Questions tagged [status-completed]
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Proposal: rename [story-identification] to [identification-request]
One of the top tags on this site is story-identification, with over 400 questions to date. Such questions are on-topic here: a literature site is the most likely to have well-read people with the ...
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Are we ready to say what's on topic?
The ‘What topics can I ask about here?’ section in the Help Centre currently apologises for being unable to say what is on topic:
Unfortunately, we haven't been around for that long and therefore don'...
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Can the name of Writers.SE be changed to Writing.SE in the Help Center?
The Help Center, specifically the page What topics can I ask about here?, currently says:
Questions about creating literature yourself—you may want to try the Writers Stack Exchange.
Writers....
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Can we call the [scansion] tag [metre]/[meter] instead?
We have a tag scansion, with a synonym meter:
For questions about determining and representing the meter of a poem, a practice called scansion.
Can we change the master tag name to meter, and have ...
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Can we merge [story-identification] and [book-identification]?
story-identification is our main tag for locating stories. However, book-identification has been recently created and has two questions in it. Can we delete or otherwise merge the second tag?
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Rename [hitchhikers-guide-galaxy] to [the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy]
The tag character limit was recently lifted to 35 characters. With that room now available, I'd like to suggest that we rename hitchhikers-guide-galaxy (24 characters) to the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-...
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Why was a user able to post a question with just the 'untagged' tag?
Today on Literature, a user was able to post a question with the untagged tag by itself. If you look at the first revision of this question, you can see it:
And they did this on purpose. From ...
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Do we need a children's literature tag?
The site currently has a childrens-literature tag. I'm not quite sure what its purpose is.
Do we need this tag, and what should it be used for?
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Can we increase the maximum tag length?
Is there any way we can increase the maximum tag length to something bigger than 25 characters?
Right now, our site tags questions by book titles. Unfortunately, many book titles are longer than ...
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Should we kill all the [character]s?
I just noticed that we have a character tag, apparently for questions which are specifically about a particular character or characters in a work of literature.
Is this tag useful, or should we ...
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Should the LGBT tag just be sexuality?
There is currently a tag lgbt that seems to be put on questions asking about the sexual preference of characters. However, since LGBT does not cover the "full spectrum" of sexuality, should we just ...
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Accepting nominations — Who should moderate this site? [duplicate]
Ideally Moderators are elected by the community, but until the community is large enough to hold a proper election, we will be appointing three provisional Moderators to fill those roles.
We need ...
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Should the [1984] tag be changed?
If I'm not mistaken, I was the one who originally created the 1984 tag, which has now been applied to more than a few questions. However, I'm wondering if I made a mistake, as I just realized the ...
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Can [on-topic] and [scope] be merged and synonymised?
The scope tag is for questions about the scope of the site. That includes questions about what kind of things are on-topic or off-topic, but there have already been four questions using the on-topic ...
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Should we use the [poems] or [poetry] tag, and can we make one a synonym of the other?
Right now, this site has a poems tag and a poetry tag. Which tag should we use? I'm partial to poetry, since the word "poetry" refers to the art form, while "poems" refers to poem in the plural.
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Should “character-explanation” and “character-analysis” tags be synonyms?
One of the two questions with the tag "character-explanation" can be interpreted as a character analysis and also the term used in literature is generally "character analysis". Should these tags be ...
