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1 | <p>I would like to open the meta discussion on the criteria for closing.
I think we should be a little more open than the rest of the SE community when it comes to questions that are </p>
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<li><strong>Localized</strong>: academics travel a lot. Something that is localized today may not be localized for us tomorrow... | [
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8 | <p>In reference to <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49/what-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-being-a-professor">this question</a> about being a professor, this is impossible to answer within the context of how SE wants us to answer questions. There's no definite answer, and even more so, the... | [
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"text": "<p>Based on the <a href=\"http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/16617?phase=definition\">example questions asked in th... | 2012/02/15 | [
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12 | <p>This particular SE has the significant problem that many answers will be "soft" in nature; there's no real literature on much of this, making many questions answerable only through "in my experience..." answers. <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/90/73">This answer</a> is a fine example of this... the ans... | [
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"text": "<p>I know I'm answering my own question, but I want to put forth the argument that <strong>these style answers should ... | 2012/02/15 | [
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17 | <p>By looking at the site today, it seems that "higher education" is an euphemism for "doctorate". The definition stage however doesn't imply that (<a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/16617/academia/16618#16618">1</a> <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/16617/academia/16618#16618">2</a> <a... | [
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"text": "<p>I would not define \"higher education\" as including high school. The usual definition includes college and above ... | 2012/02/15 | [
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21 | <p>Based on my answer in <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13/73">this question</a>, I propose that we modify the tag placeholder text (currently "at least one tag (graduate-school note-taking science), max 5 tags") to strongly encourage the poster to provide a tag identifying the field of research bei... | [
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"text": "<p>While the experience of individuals will be mostly limited to one particular field and likely a specific geographic are... | 2012/02/16 | [
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23 | <p>I would vouch for accommodation questions to be on-topic, as long as they are clearly focused for academic hosting (that is, "Channels for accommodation for 6 months at VU-Amsterdam" is on-topic, "Looking for accommodation in Centralia, Pennsylvania" is not). Also, direct "Does anybody here have a room available fro... | [
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"text": "<p>There's a narrow line between \"how does a person find short-term housing near such-and-such university\" and \"does an... | 2012/02/16 | [
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24 | <p>This site should be pretty easy to publicize; simply post flyers around the various departments. Would someone with design skills be willing to throw together a flyer to be around the various campuses by Academia SE users?</p>
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36 | <p>In order to promote the site, it would be good to post a notification on some of the existing online forums where academics congregate.</p>
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<li>What online forums exist?</li>
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<p>As side points</p>
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<li>What community does the forum contain? How big is the community?</li>
<li>What rules exist regard... | [
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"text": "<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.physicsforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=139\" rel=\"nofollow\">Physics Forums</a>. Ch... | 2012/02/21 | [
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39 | <p>We have a new user who is being more disruptive than helpful:</p>
<p><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/323/what-makes-an-undergradute-in-computer-science-with-a-1-2-degree-more-employable">First question</a></p>
<p>The initial question was not ideal for SE, so people voted it down and to close ... | [
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"text": "<p>It's a good question, I was also wondering what one can do. In my experience on some forums, the best to do is us... | 2012/02/22 | [
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45 | <p>I'm wondering whether we should loosen the criterion for "too localized" in this forum. My intuition is that many questions on this forum will be very localized, but the answers will be more general in nature. For instance, <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/363/career-advice-for-a-recent-social-p... | [
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"text": "<p>In my mind, it should at least be possible for someone searching the site a month from now to find it helpful. It's... | 2012/02/22 | [
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55 | <p>When I saw this new StackExchange site, it first reminded me a lot of a tool that's being used in an increasing number of college-level courses called <a href="https://piazza.com/" rel="nofollow">Piazza</a>. Each "instance" of Piazza is a single semester of a single course offered at a university where students can... | [
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60 | <p>I was wondering whether we should allow questions about academics searching for industry positions. <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/441/what-opportunities-exist-in-the-industry-for-a-researcher-in-computational-astro">This question on jobs outside of academia</a> was closed, based on our brand-... | [
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"text": "<p>Certainly not. There's a risk as it is that there are several posters treating this site as a careers advice forum... | 2012/02/26 | [
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64 | <p>I've noticed that it's only possible to mention another SE user using the "@" symbol in a comment thread where the user appears, and I was wondering if it was a feature or a bug. In particular, I couldn't find any easy to refer to another member, or just to draw the attention of another member to a particular questi... | [
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"text": "<p>There are no plans right now to introduce any sort of notification feature along these lines. Stack Exchange is by... | 2012/02/26 | [
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72 | <p>Many of the current answers begin with "It depends on your field" / "There is no one answer".
