could not ask ...
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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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Overzealous "Proofreading" closevotes?
There's no actual question from the asker in your provided example.
The asker is literally dumping a block a text, saying there's an error, and telling ELL to find it and explain why. I ...
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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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Rules about proofreading essays (IELTS etc.)
The help center topic "What topics can I ask about here?" explains that
Proofreading (for example, "Are there any mistakes?" or "Is this correct?"), unless a source of concern is clearly specified
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Why is meaning mentioned as both allowed and not allowed?
The two aren't contradictory.
The problem here is a more wordy reading can't fit there, because as far as I'm concerned, there's a limited area in the "help center" that moderators can ...
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Alternative websites for proofreading
As said by @Dan Brown, proofreading "is a lot of work, not particularly rewarding, and only ever helps one single person." This means you will get poor support, because native speakers won't have much ...
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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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Rules about proofreading essays (IELTS etc.)
proofreading from stackexchange -help - on-topic
"Please don’t ask any questions about the following topics. They are
out of scope for this site:
Proofreading (for example, "Are there any ...
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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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