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Removing the "guide for asking rock identification questions" warning from the question review
If one asks a question with the identification-request tag, he will see this warning during the review step:
However, rock identification questions are now off topic on Earth Science SE. I thus ...
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Proper response to edit warring
What should the appropriate response be to edit warring on questions? There's a question I've written an answer to so I've notices that various contributors keep undoing each other's edits.
The ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Mention gis.stackexchange.com in the gis tag description
Could the existence of http://gis.stackexchange.com be mentioned in the description of the GIS tag on this site? That might cause askers to realise it exists and it might be a better place for their ...
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Is our Beta label being removed?
Since we learned that Matter Modeling is graduating and Quantum Computing is graduating and Freelancing is graduating and Retrocomputing is graduating and Economics is graduating, I'm curious if Earth ...
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About closing question and trying to find out its reasons
I have one question, as you can see below:
How many people could be fed in this world? [closed]
So I don't get any off-topic comment, and get one answer too. But as you can see below, it has been ...
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Do we need both [climate] and [climatology] tags?
I noticed that we have both tags. They are not synonyms and I cannot suggest them to be. However, their descriptions sound pretty similar:
climate
Average weather conditions for a particular area ...
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Do we want accepted answers to be pinned to the top?
Stack Exchange staff have announced an upcoming change to the way answer acceptance works.
Currently, the original poster of a question can accept one non-deleted answer. This does several things,
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Satellites, weather-satellites and remote-sensing, why not earth-observation-satellite for the first two and keep the third for non-satellite Q's?
To the question How can I relation aerosol particle size (2, 5 and 10 microns) with the aerosol index measurement of the Sentinel-5P (TROPOMI) data sets? I've added both
satellites 50 questions
The ...
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Should we consolidate rain forecast questions?
There are many questions about how to interpret rain in the weather forecast. Some are focused on the PoP, some are focused on the amount, while others are focused on trying to find a relationship ...
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My Question's Guide to new Community Members
Some new community members I noticed don't check the How do I ask a good question's Page so I made this Google Doc the Goes over how to ask correctly, explains important key things to keep in mind ...
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Tags Antarctica and Antarctic: request merge
Antarctic currently has more posts but Antarctica seems more correct.
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Id-my-rock questions: close quickly, answer in comments welcoming the new user
Ok so there are only two remaining questions of id-my-rock. If I type "stack identify my rock" we are no longer appearing as an entry. I hoppe not many users post new questions, but if they ...
user20559
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Earth Science's moderator election has come to a close. Since there were not enough candidates, we simply appointed the sole candidate:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them ...
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How can I re-open my question?
A couple of days ago I asked How likely is it for coastal cities to survive next 40 years?. It was proposed in comments to make it more narrow, as it's hard to predict all possible scenarios around ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Should there be a tag about the Himalayas?
Now, I understand there is a tag about Mountains, but people use the Himalayas as an example a lot, and people ask about the Indian-Eurasian plate collision every once in a while. I'm taking the ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2021
Earth Science Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election beginning on May 24th to bring in one more moderator.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta ...
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Earth Science Home Page Formatting
Biology SE has an extraordinary Background Design when you enter it, maybe this explains why it has such an active user base and far more Members than Earth Science SE.
All of the Beta Sites don't ...
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List of identify-my-rock questions to delete [STATUS-COMPLETED]
Please, vote to delete this list of questions if you have time and you have the privileges to do so (2k).
https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/15910/mineral-identification-please-help
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user20559
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Do we need mod elections?
My experience here is mainly due to my activity in Chess and Earth Science Stack Exchanges. While I see very active moderators in Chess Exchange: Brian Towers and Glorfindel, I don't see the diamond ...
user20559
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Should we ask for the 3 votes to close-reopen feature?
I have read this meta post that say some sites are testing 3-votes to close and reopen feature.
In my opinion moderators should ask to include us in those sites. My reason is there are not enough ...
user20559
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Skepticism about the intentions of a particular question
A question with the title
Does the Earth produces measurable gravitational waves?
was posted on 9 May 2021.1
I am skeptical about the questions intention. Is it a legitimate question, in which case ...
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Proposal in Area51 to open a new site for identify my rock/mineral/fossil questions
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It is not possible.
We do not accept proposals for identify-this style sites. – animuson♦
Ok, so I went to Area51 and I posted a proposal to open a new site.
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Life Biology-like Questions on Earth Science SE
NOTICE: Here is the link to the question: How much does the biosphere contribute to Earth's entropy production
The biosphere is the point in the Earth's Atmosphere is where life is able to breathe a ...
