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Question closed under the arbitrary pretext because of its content that undermines common knowledge

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Found a Tag Bug

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Astronomy Stack Exchange 10-year anniversary!

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Can you undo this community Wiki Answer by me?

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We've been using the [gravitational-waves] tag for 10 years, do we really also need [gravitational-wave-astronomy]?

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Bounty on my question

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June 5 Strike - Who, What, When, Why, and how to join

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DaveTheWave isn’t a new contributor; Can we do something about repeated account recreation?

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NOT READY FOR PUBLIC BETA — What function should this site serve?

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Is it justifiable to block someone for posting a factually wrong but still clear question?

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We've got at least 26 generic i.imgur.com image links that might break on May 15, 2023; should/could they be updated to i.stack.imgur.com?

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Spam shouldn't take this long to be deleted

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Best way to refer to people in posts who have been knighted?

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Let's make an attempt to answer old, unanswered questions

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What is the best way to tag questions about Xuntian, the Chinese Survey Space Telescope?

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Do we need the [nomenclature] and [naming] and [terminology] tags?

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2022: a year in moderation

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Congratulations to James(100)K

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Can we merge this two questions?

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Why do some of our most prolific question answerers (and therefore reputation beneficiaries) rarely-to-never up vote questions they answer?

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Change Community Wiki Answer

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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement

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Who should our moderators be?

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Community Policy Repository

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Should we at least temporarily ban chatbot-generated content (e.g. chatGPT) until it becomes clearer what it means for Stack Exchange?

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Astronomy Jokes

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Is it wrong for someone to post an answer that does not meet their own up-vote standard?

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Do we want to change the link about MathJax help?

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Sourcing papers vs explaining in own words

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Feature request: add marvosym package to our MathJax set (for celestial body symbols)

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"MathJax help" link is broken

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Request to enable MathJax on this site

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Add `mchem` to MathJax Extensions?

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The new and increasingly popular "close for insufficient research" close reason, are we headed in the wrong direction here? Is there a way to reduce?

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An [ultraviolet] tag to go with our [gamma-rays], [x-ray], [visible-light], [infrared], and [radio] tags?

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I think that we have no good tags for solar-system-evolution or asteroid-formation or asteroid-evolution. Should we?

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Should we avoid calling questions that have answers in other SE sites as "duplicate", which already has a specific and different meaning in SE?

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I can't find this question. Was it deleted?

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The tags for cosmic microwave background need merging

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Can we merge tags "tno" and "trans-neptunian-object"?

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Should we have a community-specific closing reason for Astrology questions?

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One tag for LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA or three, or none?

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Can we have a guideline about astrology for the on-topic section in the help center?

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How can I withdraw a down vote?

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Is 500 reputations enough to be able to "cast close & reopen votes"?

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Do we need to downvote posts of New Contributors?

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For multi-part questions, are both partial and complete answers encouraged?

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Need help with a proper Sunyaev-Zeldovich-effect tag


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