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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Site evaluation: how are we doing at half a year old?
Our scope is evolving very well, and the "quality" (in my opinion) of Q&As is really good.
I'm very happy with how we're doing. First of all, I was very happy when my proposal was chosen as the first …
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What should be our standard tags? [closed]
What tags should we define for the main site?
What tags should we define for meta?
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Should graphic novels be on topic?
I think they should be on-topic.
There's a masters thesis on Frank Miller's Sin City. Another thesis on Alan Moore's Watchmen, not to mention a whole book titled Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach …
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What kinds of mythological questions are on topic?
I vote to welcome any mythology questions that are connected to a written source. (But see also Does Oral-Literature count as literature here?)
Using this as a distinction, only the first of your exa …
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Difference between nation and nation-literature tags?
Leave both
The point here is to determine whether it's the nationality of the author, or the geographical location that is relevant to the question.
american-literature will be used for general ques …
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Is it time to discuss custom close reasons?
We should have a custom close reason for recommendation questions
There's a strong consensus that they're off-topic, but there also seems to be a way of changing recommendation questions into valid qu …
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Are questions about non-famous works and authors (English or a foreign language) on-topic here?
As long as the question is about a work of literature within the scope defined in the help centre, it is on-topic. Works of literature, in general, are on-topic, and their fame, acclaim, or original l …
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What do we do with science fiction and fantasy?
It may happen that someone asks a question about some work of science fiction. It may be about a character, plot, or even a story-ID question.
What do we do then? Migrate to Science Fiction and Fant …
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Announcing the May 2017 topic challenge: Icelandic Sagas!
Questions asked in the scope of this topic challenge should be tagged with scandinavian-literature or norse-literature, as appropriate (see tagging discussion here). …
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Announcing the May 2017 topic challenge: Icelandic Sagas!
List of all questions asked as a part of this challenge:
What is a beacon? by Hamlet
Why is there so much legalese in Egil's Saga? by Matt Thrower
far too few :-(
The highest-voted of these is Wh …
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Announcing the April 2017 Topic Challenge: "Hard to Be a God"
Some statistics for answers posted during this challenge:
Each question received an answer, except the last one. The eleventh question received two answers.
A total of 14 answers have been posted;
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Are trivia questions about authors on-topic?
A question has been posted recently with the following title:
Asimov Chair of Books
And the following body:
Am I crazy, or was there once a photo circulating the internet of Isaac Asimov sittin …
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Announcing the November 2017 reading challenge: "Tower of Secrets"
As October nears its end, it's time to announce the next month's challenge! At the time of writing this, the leading suggestion is...
Tower of Secrets, by Victor Sheymov, suggested by BESW.
To provide …
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Announcing the July 2018 reading challenge: "The Assault"
July has begun, and it is time to announce this month's reading challenge, which is...
The Assault by Harry Mulisch
suggested by Martin Tournoij.
What is a topic challenge?
The topic challenge …
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Monthly Topic Challenges aren't getting much attention. How can we change them?
I think one of the reasons here lies in the way the challenges were framed and the intention they were founded on. The idea was to diversify the site, to make people read something they wouldn't have …
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