Questions tagged [off-topic]
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Is the question about changing ruby text in Microsoft Word off-topic?
How do I change the ruby text language in Microsoft Word for Hanyu Pinyin?
The question asks how to use features in Word related to pinyin.
One on hand, it's inherently about features of some ...
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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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17 examples of image-transcription requests: how on/off-topic are they?
Continuing from Are image transcription requests on-topic? ("What does this image say?"), here is a diverse collection of image-transcription requests found throughout the site (click to see ...
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Are image transcription requests on-topic? ("What does this image say?")
Identification questions are an issue throughout Stack Exchange. Movies.SE banned movie identification questions and EarthScience.SE banned rock identification questions, while many other sites allow ...
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How do we decide if a question is on/off topic?
There are many people here from diverse backgrounds, and we need to allow for the real possibility that some questions may be considered off-topic by one person, but considered on-topic by another. ...
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Are demographics questions, like "How many Cantonese speakers who don't speak Mandarin exist", on- or off-topic?
We recently had the question How many Cantonese speakers who don't speak Mandarin exist?. To my knowledge, comparable "demographics" questions haven't been closed previously, such as
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What's up with the cold reception to the HSK6 语病 ("faulty wording") post?
Recently I put in considerable effort into tabulating answers to the HSK6 语病 ("faulty wording") questions on the available exams; here's the link: What are the answers to the HSK6 语病 ("...
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Why are opinion-based questions being answered by moderators?
Recently I've seen several questions that can be easily construed as being opinion-based — hence off-topic — not only not closed, but also answered by moderators. For example:
Is it considered a bad ...
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What languages count as Chinese?
In light of this question being hot on the meta now, my question is which languages/dialects/varieties are considered as 'Chinese language'? Obviously we include Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, etc. I'm ...
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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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Are requests for resources on-topic?
It seems there is mixed guidance about this.
Current situation
On meta, it's possible to find a few, very old threads about this:
Questions about resources for learning chinese
FAQ: What is On topic ...
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Is idiom puzzle game on-topic?
I posted 2 idiom puzzle games and asked for suggestions on improving the hints because I am a native Chinese speaker, some hints I feel are obvious may be too hard for non-native speakers. A user ...
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Is Tangut ("an ancient northeastern Tibeto-Burman language") on-topic?
This is motivated by the question here: How to solve the final round of 2020 China National Linguistics Olympiad?
Question: Is Tangut on-topic?
Chinese.SE Meta (here) is the appropriate place to have ...
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Which topics should be redirected to other SE sites?
This post is about deciding which topics should be asked in Chinese Language SE. There are several colliding topics with other SE sites.
These correspond to the following tags in the Chinese Language ...
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Why are questions asking for personal opinions (opinion-based) off-topic?
I would like to understand the reasons why questions asking for subjective opinions such as personal approaches for learning Chinese (see for example Is it common to learn individual characters before ...
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On-topic or not? "Can it be considered rude to start speaking to a stranger in mandarin in a western country?"
This question is currently open: Can it be considered rude to start speaking to a stranger in mandarin in a western country? It's about judging the appropriateness of striking up a conversation with ...
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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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Should we defer editing old off-topic posts until after they get closed?
This post What should I consider for a one month language program? was recently edited, after four years of inactivity.
While the edit itself is sensible (some unneeded tags were removed), it bumps ...
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Should questions about word usage-frequency be allowed?
The question I'm talking about: Which of 法国, 法兰西, and 法兰斯 is the most common word for France?
In my opinion, simple which-is-used-more questions already have a perfect answer if the asker learn to ...
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Are questions that involve translating between Chinese and another non-English language on-topic?
This post has been bumped to the front page: Translations of 主编 and 总编 in French.
Question: Are questions that involve translating between Chinese and another non-English language on-topic?
This ...
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Alternative Stack Exchange sites for "not really about the Chinese language" questions
I thought I'd make a list of Stack Exchange sites which have questions related to the Chinese language.
Language-related...
--> Language Learning (+tag)
Language Learning Stack Exchange is for ...
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Sorry, I didn't mean to spam you
I have a question about my Chinese Language Stack Exchange post: Is there any tool to help learn Chinese with Youtube Chinese songs and Netflix movies?
Hi, My name is Diep, I'm here to contribute to ...
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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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Without breaching on topic guidelines is it possible to receive assistance here with how to achieve translation?
I was given a pair of gold cufflinks by my grandfather who was in Shanghai 100 years ago. Each shows a Chinese (I believe) character and I would like to know what these mean. However I have searched ...
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Are "here's a Chinese snippet and my translation: is it okay?" questions on topic?
As my reading improves, I often end up in situations where I get the general idea of what a Chinese snippet means, but it's not fully accurate. It would be nice to get some specific feedback in these ...
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Are "critique my Chinese handwriting" questions on topic? And if so, how to write them appropriately?
I've been learning how to write Chinese (by hand), but I'm not sure how to go about using this site to help me with that (if at all). One particular issue I encounter is that I can't tell the ...
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Are questions on specific topolects on topic?
I am thinking about researching some various Chinese topolects (方言).
Are questions on the grammars and vocabularies of Wu, Hakka, Cantonese etc on topic here?
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Any reason to keep this question open for 6 days?
I am not a regular visitor and I only visit here from time to time to study Chinese. I saw the linked question, we teach eachother ，I teach you chinese，you teach me other language！ 6 days ago and ...
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Low quality answers to "almost" off-topic questions
Recently, I have noticed a rather high frequency of low quality answers being flagged in the review queue. I am unsure if the answers are automatically flagged by the community due to its length, but ...
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Are questions about Mongolian allowed?
Mongolian isn't in the same language family as Mandarin Chinese. It is, however, a language which is spoken as a native language by some citizens of the People's Republic of China, and is even an ...
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Copy-and-paste answers/comments from wiki page or the likes
I have been seeing comments or answers which attempt to answer or help addressing the OP's question by copy-and-pasting from a wiki page or the likes. IMHO, there are several issues with doing so:
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Why did a group of our prominent users vote to close this translation question?
I just want to get an understanding because I can't spot the problem and I can't see any prior edits so it doesn't appear this question has been edited or changed
“某些事实被别有用心的人断章取义和利用” in English?
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Updating the translation section of our FAQ
I would like to update our translation policy as part of the help topics so that we have something that we can point to when commenting or closing translation questions. This has come up a few times ...
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Asking questions about Chinese names
This is a reminder that asking questions about Chinese names is off topic for this site as per our FAQ.
I'm bringing this up because we have had a large increase in traffic over the past 2 months and ...
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What translation questions are on topic for this site?
There have been a number of borderline off-topic questions on this site in recent days. This is in part related to an increase in traffic to the site and is only going to increase as time goes on. I ...
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Do English to Chinese translation questions belong on this site?
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 ...
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FAQ: What is On topic and Off topic on this site?
On this site, what questions are considered to be on-topic and what questions are instead off-topic?
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Should questions about Chinese text processing be on topic?
Should programming questions that have a specific focus on the Chinese language or characters be on topic here? I'm thinking of the kind of topics covered in references like CJKV Information ...
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Computer setup questions off topic
Can we please make sure we close quickly any question asking about set up of software. For example IMEs that are not working.
These are off topic on every other site as they are way too localized.
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Questions about language that are also apparent in Chinese
In regards to this question:
How does the meaning of terms diverge in different regions?
Should questions like this be on topic for the site?
For me this is not something that could be answered by ...
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