Indeed, each field is unique, although they share common grounds.</p>
<p>For questions that depend on the specific field, I would expect to see <strong>many</strong> answers, each for its own field, rather than having an a... | [
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"text": "<p>I think we should allow domain specific questions and cultivate domains within this server. </p>\n\n<p>we shoul... | 2012/03/04 | [
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73 | <p>I'm relatively new to Stack Exchange, so I'm not sure if there is a universal policy for closing questions across sites. But I've noticed here that there are questions with low or negative scores or questions that are similar to ones asked and answered before, and they're left hanging on the front page. Turnover see... | [
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"text": "<p>It's a good remark. In general, I think it can be good to leave the time for the OP to reformulate the question b... | 2012/03/06 | [
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83 | <p>Since we're about two weeks into the public beta now, I would think that it would be time to start considering adding more moderators (right now, I believe Anna is the only moderator, and she's with SE, as opposed to being a member-moderator.</p>
<p>Is it time to begin the process of adding <a href="http://blog.sta... | [
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"text": "<p><strong>Yes</strong>. This community, while still small, has had it's share of low-quality questions and trolls, an... | 2012/03/07 | [
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94 | <p>How can we fix <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/842/should-a-postdoc-obey-when-is-asked-to-do-things-she-knows-little-about">this question</a> to be more focused on helping postdocs and less argumentative and provocative?</p>
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99 | <p>I note that this question implicitly prefers questions with a general topic but in fact very localized content (one's life story + a question of type 'What should I do?').</p>
<p>For example, one I asked a general question (i.e. if one can use his/her personal e-mail instead of institutional) then it was pointed ou... | [
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111 | <p>We've had a couple questions since the dawn of Academia.SE asking for advice about undergraduate-related topics, the most recent being <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/1407/73">this well-formulated and generally pretty solid question</a>. In the past, we've <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.c... | [
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"text": "<p>You make a good point. For me, what I really want to avoid, are questions like: \"I like this and that, what pro... | 2012/05/04 | [
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115 | <p>I would love to ask a question on the tenure system that is in vogue in US. I see a few publications in Google, and also a few blog posts talking about the pros and cons of the system. </p>
<p>I wish to know the following:</p>
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<li>Is the tenure system efficient as such?</li>
<li>Is it likely/probable/possible... | [
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118 | <p>I was looking over our stats on area 51, and we're doing poorly on two counts: #questions/day and number of visits. I'm more concerned about the latter than the former for now (because fixing the latter will probably fix the former). </p>
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123 | <p>You love your site and we love your site, but there is a whole world of people out there who might not even know it exists. When they do find it, their first impression will either scare them away or keep them around. Given this, let's take a hard look at the questions and answers here and make sure newcomers see th... | [
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138 | <p>I've noticed that many of the <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts">recent questions asked by newcomers to the site</a> are low quality and/or off-topic, dealing with "what's the best university for discipline X?" and "how can I get into field/program X"? On a similarly ... | [
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144 | <p>Well this question is bound to be controversial. What should we do?</p>
<p><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/2113/319">What is being done to make the academic environment more women friendly?</a></p>
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149 | <p>As a followup to DQdlM's <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/104/are-questions-on-pedagogy-on-topic">question about pedagogy</a>, are questions about student recruitment, success, or retention on topic even if they are not related to curriculum development or instructional design?</p>
<p>For ... | [
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152 | <p>I've just been to the stats of travel.SE and I found their stats phenomenally better than ours. While 8 questions and 1800 visits per day is excellent, I do think that some part of this has to do with the objective of the site: academia is much more exclusive than travel; in other words, all academics can have trave... | [
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"text": "<p>According to the SE \"targets\" A.SE is currently weak in questions per day (4.6/15) and visits per day (448/1... | 2012/07/04 | [
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157 | <p>In this <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/2545/929">answer</a>, the user has decided to provide a evidence for what makes him qualified for answering the question. While I can see it as potentially useful, I am not sure it is needed or desirable. Has the practice of prefacing answers with qualifications ... | [
