I am in favor of allowing all identification questions ¹.

Identification questions are really an almost separate entity when it comes to scope. Whatever rules we apply to other types of questions can be difficult to apply. In part because we cannot fully know what type of work the target of identification is until has been successfully identified. Maybe the part we remember about "maths and a fractal" is actually the Jurassic Park novel, maybe the recipe we remember was actually part of spell book?

Since we have no genre scope (e.g., Science Fiction and Fantasy), and we allow scholastic questions on fiction and non-fiction alike, there should no reason why asking to identify any work is off-topic. To do otherwise seems exclusionary and elitist, which this site has wrestled with before.

Given that Literature is small site with a fairly large scope and target audience we should be as welcoming as we can. If we have a slew of low quality posts we should as community to improve (or remove) them, but looking at the list of questions only a few have a negative score. If you do not like identification questions at all, you can simply ignore the tag to allow better access to the types of questions you want to ask, answer, or read.

^{1 - so long as it literature and not a movie, video game, or other things that would wholly off-topic to begin with.}

I am in favor of allowing all identification questions ¹.

Identification questions are really an almost separate entity when it comes to scope. Whatever rules we apply to other types of questions can be difficult to apply. In part because we cannot fully know what type of work the target of identification is until has been successfully identified. Maybe the part we remember about "maths and a fractal" is actually the Jurassic Park novel, maybe the recipe we remember was actually part of spell book?

Since we have no genre scope (e.g., Science Fiction and Fantasy), and we allow scholastic questions on fiction and non-fiction alike, there should no reason why asking to identify any work is off-topic. To do otherwise seems exclusionary and elitist, which this site has wrestled with before.

Given that Literature is small site with a fairly large scope and target audience we should be as welcoming as we can. If we have a slew of low quality posts we should as community to improve (or remove) them, but looking at the list of questions only a few have a negative score. If you do not like identification questions at all, you can simply ignore the tag to allow better access to the types of questions you want to ask, answer, or read.

^{1 - so long as it literature (i.e. any written work) and not a movie, video game, or "object identification".}