In the last 90 days, a custom off-topic close reason along the lines of the following was used ten times (raw data for 2 k users):
I’m voting to close this question as off-topic because it is about English, not German.
I assume that most, if not all, of the corresponding questions are of the following type:
- Asking for an English translation of a German word, whose meaning is known to the asker and clearly defined.
- Asking for a German translation of an English word, whose meaning is unclear to the asker.
Moreover, there are probably some questions belonging in this category which were closed with a reason like “This is clearly not about German.” and thus are missing from the statistics.
I therefore propose to introduce a new close reason to ease handling these cases and to provide better guidance to askers, in particular by linking the new FAQ post on this matter. I do not consider such a close reason a change of policy, as there seems general agreement on this (if not, please correct me), but just an improvement of our interface.
Remember that Meta lives from your votes. Vote this question up or down to indicate whether you agree with creating such a close reason in general and vote on suggested wordings to indicate your opinion on them.
