Questions tagged [help-center]
For issues regarding the help center of Stack Exchange.
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Could the named reference-link example be removed from the Markdown Help?
As documented in Stack Exchange's Markdown Help it's possible to create named "reference-style" links in Markdown:
Here's a very readable link to [Yahoo!][yahoo].
[yahoo]: https://www....
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Stack Overflow Jobs - FAQ help page - help article link is linked with "/link"
On the "Stack Overflow Jobs -> Frequently Asked Questions" help page, the 5th point discusses how to report a job.
However, the provided link redirects to a 404 error page. Upon ...
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The Help Center page titled "Our model" doesn't describe … our model
The Help page whose title is "Our Model" (but whose URL slug is /help/stackexchange) is currently a random grab bag of policies, formatting help, and random questions.
I was hoping that a ...
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Generalize the DMCA Takedown Help Center page
All SE sites have a /help/dmca-takedown page. Right now, it's very specific in both the title and the content regarding DMCA takedown requests. However, it would be helpful if it was generalized to ...
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Update Help Center page about necessary spam flags to delete a post
The Help Center article about the privilege to flag posts still refers to the old situation where 6 flags were needed:
What happens when I flag something as spam or rude/abusive?
The spam and rude/...
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Explain reasons for accepting an answer in Help Center
A new user on an SE site indicated in the comments that one of the answers to their posted question was best. I left a comment encouraging them to accept that answer, and gave a link to this help ...
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Punctuation mark is missing in Digital Millennium Copyright Act help page
The first paragraph is missing a punctuation mark in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Takedowns help page. Could you please add the necessary punctuation?
In plain text:
The Digital ...
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What is the purpose of limiting access to edit help center pages?
As far as I know the number of help center pages available to edit by moderators is very limited: What parts of the help center can site moderators edit?
Moreover, I (as a moderator of ruSO) can't ...
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Out-of-date screenshot on "Why is the system asking me to wait a day or more before asking another question?" Help Center page
The beginning of the Help Center page "Why is the system asking me to wait a day or more before asking another question?" currently looks like this:
Could that screenshot be updated? It's......
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The established-user help page image should be updated
If you go to the /help/privileges/established-user help page on any SE website, you will see this screenshot:
This is quite outdated. Now that the vote button is standard, this screenshot should be ...
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Per-site inauthentic usage policy links to MSE for referencing standards (as opposed to per-site pages)
I've picked two sites here - Magento and Aviation as examples.
Each site, linked from the per-site CoC, has an inauthentic usage policy. At the end of the policy, it has a link to referencing ...
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Why are Stack Exchange sites too complicated to understand? [closed]
There isn't any way I can get around in any of the Stack Exchange site. Do sites demand technical background and more professionalism?
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Do we do more than "frown on" plagiarism?
I just realized that How to reference material written by others reads as follows:
Plagiarism - posting the work of others with no indication that it is not your own - is frowned on by our community, ...
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Unable to translate buttons on attempt to edit help center root page
Moderators can edit some help pages. For instance root one. There're two buttons in edit mode (Save changes, Cancel) that don't have source strings in Traducir to translate:
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Please add the last update date to each page in the Help Center
Some help pages are site-specific. In particular, on non-English sites, the content of help pages is written (translated) obviously later than the original sources.
To detect outdated pages (for ...
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