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One of the custom off-topic close reasons on this site currently reads as follows:

Questions about Earth science, unless directly related to phenomena observable on other celestials, Solar system in general of which Earth is a part, or as an origin of observational astronomy where its movement, local/global phenomena might affect observations and measurements, is off-topic. For more information, see the meta discussion.

Now that Earth Science has been in public beta for a little while, I would like to suggest that the close reason be edited to include a link to earthscience.SE. Perhaps something like this (changes in bold, most of which is just copyediting besides the added last sentence):

Questions about Earth science, unless directly related to phenomena observable on other celestial bodies, the Solar System in general of which Earth is a part, or observational astronomy where the Earth's movement or local/global phenomena might affect observations and measurements, are off-topic. For more information, see the meta discussion. You may be able to get help at Earth Science Stack Exchange.

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  • $\begingroup$ possible duplicate of Custom Off Topic close reasons $\endgroup$
    – TildalWave
    Jun 4, 2014 at 21:19
  • $\begingroup$ Not really a duplicate, but we already have a thread where we suggest custom off-topic close reasons and vote on them. I would suggest simply adding your suggestion there and see how it stacks up with community votes against others. There's a limited number of custom close reasons that moderators can add to the list (IIRC only three). $\endgroup$
    – TildalWave
    Jun 4, 2014 at 21:21
  • $\begingroup$ @TildalWave Thanks for the pointer; note that this is not an additional close reason, but rather an alteration to an existing one, and that the existing one isn't even in that thread to begin with. $\endgroup$
    – senshin
    Jun 4, 2014 at 22:20
  • $\begingroup$ It would be a good time to add it then ;) $\endgroup$
    – TildalWave
    Jun 5, 2014 at 10:35

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I'm not sure how I feel about that. It may encourage cross-posting over migration, but on the other hand not everything that we close with that close reason do we want to migrate--yet the OP is certainly free to attempt posting it at Earth Science to see how it is received. I'll let some others weigh in on this.

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