Questions tagged [migration]
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A friendly reminder: ELL is not EL&U's trash can
We've been getting a lot of migrations to ELL lately. That's actually fine by me – I think a lot of them are okay on ELL, even if they're not suitable for EL&U. The two sites have different ...
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Should we have a migration path to ELL?
I know that this has been discussed before but, at the time, it was not possible since ELL was still in beta. Now that it has graduated and has had its first mod elections and everything, it might be ...
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"This question appears to be off topic because it is better asked on ELL."
A bit of background before I begin: I am a moderator on ELL, and I admit to not being entirely familiar with what is and isn't on-topic here on ELU. I am posting this discussion because I see a trend ...
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Proposal to fix the uselessness of the new off-topic close options
Bait-and-switch Close “Options”
With the new close options recently implemented, when you click close on ELU, that takes you to a first-level menu of five different close options. From that first-...
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Can we add English Language Learners to the "belongs on another SE site" list? (When will ELL move out of beta?)
For close votes, we are provided a number of reasons. One reason, in particular, is for being off-topic because it belongs on a different Stack Exchange network, takes you to a list view of related ...
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Please don't migrate obviously off-topic questions to ELL - it just makes things harder on the author
This isn't a complaint about the overall migration of questions from EL&U. I think taken as a whole, the migration path is a positive thing. I have started to see a few real stinkers getting ...
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Add a link to Literature.SE as a choice for migration in an off-topic close vote
This question was closed as off-topic with 3 downvotes. Four minutes later, the poster manually re-asked it on Literature.SE and got 2 upvotes along with an answer. Should we consider allowing ...
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Closing a question: How are migration possibilities determined?
I was going to put a close vote with suggestion to migrate to writers.se on this question here (about the use of names in formal writing), but when I tried to cast the close vote, the only target for ...
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Is the history/etymology of names appropriate?
I asked a question about the history of names. The question text is asking about the origin of a practice of family names or surnames. There is some contention as to whether this question is on topic ...
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Questions for English Language Learners Stack Exchange
A week ago in chat Grace Note asked us to compile a list of questions we think should be migrated to English Language Learners.
Now, I'm not wholly in favour of migrating to ELL at the moment, ...
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Could we migrate or cross-post excellent questions and answers to ELU from ELL? [duplicate]
I think a lot of questions that native English speakers would have difficulty answering get asked on ELL as opposed to ELU. And as a result, many questions get asked on ELU that are essentially a ...
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Migration of question
I recently had a question of mine migrated from the English Site to the Linguistics site (link below).
The question relates to the field of Computational Linguistics which is an amalgamation of ...
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Is it okay to flag a question for migration to a beta site
The question A confusing use of a negative seems like it belongs on English Language Learners. I was considering flagging it for moderator attention and choosing a custom reason to say this. But I'm ...
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Closing the loop on migrations to ELL [duplicate]
So this is yet another discussion about the migration path to ELL. There needs to be some sort of community consensus on what should be migrated, what should be closed, and what should be answered on ...
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Literature is closing — what questions should we migrate here? [closed]
Our sister site Literature Stack Exchange is shutting down on May 4th due to a lack of activity. (So are Astronomy, Economics, Firearms, Healthcare IT and Theoretical Physics.)
There may be some ...
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Is this question about Boners too simple for E.L.U. or not, and if it is, should it be migrated to E.L.L?
We were just having a little debate about the question What does it mean to give someone boners? in chat, and it strikes me as a rather borderline case. The matter under consideration was whether or ...
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Why was a question on uncommon usage moved to the English Learners stack-exchange?
Why has my question been moved to "English learners"? There's no reason given that I can see.
What happened to all of the comments, why were some of them removed?
What exactly was wrong with my ...
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A question voted to be off-topic and better suited to writers.SE has not been migrated
When should one use a section sign (the link is only for 10k users) has been voted as off-topic and better suited to writers.SE by 5 users, but the question was simply closed.
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How to migrate a question to ELL [duplicate]
This question has been put on hold as being too basic and thus off-topic.
I would like to vote for this question to be migrated to ELL rather than deleted, but the only three options I see in "flag" ...
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Moving questions to other SE [duplicate]
When reviewing questions, it is sometimes apparent that they would be best asked in a different (Mathematics, Biology, Law etc) SE from EL&U. However when I try to flag this I am only offered ELL ...
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