All Questions
456
questions
3
votes
2
answers
35
views
How do I ask for examples without my question being deleted for "recommendations" violations?
How do I ask for examples of discussion and debate within literacy circles as part of a larger, more in depth, answer, so that a moderator won't misunderstand the question and delete it as a "...
- 265
2
votes
1
answer
16
views
Announcing the June–July 2022 topic challenge: Isabelle Eberhardt
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the June–...
1
vote
1
answer
56
views
Announcing the May–June 2022 topic challenge: Georg Büchner
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the May–...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
3
votes
0
answers
73
views
Best Questions & Answers from 1st Quarter of 2022
Here's the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, intended to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to showcase our site.
...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
2
votes
1
answer
94
views
Announcing the April–May 2022 topic challenge: “Omenuko,” by Pita Nwana
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time (okay, almost a month ...
MithicalMod
- 19.2k
6
votes
3
answers
76
views
How should the accepted-answer feature be changed?
In March 2017, not very long after Literature Stack Exchange had launched, Hamlet asked, Is the accepted answer feature good for this site? In his question, he wrote,
The thing about accepting an ...
TsundokuMod
- 38.1k
9
votes
4
answers
335
views
How to refer to religious texts on this site?
Our site scope has established that both fiction and non-fiction can be on-topic, and so are questions about religious texts. The latter meta discussion included some asides about how religious texts ...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
5
votes
1
answer
165
views
Announcing the March–April 2022 topic challenge: medieval Arthurian literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the March–...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
3
votes
1
answer
55
views
I abstain from reviewing in favor of things I personally dislike; is this a problem?
This post is about one of my guilty secrets. Yes, my guilty secrets involve the intricacies of boring moderation. I am weird like that.
There are times when I know (or highly suspect), by the letter ...
- 7,253
6
votes
1
answer
44
views
2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
- 709
2
votes
1
answer
33
views
Why was my edit removing links to movie scenes on YouTube rejected?
I suggested an edit to a question which contained 2 links to movie scenes on YouTube by accounts which do not seem to be authorized to post the footage publicly. The first video has already been taken ...
- 145
-3
votes
3
answers
168
views
Should we rethink our policy on story identification questions / identification requests?
Almost a year ago, verbose asked How do we ensure that questions on this site attract scholars and enthusiasts? In my second answer to that question, I wrote that identification-request questions are ...
TsundokuMod
- 38.1k
4
votes
2
answers
76
views
Best Questions & Answers from 4th Quarter of 2021
Here's the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, intended to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to showcase our site.
...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
6
votes
1
answer
213
views
Announcing the February–March 2022 topic challenge: the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
TsundokuMod
- 38.1k
6
votes
0
answers
39
views
Do we want the site statistics on the home page back?
Until the day we graduated (16 December) we had a small table with site statistics on the home page. This has always been a feature specific to beta sites, so it was removed after we graduated. In my ...
TsundokuMod
- 38.1k
-1
votes
1
answer
41
views
Do we want video embedding to be enabled on Literature?
Some Stack Exchange sites have video embedding turned on, which means that a Youtube link can be simply pasted into a post as plaintext and it will automatically render as an inline box within which ...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
2
votes
0
answers
22
views
Linking related [identification-request] questions
Shouldn't there be a way to link identification-request questions that are essentially asking for the same title even though the OP might be mistaken of the details when the question was asked?
They ...
- 894
2
votes
1
answer
25
views
Phrasing of 'Duplicate' Close Reason
We currently have a question gathering close votes as a duplicate. Short story about a young boy living in South Africa during Apartheid
The close reason specifically says 'This question has been ...
- 15.3k
5
votes
0
answers
68
views
Please take the time to tailor-write comments for new users' questions
I saw this today:
The second comment there is attributed to the Community user, which is a feature from the last review queue update. And... it's significantly less useful than the first one.* While ...
- 7,253
2
votes
0
answers
44
views
Would it be on-topic to ask on Literature what was the name of, URL of, or what happened to, that Philip Larkin online forum last seen about 2005?
Would it be on-topic to ask on Literature what was the name of, the URL of,or what happened to that Philip Larkin online forum that seems to have disappeared from the internet? I saw it in about the ...
6
votes
2
answers
242
views
Announcing the January–February 2022 topic challenge: R. A. Lafferty
UPDATE: during its second month (February 2022), this topic challenge will be held jointly with Science Fiction & Fantasy SE. Note that, for written sci-fi stories, the two sites' scopes don't ...
TsundokuMod
- 38.1k
3
votes
1
answer
33
views
Should I ask on Literature whether it's true that streets in Ireland in 1955 were "end-on to hills", more often than those in England?
Philip Larkin's 1955 poem "The Importance of Elsewhere" implies that Irish streets are often end-on to hills.
This answer on Stack Exchange Meta contains the suggestion that the answer to ...
24
votes
1
answer
259
views
Literature is graduating on December 16th!
All of your hard work has paid off: We're officially graduating!
The Community Managers have confirmed that as part of their ongoing work on site lifecycles, as of December 16, Literature.SE will be ...
MithicalMod
- 19.2k
2
votes
0
answers
41
views
How do I ask a question about literature that I don't know exists, but which the people answering it do, without the question being "open ended"?
I've had a number of occasions when I've tried asking questions relating to books or other pieces of literature that fall into an extremely niche genre, but which I cannot name individually because I ...
user14066
8
votes
1
answer
106
views
How do I tag questions properly?
