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Is it useful/needed to include Wikipedia links for hardware information?
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Is it useful/needed to include Wikipedia links for hardware information?
@Hi-Angel The fact that Wikipedia is a non-commercial encyclopedia is irrelevant. We should always point to links that are the most relevant for writing questions and answers, regardless of where they point to.
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Is it useful/needed to include Wikipedia links for hardware information?
@AndreaLazzarotto Oh well, I guess we all have different opinions on this. :D
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Is it useful/needed to include Wikipedia links for hardware information?
The Wikipedia links in this particular edit look redundant to me. Why should "Ubuntu 14.04" point to a Wikipedia page instead of a Canonical page? There are no good reasons why Wikipedia should be considered the canonical source of information for the hardware in this edit/post.
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Sort unanswered questions within my tags by date?
This may be good enough: meta.stackexchange.com/a/110782/249827.
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How can the community user know whether an edit is good?
@AndroidDev I was worried for a second that Skynet was upon us...
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Reviewing tool should be less flexible by enforcing the Skip option rigourously
I am on board with wanting people to actually "abuse" the system. There are way too many edits waiting to be made.
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What should I (or we) do about answers that obviously miss the point of the question entirely?
@ByteCommander This specific case is pretty obvious though; the title even says Adobe PDF.
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Again three VLQ flags have been declined. Can anyone explain?
@Seth What about a link-only answer? Do we flag that as VLQ or NAA?
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What should I (or we) do about answers that obviously miss the point of the question entirely?
Thanks; I appreciate the honesty. :)
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What should I (or we) do about answers that obviously miss the point of the question entirely?
My NAA flag for the same answer was accepted.
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Why downvote new user's questions that will be closed anyway?
@JacobVlijm My common sense tells me that downvotes and close votes are two separate things, that I should downvote a question for lacking effort and being not useful to AU and that I should VTC it for the usual reasons (unclear, off-topic, EOL, etc.). Sometimes a question fits both categories, sometimes one. It appears that our common senses are different and we simply have to agree to disagree at this point.
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Why downvote new user's questions that will be closed anyway?
@JacobVlijm The mouseover of the downvote button for a question explicitly says I can downvote if the question lacks research effort and is not useful to the site. You can certainly disagree with those guidelines and call them a silly exercise, but you might want bring your disagreements to Meta SE and see what the wider community has to say. You can't blame us for following SE-wide guidelines, let alone insinuate that we are "idiots" for doing so.
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Why downvote new user's questions that will be closed anyway?
@JacobVlijm Downvotes are for questions that lack research effort and are not useful to this site. To me, a question that clearly doesn't belong to AU but instead belongs to Ask Different lacks research effort (if OP did research, he/she would have noticed AU isn't the correct site) and is not useful to AU. Therefore, it deserves to be downvoted. Downvotes are not personal; OP saying sorry doesn't help nor harm things. Downvoters can be nice and explain to OP that his/her question doesn't belong here, but that is strictly optional (a few of us still comment anyway to help OPs out a bit).
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Please tell people to put meta-related questions into meta
It rarely happens though, so it is not a big deal even if you have a small number of flags.