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163 | <p>I was going to ask a question about graduation and I didn't find the tag I was looking for. I was thinking that an "events" tag would be useful for questions about different events that academics go to (e.g., graduation, new student invocation, thesis defenses, fund raising).</p>
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168 | <p>I am thinking specifically of <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2772/are-there-any-specific-teaching-techniques-to-handle-virtual-classroom-session#comment4504_2772">this question</a>, where my answer would be wholly different based on the type of virtual teaching environment. I would like to pro... | [
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171 | <p>I know that the site stats (on the left side of the front page) include visitors/day. I'm guessing that is averaged over some time frame. Is there a place that I can see the number of visitors on each particular day?</p>
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174 | <p>Are questions on software on topic?</p>
<p>This question on <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3054/openoffice-vs-libreoffice-vs-msoffice-for-academic-writing">writing software</a> seems almost identical to questions on <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1880/software-to-use-fo... | [
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180 | <p>In <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3086/opportunities-in-industry-after-a-phd-in-organic-chemistry">this question</a>, the OP wants to know the opportunities in industrial R&D after a PhD in organic chemistry. In general, industry vacancies and requirements do not have anything to do with a... | [
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181 | <p>I saw <a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/190453/is-it-morally-right-and-pedagogically-right-to-google-answers-to-homework">a question</a> on the ethic of googling one's homework. The questioner, though having posted it on Math.SE, asks about the "pedagogical" merit of doing the same. This question has... | [
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188 | <p>Are questions that are US-specific on-topic on this site? (i.e., only relevant to academia in the United States)</p>
<p>(Do people want to see those kinds of questions tagged or marked in any particular way?)</p>
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201 | <p>Some users create tags while adding question; some are highly useful and some are simply meaningless. Do SE have any mechanism to encourage users to add tag wiki as well, on creating tags?</p>
<p>Esp. see this question <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3022/in-conference-review-process-what-do-a... | [
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205 | <p><strong>What is this community’s take on deleting closed questions? What are the criteria for deletion?</strong></p>
<p>In the past few days, I have voted on deleting some of the closed questions that seemed to have absolutely no value to the site (<a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3203/extracti... | [
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211 | <p>Following up on our recent discussion <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/205/what-should-happen-to-closed-questions">on closed questions</a>, I'm wondering if it might not be a bad idea to create a tag for closed questions. This might help us to "corral" them a bit better.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</... | [
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215 | <p>There has been some discussion recently here about deletion. What I could suggest, in order to avoid having one question here for each content we might want to delete, is to post as an answer to this question any other questions, answer or comment one would like to delete.</p>
<p><strong>If you have at least 2000 r... | [
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238 | <p>Stack Exchange sites that have graduated run so-called “Community Promotion Ads”: these run in the right sidebar of each page, and are designated according to votes on the Meta of each site. For example, see <a href="https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/980/community-promotion-ads-2012">on Physics.SE</a>... | [
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"text": "<p>It's a good idea to plan. But the problem is technically we haven't graduated yet. We're still in beta mode. We ... | 2012/10/21 | [
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245 | <p>When tagging this question: <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/4930/344">How can I apply to be an adjunct faculty?</a>, I came across four tags that could either be synonyms or at least have more distinct definitions.</p>
<p>To be clear, I think that these could either be merged into two or even one tag ... | [
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258 | <p>As a community, where do we want to draw the line between editing old off-topic closed questions and changing them completely? This <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1525/how-do-you-avoid-favoritism-and-personal-relationships-from-affecting-grading">recently edited question</a> has received many ... | [
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262 | <p>Along the lines of "<a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178/third-excellent-on-area-51-congratulations-to-all-nearly-ready-for-graduat">Third excellent..."</a>, we now have <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/16617/academia">no more "needs work" categories</a>, having just bumpe... | [
