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No, authors should be treated as expert users like everybody else. Experience-based answers are often very useful, and an author's experience can be part of a great answer about their own work or the …

Frame challenge: the question about Shakespeare's words is not a good example of the general principle the meta's asking about. That question is not, in fact, "about the wider impact of a literary wo …

Edge cases shouldn't be determined until we're staring at 'em. When we get a question about this kind of medium, it may be very obvious that it's on topic or not, and if we've already decided about it …

This meta question seems confused and/or misleading, because of the example it offers: the mainsite question as stated was not about the author's personal experience, but about historical accuracy. Th …

Answers should offer reasonable support, explaining "how" and "why" wherever possible. What that means changes depending on the claims being made. If you're drawing your answer strictly from the text …

I expect that as others post their ideas in contrast to mine, more useful text will float out of the discussion. …

Reading order questions are a chance for us to offer practical, experience-based advice on how best to approach specific sections of the material this site is about. Obviously they should adhere to go …

As anyone who knows me will be unsurprised to hear, I suggest that we let tagging practices grow organically and not "fix" tags where syntax style is the only "problem." Where multiple tags for one a …

I absolutely agree that this is important. It's not, however, something we can force through policy. We need to cultivate a community culture of thorough citation, not try to define good or bad citati …

If we don't even have double digit uses of a tag yet, I don't think we know enough to make an informed decision about its use--and by the same token it's not a big enough problem to matter that we are …

So far we've only had a discussion about applying that principle to non-book stuff mentioned in books; we haven't had a discussion about how that principle applies to authors' lives, publicity and marketing …

Do I have to read a book before I ask a question about it? Can I ask questions about books I haven't finished reading yet? Do I have to read a book several times before I ask a question about it?

I like it. I like it a lot. I look forward to seeing more Rūmī (13th-century Persian poet) and Albert Wendt (contemporary Samoan poet and novelist) on the site! But I'd like to add that building a di …

I just saw a tag get "corrected" to imply that there's space between the initials of an author who doesn't put spaces between her initials. In fact, neither JK Rowling nor the Tolkien Estate use initi …

Leave it alone for now. Tags need to be used in ways that make sense to the citizens, or the tags won't get used "right" no matter how much we wiki them (on RPG.SE we have tags that say in capslock " …