How do I tag questions properly?
I see that all questions here have tags, but I do not understand the reason behind the tags. What are the tagging rules?
People keep editing the tags on my questions. ...
- 7,253
4
votes
1
answer
127
views
Announcing the December 2021 – January 2022 topic challenge: Maltese literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
4
votes
0
answers
36
views
Should questions that post images of text instead of transcribing them be closed?
Some question askers post an image of a text that their question is about instead of transcribing the text. (Recent example: Analaysing/Interpreting MALAYALAM poem written by my friend.) This has ...
TsundokuMod
- 38.1k
0
votes
2
answers
41
views
Should we make the criteria for book IDs stricter?
I think we could improve the quality of book ID requests if we required sufficient information to verify if the book does not exist - a contrapositive. We could close questions if we don't feel that ...
- 363
6
votes
1
answer
151
views
Announcing the November–December 2021 topic challenge: The Decameron
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
TsundokuMod
- 38.1k
5
votes
0
answers
43
views
Best Questions & Answers from 3rd Quarter of 2021
Here's the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, intended to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to showcase our site.
...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
6
votes
3
answers
137
views
Do we want accepted answers on our site to be unpinned from the top?
Currently, accepted answers are always pinned at the top of the list of answers, regardless whether you sort them by "Active", "Oldest" or "Votes". You can see this for ...
TsundokuMod
- 38.1k
4
votes
1
answer
103
views
Announcing the October–November 2021 topic challenge: Jorge Amado
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
TsundokuMod
- 38.1k
5
votes
1
answer
156
views
Announcing the September–October 2021 topic challenge: Belarusian Literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
TsundokuMod
- 38.1k
4
votes
0
answers
69
views
Best Questions & Answers from 2nd Quarter of 2021
Rather late, but here's the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, intended to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to ...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
16
votes
0
answers
211
views
Picking up my diamond once again
In October 2019, I stepped down as a moderator on this site. At the time, the environment in the network and especially in moderator spaces was extremely toxic; I stepped down because I no longer felt ...
MithicalMod
- 19.2k
4
votes
1
answer
123
views
Announcing the August–September 2021 topic challenge: Munshi Premchand
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
TsundokuMod
- 38.1k
-1
votes
2
answers
131
views
Spoiler feature
Like Goodreads, can we feature the spoiler feature here as well (both in questions and answers) to make it a better experience for the users?
What I mean by this is using it like we see it on Puzzling ...
- 211
3
votes
1
answer
88
views
Announcing the July–August 2021 topic challenge: Magda Szabó
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the July–...
TsundokuMod
- 38.1k
3
votes
2
answers
82
views
Should the [character-analysis] tag be used to ask about physical traits?
A chat discussion about this Wuthering Heights question raised the question of the scope of the character-analysis tag. The tag wiki excerpt says:
Questions relating to the analysis of characters in ...
- 15.3k
8
votes
6
answers
228
views
Let's choose an example question for the Tour (restrictions can be lifted)
Our site Tour features an example question to show how the Stack Exchange system works. Currently, it's set to the default post about preventing unicorns from eating daisies (spoiler: not a real Q&...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
1
vote
1
answer
45
views
Would a question about how science writers/journalists deal with a particular misnomeric technical term be on-topic at Literature?
Would this question be on topic here? Should journalists be pointing out that “coronavirus spike” and “coronavirus spike protein” are misnomers when they use the terms?
It has nothing to do with ...
3
votes
1
answer
132
views
Announcing the June–July 2021 topic challenge: Old English literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month, it is time to announce the June–...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
5
votes
1
answer
91
views
What kinds of non-work-specific literary-device questions are on-topic?
The question which led to this one: Can "women echoed" be considered a figure of speech?
Its topicality has been debated in the comments, so I'm bringing this to meta.
What kinds of general ...
- 7,253
6
votes
1
answer
98
views
A Question about ‘List Questions’
This question about works using the second person has been closed as Off-Topic.
In comments, opinions have been offered that the question is
open-ended to many answers
And
could result in a list ...
- 15.3k
1
vote
3
answers
47
views
Replace [narrator] tag with [point-of-view]?
We currently have a tag narrator that as of today has 21 questions associated with it. The tag wiki excerpt says:
Questions related to the concept of "narrator" in literature, i.e. the &...
- 15.3k
7
votes
1
answer
164
views
Audience-specific texts for our "recommendation request" custom close reason
Last year (2020) saw some changes to the question closure system across the SE network. One of the changes was to introduce audience-specific texts for custom close reasons, so that the OP, close ...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
4
votes
1
answer
137
views
Announcing the May–June 2021 topic challenge: the Mahabharata and its adaptations
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the May–...
4
votes
2
answers
147
views
Best Questions & Answers from 1st Quarter of 2021
Here's the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, intended to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to showcase our site.
...
Rand al'ThorMod
- 63.1k
8
votes
1
answer
110
views
What do we think about answers-in-comments for recommendation questions?
I've been mulling over this for a while myself, ever since I saw this comment, on a question asking for recommendations for poetry like "The Raven":
A couple of ideas: "The Pied Piper ...
- 7,253
3
votes
1
answer
146
views
Announcing the April–May 2021 topic challenge: Gargantua and Pantagruel
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the April–...