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Possible Duplicate: Etiquette on addressing fellow-users StackExchange seems to be a serious website that everyone interest on the quality of question and answer, i just want to know that is this ...

I've tried asking a question but the page shows the message: Sorry, we can't accept this question. Here are the exact characters typed into the textbox: Question Title: what's a consumer-tech ...

As it is now, here is the content of a "Too Localized" close reason: closed as too localized by MrHen, Robusto, JSBangs, Dusty, F'x 1 hour ago This question is unlikely to ever help any future ...

Examples here: Does the "@" symbol have a name? Edgar Gonzalez asks specifically for a one-word name. What do you call a noun that precedes and describes another noun? In addition to the ...

Just the other day I could cast 38 votes, then yesterday I could only do 32. Is there a factor affecting our vote limits? Perhaps like saving-up?

Piggy backing off of "How important is a word origin?", what level of an etymology question is safe to close as general reference?

Where can I view my flag weight? I want to make sure that I am flagging correctly.

Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because: Sorry, we can't accept this question. From yesterday I am not able to ask some questions, Why is it happening?

I had started an answer with "Dear [username] " and I see that this heading was deleted by a moderator. Is this a general policy on this site ? I'm a new user and don't yet know the rules. Needless to ...

When I ask a question on this meta site, or edit an existing question, I see these blocks that use the same background color used on the main site.

On both the meta and the main site, the text shown in the Markup help block goes outside the block frame, as shown in the following screenshots.

Other people have such beautifully formatted questions and answers, and I have to do it basic HTML. Are there any special keys you have to use in order to have a 'touched up' post? and can someone ...

This question was closed as off-topic, for reasons I can't understand. It's a question about slang (albeit the OP was a bit confused about the original usage as compared to the slang usage), which ...

I wonder what will happen after knowing the origin of a word. I see 7-8 questions about it everyday. Is it really useful?

Possible Duplicate: Is Python a snake or a programming language? If the latter, why is it choking my dog? I've seen several Questions lately typified by this one, which quite shamelessly solicits ...

Google Ngram viewer allows one to compare the frequencies of a set of phrases over time. It even allows you to restrict that comparison to an American corpus, or separately to an English one. What I ...

See Do we need the "foreign" tag? The links that I see under that question are split on two lines. It happened after I voted to close my question as it is not relevant, now that there are ...

The background image on the main site: It seems to have developed a very subtle "pixelation" effect. Here is enlarged, contrast-enhanced version of the image, making it plainer:    &...

/about: Dear Jin, this is funny and all, but... but... BUT! (Opera, Chrome, Firefox; Vista.)

Sometimes, questions about English (online) resources are being asked. Are those questions on-topic for EL&U? If they are on-topic, aren't they at least subjective? These are examples of ...

Should the dialect tag be used for questions about other 'lects? Sociolects ("is this proper for the boardroom/street/etc.", "how do chavs say _") Ethnolects ("what terms do _ use differently in ...

We've been getting a rash of questions asking, essentially, what a programmer should name methods or properties. One such was a request for a word that meant both "add" and "remove" because the ...

Possible Duplicates: What questions are on-topic and off-topic here? Can I ask the community to help me find errors in a text/sentence? Would English SE be a good place to post a paragraph or ...

I assume it's automated. I know it's for "interesting questions." Just curious if it's a matter of views, upvotes, or something else.

The formatting of the editing help page, linked from the sidebar when typing or editing a question or answer, appears quite broken: Notice how the background horizontal lines are in inappropriate ...

I don't care what @nohat thinks. The world is a bleak and barren place without ornamentation. Less is less. Deal with it.

If I started a new question with the title "Pronunciation of 'cat'" the related question helper finds bunches of questions starting with "pronunciation of". This seems to happen with many of the ...

Which typeface is this? How does it get instantiated into the page? I tried looking at the webpage source with Firebug and it just shows up the following HTML tags. <div id="hlogo"> <a ...

This is pure speculation and discussion for egotistical purposes. Do you think that EL&U will become an unofficial authority on the English language? As in, will be given the trust to coin new ...

When a user changes names, is there any way for "@" comments using their former name to be changed automatically to their new moniker? Otherwise, it looks like the commentators made a mistake. See ...

In researching the question Which is correct, “buck naked” or “butt naked”?, I found a very thorough examination of this question at Language Log that I linked to in a comment under the OP. I feel ...

When someone asks a question that has a right answer, should he or she be the one to mark one as accepted? Accepted doesn't have to be correct, but why shouldn't it? With something more subjective ...

The tag words has been heavily discouraged since the early days of the site. A few weeks ago I manually retagged every question that used words, and there are currently no questions with that tag, ...

I ask because I am not seeing an edit link on posts here on Meta.English. If it's not, why can't I suggest edits on Meta.English? I can do it on the main English.SE site.

As far as I remember, there used to be a checkbox at the bottom of the question form to mark it as community wiki (CW). I don't see it anymore. I assume this functionality changed. How does it work ...

FYI, I have removed the red double quote graphic from the <blockquote> element. The styling was nice when if the post has a giant block of text. However since the new design launched, I noticed ...

A few posts have shown up with crap added to them to extend the character limit past the point of acceptance. One user liked to add periods. I am having difficulties creating a query for ..... Does ...

There is a recent question asking when the grammar of some language ancestral to English branched a certain feature. Since it garnered many votes, I suppose it was on-topic. Which languages are on-...

The blockquote HTML tag is often used for things that are not literally quotations—for example, in duplicate question notices—so the giant quotation mark is quite often incorrect or misleading. Since ...

What sorts of features are missing from dictionaries? I'm not talking about new words, I'm talking about for any given word. what do current dictionaries not capture about it? What -is- currently ...

When I include a quote from a book, blog, or a site, how should I report who is the author and from where the quote comes from? Principia philosophiae, René Descartes René Descartes, Principia ...

When I report the origin of a word, how should I write the meaning of the word from which the word derives? I write it in quotes, after the word in that language: Latin minister "servant". I write it ...

How about adding font embedding for pronunciations characters like the one does at math.SE site? I don't mean to add MathJax to here, only embedding a font will work for this english.SE site.

A number of questions are of the type: 'Can you diagram this sentence?', or 'How do you parse this sentence?'. On the same order of the Google ngram tool, are there any diagramming or parsing tools? ...

I don't think they should be closed, but considering that it could be enough to look the pronunciation reported in a dictionary, should questions about pronunciation be closed using the "general ...

I wanted to delete some of my questions and answers that were not helpful to others. From my experience, I learned that I could not delete my answer if it had been accepted, and could not delete my ...

I have run into a few cases where I don't know the correct grammatical terms for the types of words or parts of a sentence I am asking about. One such example is my question How to call attention to &...

I was listening to the SitePoint Podcast where they were talking to the founder of GitHub. One thing that really intrigued me was that they were talking about how they would prefer to hire somebody ...

Are there any alternative standards to the IPA for phonetic transcription without the use of special characters? For instance, in this chart of ICAO phonetic alphabet, phonetic pronunciations are ...

We're evaluating the feasibility of sponsoring a member of the English community to speak at a conference in 2011. Speaking is a relatively big "ask", so this needs to be planned many months in ...