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20 questions linked to/from Google is not General Reference
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"Masters degree" vs. "Master's degree" is not the same question as "Master's degrees" vs. "Masters' degrees"
I would like to request more reopen votes for the following question: Does a person have two “masters’ degrees” or two “master’s degrees”?
As described clearly in the question post, it is not ...
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Let's reopen this interesting question
Now reopened
This apparently simple, question about possessive S has been closed:
"The species/species'/species's survival..."
However, I think that in this case this was a bit ...
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About EL&U usage, purpose, and comments
I simply have to ask, and lash out (a tiny bit), about some of the comments and messages I have received on answers I've provided. I've had at least one moderator (I think?) and another senior member ...
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Is a question that can be answered by trivial googling a valid question?
My question is about What does 'Gentleman jockey wins the Derby' mean. The OP would have found an answer -- or a strong clue -- if he had googled "gentleman jockey". There are nine ...
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Is "Is having sex a hobby?" on-topic? [Undeleted]
Reason I deleted this question:
I didn't want to help the question attract other reopen votes as it was closed right after I posted this question. I was also disappointed at the initial comments as ...
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Lack of research vs. "interesting" question?
Is community fine with accepting questions that seem like "interesting" but lack any research?
I see these kind of questions quite a lot. Two recent examples:
'opposite' of 'déj&#...
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What kind of questions ARE we looking for here?
I've been lurking on ELU for around six months now, and in my time here, I've seen many, many questions being closed due to being off-topic. More than any other SE site. I've browsed the meta for ...
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Reword General Reference to include research / ELL
This is a spin-off suggestion from Add a 'too basic' close reason. I put forth that we already do have a 'too basic' reason, General Reference, but the wording should be improved. Here is what I ...
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Show Me the Reference!
It's time for everyone's favorite game show, Show Me the Reference! The following seven questions were each placed on hold as general reference within the past week:
Is it correct to use an ...
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Question is on hold - should it be? What is considered a "general reference"?
My question is put on hold for being off-topic: How do I pronounce the name "Aurelius"?
Since I wasn't exactly sure what the "general reference" reason actually is (When looking at the Help ...
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General Reference = general clairvoyance?
This question asked what you call those words that sound like the sound they make. It was closed as general reference. Really!? How the hell is the guy supposed to look up the answer when he doesn't ...
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Who is voting to close all these questions?
I just went though the closure review queue, consisting of a couple dozen questions with close votes. At least 75 percent of these questions were not even remotely closeable according to the ...
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About Reference Questions
It seems that we must once again clarify what questions should and should not be closed with the close reason:
Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic. A ...
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I don't understand what is meant by 'LMGTFY comments'
I only just saw this meta-question here at ELU about insulting LMGTFY links.
I can't understand what is really being referred to. I have followed the meta.ELU question links to the meta.SO ...
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Why are most new questions being downvoted?
I was scrolling through the list of newest asked questions and noticed that only 3 out of 15 had non-negative votes for the question. Is this just an anomaly or is the quality of the average question ...
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