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I am not a student and my questions are not "homework". I am a hobbyist. Do I need to tag these as homework questions?

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Education tag and questions on physics education

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Why was this question closed as a homework-like question?

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BioPhysicist

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Is the purpose of physics.stackexchange to teach or to provide a stage?

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Why has my answer to whether the fine structure constant been deleted?

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QmechanicMod

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Is there a way to easily/automatically merge the many Veritasium questions?

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Dale

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Post flagged as duplicate, but I still don't know the answer to my question! [closed]

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How do I ask homework questions on Physics Stack Exchange?

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Updating links upon site migration of https://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum

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Where is a statement of the purpose of physics.stackexchange?

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Why am I being downvoted in various posts?

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Peter Mortensen

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Cite documents rather than linking only

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Data collection: When should (or shouldn't) we exclude questions from the Hot Network Questions list?

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How does community wiki get decided on?

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Book recommendations: On-topic, on-topic but community wiki, or off-topic?

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Is Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics considered non-mainstream on this site?

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Is a "how should these experimental results be interpreted?" question admissible?

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Should any check-my-work questions be made on topic?

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Peter Mortensen

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Should users answer questions that they think should be closed?

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Comments sent to chat and addition of a new comment after that

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I need to get a better idea about essential mathematical prerequisites for GR from a book. How can I improve the question?

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Why can't I write down tilde? Is there any MathJax syntax?

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Can one earn a golden tag after adding 100 000 tags?

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Is it possible to have the editor and preview in a side by side mode? Or maybe just a scrollbar in the preview?

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Making others solve my problems..ok?

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Dissociate an account from a question

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Do we have Nobel prize winners on this SE?

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Why was this answer deleted?

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Why are "big-list" questions no longer allowed?

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Add a vote not to close button to counter the vote to close for questions that might have dissenting votes

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Why close an answered question when both answer and question have positive vote counts?

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Urb

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Why is the question on wifi being a force being downvoted so much?

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Peter Mortensen

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Why was this vector calculus question closed?

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Required references in questions

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Meaning of non-community wiki answers?

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Measurement of mass increase doesn't concern physics. Really?

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2021: a year in moderation

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