New close reason: include the research

Question

After reviewing several Meta posts and related commentary, the moderator team has replaced one of the custom close reasons on the site. The General Reference close reason has been replaced by:

Please include the research you've done, or consider if your question suits our English Language Learners site better. Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic.

This new reason more adequately conveys why the community was closing general reference questions (because more research was desired), it provides the same rationale for other questions that might not be considered general reference but are still lacking information, and it also suggests the English Language Learners site, which is helpful for users who may need to learn how to do the research in the first place.

Answer 1

(Not really sure if this is an ‘answer’ to a meta ‘question’ at all… but close enough. Since the question isn’t a question, I guess its answer can be one instead.)

One minor niggle has just occurred to me: the or in the first sentence is misleading. It would be better to change it to:

Please include the research you've done, AND consider if your question suits our English Language Learners site better. Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic.

The or makes it look like the asker should either include their research or consider whether the question is better for ELL, when in fact of course the asker should do both: including your research does not mean the question is necessarily better on ELU than ELL, and ELL expects research to be included as well, so considering that it’s a better fit there does not preclude one from including one’s research.