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Is Physics SE a good place to ask for textbook references?
Yes, this would be a very good fit for our resource-recommendations tag... if this question didn't already exist:
What are good books for graduates/undergraduates in Astrophysics?
That question is ...
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Book recommendations: On-topic, on-topic but community wiki, or off-topic?
Resource recommendation questions should be on-topic, but community wiki (and with the same expectation for the content of the answers as currently set in the faq post). The faq post should be altered ...
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Should I flag non-CW resource recommendation posts for moderator attention?
Yes, please flag such posts - there's no guarantee that moderators don't miss these posts otherwise.
In general, please also don't worry about overwhelming us with flags: If you feel something ...
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Do we need/want an overarching books question?
Actually, the book question should be kept and any question on resource recommendations should be automatically linked to it.
It is an extremely useful question as it allows for a person to find books ...
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What is the site policy on asking for references for concepts?
Yes, this is perfectly acceptable.
Of course, you should make sure that you follow the guidelines given in Are resource recommendations allowed?. To maximize the chances of success of your question:
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Are book/reference identification questions on topic?
I can give you a partial answer: if they are on topic, these questions should be tagged as specific-reference. The difference is that resource-recommendations questions ask for a general class of ...
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Creating a separate platform for books and research papers?
I have a lot of sympathy for this suggestion because we all have collections of links to useful books and articles (many of mine are links to questions on the Physics Stack Exchange).
But the problem ...
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Distinction between [resource-recommendations] and [specific-reference] tag
You are confusing a specific topic with a specific reference. Your question is about a very specific topic, but it asks for any reference that covers the topic in detail, i.e. any book, any paper, etc....
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Can I answer resource recommendation questions by answer them directly?
No. Resource recommendation questions are for resource recommendations.
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What should be done with questions tagged [resource-recommendations] that are not actually asking for recommendations?
If the tag is inappropriate, it should be removed. If the post has already been made community wiki, you can flag it for moderator attention.
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Community Post for online courses similar to Book Recommendations
The more or less consistent practice about resource-recommendations questions so far is that they in principle don't distinguish$^1$ between books, websites, online lectures, whether they are free or ...
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Why is this question asking about lectures closed as a duplicate?
In short, the reason is that resource recommendation questions aren't allowed to only ask about books. If you look in the body of the second question, it actually asks for "introductory guides".
Yes, ...
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Can I ask for specific books recommendations? using the [resource-recommendations] tag
I would say, as a general rule, that geographic limitations on this type of question are not appropriate here. Asking for what's popular in a specific geographic area will produce results which are ...
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Why was the resource-recommendation tag removed from my question?
Res. recom. qs are restricted on Phys.SE. They usually cannot be combined with other questions in the same post, but should be asked separately.
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Why was this answer made community wiki?
As mentioned, this is because there is a convention that all resource-recommendation threads should be made community wiki in their entirety, as agreed on this thread. The reasoning is that the voting ...
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Why is this question asking about lectures closed as a duplicate?
Resource-recommendation questions are considered on-topic here $-$ subject to some tight restrictions. Basically, there is a segment of the community that feels (based on extensive experience coming ...
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Are request-learning-path questions off topic? Why?
Your question is a bit confused but I think that you're mixing two types of questions and two separate policies, one of which did in fact change shortly after the question you referenced.
At the time ...
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Reminder that Book Recommendations are on topic
I do not think there is any dispute about resource recommendations being on topic. But there is a difference of opinion about what this means.
Your interpretation of the policy appears to be that ...
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Is this what we intended for a resource recommendation?
I) Speaking in general, the resource-recommendations tag also covers journals and non-paper electronic materials, such as, e.g., video lectures, on-line resources, software, experimental data files, ...
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Should posts targetted at different complexity levels be marked as duplicate?
Resource-recommendation questions are very hard to handle, and they were in fact deemed completely off-topic for several years until we managed to work out a consistent policy that lets the good stuff ...
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How does community wiki get decided on?
Adding the resource-recommendations tag automatically converts a question to community wiki, and that's what happened in this case. For more on this see the tag info and also this meta post.
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Book recommendations: On-topic, on-topic but community wiki, or off-topic?
First of all, I think there is a clear precedence order among these posts. I may as well give the full ordering as I see it:
The help center
The canonical (generally, top) answer in an faq post on ...
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Is this what we intended for a resource recommendation?
The resource-recommendations tag was originally "my" project, so I'm probably best placed to speak about the original intent of the tag.
We have to consider the history of the resource-...
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Does the resource catalogue question still get updated?
If you want to know if it's still being updated, the edit history will tell you what's been going on there lately. There's some activity there, but really not that much compared to the activity of the ...
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A duplicate question
Apparently I'm one of the people who voted to close this, so I can easily give my opinion on this situation.
His question specifically was:
"What would you suggest as a good introduction to ...
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Where to ask for a software recommendation about light refraction in a 3D media?
Software Recommendations Stack Exchange site, recommended by Chair in the comments, has had similar questions as what you've requested:
https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/17669
https://...
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Community Post for online courses similar to Book Recommendations
There is a problem with this idea: links becoming dead over time.
Books are books and they can become difficult to find over time, but the reference to the book does not become out of date. The ...
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Resource recommendation for Physics
Phys.SE has a central/primary Book recommendations, although it is currently closed and locked. The reason for the latter is partly because maintenance takes a lot of time.
Currently Phys.SE has ...
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Why was this answer made community wiki?
Concretely, it was made community wiki because OP added the resource-recommendation tag, cf. the policy from this meta post.
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Could book recommendations for non-equilibrium statistical mechanics be reopened?
The post has now been reopened as statistical mechanics and statistical field theory are different topics.
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