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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 ...
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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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Do we want a migration path from ELU?
Update Sep 2022: this is an old post, but the situation has changed since I originally asked this. Please reread and consider answering!
A lot of questions are posted and closed on English Language &...
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Lit.1 and Lit.2 - a comparison
The earlier incarnation of Literature SE - "Lit.1", as I call it - came to an untimely end after 269 days of existence. As the current Literature SE is 269 days old today, I thought it was a good time ...
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Keeping tags clean from the start
I want to provide some basic reminders regarding tags. As many of you will know from the other SE sites you participate in, tags are not on the top of the pile functionality wise in the SE sites. ...
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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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How does one write a good question about influences?
One of the fun parts of analyzing creative works (at least, for me) is to trace the influences prior works and especially ideas have on later creators and creations.
How does one write a good ...
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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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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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"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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What's our elevator pitch?
Throughout SE history (e.g. The Real Essential Questions of Every Beta), there's been a lot of talk about providing an "elevator pitch" for a site. What is the site about, what's its goal, ...
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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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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature: Louise Glück
This is not exactly a meta question, but an announcement that may be of interest to our community.
Earlier today, the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Louise Glück for the following ...
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What sort of backup is needed for a good experience-based answer?
Among the many different kinds of evidence that might be used to support an answer on this site (passages from a story, quotes from an author, citations to published analyses, close reading, well-...
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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 ...
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2020: 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 past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Replace the code block button with a multi-line quote button
The text editor on this site has a code block button. There are very few reasons for posting code on a site about literature--I suppose it might be warranted for answers to questions about the digital ...
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Would this be a story-ID question or a resource request?
I have an ID question about a particular short story I heard on the radio. I remember the whole plot of the story and a lot of verbatim quotes from it. I also think I remember the title of the story, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Can we become an exception to the 5-tag limit?
Stack Exchange doesn't allow a single question to have more than 5 tags.
Here on Literature, this can be a problem and mean we need to remove tags which 'should' really be on the question. For ...
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Are questions on authors' personalities and/or recent activities on topic?
I was curious about two topics: why is Bill Watterson so reclusive and what's he been doing for the last 20 years since he stopped writing Calvin and Hobbes? Are those appropriate questions for this ...
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What makes for a strong answer on this site, and conversely, when should an answer be downvoted?
I'd like to start by mentioning that I'm an active, high-rep user on several SE sites, including ELU, Philosophy, Writers and Parenting. I supported this site in its formation stage, and have been ...
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Announcing the October–November 2023 topic challenge: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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 (long past) time to ...
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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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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Why did these questions receive downvotes?
I have several questions related to song lyrics:
Why does "Nighttime Birds" associate night with warmth?
Are there two separate narrators in "On Most Surfaces" by The Gathering?
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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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Best Questions & Answers from 2nd Quarter of 2022
Here's the latest installment 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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Would the tag [the-taming-of-the-shrew] also cover questions about The Taming of a Shrew?
We currently have a tag the-taming-of-the-shrew for the Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew. However, there is also a play called The Taming of a Shrew (note the different article!), whose ...
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What should the [setting] tag be used for?
We have a tag setting with 7 questions so far:
one, two, three asking about whether places in a story can be connected to real locations;
one asking about when a particular story was set;
one asking ...
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Should we tag song lyrics questions by composer or artist?
We've got a substantial amount of song-lyrics questions. So far, a lot of them are tagged with the artist (e.g. rolling-stones, radiohead), and a few with the composer (e.g. leonard-cohen).
It's ...
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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 ...
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