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If I'm looking for a phrase (not just a word) that expresses a specific concept, should I still use the tag single-word-request?

There were two questions tagged with indefinite-articles, and I changed the tag to indefinite-article. Should we make indefinite-articles a synonym of indefinite-article?

I used my iPod to visit english.SE today and, differently from the usual, the site is not rendered correctly; the dominant color is gray, and the graphic elements are not present (e.g., the header ...

As discussed in questions like this and this, there is the possibility of scope-creep on this site. Would it be beneficial to link to any resources that are better places than this site to start ...

modifier and attribute (or attributive) could be set as synonyms of modifiers. Modifier should have a meaning that includes the meaning of attribute, or attributive, even though attributive is used ...

Is the review page visible to all the users?

There is a question that has been tagged with cv. I think the tag should be renamed to curriculum-vitae, or deleted. Update There are now 13 questions tagged cv.

The following is a "digest" version of the 2011 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat. The format, as described on Meta Stack Overflow, is one answer to this question for every question asked in the Town ...

This question is about body language (i.e. a gesture) used in an English-speaking country. Is this on topic for the site?

There are native and non-native speakers on this website. I can identify some native speakers (mostly by certain colloquialisms) and some non-native speakers (by small deviations from idiom and the ...

This subject came up in the town hall chat: how basic is too basic, and more importantly, how do we help users to write questions that are not too basic? "Find in dictionary" questions ...

The Questions link lists both the questions that has been recently asked, and old questions that have been recently edited. Is there a way to get only the recently asked questions?

grammar is our fourth most used tag and grammaticality is our seventh most used tag. Yet, it would seem to me that they are used interchangeably. I cannot be sure since grammar does not have a tag ...

Stack Exchange sponsors members from SE sites to attend conferences in that field. Since EL&U is a smaller SE community than some of our peers (although I would say, in some cases, of much higher ...

There's only one question tagged meanning, it was probably a typo. Please change it to meaning.

I agree so much with Dori's answer in this thread that I thought it was worth making it into a thread of its own. There has been a string of off-topic and low-quality questions (and, to a lower extent,...

I'd like to understand why my questions on English phrases, expressions, words usage, meaning, grammar and/or definitions were closed. What are out of this english.stackexchange.com board in them? ...

This could just be me, but I'm seeing a big uptake on hypercritical comments and aggressive downvoting lately here. It's like there's a cadre of power users trying to make a name for themselves by ...

I wonder how the community feels about: Allowing question about English but written in languages other than English? Allowing translations to (but not from) English? I ask because EL&U is almost ...

In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...

I upvoted a post that, after some time and investigation, happened to be incorrect and misleading. Cf. my question "If prepend is not part of English, why ther's no postpend, subpend? and who ...

I was trying to reproduce and document the bug I reported in my question Tweet button from the same answer always gives distinct link I opened all my answers in EL&U one after another and this ...

I found many answers to my deleted questions extremely useful and interesting. Can't the copy of deleted threads be email-ed to all authors? or authors be warned to backup them before deleting? ...

The same issue, described in Tweet button from the same question always gives distinct link only when posting from answer (instead of question) Checked on my answer to question "What is a term ...

Will the current EL&U moderator elections thread be available for reading after election? How, for example, to access election threads on past SO moderators elections?

In the current EL&U moderator elections most candidates, except one from UK, are from the USA what is somehow predetermines the situation that I shall be unmoderated for long periods of time since ...

Is EL&U the right place to ask linguistic questions that do not pertain to any specific language? E.g. questions on grammar that is shared by most every language.

Maybe it's just me, but I get the feeling we are seeing an increasing number of English language learner questions. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but is it what we really want? Aren't we going ...

Usually I do not follow my score but in this cas the score was easy to remember - 400. So, I noticed that my reputation has not changed upon upvoting of my question tomorning "How should I give ...

In order to gain publicist degree should/can I: use the same link? many times? in different non-twitter boards (forums, Emails, FB, etc.)? which one? Update: I thought it was clear from ...

I pressed “share link to this question on Twitter" button in "Origin of the meaning of joe" (below FB button) from the same browser and session receiving 4 posts with different links: http://t.co/...

I'm not fluent enough in the inner workings of EL&U to prove it, but I get the distinct sense that certain posters suspect me of downvoting them when in fact I haven't. None of the related ...

I was amazed that this question, which was closed some time ago, appeared on the front page of the EL&U site today. I find out it is because the original poster edited it to add some text. Is it ...

Currently when you view your user profile and select your reputation history, you get a lovely little chart detailing the growth of your reputation score, and you can select a range of dates to see a ...

This question has been posted on the meta of all the other sites undergoing elections, so just in case you've missed it I'm adding it here. Copied mainly from ChrisF, who has no account here. Yi ...

This is how the left-side frame on https://english.stackexchange.com/election/1?tab=nomination looks like in Safari: I know it has already been reported there, but the question was marked status-...

I've noticed a side bar formatting problem on elections page. The fancy border doesn't stretch with the content ...

The 2011 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks,...

I keep finding myself reading questions only to notice later that they are closed. Is there a user-preference for hiding all [closed] questions?

I have noticed that the Community user edited a post to correct the grammar. Is that possible, or was that done by a real person?

In my Tweeter I searched for Stack Exchange English Language and Usage and received results only on 4 tweets!!!! and then followed sacramental Older Tweet results for Stack Exchange English ...

Example: Reproduced in Chrome 8, Opera 11, and IE8. This is how it appears in Safari 5.0.5 on Mac OS X 10.6. Edit: Bug is still present. Chrome 14 on Windows 7 looks just like above.

Can you point out where is the requirement or discussion that questions and answers should be in English? I didn't find it in the FAQ (except "Languages other than English (including translation)") or ...

Update 2011-04-27: Jin removed the quotation image altogether here When a question is closed as a duplicate, the duplicate question is selected (by the users who vote to close) and then attached ...

I got a blue popup asking me to post the question to FB or tweet it to earn a badge. I did, but nothing happened. What is it: a bug, a feature, or a missing carrot?

The tag wiki edit page has, well, a few layout problems. The title intrudes upon the header. The excerpt box protrudes into the help box. The help box text extrudes from the help box. (Yes, I used ...

I have seen a post recently about whether to use a comma before "and" in "A, B, C and D". Can someone help to find the post please? Or if it does not exists, I will post a question then. Thanks!

In comments to question What is the difference between 20$ and $20? Michael Mrozek informed about publicist badge that: You have to get 1000 unique IP views in 5 days (vgv8 - this is the ...

Wouldn't be it better to tag keywords (with prepended symbol #) in published Tweets? http://twitter.com/stackenglish some examples: "A lost case, that is." http://ur.ly/CNPR #grammar "An RPG" ...

How was the link http://twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/33529347939770368 made/taken?