Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Serial Up-voting problem
This is so depressing. Yesterday, I opened up my account and found it had some 620 rep. Today it came down to 517. I was shocked at first. But then :
I think these serial voters must be removed. ...
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start a bounty --> learn more... gives a 404
For any question, if you start a bounty, the first pop-up link has a learn more... link
The link points to https://physics.stackexchange.com/help/bounties which gives a 404.
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Books for fractals in physics - question undelete
I recently found this question
Fractals in physics. Suggest book titles
which is currently deleted (screenshot). I'm not sure it's a great question but it seems to matter to some people. When it ...
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Tag rename: shm to harmonic-oscillator
Should we rename shm to harmonic-oscillator? I don't think the distinction is worth having two separate tags.
To clarify: the purpose of this question is so that if anyone has objections, they will ...
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Someone is stealing my answer?
I just ran into the following link http://mob.rqna.net/qna/rxquhz-creating-large-aspheric-lens-profile-for-cnc-cutting-out-of-acrylic-plastic-for-huge-camera-obscura.html which seems to be a exact ...
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Raising the privilege limit for tag creation from 300 to 1k?
I have observed .3k users creating a lot of new tags that often in the end have to be manually remove again, which are time consuming for editors, and which, in turn, create unnecessary extra traffic ...
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Why is math not being rendered here on my browser?
I am using Firefox 26.0 on most recent Ubuntu. Math formulas surrounded with the dollar sign are not being rendered as formulas, just as plain text. I can't pinpoint when it stopped working, because I ...
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Burninate the "physics" tag
What's the purpose of the physics tag? Every question is supposed to be about physics.
I've tried removing some myself but new users keep using it.
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The intro-to-QM books question: reopen?
We have several questions asking for recommendations of books for beginner-level quantum mechanics. Many of them are closed as duplicates of this one:
What is a good introductory book on quantum ...
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Should we rename the books and reference-request tags?
Now that our new recommendation policy is in effect, I would like to propose a change that I think will alleviate some misuse of the associated tags:
books → resource-recommendation
reference-request ...
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Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats?
Last year, we had the Winter Bash on Physics Stack Exchange.
For those who weren't around or don't remember, the event is one where completing various achievements on the site earns you different ...
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Can this post be completely removed?
I posted this question (https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/82329/inducing-thoughts-with-brain-waves) and mentioned that if this was too off-topic, I would be willing to close it, it was even ...
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The "add / show 1 more comments" link doesn't do anything if you don't have comment permissions
I recently lost commenting permissions due to offering a bounty.
Since then, I've noticed that when reading answers with comments, clicking on the "add / show 1 more comments" link doesn't reveal the ...
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Should this profile description be removed?
This is the user. (I don't think whether this can be discussed here).
He's quite offensive (if he doesn't like the rules, he can always go to Yahoo answers or any other forum).
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Please undelete this question on String Theory
For some reason, Community has deleted my question.
As far as I know, Community only deletes questions upon a certain number (6?) of "Spam" and "Offensive" flags. What's so spam-like or ...
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Should we rename the homework tag as "problem-solving", or such?
The "homework" tag is often controversial among new users who complain that their question isn't from a homework assignment (so they get offended, so edit wars happen, and posts get blocked -- e.g., ...
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Is [fun-stuff] on topic?
I just approved two edits removing the tag fun-stuff from the two only posts that currently have it:
What are the limitations of performing music in space?
How much force is in a keystroke? (...
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Tag cleanup - pluralization
As I was casually going through the list of tags, I noticed several whose pluralization stood out as... off. It seems to me that for non-unique things (so I'm excluding sun, earth, etc.) that are not ...
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Outdated flag reasons
The flag reasons are outdated: https://physics.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts. It still has "too localised" and others. Shouldn't it be updated?
Edit: just a bump to the front page, ...
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Adding picture, what is framing?
In order to improve this post, I was trying to add this picture(it doesn't load here either) to it ; but what I get is:"For security reasons, framing is not allowed; click OK to remove the frames." ...
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What is the fate of the engineering tag?
Given the discussion related to whether Engineering questions are on topic, we also need to consider whether the engineering tag has any reason to exist. We discussed it in the chat room using the ...
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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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Getting rid of "theory" tag
Most of the questions tagged theory are either closed (because they are advertisements of non-mainstream ideas) or tagged very irrelevantly.
Many people like to pick on meta-tags, I've realised. But ...
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Why do we have an intuition tag?
Being subjective and rather vague, I propose that the intuition tag be done away with.
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That tensor from GR - what do we call it?
You know the one I mean, Tμν.1 Is it the stress-energy tensor, or the energy-momentum tensor? This is for the purposes of tags, where having both is redundant. This was brought up in chat, and there ...
