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12 questions linked to/from Should recommendation questions be on-topic?
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Are reading commendations on-topic? [duplicate]
Should questions about reading commendations / which books to read on what topic be allowed/encouraged on literature.se?
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When are reading-order questions on topic?
The purpose of this question is to get a clear policy about reading-order questions.
There have been instances where reading order questions have been closed because "there doesn't seem to be any ...
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Why was the previous Literature SE closed?
What's the history behind the first Literature StackExchange? Why was it closed? How can we avoid the same thing from happening to this one?
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Should questions asking about availability of a specific book be on-topic?
Current example of such a question is Could I have purchased this Mongolian phrasebook while I was in Australia? As far as my understanding goes, it's asking whether it was possible to purchase a ...
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What are the rules for resource requests?
It seems like a lot of other sites on the Stack Exchange network tend to discourage (or outright ban) requests for off-site resources (tutorial or book recommendations, etc.).
I didn't see anything ...
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Do either/both of these two questions fall under our "recommendations" close reason?
Two recent questions have been flagged for closure as recommendation requests but (at the time of writing) have not actually been closed:
Have there been any works of literature featuring the ...
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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 ...
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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
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could result in a list ...
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Guidelines for migration from Science Fiction & Fantasy
I'm putting together an effort on Science Fiction & Fantasy to give users guidance for when they should migrate1 a question from SFF to a different site on the network.
Literature has a decent ...
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References on specific pieces of literature
Is asking for references to criticism/essays/articles/etc. relating to a specific piece of literature on topic here?
I went ahead and asked such a question on the main site: Is there much critical ...
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Is it time to discuss custom close reasons?
There comes a point in every beta site where custom close reasons are discussed and created. I have been with this site for a while (though not from the beginning), and I'd like to hear from the ...
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"Scholarly entry-point" questions should be on-topic, and not considered recommendations
LitSE considers recommendation questions off topic. This seems pretty sensible to me; I imagine they generate a lot of vague discussion that doesn't suit a question-answer site.
I propose that ...
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