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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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Please include descriptions of your images

I guess I'll throw my hat in. Here's how I'll be doing it in my answers (here's an example): Description. The [enter image description here] part serves two purposes. Most important, it adds an attr …
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Do we want to tag questions by the titles of books (part 2)?

Yes. Title tags offer a lot more benefit than drawbacks - those include easier navigation, less ambiguity, easier customisation of the site. Title tags make navigation a lot easier Obviously one co …
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Proposal: rename [story-identification] to [identification-request]

I support this proposal. In general, having more tags is beneficial in order to divide and sub-divide questions into different categories, which an be subscribed to and followed by users who are inter …
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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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Should questions asking for the availability of a translation be on-topic?

Certain shopping questions might not be about shopping at all. For instance, questions asking whether a particular work has ever been translated to a particular language. One example is this questi …
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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 a pro-tempore election!

In the meanwhile, users may direct their questions to candidates here on meta (with the election and discussion tags), or in chat. …
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Guidelines for good story-id questions?

Below is the guidance I propose; it already appears on the tag info page for story-identification since April, but the version below has some minor additions that I did not yet add, now that we have a discussion … It was shamelessly copied adapted from the relevant discussion on Science Fiction and Fantasy (most heavily from Valorum's answer). …
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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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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 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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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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What do we think about story identification?

I guess it's appropriate to start with the elephant in the room - story identification questions. Should they be on-topic here? In particular, what can we learn from the previous iteration of the Ma …

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