Frequent Questions
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Help ensure English speakers can participate on meta
This site has surfaced several back-to-back meta posts written only in Italian. It's an understandable tendency, since your focus is Italian Language, but this creates some problems. The Stack ...
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What good reference works on Italian are available online?
Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references might be off-topic. What good reference works on Italian language are freely available online, and what kinds of questions are they ...
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Are questions about dialects on topic?
Given a great variety of local dialects (and small languages) in Italy, should we allow questions about a specific way of saying things?
If a question appears about lu sicilianu (Sicilian language) or ...
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Are questions about translation requests on topic?
Sarebbe opportuno supportare domande inerenti richieste di traduzione in Italiano?
Are questions about translation requests on topic?
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Should we admit “easily” answerable questions?
A question about the spelling of an Italian word prompted me to think that perhaps we might want to limit questions whose answer can be quickly found just by looking up a word in a dictionary. I ...
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Should we allow questions/answers to be in Italian?
I'm afraid questions written in Italian won't be beneficials for people whose Italian skills are not developed enough.
Should we allow to write question/answers in Italian, or should we rather ...
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Why don't you vote?
So this is half a rant, half a poll and half an exhortation.
As you can see from the users page, most people in this site do not vote (EDIT: the page shows only the people with more than 10 votes, ...
Denis NardinMod
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Why do most users, including experienced ones, keep commenting instead of answering?
I am quite new here so I may missing something obvious, however I have quite a bit of experience from the technical communities (Ask Ubuntu and StackOverflow). Therefore, I try to understand the best ...
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Incorrect way of classifying North and South in terms of language
In several questions and answers it looks like a precise distinction between North and South of Italy is given when it comes to the use of words and expressions. For instance, in some cases one tends ...
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Users opinion about moderator policy on added noise to questions/answers
As a moderator, I sometimes find myself in the position of having to evaluate whether to edit or not a question/answer for added noise which is useless from the information point of view.
I am ...
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When should welcoming comments be removed?
Recently there has been an increase in the amount of flags asking for removal of comments saying "Welcome to Italian.SE". I have a personal rule of thumb for when to accept those flags, and I know my ...
Denis NardinMod
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We need more questions / Abbiamo bisogno di più domande
Aggiornamento / Edit (Charo):
Cerco di riaprire questo dibattito perché questo sito è meraviglioso, ma sono anche dell'opinione che
abbiamo bisogno di un po' più di domande, fatte da più utenti ...
Denis NardinMod
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Italian.SE to remain in private beta for another week
Update: After a week's worth of solid work from this community, the team has reconvened and agreed to move Italian.SE to public beta. Nice job!
The public beta switch should get flipped some time ...
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Please use the correct accents on Italian words
This is a plea for native Italians: could you please use the correct spelling of words with accents in your writing?
I ask you this not only because it's nice to have things correctly spelled on a ...
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Italian.SE is graduating on December 16th!
Congratulations everyone: after much effort we are finally graduating!
The Community Managers have communicated us that, based on the longevity, number and quality of questions and other parameters, ...
Denis NardinMod
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