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"text": "<p>Thanks for posting, good job to everyone who's participated and made this site as good as it is.</p>\n"
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270 | <p>What all we know, we (i.e. academia.SE) are hacking the system for objective verifiable Q&A for the purpose of advise questions. (And, IMHO, we have hacked it successfully).</p>
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273 | <p>Informally watching our stats on Area 51 leads me to the conclusion that our number of users and visits per day have increased faster than our questions per day. We use to be averaging a question per 100 visits and now we are averaging a question per 200 visits. I am concerned that we do not have enough questions to... | [
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283 | <p>Moderators have a view of the site's statistics, but they cannot share the specifics. So, I'm starting this post to keep track of the evolution of our statistics over time. Please feel free to update it every now and then:</p>
<p><b></p>
<pre><code> Date Qs/day Visits/day A. ratio Total user... | [
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288 | <p>I am currently in my grad program in CS, and I am interested in studying software engineering processes, project management, and metrics in a PhD program.</p>
<p>Can I ask here or on the main Academia site which universities are currently focused on researching the areas in which I am interested? </p>
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299 | <p>I have noticed a lot of computer scientists, physics, and a few more subjects but I think there is a lack of people from a lot of other major fields, for example Biology.</p>
<p>How do we attract people to contribute to the website from less computer-centric areas?</p>
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"text": "<p>Maybe ore or more of the more creative ones among us could contact Jorge Cham (<a href=\"http://www.phdcomics.c... | 2012/11/17 | [
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301 | <p>Currently, most of questions here are very general. It also reflects in upvotes per question (which is very, very high, compared to any other SE site I know.)</p>
<p>It is good that we are able to produce high-quality content, appealing to a broad audience.</p>
<p>But... maybe it means that we are too unforgiving ... | [
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311 | <p>I have recently acquired moderator privileges. Academia is the first SE site where I do so, so I was curious to see what they are like.</p>
<p>One thing that struck me is how quickly some questions get deleted. For example, <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/5495/1033">this question</a> (only visible wit... | [
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320 | <p>Is there any sense of when we'll be able to leave beta ? I've been watching the stats, and while the number of questions/day bounces around the magic 5.0 mark, all the other markers seem quite strong (and the number of visits/day is steadily increasing). </p>
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323 | <p><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5879/any-suggestions-to-create-and-maintain-a-good-research-atmosphere" title="here">Here</a> I got a close vote. I have no issue with it <strong>but</strong> how can I know the intention behind closing voters. How to get their attention. Are voters required to e... | [
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336 | <p>(I don't know if it fits better to meta or nor meta.)</p>
<p>As we see very often, many problems in/about academia are not suitable for close-ended questions. Also, some important things involve polling questions, like software, university, scholarship, conference or journal recommendations.</p>
<p>(For example, I... | [
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347 | <p>Sometimes we get <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2113/how-can-we-make-the-academic-enviroment-more-women-friendly">questions</a> which can be deemed too broad. Broad not precisely because the question is too general and thus would have many specific partial answers, or be subjective, but too br... | [
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352 | <p>I think we need to be nicer when closing questions. I think of new people look at having their question closed as being a slap in the face and a real turn off for the site. The automated messages are informative, but not that nice. I don't think they suggest welcoming edits to improve the question. We have had a cou... | [
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"text": "<p>I think is an <em>excellent</em> idea. I find myself writing something like that very often (one example <a href=\... | 2013/01/24 | [
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353 | <p>I think we down vote too often here. SE has some reasonable guidelines about when to down vote.</p>
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<p>Use your downvotes whenever you encounter an egregiously sloppy,
no-effort-expended post, or an answer that is clearly and perhaps
dangerously incorrect.</p>
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<p>Our answers and qu... | [
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357 | <p>We've got another <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7455/what-is-the-factor-that-made-us-higher-education-system-so-potent-and-popular">question with a background in humanities</a> which was closed almost immediately. Another such is discussed <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/ques... | [
