Questions tagged [close-reasons]
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Experimental Physics & Engineering
I know that most of us are "paper theorists," but I think we need to remember that experimental physics is physics too! We have several tags for experimental physics (with tag excerpts):
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What is engineering and what is experimental design?
So we have a close reason for engineering questions because selection of materials for building that ultralight in the garage are off-topic. But where is the line drawn between engineering and ...
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What will our list of close reasons look like?
The close reasons have been finalized and implemented here, please direct requests for new close reasons to a separate meta post.
As per this meta.SO post, it appears an overhaul of the close system ...
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Should we include other StackExchange sites in the close vote options?
So for those of us who can vote to close, we all know what the close vote system looks like. Particularly, under "off topic" you have homework, personal theories, engineering, other StackExchange, and ...
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Can the flag for migration be generalized?
When flagging a question as needing migration to academia, electronics, signal processing, chemistry, philosophy etc, I end up at Flagging>Closing>Off-Topic>Migration which offers me just two options ...
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Is over-vigilant monitoring of questions driving people away from the site?
Now, I know the need to create standards for asking questions. However, particularly for first time users, the ability to ask questions in a way that this forum expects can be difficult, often due to ...
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Should the engineering close vote be changed in light of the new engineering SE site
Questions are regularly closed here because they are considered engineering questions. The current close vote option for this reads:
This question is off-topic because it appears to be about ...
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Chat session to discuss and possibly finalize close reasons
We have a bunch of proposed close reasons here, and there recently have been a few more good ones brought up there (Like Chris' alternative homework close reason or tpg's "engineering" close ...
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What guidelines should moderators use to decide when to close questions?
Recently, Noldorin has closed three questions that I've noticed:
They are a question about using household devices to experiment with electromagnetism , econophysics, and whether a certain definable ...
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(How) do we make it explicit that "please check my work"-type questions are off-topic?
This is an outgrowth of the discussion in chat, following this earlier question by Daniel Sank.
I think we, as a community, agree (for the most part) that "please check my work"-type questions are ...
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Should we re-word the homework-like close reason to better match how we actually deal with homework-like questions?
After an extended debate that lasted several years, our community
seems to have settled into a pretty consistent treatment of
homework-like questions. When such a question is closed, a banner
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Why would my question on tachyons be closed as off topic if most other questions on tachyons are still open?
When I type tachyons into the search engine of the site I find a lot of open questions about tachyons but my question about tachyons was closed as off topic
If electrically charged tachyons exist, ...
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What is the meaning of **effort** that Phys.SE wants in homework questions?
Always do I have seen most of the homework tagged questions are hold, with a close reason to show minimal effort. I thought Phys.SE wanted the asker to show his attempt. But recently, I got amazed ...
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Merging duplicates?
When I flag a duplicate it's usually because I've found an older question with substantial topical overlap and an answer that covers the new question completely. Sometimes I hesitate because the new ...
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Can we stop closing questions as "unclear what you are asking" for OPs above certain reputation?
I just recently asked a question which got "on hold" because it was unclear. So I read the related meta-posts, i.e.
Please, don't close questions as unclear because of bad english. Repair them ...
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Non-question: experimenting with custom close-reason banners in different contexts [closed]
I'm experimenting with editing close reasons, so here's a "question" that I can immediately close.
Here's how the custom close reason looks in the close-question dialog:
Here's how the ...
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Is Vote to Close as Off-Topic an appropriate remedy for questions that are deemed too "populist"?
Background: There are users who have been using the privilege to vote to close a question as off-topic as a way of dealing with "populist" questions (see the discussion here) believing them to be "...
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Why is Phys.SE so restrictive in the Q&A it is willing to accept?
There is already a Physics Overflow. Why then not being more lenient in the Q&A to be accepted in Phys.SE? Mathematics SE has 10 times as many questions. SO leads with +10M questions. Those other ...
