Unanswered Questions
40 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Why do we have to edit at least 6 characters?
Very recently, I clicked the edit button on a question.
It had a misspelling of just one letter.
But after I clicked the save my edit button, an error message popped up saying the edit should at least ...
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Would it be on-topic to ask on Literature what was the name of, URL of, or what happened to, that Philip Larkin online forum last seen about 2005?
Would it be on-topic to ask on Literature what was the name of, the URL of,or what happened to that Philip Larkin online forum that seems to have disappeared from the internet? I saw it in about the ...
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How do I ask a question about literature that I don't know exists, but which the people answering it do, without the question being "open ended"?
I've had a number of occasions when I've tried asking questions relating to books or other pieces of literature that fall into an extremely niche genre, but which I cannot name individually because I ...
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Why did these questions receive downvotes?
I have several questions related to song lyrics:
Why does "Nighttime Birds" associate night with warmth?
Are there two separate narrators in "On Most Surfaces" by The Gathering?
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What should the [setting] tag be used for?
We have a tag setting with 7 questions so far:
one, two, three asking about whether places in a story can be connected to real locations;
one asking about when a particular story was set;
one asking ...
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Announcing the April – May 2025 topic challenge: Bessie Head
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is today time to announce the ...
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Would the tag [the-taming-of-the-shrew] also cover questions about The Taming of a Shrew?
We currently have a tag the-taming-of-the-shrew for the Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew. However, there is also a play called The Taming of a Shrew (note the different article!), whose ...
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Has anyone done a thorough check of the [symbolism] tag's usage? Should we?
At the time of writing, this site's 11th largest tag (with over 200 questions) is symbolism. This is way larger than, say, allusions with 71 questions or allegory with 15 questions. Stay tuned to ...
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Should we tag song lyrics questions by composer or artist?
We've got a substantial amount of song-lyrics questions. So far, a lot of them are tagged with the artist (e.g. rolling-stones, radiohead), and a few with the composer (e.g. leonard-cohen).
It's ...
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Do we want video embedding to be enabled on Literature?
Some Stack Exchange sites have video embedding turned on, which means that a Youtube link can be simply pasted into a post as plaintext and it will automatically render as an inline box within which ...