Timeline for What should we do with Greek questions?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:56 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 23, 2016 at 21:11 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta Mod | @TKR, I would be happy if you could add that as a separate answer. If you do, try to address these questions in addition to the two points you listed: (1) What is the exact limit you propose? (2) Is this limit simple enough to be stated on one line and to be understood correctly by newcomers? (3) Is the limit enforceable? That is, can we really tell which Greek questions are allowed and which ones not? (4) Are special considerations needed regarding Christian Greek? // The reason we ended up with this proposal is that it seemed to be the simplest way to include Greek. | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 20:53 | comment | added | TKR | I like this proposal, but (at the risk of introducing another point of contention) I'd draw the line later than 300BC, to include all Greek written in classical antiquity as commonly understood (up to the fall of the Western Roman Empire). The reason is (a) most literature of that period was still written in a Greek that is very close to Classical Attic, and (b) if a main argument for including Greek is its cultural affinity with the Latin-speaking world, that affinity continued through this period and was in fact much greater then than pre-300BC. Can post this as a separate answer if helpful. | |
| Oct 14, 2016 at 12:29 | comment | added | Rafael | The conections between Latin and Greek are a sound argument, but they also favor that the questions themselves link Greek issues to Latin. Besides, as put in the comments to the other proporsal, why Greek and not others? Why draw a line at a different point in time that the one for Latin? Another problem, not less important, is the name: it should reflect the site's nature for a number of good reasons (e.g., attracting users, make it as self-explanatory as possible, etc.) | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 14:57 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta Mod | @jknappen, remember that if you are strongly opposed to one of the options, you can vote down. At meta there is no reputation cost. Several users have already done so. // I agree that a Greek-only site does not look viable, especially if modern Greek is excluded. I don't think we should accept Greek because there is no other place for it in SE; we should do it only if we think it contributes positively to this site. | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 13:42 | comment | added | Sir Cornflakes | It is already the third Greek proposal on Area 51, and the both preceeding proposals failed for lack of activity: There were more than enough followers, but the remained passive. Barely 40 questions were asked in the definition phase and many of them didn't get an upvote. Seeing this lack of activity I am afraid that there is no self-maintaining Greek community on stackexchange yet. With this fact in mind, we should not admit Greek questions here, it will dilute a well-running site. | |
| Oct 12, 2016 at 3:09 | history | edited | Nathaniel is protestingMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 11, 2016 at 20:07 | history | answered | Joonas IlmavirtaMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |