Linguistics Community FAQ

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About the site

• Do you hold regular chat events?
• How can we promote Linguistics StackExchange? See also Promoting the site (old topic)
• What is this Community Bulletin?
• Linguistics Terminology
• Can I propose a change in the FAQ?
• How should we treat new users?

Asking questions

• What are the various fields that belong to Linguistics?
• What is considered on-topic and off-topic?
• Should we restrict this site to academic questions only, or target a more casual audience?
• Do questions have to be answerable?

Answering questions

• Should answers be cited? How?
• Should this site be restricted to academic answers only?
• Should I post a new answer to a question that already has an accepted answer?

Accepting answers

• What are the criteria for marking an answer correct?
• Can I change my accepted answer?
• My answer was marked correct, now the OP changed it and chose another one: what's happening?
• Is it important that I accept an answer also in the Meta site? Why?
• What is the acceptance rate for questions?

Working with posts

• I've got edit privileges! Now what?

Comments

• How to handle discussions?
• Why was my comment deleted?

Tagging

• How should we tag questions?

Reputation, badges, and voting

• What is reputation and what is it for?
• Why was my question down-voted in Meta if nothing was wrong with it?
• What are badges and why do we have them?
• What should I do if a badge was awarded to me by a bug?

Moderation

• Who are the moderators? See also Moderator Pro-Tem Announcement
• I'm not a moderator, what does it mean to vote to close a question?
• My question was closed, in my opinion wrongly. What do I do?

External links

Original links from meta.SO's community FAQ for sites in the StackExchange 2.0 network:

• Good Subjective, Bad Subjective
• Help Vampires
• Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example
• How to Ask by Jon Skeet
• How to Ask Questions the Smart Way
• What have you tried?
• Ten Simple Rules for Getting Help from Online Scientific Communities
• A Theory of Moderation
• Rubber Duck problem solving

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Answer 1

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