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Prejudicial censorship of Indigenous history on the Stackexchange history forum

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H:SE policy on heavily trolled topics (Approved-site-policy)

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Should we add Slavery to the list of topics that require greater rigor? [closed]

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Why did my question get a downvote?

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Dealing with content of possible criminal nature

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Is the war tag only to be used for specific wars that don't have a tag?

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27 India-related questions posted here in the past month, each by a separate brand-new account

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Question about why there are such "fancy" answers?

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2025: a year in moderation

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Site policy for very heavily-trolled topics

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Is this a good question?

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Why was my question deleted?

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No tag for Columbian Exchange?

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Is there an explicit or implicit requirement of this group that content critical of the USA is not welcomed?

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What to do about "caesar" and "julius-caesar" that currently mean the same person?

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Should we require a "what did X mean by this passage" question to provide a minimum amount of text context?

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Should we have the [historical-context] tag?

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Where to look for alternate history?

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Is there a Wiki of ancient and medieval manuscripts?

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Why is “too basic” the reason for closure here?

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How should we handle "Post-and-Ghost" questions?

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Would a question about history of sports be on topic?

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How should we handle "list of good books" requests. [take 7]

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Would a shell casings reference question help?

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2024: a year in moderation

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Would this question meet the standards?

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Why is my question downvoted?

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Is it reasonable, and within site rules, to have a blanket insistence on going by Wikipedia?

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Ads test beginning December 3, 2024

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Proper site to ask how to construct an Archimedes' screw

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Should unregistered users be allowed to post new questions?

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How is my question opinion-based?

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Why was this post on 'the big lie' deleted by the community bot?

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How can my edit suggestion be accepted for consideration when it only removes one duplicated little word?

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How to handle a user with multiple unregistered accounts posting low quality answers?

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Has the moderator's several rewrites of my question gone a little bit too far, and actually convert it into a conspiracy theory question I didn't ask?

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Should there be a policy on History SE for the use of AI-generated answers?

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Should we allow Wikipedia to be referenced as an academic source in answers?

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How many times can a question be added to a reopen queue via editing?

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Is Wikipedia an acceptable source?

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Shouldn't a question strictly about Kievan Rus get its own tag and not one about Russia (or Ukraine)?

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Would someone like to fix the now-broken link to historiography on the Topics help page?

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Reopen request 74063

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2024 Community Moderator Election Results

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The [astronomy] tag and the [eclipse] tag

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2024 Community Moderator Election

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2024 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

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