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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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–...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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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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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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?
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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 ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Literature is graduating on December 16th, 2021!
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, 2021, Literature.SE ...
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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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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. ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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,
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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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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 the August–September 2021 topic challenge: Munshi Premchand
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and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
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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 ...
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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–...
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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 ...
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Let's choose an example question for the Tour (restrictions can be lifted)
Edit after voting on answers: Why does the Iliad start "in the middle"? has emerged as the favourite choice for the new example Tour question. I'm now tagging this meta post as status-review ...
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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 ...
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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–...
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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 ...
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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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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 &...
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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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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–...
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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.
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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 ...
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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–...
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Where can I find glossaries of literary, poetic and rhetorical terms?
Many questions on Literature Stack Exchange ask about literary devices. Where can question askers (or answerers) find resources about literary, poetic and rhetorical terms?
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How do we ensure that questions on this site attract scholars and enthusiasts?
Intro: Building our Community
Our tour says that we aim to be "a question and answer site for scholars and enthusiasts of literature." I'm definitely an enthusiast, and I have a fair bit of ...
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Announcing the March–April 2021 topic challenge: Mem and Zin (Mam û Zîn)
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–...
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