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Should we have a migration path to ELL?
Yes, we should. (Vote for this answer if you think we should open a migration path to ELL.)
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Will there be hats this winter (2015)?
People like hats.
Okay, um, that's... not really a question, but, we can start off slow. Yes! True. Correct. People do, for the most part, like hats.
Will there be hats?
What sort of tradition-...
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Should we have a migration path to ELL?
TLDR: I don’t have a lot of confidence that this will work out, but unless we make the attempt we won’t have the data to support that hunch. Plus until we do so, people will keep asking for it. But ...
tchristMod
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Warn people of the rules for [Single-Word-Requests] before posting
Per Laurel's request, this is one potential wording. The answer is Community Wiki so please feel free to edit for brevity, clarity, and felicity (but if you fundamentally disagree with the listed ...
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Should we amend the help text to expand on proof-reading?
I think the answer is Yes, we should expand the help text, and this is my proposal...
The "on-topic" Help page currently has three principal parts:
What topics can I ask about here?
What ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Warn people of the rules for [Single-Word-Requests] before posting
The message needs to be short and easy enough for less competent speakers to understand
To get the best answers, please include the following:
A sample sentence showing how the word would ...
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
I think it is broke, and this would be worth at least trialling.
Currently there are over 160 questions in the review queue. I confess I don't use the queue much; I simply don't have the time and ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Can we use the link replacement tool to fix links to English-corpora.org?
If you’re simply looking for community support or permission to run the existing search-and-replace tool to update the corpora links on EL&U*, you have my support and that of anyone who upvotes ...
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We need a site specific message for our advice page
In EL&U, the problem is not that the standard Stack Exchange advice for writing good questions isn't appropriate. It's that some visitors don't have enough patience or enough facility with the ...
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Should we have a migration path to ELL?
status-completed
As of 22 September 2015, we do have this capability, courtesy of The Powers Who Do That Sort Of Thing.
As WendiKidd has implied in her answer, there are risks and potential ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Should we have a migration path to ELL?
As a regular user of ELL I would request that migrations to ELL continue to be handled by the moderators of ELU.
SE is, in general, very reluctant to create migration paths because they tend to be ...
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
Would ELU like to start a trial of only need 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
Update April 30, 2021
Community Managers are working to implement this now.
No, thank you.
To close a question all ...
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What is the point of the Microsoft-Word tag?
TL;DR: We certainly don't need it. It has no point.
It's a meta tag, one of the bad ones
It is irrelevant to the question if my own Sprachgefühl, Microsoft Word, the editor of my novel, a teacher or ...
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Merge tags "rhotic" and "rhoticity"
Crisis averted ;)
Per FumbleFingers's comment: Retagged the four rhoticity questions to use rhotic.
Now go vote on Tag Synonyms on Low Use Tags so we never have to go through this exercise again!
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Can we close 'Is the convention for reporting football results universal?' as off-topic?
I think we probably should close it. I am having difficulty conjuring up more than an incidental relationship to English as a language. It does not seem to suggest that it is an English specific ...
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The Incredible Shrinking ELU Banner
This is a file path issue that's happening unintentionally while we prepare new theming assets. It'll be taken care of first thing tomorrow.
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Warn people of the rules for [Single-Word-Requests] before posting
I have a qualm with this, in that we need to consult a community moderator. That makes altering these rules harder if ever deemed necessary. I dislike that the contextual sentence requirement can ...
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Our help page incorrectly states that it takes 6 spam / abuse flags to delete a post
I've looked at your recently deleted posts and there's very few that were deleted as spam or abusive - in general, you average about 1-2 per day from what I can tell, which isn't a lot, and far fewer ...
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
Although implementing this proposal carries obvious risks, it is worth trying because it promises to reduce the number of questions that are closed after being answered.
The purpose of closing seems ...
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
I can't deny I've been remiss in not going through the review queue so often lately.
But when I do tackle the "Closevote" queue, I invariably hit my daily limit (20 VTC), because the queue is so long....
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Should we get rid of the tag "similarities"?
Yes, we should review the questions in the tag, clean them up, and if no objections come up, a moderator should burninate it.
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What are [expression-requests] tag for?
status-completed
I would merge expression-requests into phrase-requests since the latter addresses colloquial phrases. Thus, they are indistinguishable from each other, so we should go with the more ...
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Should we have a migration path to ELL?
Maybe. I think many questions asked here should be asked there instead. However, the user base here doesn't fully overlap with the user base there and it can be difficult to judge if a question should ...
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Please either burninate the “correct” tag or merge it into “grammaticality”
I vote for burnination and blacklisting.
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Blacklist the [words] tag
The community manager Shog9 has kindly granted our request. No more questions tagged "words" (or "word") will appear.
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Unlock "Why use singular they?" then reopen
I don't understand why a post that was upvoted and received five answers could be deleted for any reason.
The premise for deleting posts as explained on Meta, emphasis mine
Abandoned, unanswered ...
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
UPDATE
After reviewing the stats, it looks like this change has been very much beneficial for you all. While you had been doing in the 40-80% completion range for questions gaining at least one flag ...
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Allow Questions to be Closed as Off-Topic and Migrated to ELL
status-completed
It is now September 2015 (plus one day from the last count) and we do have this capability, courtesy of The Powers Who Do That Sort Of Thing.
Use with care!
I'm sure there will be ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Should we get rid of the tag "similarities"?
I have always read the tag label "similarities" as being the flip-side of the very popular tag label "differences." In my experience, "differences" comes up most often when a question focuses on ...
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