Questions tagged [discussion]
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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Question unfairly closed
I recently posted this question, I got the following set of three comments. Which I quote and try to understand one by one
India is nine times the size of Germany, and roughly the size of Europe west ...
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I added explanation of this question
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/69367/what-could-have-the-carthagian-do-to-prevent-their-genocide
People think I want to "blame" Carthagian by asking those questions.
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Are History.SE's moderators paid for their contribution?
Are History.SE's moderators paid for their contribution?
Coz, apparently, it requires a great amount of time reviewing the posts.
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Do we need to broaden the 'higher bar' policy to all questions relating to the history of the Jews and Jewish matters?
The question below pongs of antisemitism and was rightly closed.
Are there any kernels of truth in the Jewish story of Purim?
Currently we have a policy which spells out that any Holocaust-related ...
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Please try to _always_ explain editing of 'controversial' passages
A recent edit to the title of a question that made the Hot Network Question list removed a — in my opinion — quite significant word. This might change the meaning of the title or how it is read, thus ...
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How could I improve this closed/deleted question about colonization?
The automatically/by-roomba deleted question is:
How/Why do mainland people end up in an empire's colony? Eg Spaniards in the Philippines?
I thought it was pretty good.
But moderator MCW♦ said in a ...
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Why is it ok for a single person to close a question based on speculation?
Which factions of the Japanese government were in favor of racial hygiene practices during WW2 and prior to WW2?
The question was asking if there were more factions and people who supported racial ...
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Source Request: Danish State in the Early Modern Period
I'm hoping that the logic we had where source requests in Meta, i.e., questions which are open-ended, are okay is still valid.
With that in mind, I am looking to find books relating to Denmark in 16th ...
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FYI: new biblical archaeology magazine
For those interested in biblical archaeology, a new magazine has recently been published:
Let The Stones Speak, with potentially interesting topics.
E.g. this first issue includes Top 10 Biblical ...
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Do questions about current events of historic significance belong here?
So, I have a question that is related to the currently (Feb 24 2022) ongoing military events in Ukraine. It would be titled as "Why are the casualties on both sides in the Ukrainian war so low ...
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Are questions asking for deciphering texts on paintings (or other objects) allowed?
This question, What's the text in "Mystische Jagd" by Martin Schongauer?, just got asked on Arts & Crafts SE.
The user presents us with a painting in which a Latin text in Gothic script ...
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How reliable are the sources we use?
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I grew up in the USSR. I read the book 1984 in the year 1984 (it was a set of photographs, page by page, of a book printed in the West and smuggled into the USSR).
My only source of ...
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Is the History Stack activity experiencing a major downward trend?
When looking at the year in moderation post, I did a little digging, and checked the question counts over the last 10 years using the search is:question created:year. We get the following numbers:
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Disambiguate [indian] (or merge it into [india])
The indian tag has 20 questions and no tag wiki or excerpt, and (as far as I can see) except for How did Pocahontas die?, all questions are about India's (former) inhabitants or languages, for which ...
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2021: 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 preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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