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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On sites where the reduced ads privilege page is suppressed, the page still shows in help center search results
Since 2013 the Help Center search includes privilege pages. The search results seem to be network-wide, with site url placeholders. The shared search index is an issue for the reduced ads privilege, ...
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What does this mean? "If you attempt to circumvent these restrictions, you...put the use of the site by your co-workers in serious jeopardy. "
In the Help Center, under 'Why have I been limited to one question per week?', there's a section: 'Can I request that this block be lifted, or to allow more questions per week?'. The second half of it ...
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Missing full stop in help center for answer bans
I've seen a bug on the page Why are answers no longer being accepted from my account?.
The one part of this page is:
The only way to end a posting block is to positively contribute to the site; ...
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Empty help section Staging Ground except Stack Overflow
There's empty section Staging Ground on Help Center for any site exception Stack Overflow:
Should this section be removed at all if not available for current site yet?
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Add a help-center link to "In need of moderator intervention" in the question flagging menu
In the flagging menu (see bottom for reference), almost every single category has a link to a clarifying help center entry. The only exceptions are:
Duplicates (which has a comprehensive submenu ...
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Help center page on what questions are on-topic here still says to ask Teams questions on Meta Stack Overflow
In response to the 2022 dissociation of Teams from the main Stack Overflow site, in February 2023, the community there moved to change the scope of their meta to no longer allow Teams questions. All ...
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Is there a general recommendation regarding the extent of quoted text in an answer?
Is there a help article, FAQ or previous posts having a general recommendation regarding the proportional length of quoted content in an answer?
This is not about tags wikis having copy/pasted content ...
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Which sites have customized their help center homepage?
I have some ideas for the homepage of the Web Applications SE Help Center; before I start writing the draft I would like to learn from the experiences of other sites. I remember have seeing posts here ...
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Please update /help/referencing on all sites to reflect the Stack Exchange policy that machine-generated text requires attribution
On December 12, 2022, animuson clarified that the rules surrounding plagarism on the Stack Exchange Network apply to all content not created by the poster, even if the work is otherwise not ...
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When should I add a tag onto a question? [duplicate]
I most likely will be downvoted for this question, but I am confused on this matter.
If a question (for example, not in real life) about Harry Potter that mentions Ronald Weasley and has relations to ...
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Two menu items in the top bar redirect to the same page
The "About Us" and "Business" options in the "Help Center and other resources" menu from the top bar of all the sites are redirecting to the same page: https://...
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Add to the /help/searching pages that is:q and is:a exist as short forms of the is:question and is:answer operators [duplicate]
In the "Miscellaneous Operators" section of the /help/searching pages, it says:
is:question narrows results down to just questions, and is:answer returns only answers
But I don't see it ...
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Can I really discuss the validity of closure of my question here?
As per the official help center page on reopening questions, it states
If you're simply unsure about the validity of the closure, the best place to ask is on the community's meta site. Asking in the ...
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Can local Stack Exchange communities set policies that result in exceptions to SE rules in the Help Center pages? [duplicate]
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For the last eight years users over at Worldbuilding, we have been debating about whether or not it's acceptable to ask questions that result in list answers. To be clear, these are ...
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Enhance help on uploading images
On sites where images are helpful to answer a question such as Gardening and Landscaping or Home Improvement new users regularly try and upload images that are greater than the 2 Mb image limit. They ...
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