Linked Questions
23 questions linked to/from How do I ask good, on-topic questions about meaning, translations, or differences?
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New audience-specific texts for our custom close reasons
Background
With recent changes to the closing system, we can now tailor the texts for custom close reasons to different audiences:
One text that informs close flaggers, voters, and reviewers when ...
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Sind Fragen zur Wortbedeutung on-topic?
Mich würde die Bedeutung des Wortes "knietschig" interessieren, dabei interessiert mich:
Woher die Bedeutung im Sinne von matschig kommt?
Was jemand mit dem Wort verbindet?
Nun ist die Fragestellung ...
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Why should somebody consult an online translation service before asking here?
Community recently downvoted and closed this question as off topic:
How do you say "He was looking for you" in German?
The given canned close reason "requests for proofreading, spell ...
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Let’s change “general references” to “databases”
Proposal
In help texts, close reasons, and similar, replace general reference with database. If space permits, elaborate that database means dictionary, thesaurus, conjugation tables, or similar.
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Please do not answer proof-reading or translation requests
We agreed to not accept translation requests or proof-readings of individual texts. If we were not asked for help on a single answerable issue all those question will correctly be closed as off topic, ...
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Is Wikipedia a general reference for GL?
We expect questions to indicate prior research, but it seems to be the policy to not close questions even though the answer can be found on Google.
Should we expect posters to research their question ...
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Is asking to translate a short paragraph from English to German on topic here?
I want to see if I'm allowed to ask such a question in the main site?
Would you please translate the following paragraphs into German?
a proposal for creating a remote sensing and ...
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Suggestions for the editable section of the help center
The Help Center for German Language Stack Exchange includes a section that can be edited by moderators:
This means that the community can decide to write a suitable text and then the moderators can ...
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Let’s have some tag warnings to prevent common mistakes by new users
What are tag warnings?
Tag warnings are meant to provide users with just-in-time information to help them avoid mistakes that are common for the tag they’re using.
Here’s what they look like:
To ...
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What is a phrase-request and when do we accept it as on topic?
We have quite a clear opinion on when to allow a translation request:
How do I ask good, on-topic questions for translations or about differences?
There is consent that we do not allow peer reviews ...
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Does my translation request belong here and if not, where and how shall I ask it?
Translation requests¹ are on-topic, but on the other hand some translation requests¹ got closed for belonging on English Language & Usage or English Language Learners.
When does a translation ...
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Translation questions from any language to German
On the Area 51 page about German.stackexchenge you can read this:
German Language
Beta Q&A site for students having questions about German, expert speakers of German wanting to discuss the ...
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These are our new custom close reasons
From a recent proposal it was clear, that we accepted to have new custom close reasons replacing our existing custom close reason.
To go live we need your vote, your suggestions, and your critique on ...
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Are questions related to peer review of a text on topic?
As the title of this question says, are questions like “I wrote this text in German language … Is it grammatically correct?” on topic for this site?
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Let’s take another approach to close reasons
Ranty introduction
In the last year, I made several attempts to sanitise our close reasons or capture some common denominator as to when we close questions, in particular regarding which questions ...