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A "non-mainstream" flag
I have noticed some "non-mainstream" (it may be rude to say crackpot) questions and answers recently such as:
Questions
Mass term in the Minkowski metric and an oscillation model in Lorentz group (...
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Can we include homework guidance in the How to Ask sidebar?
This question is a follow-up to this question about what some of us feel is a large spike in low-level homework questions.
I propose we include a specific link to our canonical homework meta question ...
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schrodinger or schroedinger tags: please standardize
What applies to Gödel,1 may also apply to two Schrödinger tags: schrodinger-equation and non-linear-schrodinger. The third one, schroedingers-cat, being "right" already. So, whatever you may think of ...
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Do we want the citation tool from Math.SE?
Related: How can I cite a question in SE?
Math.SE has a citation tool. Basically, if you click "share" on a post, there's a little "cite" link:
Clicking that, you get:
This lets one properly cite a ...
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Minor typo(ish) in the non-meta FAQ
In this section of the FAQ the Mathjax code is missing the $ symbols ;)
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What makes this question too localised?
This question probably has one of the best answers I have received on physics.stackexchange and I think the question itself was clear enough too.
The moderator who closed it for being "too localised",...
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Should /q/59448 be reopened?
The question
Has there been a proposed explaination to the observation of wave-particle duality?
has been closed as not a real question.
While the posting isn't particularly well formulated, the ...
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is tag 'phenomenons' really appropriate?
thefreedictionary.com has the following usage note under 'phenomenon':
Usage Note: Phenomenon is the only singular form of this noun;
phenomena is the usual plural. Phenomenons may also be used ...
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Why do some posts show up in more than one review queue? Could we stop it?
I have seen some posts show up on more than one category of the review panel.
For example, say a new user posts a one-line answer to an old question. This will flag the post for the Late Answers and ...
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Split account question
I seem to have a split account. My user name has 2 addresses with 2 different profiles. User 20397 and 20270.
Can someone fix this for me please or let me know how I can fix it.
These are the two ...
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Incorrect reputation being displayed
Please don't mistake me as crazy. I was just wondering if other users have seen about this case...
At the start (for a day), I had 2980 rep. I just returned now, answered a question here. The user up-...
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2012 Community Moderator Election [closed]
The 2012 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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can't post to physics SO [closed]
there seems to be a problem going on with the site, list of questions are not being updated, and some of them are dissapearing, like this one:
Does positronium have a stable crystalline phase?
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Mathjax broken? Is it just me?
Is Mathjax rendering broken on the main site, or is it just me?
Is cdn.mathjax,org timing out for others?
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Can this question (which was marked as 'not constructive') be reopened?
This question did get wrongly and prematurely closed:
Can physics get rid of the continuum?
It is a good, valuable, and constructive question that fits in perfectly with the (more theoretical) ...
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How should we go about retagging the salvaged posts?
UPDATE from D.Z.: I'm hijacking Manishearth's question to organize the tag cleanup effort, because most of the links are already posted here. Here's how this is going to work: whenever you have time ...
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MathJax on Meta
Should/Can we have MathJax on meta? It would be useful to implement stuff like this proposal.
I do know the argument that it makes pageloading slow, so I propose that it only be enabled if a post has ...
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Square root top does not display
I just noticed that in several places, the tops of square root signs are missing. This behavior is almost, but not completely, consistent, e.g. in the screenshot below, the top of the symbol on sqrt(2)...
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MathJax crashes in every page with equations
Is it just me? I keep getting this error when I open physics.stackexchange.com (and, for that matter, it also happens in math.stackexchange.com):
MathJax no longer loads a default configuration ...
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Can we burninate the "paradox" tag?
paradox doesn't help characterize the physics content of a question. Sure, there are some questions that deal with (apparent) paradoxes, but I think it's enough that the question title or body ...
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Email notifications for updates
Can we have email notifications similar to facebook? Its very hard to keep logged into stackexchange site waiting for relevant questions to come or to wait for answers for questions we post. ...
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Correct duplicate tags - solar.system and solar-system
There are two duplicate tags,
solar.system
solar-system
Please correct
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Latex/MathJax is broken in preview
Latex and MathJax preview don't seem to work anymore when asking/editing/answering questions.
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Why do I still see the "beta" CSS?
This post refers to the white-on-black, blackboard design initially proposed in Design for Physics-SE. This design was withdrawn and (after a spell back in site-beta design) replaced with the current ...
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Is anybody there from the SE team?
It is clear that most of the people providing content on this site don't like the current design and would like it changed to a black on white default. It would be nice to know that something is being ...
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