Questions tagged [site-policy]
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Please excuse me
Posting because in response to a comment under one of my questions, I received a notice in direct messages which discouraged me from posting, directing me to meta instead. And my comments have been ...
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Keep Latin.SE as welcoming as always
As a former new user of stackexchange, who used to think these were just open forums like any other, I had a hard time in some of the sites (and I still have, every once in a while) when asking basic ...
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Answering off-topic questions
Recently, this off-topic question regarding Hebrew grammar was posted to our site. Although I think I can give a useful answer to this question, I have not done so, because the question is blatantly ...
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Why are greetings deleted from my posts?
If I ask a question starting with "Greetings, fellow Latinists" and end with "Best regards, [my name]", they are removed.
Some texts seem to be removed automatically, and often some user or moderator ...
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What should we do with Greek questions? [duplicate]
(The moderator team has drafted this question and two answers together, with help from SE staff.)
There was a meta discussion about allowing Greek on the site some time ago, but the conclusion was ...
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What should be our scope?
We have help pages to explain what is on-topic and what is off-topic.
Both of them are essentially empty at this point — they contain no information specific to our site.
We should fill out ...
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Should author tags be in their original Roman form?
It is good to have badges for important authors.
At the moment we have the tag horace, but I created the tag horatius today when I asked about the same poet.
This is because I strongly prefer using ...
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Do petitions belong anywhere on this site?
This site may reach a fair amount of people that are willing to keep Latin and the institutions teaching and studying it alive.
If a university is planning to sack all its remaining Latin professors ...
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Should all-Latin question *titles* be permitted?
As yet another twist on the "allow all-Latin content or not" theme, should we permit all-Latin question titles?
On the one hand, an all-Latin question title might serve as an advertisement of sorts ...
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Should all-Latin answers be permitted?
As a companion to Should all-Latin questions be permitted?, the same policy regarding answers is probably worth considering separately. (brianpck even provides a handy example of an all-Latin answer ...
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Should site policy require that all-Latin questions also include an English translation?
As an extension of the question Should all-Latin questions be permitted?, where the consensus answer appears to be "Yes!", should we define as part of the site policy that any all-Latin questions must ...
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