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Should we require a "what did X mean by this passage" question to provide a minimum amount of text context?

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Should we have the [historical-context] tag?

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Where to look for alternate history?

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Why did my question get a downvote?

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Is there a Wiki of ancient and medieval manuscripts?

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Why is “too basic” the reason for closure here?

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How should we handle "Post-and-Ghost" questions?

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Would a question about history of sports be on topic?

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How should we handle "list of good books" requests. [take 7]

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Would a shell casings reference question help?

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2024: a year in moderation

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Would this question meet the standards?

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Why is my question downvoted?

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Is it reasonable, and within site rules, to have a blanket insistence on going by Wikipedia?

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Ads test beginning December 3, 2024

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Can people who have a high reputation answer a question and then close the question to prevent the question from being edited?

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Proper site to ask how to construct an Archimedes' screw

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Should unregistered users be allowed to post new questions?

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How is my question opinion-based?

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Why was this post on 'the big lie' deleted by the community bot?

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How can my edit suggestion be accepted for consideration when it only removes one duplicated little word?

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Site policy for very heavily-trolled topics

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How to handle a user with multiple unregistered accounts posting low quality answers?

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Has the moderator's several rewrites of my question gone a little bit too far, and actually convert it into a conspiracy theory question I didn't ask?

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Should there be a policy on History SE for the use of AI-generated answers?

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Should we allow Wikipedia to be referenced as an academic source in answers?

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How many times can a question be added to a reopen queue via editing?

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Is Wikipedia an acceptable source?

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Shouldn't a question strictly about Kievan Rus get its own tag and not one about Russia (or Ukraine)?

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Would someone like to fix the now-broken link to historiography on the Topics help page?

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Reopen request 74063

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2024 Community Moderator Election Results

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The [astronomy] tag and the [eclipse] tag

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2024 Community Moderator Election

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2024 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

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What could've been a 'correct question' for the following answer about how the UK, US, Japan & Australia are allies?

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How could I improve this closed/deleted question about colonization?

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Do we wish to request the AI warning banner as mentioned on Meta?

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2023: a year in moderation

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Unanswered questions with answers or partial answers in comments

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What to do with an old answer if I want to change it completely

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6-month ban, 1 question, banned again, why?

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Shouldn't this description under "Russia" tag be changed?

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What's actually wrong here? Should we always avoid even mentioning or citing the present within a question post?

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Why was the question about Nikolai Gogol's family name closed?

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Can someone fix a typo in this tag?

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Are reference requests or solicitations for book recommendations allowed?

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