Questions tagged [policy]
Quesions related to policies of Academia Stack Exchange.
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Should we relax our policy on profanity (e.g., when quoted or used in an anecdote)?
StackExchange generally requires professional, respectful discourse. As such, profanity is generally disallowed site-wide. But, this is applied differently on different sites: as noted here, for ...
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Policy against questions making allegations against named individuals or organisations
Due to recurring problems with questions that contain allegations against named individuals or organisations, we moderators would like to implement a policy against these.
This should only affect a ...
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Why are there so many “guests”?
There seems to be a huge number of very low-rep users called "guest." Is this the same individual, or a small number of individuals, who are using "guest" as a burner account? Does this violate either ...
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Should an individual user's request for gender-neutral language be honored?
A recent Meta question noted:
One of the community members has approached the moderators with a concern about gendered pronoun usage amongst our Academia members. Specifically, this individual felt ...
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What kind of undergraduate questions are not really generalizable to graduate education? (An “Academia varies more than you think” perspective)
A remarkable point of this community is that it makes people realize that academia varies more than you think it does.
One of these variations is the structure of the different education levels. ...
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How should we handle questions that include identifying information about third parties?
I was looking at this question about a 17-year-old Ph.D. student in astrophysics, and I was struck by the potential for identifying this student (if it's a real scenario, which I don't for a second ...
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What do we want Academia.SE to be?
Edit: This was not intended to be a "Choose #1 or #2 proposal." This was intended to be a prompt for discussion about what the current community wants from this site. #1 and #2 are just things I've ...
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Questions that are lists of things
Pete Clark recently asked a question which is, essentially, a list of things. In the past, we've had differing thoughts from the community on this topic (for, against). Thoughts?
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People denying the situation in the questions instead of answering
I have recently noticed a trend in the answers on academia.se to question the situation about which OP is asking because not every single detail is provided, instead of answering what is being asked.
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Minor edits of other people's questions
I am confused by the instructions about editing
Edits are expected to be substantial and to leave the post better than you found it. Common reasons for edits include: To fix grammar and spelling ...
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Can we have some fun?
Some Stack Exchange sites, while enforcing regular policies/limits, allow for a little fun now and then, either by letting some “fun” soft big-list questions exist, or by prompting them on specific ...
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Data visualisation questions
This question about representation of experimental data was migrated to CrossValidated, the SE site for “statisticians, data miners and data analysis”. Below, I make the case that this question is ...
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What should happen to closed questions?
What is this community’s take on deleting closed questions? What are the criteria for deletion?
In the past few days, I have voted on deleting some of the closed questions that seemed to have ...
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Are questions of college admission and application submission allowed?
I am 31 year old and graduated with an Bachelors Degree nearly 10 years ago. I'd like to go back to school for an entirely different field of expertise and earn a doctorate.
Are questions regarding ...
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When should an answer be deleted?
I was checking the answers that have been deleted, and I noticed that Do journals in general have any kind of policy regarding papers submitted by someone without a research affiliation? has been ...
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How to deal with different disciplines / fields?
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.
For questions that depend on the ...
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Vote early and often!
I belive we shold follow the advice of Scott Morrison: vote early, vote often. This is a way to express which questions are on- or off-topic, and the site needs high rep users.
