My understanding is that we already take questions about the "practical undertaking of research" so long as it can be addressed by academics generally rather than requiring knowledge of a particular subfield. This question comes to mind as a well-received, on-topic question about research: How to by-pass bioethics for a trivial bio-experiment?

I agree that the list you linked doesn't indicate that these questions are allowed. Perhaps we should add:

6. the academic research process

we could add add a qualifier "(but not domain-specific questions about research)", but the more concise sentence seems to better fit with the existing list.

My understanding is that we already take questions about the "practical undertaking of research" so long as it can be addressed by academics generally rather than requiring knowledge of a particular subfield. This question comes to mind as a well-received, on-topic question about research: How to by-pass bioethics for a trivial bio-experiment?

I agree that the list you linked doesn't indicate that these questions are allowed. Perhaps we should add:

6. the academic research process

we could add add a qualifier "(but not domain-specific questions about research)", but the more concise sentence seems to better fit with the existing list.

Update: I added bullet #6 as written to the linked page; this seemed to be the common denominator that (most) everyone liked. Some alternative phrasings and other potentially good ideas were raised in the comments -- if anyone would like to pursue any of these further, please make a new meta post with a specific proposal so that the community can consider.