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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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10th Anniversary of History of Science & Mathematics SE!
In October History of Science & Mathematics SE turned 10 years old. Congratulations on asking, answering, voting, and building this community for a whole decade!
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Advertising Test Beginning Nov 13 2024
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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Is the history of opinions on science the same as being "opinion-based"? (re: Closure of question on "Freud and Science")
I'm writing this in order to get clarity why a question was voted closed. I have already voted to reopened and want to state my reasons but also want to ask for clarification why members of the ...
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Should optics and light be the same tag?
I just found out that we have a optics tag and a light. I think we should merge them.
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Are helpful articles involving long history not ON-TOPIC on HSM?
I recently completed reading most of the important parts of Papers involving philosophy of atomism and wrote a summary of major Events into my notes which gives pretty fair idea of what and how did ...
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Should the examples and big lists tags be the same?
Independently on how good or relevant are this type questions, frequently there are questions looking for as many examples as possible of some historical happening or some type of personalities. Usual ...
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What is HSMSE policy on ChatGPT?
Are we allowed to answer by asking ChatGPT? even if given credit, it can lead to partial answers but without any citations see https://hsm.stackexchange.com/a/15268/6609
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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.
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Do we want to change the link about MathJax help?
Stack Exchange sites with MathJax enabled have a section in the editing help page on how to use LaTeX. This section contains a "MathJax help" link at the end.
By default, this "MathJax ...
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Any objections to adding a [sophie-germain] tag?
I have just started reading about the life, work, anonymity and discrimination towards the French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain. I've added it to my new question and three ...
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Request to let [reference] reference [reference-request]
Currently, there is a reference tag with 9 questions tagged so. However, not only the tag has no tag wiki/excerpt but also is being used similarly to the reference-request tag. Therefore, let the tags ...
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What to do after a question is partially answered and/or new information is available?
I have a question about my History of Science and Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Source documents for Bronstein's Cube of Physics
When I posted the "reference request" question, I was ...
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Do we have a recommended limit on edits per day?
Having looked at the answer to this Q&A on the site
Blacklisted [history] tag has reappeared
I thought I would start to edit out the remaining history questions. However I do not want to flood the ...
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