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362 | <p>We currently have two separate tags for <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/publications" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'publications'" rel="tag">publications</a> and <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/papers" class="post-tag" title="show que... | [
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373 | <p><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/7508/4227">This question</a> had certain comments by 2 users( JeffE , and scaaahu ) which although were not strictly on-topic, but nonetheless added to the discussion by providing a different viewpoint. Why were they removed ?</p>
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380 | <p>I find that the <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/writing" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'writing'" rel="tag">writing</a> and <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scientific-writing" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'scientif... | [
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396 | <p>I see a trend among some members to shoot down questions they <em>presumably</em> not have an straight-out answer for. I don't think this makes much sense. Nobody has answers to all thinkable questions, besides we don't all think (and express our thoughts) alike. Shooting down questions that you might not have an an... | [
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400 | <p><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7817/representing-experimental-data?noredirect=1">This question</a> about representation of experimental data was migrated to <a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com">CrossValidated</a>, the SE site for “statisticians, data miners and data analysis”. Below, I mak... | [
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408 | <p>Continuing with my push towards more liberal stance on deleting questions (we are developing here some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia" rel="nofollow noreferrer">deletionists vs. inclusionists</a> issues, I guess), let me ask the following:</p>
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415 | <p>I noticed <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7231/what-is-tvl-13-position">this question</a> which made me wonder what the policy here is regarding localized questions. There seems to have been a discussion of "too localized" questions based on research area specific questions, but only meta quest... | [
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417 | <p>I flagged a question as off-topic but it was declined, with the comment:</p>
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<p>declined - Please use the closing vote mechanism</p>
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423 | <p>There is a lot of questions asking for life advice, e.g. describing a problem with their PhD advisor (or the head of the department). It's very common that there is a list of possible decisions and the asking person wants to pool what do people advise? </p>
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425 | <p>Recently, someone posted the question "<a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/8565/73">Fee surcharge for international students</a>", which was an undisguised rant. Someone mentioned this in the comments, and the user tacked on a question. To me, the question as added is likely off-topic here; it's a legal qu... | [
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438 | <p>Let's get real here. Academics in mathematics ARE different from acedemics in medicine. We should embrace the real world ! </p>
<p>This is not to prevent general questions.</p>
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443 | <p>My understanding of the answers and votes on the <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/174/are-questions-on-software-on-topic">question whether software-related questions are on-topic</a> is that indeed, questions on software as tools for work in academia <strong>are on-topic</strong>. Now <a hr... | [
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447 | <p>I was reading <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9039/phd-at-a-low-ranked-university-leading-to-frustration">this post from the main site</a> and found myself confused why there are four votes to close. As my comment there says, I think the underlying question (though it could have been asked in a... | [
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461 | <p><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9105/whats-the-best-researchers-could-do-for-their-native-country">This question</a> on what's the best researchers could do for their native country was closed. It reads like a sentimental question and may even lead to chatty answers, but doesn't it have some po... | [
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463 | <p>Over the last few days, we have had rapid closing votes on <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9039/how-to-deal-with-the-frustration-of-doing-phd-at-a-low-ranked-university">a question</a>, followed by reopening. Even in questions which are ostensibly off-topic, but not on careful thought (<a href=... | [
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467 | <p>Welcome to the academia.SE Community Poll thread! (shamelessly stolen from <a href="https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/tex-community-polls">TeX.SX</a>)</p>
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468 | <p>Please discuss any ideas and issues about <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/467/academia-community-polls">Academia Community Polls</a> in this thread to keep it tidy.</p>
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491 | <p>In my opinion, <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/9604/5851">this question</a> and its answer <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/9606/5851">here</a> are inviting speculations, comments without proper backing of evidence, and argumentative discussion over an Institute being good or mediocre (ag... | [
