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2022: 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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How should we polish the first paragraph of the tour page?
There was a meta.SE post about the site's name which drew my attention to this paragraph of the tour page:
Chinese Language and Usage is a question and answer site for experts, language enthusiasts, ...
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What questions should be tagged [hsk]?
There's a tag hsk which refers to the HSK exam.
HSK or 汉语水平考试 (Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì) is a standardised Chinese proficiency test for non-native speakers of Chinese. The test is administered by the ...
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Is the question about changing ruby text in Microsoft Word off-topic?
How do I change the ruby text language in Microsoft Word for Hanyu Pinyin?
The question asks how to use features in Word related to pinyin.
One on hand, it's inherently about features of some ...
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Let's look at replacing the custom close reasons
TL;DR: I suggest we ditch the current custom close reasons, and replace them by something in the spirit of:
This question is not sufficiently related to the Chinese family of languages to be ...
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Phrase-usage tag?
Looking through the tags of this site, I don't see a tag named [phrase-usage] although it should be included with other tags like [phrase].
Additional question, can we change [phrase] to [phrases]? It ...
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Some of you may have noticed recently I have started asking questions on translation a lot. Is this alright to ask questions of the same topic so many times? Or should I ask different questions?
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17 examples of image-transcription requests: how on/off-topic are they?
Continuing from Are image transcription requests on-topic? ("What does this image say?"), here is a diverse collection of image-transcription requests found throughout the site (click to see ...
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Are image transcription requests on-topic? ("What does this image say?")
Identification questions are an issue throughout Stack Exchange. Movies.SE banned movie identification questions and EarthScience.SE banned rock identification questions, while many other sites allow ...
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How do we decide if a question is on/off topic?
There are many people here from diverse backgrounds, and we need to allow for the real possibility that some questions may be considered off-topic by one person, but considered on-topic by another. ...
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Are demographics questions, like "How many Cantonese speakers who don't speak Mandarin exist", on- or off-topic?
We recently had the question How many Cantonese speakers who don't speak Mandarin exist?. To my knowledge, comparable "demographics" questions haven't been closed previously, such as
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Your friendly reminder to vote (!)
I'm not meaning to nag here, but I thought I might remind/encourage everyone to vote. Vote Early, Vote Often. Oh, and thank you to those who are voting!
Everyone has their own voting philosophy; I'm ...
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What would you want the site's design to include (and not include)?
Chinese.SE has been around for over 10 years; back in 2019 it graduated from beta (along with 28 other sites). There's been a bit of a wait for site design, i.e., professionally designed banners, ...
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an article about language vs dialect
this morning, i read an article, written by an Assistant Professor Joshua Holzer, from scroll.in
Is Ukrainian a dialect of Russian or an altogether different language?
nearly half of it talked about ...
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