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What's the future for the "Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese" page?
I've been pretty clear about my attitude towards the Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese page for a while now.
It's obsolete. (It had many broken links, but I just edited.)
It's full of non-...
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Reaffirming consensus: Posts are permitted in both English and Chinese
I'd like to reaffirm an 8-year-old consensus [+4/-0] about posting in Chinese and English, which led to this on the on-topic page:
Should I post in English or Chinese?
Questions and answers can be ...
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How do I make the following puzzle on-topic?
How do I make the following puzzle on-topic?
a. Just ask people to solve it.
b. Post the puzzle with the answer and ask which hint is not accurate
Recklessly run around
Make things up
A big mistake ...
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When editing posts, is it okay to remove expressions like "I'm a native Chinese"?
While editing, I frequently come across posts introduced by the typical disclosure:
I'm a native Chinese speaker
...or one of the many variants. Then the post proceeds to answer the original ...
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Is idiom puzzle game on-topic?
I posted 2 idiom puzzle games and asked for suggestions on improving the hints because I am a native Chinese speaker, some hints I feel are obvious may be too hard for non-native speakers. A user ...
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Is Tangut ("an ancient northeastern Tibeto-Burman language") on-topic?
This is motivated by the question here: How to solve the final round of 2020 China National Linguistics Olympiad?
Question: Is Tangut on-topic?
Chinese.SE Meta (here) is the appropriate place to have ...
Becky 李蓓Mod
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Burninate [readers] tag?
The readers tag has 5 questions, and no tag wiki excerpt:
Is there a place to find extremely simple stories?
What book is this passage from?
https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/21525
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Merge [structure] into [sentence-structure]? What about [constructs]?
It seems to me that these tags are about the same thing. The dominant tag is sentence-structure with 243 questions and a tag wiki excerpt:
Questions concerning the types of words and phrases which ...
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Can we pick another question for the tour page?
The current question on the tour page is was What are the common ice-breaker sentences in Chinese?. I see multiple issues with it:
It functions as an advert for ChineseHulu.com.
The question is ...
Becky 李蓓Mod
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August 2020: survey of the off-topic close reasons at language-related Stack Exchange sites
Heading towards streamlining closure, I went through and categorized the current off-topic the close reasons at the language-related sites (using this Data Explorer query thanks to Glorfindel).
Take-...
Becky 李蓓Mod
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Burninate [doraemon] tag?
I'm going to bet that this burnination request is not controversial. Nevertheless I'll pay my respects to my fellow users.
This tag is used in 7 questions (4 of which are closed) by the same asker, ...
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Burninate [gender] tag?
Currently there are 6 questions tagged gender.
I feel the tag is very narrow and used in a somewhat inconsistent way (see below). It can be better represented by other tags. In particular:
Does ...
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Merge [poem] into [poetry]?
I propose merging the tag poem (4 Qs) into poetry (48 Qs) (thereby getting rid of the poem tag). Again, this seems about as obvious as it gets. I'm mostly just posting this for the record.
I guess ...
Becky 李蓓Mod
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Which topics should be redirected to other SE sites?
This post is about deciding which topics should be asked in Chinese Language SE. There are several colliding topics with other SE sites.
These correspond to the following tags in the Chinese Language ...
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Merge and synonymize: [personal-pronouns] -> [pronouns]
I propose merging and synonymizing personal-pronouns (5 Qs) into pronouns (19 Qs) (thereby getting rid of the personal-pronouns tag).
To me, this seems about as obvious as it gets. I'm mostly just ...
Becky 李蓓Mod
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