Questions tagged [close-reasons]
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Let's look at replacing the custom close reasons
TL;DR: I suggest we ditch the current custom close reasons, and replace them by something in the spirit of:
This question is not sufficiently related to the Chinese family of languages to be ...
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Can we have more relevant options to the "belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network" close reason?
Currently the only option available in the "belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network" menu is chinese.meta.stackexchange.com.
That's definitely not exhaustive. Other items in ...
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Can we have a "Not about the Chinese language" close reason?
As the title says.
Questions that are not about Chinese are infrequent, but they do pop up from time to time. Some common cases are:
askers who are unfamiliar with asian languages and ask questions ...
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August 2020: survey of the off-topic close reasons at language-related Stack Exchange sites
Heading towards streamlining closure, I went through and categorized the current off-topic the close reasons at the language-related sites (using this Data Explorer query thanks to Glorfindel).
Take-...
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Should questions stemming from a trivial misunderstanding be closed?
While editing questions tagged [vocabulary] (as per this meta post), I came across this question:
Does 家医院 just mean hospital?
The format of this question looks fine, in itself, but it's based on an ...
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July 2020: survey of comments on questions containing the substring "close"
Using this Data Explorer query, I searched for comments that contain the string close on questions. I went through them manually, and took a snippet from each relevant comment.
This is just a ...
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July 2020: survey of the on/off-topic posts on Chinese.SE meta
This is just a reference post: I went through the Chinese.SE meta posts about on/off-topic-ness, and summarized (what I feel are) the important points below. The mark [****] indicates items I feel we ...
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Streamlining question closure: approximate roadmap
This is a rough outline of what I'd like to see in terms of closure reform. It will take time. It'll probably evolve with feedback as the process proceeds.
Stage 1: collate available information.
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Image-only questions should be closed as off-topic
The Stack Exchange community strive for Q&A with perennial value. As such, a question that offers no searcheable textual characteristics is not worth it for Chinese Language.
Questions only ...
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