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Applies to meta questions about "homework"-tagged questions on the main site.
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Homework - the view from the chat session
Several of us have an unofficial strategy of voting to close homework questions then providing hints as comments. This doesn't seem an ideal solution to me, but it's probably the best solution.
A …
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Why run the home-work and exercises tag?
The point of this site can be found on the Tour page,
Physics Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for active researchers, academics and students of physics and astronomy. It's built and r …
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Should we suggest that authors of complete solutions to homework-like questions delete them?
I somewhat regularly mod-flag answers that are complete solutions to (no-effort) homework problems & request deletion. This is in line with what is stated in the Homework policy:
If someone posts …
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Homework questions, on hold
On homework:
The Help Center has the link What topics can I ask about here?; half-way down this list is a short summary of questions that are not on topic:
Some kinds of questions should not be asked …
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Clarification regarding conceptual doubts
Yes, we are not a homework help site; there are other venues for that (see My question was closed on Phys.SE. Can you recommend me another internet site where my question might be on-topic? for more d …
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Generalizing the homework policy
I think the most confusing bit of the homework policy is the "and show effort" aspect found in the close reason:
"Homework-like questions should ask about a specific physics concept and show some …
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Why are "homework questions" redundant?
Questions that ask How do I prove... or How do I calculate..., as is the case for both of yours, will almost always get flagged for closure because it's a homework-like question, defined on this site …
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Automatic comment when voting to close as homework-like?
I don't think the SE team needs to be involved since pretty much all of us use the extremely useful StackApps project AutoReviewComments (and if you don't, you should). The message can be added to you …
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Why is this considered a complete answer?
The comment that ACuriousMind (ACM) left when deleting your question is,
I'm deleting this in accordance with our homework policy. Please do not give complete or near-complete answers to homework- …
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Replacing the homework policy 1: what existing questions should be on/off topic?
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/249065/free-falling-horizontal-motion, screen-shot link here
OP clearly isn't asking for help on the problem, they are asking what something in the questio …
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Can a new physical science SE for beginners in physics be created?
Such a question is not in scope for this particular Meta site, but can be proposed over at Area 51, which is where Stack Exchange sites are proposed.
Note that there have been similar proposals (a sh …
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Is there any way to retract my suggested edit?
There is no way to retract a suggested edit, as per this Mother Meta (where it was also suggested that users interested in such a feature should make a feature-request on Mother Meta, but I doubt anyo …
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