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My thought has been that increasing the level of the site is best done by asking questions of an appropriate level. That way, newcomers will see examples of what kinds of questions we expect here and …

It seems like you're asking two things here: Does it have any value if a question is entertaining? I suppose it does, but not at the expense of being clear and on-topic. In other words, a boring but …

That got me thinking about what defines our site's scope with respect to identification questions. …

I'm not sure what the community's thoughts on this are but I'd be inclined to say yes, in general such questions are appropriate. Certainly there is nothing inherently wrong with asking a very specifi …

Hmm... well, physics certainly does have a history, and it's useful to know something about that history, but as a rule, physicists tend not to care about it in the sense that a historian would. That …

I already wrote this in a comment on the question in question, but I actually prefer to do both. Questions can be edited after they are closed, so I think we get the best of both worlds by closing the …

Is there a .tex template for submissions to [said journal]? As Robert commented, you'd probably want to contact the journal. If you don't get anything from them, you could ask at tex.SE. I don't …

I think it might be nice to have a question like "Why is cold fusion considered bogus?" to explain something about the reasons why nobody takes the idea of cold fusion seriously, hopefully in more det …

I'd say no, don't ask a question to which you already know the answer. Not because there's some fundamental problem with doing so, but because if you know the answer to your own question it typically …

We're still getting one of these sorts of questions every once in a while and nobody seems to object to them too much, so it looks like we can say they're fine here.

I'm sure other people will disagree, so don't consider this the official word just yet, but I would probably consider questions like that off topic. We've had a few in the past, but that was before th …

In general: Where should questions about questions asked at stack physics exchange be asked? On meta, i.e. right here. The particular question you're asking about, though, is way too open-ende …

The question Would Portal-style portals transmit gravity? was recently migrated from scifi.SE. Some people think it's off topic, some people don't, and I can kind of see both sides so I'm not quite su …

I don't think this is a good idea, for two reasons: The physics community at Stack Exchange is already fragmented, and introducing a whole new site will just divide people's attention further. Alte …

Thanks for bringing this up, I'd actually wondered about it a while back... at this stage, I'm inclined to say yes, the High Energy Physics proposal overlaps with both this site and Theoretical Physic …