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Is the [writing-process] tag worth it?

The tag writing-process is for questions about the writing process of a particular author or a particular piece of literature. It currently has 5 extant questions but also 23 closed/deleted questions ...
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Announcing the November–December 2023 topic challenge: Alberto Moravia

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Best Questions & Answers from 3rd Quarter of 2023

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Announcing the October–November 2023 topic challenge: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

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What should be our standard for closing identification-request questions as duplicates?

This question is motivated by the following three questions: (A) Lawyer sacrifices life for his activist friend by taking his place in prison (B) Can't remember book title: a journalist converses ...
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Which language tag should we use for troubadour poetry?

On Literature.SE we have language tags for non-English literarture. However, I'm not sure about the language tag we should use for troubadour literature. According to Wikipedia, troubadour poetry is ...
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Announcing the September–October 2023 topic challenge: Sarojini Naidu

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Best Questions & Answers from 2nd Quarter of 2023

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Special thanks to Mithical for their role in helping to resolve the recent moderation strike

For those that aren't aware, our very own Mithical was instrumental in helping to resolve the recent dispute (and subsequent strike) regarding moderating ChatGPT content on the Stack Exchange network. ...
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Announcing the July–August 2023 topic challenge: Jamaica Kincaid

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Why do we have to edit at least 6 characters?

Very recently, I clicked the edit button on a question. It had a misspelling of just one letter. But after I clicked the save my edit button, an error message popped up saying the edit should at least ...
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Can questions about a movie/TV show/video be on-topic? If so, which ones?

We had a recent question about a series of YouTube videos. The question boiled down to "this line seemed to reference something that was said in a previous video, what is it referring to?" ...
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Should we allow questions asking for identification of the outputs of language models?

A user new to the site recently asked for the identification of a poem output by a large language model (some version of OpenAI's ChatGPT). The user had asked the model for a poem in German on a given ...
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Announcing the June–July 2023 topic challenge: the works of Ales Adamovich

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2023 Community Moderator Election Results

Moderator election #2 on Literature has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are: They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering ...
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Best Questions & Answers from 1st Quarter of 2023

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Announcing the May–June 2023 topic challenge: the works of Robert Louis Stevenson

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2023 Community Moderator Election

The 2023 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Do we want to accept "how do I start?" type questions?

I recently encountered this question, which is basically asking for general advice on how to start learning about British Literature on her own (possibly with a goal of improving English skills). As ...
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2023 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here. Literature Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2023

Literature Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on March 28, as your “graduation” election! The timeline: On March 21, we'll post a question collection post on Meta, so that ...
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Announcing the April–May 2023 topic challenge: the works of Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Etiquette for using this SE's ideas in an academic environment

I am currently exploring The Great Gatsby with a peer group and was wondering what the etiquette is for referencing the ideas of people on Literature SE who have generously shared their thoughts on my ...
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Do we want tags for literary movements and periods?

The recent question What's wrong with the "beat literature" tag? has turned into a broader discussion that touches on general policy, i.e. whether we should have tags for literary movements ...
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Graduation election: interest check [duplicate]

Literature Stack Exchange left beta in December 2021. This meant, among other things, that we might have "full-site moderator elections" (or "graduation election") scheduled in ...
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What's wrong with the "beat literature" tag?

There have been several questions about beat literature recently which weren't tied to the work of individual authors like Kerouac or Ginsberg. The tags they were given - poetry and history of ...
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Announcing the March–April 2023 topic challenge: Hayy ibn Yaqdhan / Philosophus Autodidactus

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Just added the art-history tag - worthwhile?

The title should be fairly clear. I asked a question connected with the history and/or appreciation of art and it struck me that this was a topic that overlaps literature with a reasonable frequency - ...
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2022: 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 ...
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Policy on literary interpretations from non-native English speakers

Although English is not my first language , I like to discuss its literature. Recently my answer (in response to a question on poetic metaphor) was downvoted and it struck me that the original poster ...
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Announcing the February–March 2023 topic challenge: the works of Arthur Koestler

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Best Questions & Answers from 4th Quarter of 2022

Here's the latest instalment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, intended to gather some links to particularly good Literature Q&A for showcasing our site. One use for this post could be ...
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Should we tag according to language, or according to the type of literature that the authors identify with?

Andrey Kurkov writes in Russian, but identifies his books as Ukrainian literature. He strongly feels that it's reductionist to only identify books originally written in the Ukrainian language as ...
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Announcing the January–February 2023 topic challenge: sign language literature

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Announcing the December 2022–January 2023 topic challenge: the works of Min Jin Lee

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Announcing the November–December 2022 topic challenge: Nazi Holocaust literature

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Best Questions & Answers from 3rd Quarter of 2022

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Announcing the October–November 2022 topic challenge: Stanisław Lem

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Why was my answer deleted?

My answer to this question was deleted. The criticism by the mod is that it "doesn't" answer the question. But given that it disputes the basis on which the question was made, I cannot ...
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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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Announcing the September–October 2022 topic challenge: Lasha Bugadze

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Best Questions & Answers from 2nd Quarter of 2022

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Announcing the August–September 2022 topic challenge: the Koran

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How do I ask a good question about the meaning of a passage?

I'm having trouble understanding a passage in a book I'm reading. How do I ask a good question about it on Literature Stack Exchange? What information do I need to include to help people find the ...
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Does this stack accept requests for identifying short stories? [duplicate]

Does this stack accept posts requesting assistance in identifying the title of a particular short story?
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Announcing the July–August 2022 topic challenge: Ukrainian Literature

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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 "...
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Announcing the June–July 2022 topic challenge: Isabelle Eberhardt

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Announcing the May–June 2022 topic challenge: Georg Büchner

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Best Questions & Answers from 1st Quarter of 2022

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