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Are questions about culture (as it relates to language) on-topic?

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Winter Bash 2016: Hats are coming again soon!

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Consolidated grammar tag discussions and a clean-up proposal

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modified 2 days ago ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Should the “correct” answer with mistake be accept?

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modified Dec 18 at 23:14 CYC 1,379

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Dealing with one post with multiple (4) questions

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Tag wiki drafting zone

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answered Dec 14 at 17:19 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Simple English please!

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answered Dec 10 at 23:10 Laurel 545

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Was my edit rejected for the (inadvertent) tag changes, or some other reason?

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modified Dec 9 at 16:54 Greenonline 604

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Let's clean up tags

discussion tags tag-synonyms retagging

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Why was this Reopen review item invalidated?

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Proposal: formal-language, informal-language, and offensive-language

discussion status-completed tags tag-synonyms

modified Dec 5 at 16:53 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Is it okay to ask questions on ELL even if you're not learning English as a second language?

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modified Dec 1 at 10:09 J.R.♦ 69.5k

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Proposal: register, formal-register and informal-register tags to replace formality, formal and informal-english

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modified Nov 28 at 23:47 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Guide to formatting ELL answers — best practices?

discussion answers formatting markdown faq-proposed

modified Nov 28 at 22:28 Nathan Tuggy 7,732

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Is there a tag for questions about optional uses of “that”?

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asked Nov 28 at 3:52 Jasper 13.3k

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How to ask an English learner to clarify a question without knowing their current grasp of English?

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answered Nov 27 at 15:58 MMacD 1,366

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Answering questions about “formal” English

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modified Nov 25 at 2:02 snailplane♦ 24.1k

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Let's not dissuade users from adding valuable content to posts

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modified Nov 23 at 10:29 Mari-Lou A 7,078

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Proposal: delete tags “meaning” and “word-meaning”

discussion tags tag-synonyms tag-cleaning

answered Nov 22 at 16:44 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Is This Tag Useful? Episode 1 - The Big Boss (grammar)

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modified Nov 20 at 14:04 Mari-Lou A 7,078

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Searches that might help you find questions that need attention

discussion voting unanswered-questions

modified Nov 20 at 14:01 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Currently Unresolved Proposal List

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modified Nov 20 at 13:30 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Academic plagiarism

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modified Nov 19 at 2:26 Mick 3,107

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Do we focus more on building a database of answers, or helping individual learners?

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modified Nov 18 at 23:09 M.A.R. 4,075

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Policy for questions that are entirely answerable with a dictionary

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modified Nov 18 at 13:33 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here

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modified Nov 13 at 19:10 snailplane♦ 24.1k

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Extensive edits and bounty allocation by same user

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How can we ask for other moderators to step in?

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modified Nov 9 at 3:02 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Should we delete answers that have no explanations?

discussion review deleted-answers quality

modified Nov 8 at 8:57 Nathan Tuggy 7,732

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Commenting vs. Answering

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modified Nov 8 at 1:16 Alan Carmack 1

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Why are we removing kindness and encouragement? [duplicate]

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modified Nov 7 at 17:46 EnglishTeacherEric 569

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Do answers need to be in English?

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modified Nov 6 at 19:28 Mari-Lou A 7,078

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Help needed, re: removing accidentally created tag

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modified Nov 6 at 19:17 shin 4,095

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What am I supposed to do with questions about Historical English (e.g., 'the sticking-place' question)?

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modified Nov 5 at 18:41 Mari-Lou A 7,078

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A question with 20k views that could have a canonical answer

discussion specific-question canonical-posts

modified Nov 5 at 8:29 Mari-Lou A 7,078

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If there's only two or three possible contexts for a question, don't vote to close it as unclear, too broad, or Details Please

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answered Nov 3 at 20:43 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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What's the policy on using profanity in answers (where appropriate)?

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modified Nov 2 at 22:13 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Is the tag word-difference useful since we already have the tag difference?

discussion tags tag-cleaning

modified Nov 2 at 21:59 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Proposal: Synonymize [syntax] and [sentence-construction]

discussion tags tag-synonyms tag-cleaning

modified Oct 28 at 17:08 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Flaws in the voting model in re. questions

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modified Oct 27 at 7:46 M.A.R. 4,075

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Incorrect reputation history

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asked Oct 25 at 17:30 Glorfindel 3,632

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What does it take to have consensus?

discussion consensus

modified Oct 21 at 13:55 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Proposal: Blacklist [sentences]

discussion tags tag-cleaning

modified Oct 21 at 2:01 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Are answers which consist only of block quotes acceptable

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answered Oct 21 at 1:42 ColleenV♦ 8,146

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Is wiktionary a reasonable source to back up answers?

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My question doesn't belong to me any more

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