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Would an Ocean Exploration Site be useful?
I created a teams for now: https://stackoverflow.com/c/ocean-exploration/questions
But I want to promote the creation of a site like "space exploration" for more discussion on the current ...
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Removal of tags
Regarding the question, How do we handle tags that have more than one meaning, I have added the tags vein-geologyand ...
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Question about Earthquakes
I would like to know are questions on earthquakes on-topic on this site?
For example, the devastating Earthquake of ASSAM INDIA in 1950 is rarely mentioned in Newspapers nowadays.
The book "CODE ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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How do we handle tags that have more than one meaning
A tag "vein" has been established in connection with a question dealing with a model called VEIN. A vein is of course also a common term in geology. So in this case a vein tag has two ...
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Cross-site duplicate question should contain all information?
In the question Doesn't Increase of Potential Temperature with Height contradict Adiabatic Nature of Processes within Troposphere?
the OP refers to a duplicate on physics.stackexchange
Duplicates ...
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Fossil identification is not off-topic even on this new, "controversial" rule
Only rock identification is off-topic.
Please vote to reopen this question.
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Engineering/Construction question in the wake of climate change, whereto with it?
Recently, two papers where published independently documenting accelerated mass loss of Greenland's glaciers, namely https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-0010-1 and https://www.nature.com/...
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Do man-made landforms count as geomorphological features?
I was looking at this question and considering adding the tag "geomorphology". Then I wondered if it was really appropriate, as the features discussed in the question were man-made.
I looked ...
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Revisiting whether agriculture is on topic
Highly related, but never resolved: Is agriculture on topic?
The site has had several agriculture-related questions of late, the vast majority of which have been closed as off-topic. The most recent ...
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Science stack exchanges helping other science stack exchanges!
The Physics Meta promotes support for all Science sites on Stack Exchange, in this post. The same meta post is now on several other science SE Meta sites.
The Earth Science SE is one of the sites that ...
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Economic geography -- on topic?
I've been thinking about asking this question for a while.
But I saw a good example that made me go ahead and ask it now.
Recently, this History SE question was (rightly) closed as off-topic for ...
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Do we still need advice how to best describe our rocks?
When I forgot to add a title to a question before posting and clicked "review" I got an error which is good. But since I included the identification-request tag the advice includes ...
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how can I upload my files to show my question better
I would like to ask my questions by uploading my files to mean my questions, better. But, I can't upload my files. How can I upload my examples file under my questions on this site?
Thank you very ...
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Why "Earth Science" (singular) and not "Earth Sciences" (plural)?
When I first read "Earth Science" (singular), I assumed this was a site about geology. But the on-topic page specifically says there's multiple sciences represented here:
meteorology
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Is it correct to ask a question that can be answered doing searches?
We want more questions, but I know we want good ones.
I am someone that look for a lot of information in the net.
Sometimes I have a question related with Earth Science, and I find an explanation. ...
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Why do we have so few accepted answers?
Most questions get at least one answer, and some of these answers get plenty of upvotes, but there seem to be fewer than I (at least) would expect that get the accepted answer tick. Why is this, and ...
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What can we do to increase the number of questions on the site
This stat is shown at area51:
I wonder what can I or others do to revert this.
I upvote most of questions that appear at the home page.
I think even the question is poor or difficult to answer, we ...
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Uhh... Hello? Why are there so few questions here?
There are only like 273 questions excluding this one. Mean while, there are over 18,000,000 on SO. Why is it so lonely here? Is anybody home?
user14762
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Should I delete my account?
I only asked one question so far, and it got deleted by community. But not as spam or offensive. Since there is nothing lit about my current profile here, is it a good idea to suicide and recreate my ...
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Do we need to be stricter on enforcing citations?
Earth Science Stack Exchange is a science site, and, in principle, we require or strongly encourage sources for answers.
It's been nearly six years since the linked meta post, which was in fact ...
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I am gone. This is not my place
I might come back one day when moderators enforce that claims are underlain with references and psychopaths are restrained to reasonable content and kept from spreading bunk.
This site only costs ...
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Merging of Two Questions
Recently How to make Martian soil, was posted on this site and it has two answers.
The same question was posted on SE Space Exploration, where it received one answer and was migrated to our site. Now ...
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Stack Exchange Inc. fired two popular community team employees
Stack Exchange Inc. has fired Shog9 and Robert Cartaino, who were both employed as liaisons between the company and the various Stack Exchange communities. For details, see this post on Meta Stack ...
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