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The role of good mechanics problems
Today I saw that this question Applying energy and momentum conservation to the problem of pulling a bent carpet at a constant speed about pulling a bent carpet was closed for being a homework ...
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This has been bothering me for a while, and I'd like to speak up about it. I see, with a much higher frequency than I would like, comments that look, with rather little variation, like
This ...
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When are questions with multiple different possible answers good?
It is well known that we do not encourage/allow questions that solicit open-ended discussions or that can only be answered by providing personal opinions, etc. However, at least to me, it seems a bit ...
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Why were well-known, valid solutions of the GR "off-topic" or "non-mainstream"? (suggestion)
I've found multiple times the closing of questions about the topic of general relativity/solutions of the einstein field equations. Examples are here and here. These judgement was: "not mainstream".
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Add an off-topic migrate to Chemistry.SE close reason
There are quite a few questions recently which are off-topic here and belong to Chemistry.SE
Should we add that to the migrate options?
E.g. question : https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/...
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why was my question closed ? i did'nt asked any homework question
i did'nt asked any homework question
instead i asked the validity of a given formula
see this question
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Which guidelines does this question violate?
This question was closed for not being about mainstream physics, but the question clearly is on-topic. What guideline, then, is being violated?
My guess for the 'real' reason is the opening statement,...
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Asking moderators favors when looking at questions
Some of my questions were on-hold and closed. As everyone knows, it comes a yellow rectangle where it explains what it means and why is your question not so good.
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Sometimes, this ...
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The homework close reason contradicts itself
The first two sentences of the Homework close reason are:
Homework-like questions and check-my-work questions are considered off-topic here, particularly when asking about specific computations ...
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Why was this question on fiber switches closed?
Yesterday the question How do non-mechanical solid-state optical switches work? was closed as off-topic. I don't quite understand why, as questions about physics lab equipment are considered on-topic. ...
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Question with broad application closed as homework question
I just asked a question about how to figure out how fast a room will cool, and what the name for this type of problem is, so I can do more research, and potentially find the answer to it in the ...
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Should the light source question be opened or closed?
This question has been causing a fair amount of controversy lately. Some people think it should be closed, some people think it should be opened. So I think we should get the community's input on it.
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Is it possible to expand the list of migration sites for off-topic posts?
Recently, it seems that we've been getting several questions that would be more appropriate for Cross Validated. This question is only the most recent example.
Right now, the only choices for off-...
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Reasons for Closing
First: I realize there has been a lot of discussion of the reasons for closing, and I haven't followed most of it, so I apologize for any redundancy here.
That having been said: Here is an example ...
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Are there guidelines for reopening questions?
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My closed question originally asked: Why is the sign of gravitational inertial mass chosen to be positive like EM inertial mass? and was put on hold:
On hold as unclear what you're ...
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Why was this Hot Network Question closed?
Why would this question be closed as Off-topic?
How is a 25-year-old can of soda now empty without having been opened or poked?
The topic seems to be suitable for this site, and the question was ...
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Why this is opinion-based?
This question is closed as being opinion-based. Perhaps I do not understand English well, could someone explain in more detail what opinion-based is on this question?
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Does "insufficient effort" cover previous SE questions?
There have been numerous questions put on hold as showing "insufficient effort", generally in cases where the question has a simple, easily-found-out answer. But there are also a lot of questions that ...
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Why my question is put on hold?
I've posted one question here Please guide me. This question is related to electrical self energy from electrostatic but it was put on hold because it was a homework question. So I edited it following ...
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Why is this question considered engineering?
This question. Seeing it closed has shaken my faith in this community, so I am looking for an explanation.
A bullet is the most trivial engineering construction I can think of.
Open any physics ...
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Question closed as duplicate but question clearly demonstrates understanding of duplicate. Is asking something else
I'm fairly sure I am asking something different than the proposed duplicate. And the question itself demonstrates understanding of the proposed duplicate answer
Is there an alternative number to the ...
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