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494 | <p><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/9667/958">Here</a> aeismail comments: </p>
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<p>One-line answers aren't allowed per our FAQ's. You should either expand your answer, or it'll have to be converted to a comment</p>
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500 | <p>Currently questions closed as duplicate are what I will refer to as singly linked. A link appears on top of the closed duplicate question pointing to the original question. Nothing is added to the original question. Sometimes the duplicate question has useful answers and comments. By definition, we marked it as dupl... | [
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503 | <p>The question <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9794/importance-of-going-to-university-in-the-21st-century">https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9794/importance-of-going-to-university-in-the-21st-century</a> was closed on the main site, and identified as non-constructive, although it has r... | [
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509 | <p>This <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9818/international-variations-in-addressing-academics">question </a> essentially asks: In my country we do things like X, how do they do them in your country. That seems like the definition of a big list question to me. I have wanted to ask a similar type qu... | [
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513 | <p>The new display at the bottom is not very good, in my opinion: I would expect to see "Academia" under "Professional," but that's not even in one of the categories shown in the display below—you have to click through to get to a site where you then have to hunt around to find it. That's not a very good system in my o... | [
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517 | <p>There is an abundance of questions relating to Computer Science, which is great.</p>
<p>However, when a question is discipline-dependent, IMHO it is crucial to advertise this fact in the title (unless it's otherwise clear) AND in tags (in this case: <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compu... | [
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524 | <p>There has been several questions recently about tags, and topic related tags in particular. I was wondering: <strong>how do you use tags? Why do we care about them?</strong></p>
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532 | <p>I noticed that there are quite a few users with questions that are little open-ended, which is not a good fit for the Q/A format that we have on SE sites. I suppose a lot of us, grad students, would like to have a medium of communication where we can <em>discuss</em> matters and questions about previous experiences ... | [
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534 | <p>I accidentally noted that <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10247/why-are-cs-researchers-reluctant-to-share-code-and-what-techniques-can-i-use-to">a particular question</a> does not appear on the list of questions when I am not signed in. The question comes up in the top five once I am logged in.... | [
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541 | <p>We all love <a href="http://academia.stackexchange.com">Academia Stack Exchange</a>, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through ... | [
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544 | <p>Given that the consensus here has become "undergraduate questions are off-topic unless relating to graduate admissions", we need to support the proposed Undergraduates.SE so that these questions have a place to go.</p>
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551 | <p>There's only been one such question so far, but, depending on weather this question is accepted as a good one or not, it could set up future standards for the site, so I feel it is important:</p>
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553 | <p>In many fields (traditionally, Medicine but also increasingly the social sciences), applying for IRB approval is an integral part of being an academic. Are such questions on topic, and if so under what parameters (e.g. focusing on standard procedures vs. slippery ethical questions)?</p>
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561 | <p>Recently, the question <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10928/how-often-should-one-evaluate-a-plan-for-an-academic-career?noredirect=1#comment20098_10928">How often should one evaluate a plan for an academic career?</a> has been closed without a single comment explaining why it should be closed,... | [
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563 | <p>About this question:
<a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/10959/96">https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/10959/96</a>
Which asks:</p>
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<p>I'm hoping to enroll onto a PhD program. I've heard that twitter might help me find a PhD program. This question is inspired by this video in the British E... | [
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"text": "<p>This is a tough situation. It's an on-topic question, so it shouldn't be closed as a violation of the FAQs, regar... | 2013/07/06 | [
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572 | <p>This is quite discouraging. Why was my answer to <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11165/how-to-respond-to-someone-plagiarizing-my-work/11173#11173">this thread</a> deleted?</p>
