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A modest proposal for flawed questions from new users

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Strange choice of related question

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Looking for suggestions for revising a misunderstood question

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Standard comment situations: suggestions for close votes and down votes

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2020: a year in moderation

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Let's ask about Japan

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modified Dec 23 '20 at 18:26 Glorfindel 1,169

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Are questions that ask “What was the significance of…?” appropriate for this site?

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answered Dec 21 '20 at 17:40 Mark C. Wallace♦ 29k

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Illegitimate rollback — the Al-Andalus included territory that is now part of Portugal

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Could we get a tag for the Reconquista?

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Scope - ye demisse of ye yorne

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modified Dec 17 '20 at 20:21 Pieter Geerkens 64k

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Find long-ago-deleted questions that I'm still working on?

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answered Dec 14 '20 at 7:51 Semaphore♦ 91.9k

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Synonymize/merge [treaty] and [treaties]

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A Cautionary Tale

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Why did my question get a downvote?

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Why are the hyperlinks in my answer not working?

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Undeleting a net-score unpopular but well written, amply referenced, upvoted and accepted quality answer?

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A duplicate question of lower quality with a high-quality answer

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This question was marked as a duplicate. That's OK. But why was it subsequently deleted?

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How is History SE not like Skeptics SE? How to best parse this phrase?

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2020 Moderator Election - Results

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2020 Community Moderator Election

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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

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Can we fix linkage on election page to meta?

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Are questions about hypothetical events off topic?

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Misuse of edit privilege when OP fills answer with inline comments they don't agree to?

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When asking whether a source reflects historical consensus and why/why not: Guidelines for prior research

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Why was the election briefly started and then moved back to nominations today?

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What do you consider the site's mission? A starting place or something deeper

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What do we do with good question, wrong forum?

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2020 Moderator Election - Question Collection

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Is it appropriate to ask a question based on a bunch of other History SE questions?

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Question precision: Appropriate to ask for at least one element from a finite list?

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Help me make this question more focused: US government revenue breakdown

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Good practices before flagging a deleted question for moderator attention?

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Why can't I award a bounty of less than 200 on this question?

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What is not in scope?

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Why was “Did German submarines communicate with allied convoys during battle?” open and upvoted?

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FAQ: History:Stack Exchange

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Why were these three questions migrated, then closed? [duplicate]

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Why can't I ask a question?

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What is tag [roman] for?

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How should we deal with “Identify this item” questions?

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And then there were three

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modified Sep 4 '20 at 11:34 sempaiscuba 74.7k

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Poll - how many among the users are “professional” historians?

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Who decides whether a question is “Too basic” and don't you think that is counterproductive?

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