Unanswered Questions
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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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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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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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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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Are questions about music on-topic (part 2)?
This site has recently received four questions about music that go beyond looking looking at the lyrics, and ask about the sound music makes:
Is Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall" ...
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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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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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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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"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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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.
Writers....
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