<p>It says converted to comment, but I do not see it anywhere. This is the 2nd time (according to my reputation reco... | [
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"text": "<p>I transformed your answer to a comment, because it didn't any new comment w.r.t. the other answers. Your answer ... | 2013/07/16 | [
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577 | <p>Why do I get a yellow “0 flag” alert on the top bar, on Academia, where I am not a moderator? It links to the “tools” page, where there is nothing for me to do:</p>
<p> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6fd7s.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Same situation exists on Meta:</p>
<p> <img src="... | [
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581 | <p>There is a lot of spam in the replies <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5170/what-systems-are-most-effective-for-monitoring-student-attendance">here</a>, the reply from Ian Pack is a blatant one as a quick search shows he works for the company that he is "recommending", I would not be surprised i... | [
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"text": "<p>I'm not sure it is our responsibility to \"report them to their company bosses\". </p>\n\n<p>What you did was I ... | 2013/07/24 | [
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584 | <p>I wanted to either vote to close or flag <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11360/form-get-method-prints-viewstate-value-in-addressbar">https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11360/form-get-method-prints-viewstate-value-in-addressbar</a> as suitable for SO.SE, but I could only suggest it bel... | [
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"text": "<p>It is quite counter-intuitive, but here is how it should be done:</p>\n\n<p> <img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.... | 2013/07/24 | [
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586 | <p>Following on the question <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/415/4394">What's the policy regarding localized (read: country specific) questions?</a> and <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/188/4394">Are US-specific questions OK?</a> My own opinion is that country specific questions ar... | [
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"text": "<p>To riff off of Einstein, \"SE questions should be as specific as possible, but no more specific!\" </p>\n\n<p>We ... | 2013/07/24 | [
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589 | <p>When recently voting to close an off-topic undergraduate question, I saw this screen:
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9LQzD.png" alt="enter image description here">
with the phrase:</p>
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<p>Questions about <strong>problems facing undergraduate students</strong> are off-topic unless they can also a... | [
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"text": "<p>Note that the section you linked to on the Mathematics section is from their \"on-topic\" page, <a href=\"https:/... | 2013/07/24 | [
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596 | <p>I found <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11411/is-there-any-scientific-rigor-in-scientometry">this question</a> interesting so I took a few minutes to remove a variety of typos ("gouvernemental", etc.). </p>
<p>I saved the edits, double-checked the question and closed the page.</p>
<p>Later I ... | [
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"text": "<p>The changes you made are <a href=\"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11411/is-there-any-scientific-rigo... | 2013/07/26 | [
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600 | <p>I am unable to understand the comments and the down-votes on <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/11470/5851">this question of mine</a>.<br>
[The question is deleted now, original text reproduced below]</p>
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<p>I realize we do not have a definitive answer/guideline on the purpose of pre-print... | [
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603 | <p>I understand that questions on AC.SE are going to be "softer" in nature than the programming questions typical of SO.SE, but I think our answers often are "softer" then needed. I often read answers and think "Citation Needed". Are we answering questions based on our personal experience when we could be providing ans... | [
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"text": "<p>This is a very difficult area for our forum, as most of the answers and advice dispensed here is not borne of thor... | 2013/07/29 | [
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610 | <p>There are several questions with with the words "high school" and teaching on academia.
Can a public school teacher be considered an "academician"? I haven't found any other stackexchange site that is likely to allow for questions about teaching, much less at the secondary level. Has anyone found another site that ... | [
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"text": "<p>Welcome to Academia.SE, this site is about those involved in higher education (postgrad, research etc). There is... | 2013/08/10 | [
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622 | <p>I was under the impression that URL shortners were either discouraged or outright banned. I recently edited a question to replace a bit.ly link with a direct link, and that edit suggestion was rejected. What is the official policy of this site for URL shortners? Certainly there's no need for them.</p>
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"text": "<p>There is no official policy on shorteners, except that \"Let me google that for you\" links are banned. However, ... | 2013/08/23 | [
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