Timeline for Are we ready to say what's on topic?
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| Apr 4, 2020 at 20:32 | comment | added | Gallifreyan | Very well, I think that's best too. I'll wait a bit more and after the votes stabilise, update the help centre. | |
| Apr 4, 2020 at 17:27 | comment | added | Gareth Rees | I think it is best for the help text to be short and simple. | |
| Apr 4, 2020 at 17:04 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | @Gallifreyan Not necessary IMHO. The help centre is authoritative on its own, without needing lots of meta links to back it up. Providing too many links may just distract people. We could add something like "if you're not sure whether a particular question is on-topic, you can ask on meta" ... but someone could also just go ahead and try posting their question, and in the worst case it gets closed; we aren't getting inundated with off-topic questions. | |
| Apr 3, 2020 at 21:20 | comment | added | Gallifreyan | Should we also add some examples from meta, e.g. the questions you linked, as well as the [scope] tag? | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 13:08 | history | edited | Gareth Rees | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
remove misunderstandable phrase "of cultural and artistic interest'
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| Mar 29, 2020 at 13:08 | comment | added | Gareth Rees | The reason I put "of cultural and artistic interest" in there is that questions about the factual content of literature are off-topic here. We would be happy to accept a question about the rhetorical strategy of a scientific paper, say (cultural interest), but not one about whether the paper's statistical approach was valid (scientific interest). But I can see that my intention is not at all clear, so I will remove the phrase. | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 13:01 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | Stealing an idea from SFF, a phrase I've always liked to describe scope inclusivity is: "If you're not sure it's [literature] but you think a good case can be made for it, it's on-topic." Something like this might fit well at the end of your paragraph? | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 12:58 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | Is "of cultural and artistic interest" necessary? I feel that might be misinterpreted as an exclusion of supposed "trash fiction" with purely entertainment value. On the other hand, it does serve the purpose of excluding e.g. recipe books and manuals, which are technically "written works" but probably off-topic here. I'm trying to think of a constructive rephrase suggestion ... "works of cultural, artistic, historic, or entertainment value"? Not sure. | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 12:50 | comment | added | Gareth Rees | The impression I get is that Hamlet regretted having named the site "Literature" and would have preferred something like "Arts and Culture" so as to include visual arts, music and so on. | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 12:32 | comment | added | Mithical Mod | Sounds eminently reasonable. (Hamlet was rather ideologically opposed to defining "literature" in any way, which is why we wound up with what we did.) I think after a few years we can write down what's on topic :) | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 9:58 | history | answered | Gareth Rees | CC BY-SA 4.0 |