Lately there has been a few questions that have attracted close votes because they are Chinese speakers asking for the English equivalent of a Chinese phrase.
In the early days of this site the initial feedback was that we welcomed these type of questions, based on answers and votes in this meta question.
As the site traffic increases, I suspect we will be getting more of these types of questions and based on the recent number of close votes on these questions I would like to get everyone's opinion on this subject. I would also appreciate if you can provide an answer for clarity and not just up or downvote my question.
Do you think these types of questions should be welcome on our site?
- Are they going to be useful for people learning the Chinese language or only for people learning the English language?
- Are they going to be useful for people by indirectly learning about phrases you may not have known about, but could learn from regardless?
The suggestion is that these types of questions may be moved to the English Language Learners site. What does everyone think of this suggestion? I will still need to ask the ELL site if they are happy to do this if such questions are not welcome here.