Questions tagged [scope]
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What topics are in- and out-of-scope on Mi Yodeya?
What topics are in-scope on Mi Yodeya? Can I see some examples?
What topics are out-of-scope on Mi Yodeya? Can I see some examples?
Where can I discuss changing these guidelines?
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Can I consult Mi Yodeya as I would a rabbi?
Does Mi Yodeya offer personal guidance in response to practical questions about Jewish law or attitudes, as a rabbi would?
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Is there not room for non-orthodox opinions?
Should Mi.Yodeya/J.SE maintain its solely orthodox standing?
I love StackExchange and when I found the Judaism group I thought that it would be interesting to participate. However, I am neither an ...
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Is a question that asks "What does Judaism think of x" possibly off-topic?
At the time of this posting, this question has 4 close votes. Several comments have leveled accusations of being off-topic as not about Jewish Life and Learning.
However, the question asks "...
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How modest should this site be?
(Inspired by this recent question and by past experience on mi.yodeya, such as under the tznius-modesty tag.)
Do we need rules, explicit or otherwise, for what sort of adult-oriented content we'll ...
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The Parameters of "Jewish Life" Scope
Guess this touches a little on our old discussion of Hebrew Language Questions...
Recently, someone asked for Exercises to prevent eyes tiring, which has brought up an interesting question, which I ...
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How should we handle pluralistic posts?
During the Town Hall Chat Isaac Moses asked the following question:
Consider a Question "I'm injured, so I can't walk to synagogue this Sabbath. What can I do to connect my prayers with those of ...
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Lists of in- and out-of-scope topics for the FAQ
Many other SE sites have, in their FAQ, right below the scope line, a list of topics considered in-scope and sometimes also a list of topics considered out-of-scope.
For example, the beginning of ...
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FAQ says History is off-topic and on-topic
The FAQ seems to be contradictory. It says that "If you have a question about...history of Jewish law or of Jewish life...then you've come to the right place." But it also says, "On the other hand, ...
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Karaites - in scope?
Are questions about non-rabbinic forms of Judaism (Karaite, Sadducee, Essene, etc.) in scope here?
I've added a tag (non-rabbinic-judaism) to at least group these questions. It would be great if ...
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Riddle questions on SE?
After the migration from mi.yodeya to StackExchange, are riddle-type questions considered appropriate? According to the answer from @RebeccaChernoff to the question "Appropriateness of survey ...
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non-orthodox opinions?
What are the mods final judment on the non-orthodox versus orthodox viewpoint question are we here to answer question which should likely be adressed to the JTS? (migrate to the original orthdoxy ...
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Closure of complex-scenario questions
The following is not my own opinion so much as it's my rendering into words the unworded guidelines that I think Mi Yodeya has been following for quite some time. It's posted without my moderator hat ...
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comparative religion questions
Are questions of the form
What's the difference between [Jewish thing] and [Religion X thing]?
on- or off-topic on the site?
For reference, the FAQ list mentions briefly what's on- and off-topic, ...
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Ridiculous questions
How are we supposed to treat questions that are, or would be considered by many, to be ridiculous, but which the poster apparently takes very seriously?
I voted to close one such question as too ...
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{How/When} Should we allow Purim Torah?
Generally, we expect all questions here to be written from the point-of-view of genuine curiosity, and we expect all answers to be genuine attempts to provide real information and analysis that ...
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Is Mi Yodeya a Judaism Stack Exchange, or a Rabbinic Judaism Stack Exchange?
Before I really began to understand the profound nature of Orthodoxy, I was thinking to leave the forum because I tend to approach Scripture from a different perspective than Orthodox Jews do. I do ...
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How to handle "clothesline for my cute vort" questions?
It's a common yeshivish style that rather than just say:
Rabbi X reads the verse as Y.
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Rabbi X reads the verse as Y. And I think that fits well with the wording of such-and-such.
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Answers based on the Samaritan Pentateuch
Are answers based on the Samaritan Pentateuch considered as being answers?
I don't think we'd allow answers based on the New T.
Case in point: This answer. Fascinating answer, but not based on ...
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Reviving the Jewish-Date series
The tag jewish-date-series has some serious scope issues, as it is about history of Jews as much as about Judaism.
I am considering reviving it in the form of "This date is significant in Judaism ...
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Is this a suitable platform for non-Jews to ask questions about Judaism?
I am not Jewish, but my curiosity was piqued about some aspects of Judaism after having political discussions elsewhere online with Orthodox Jews.
I am particularly interested by the way in which ...
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Non-Jew has (business-related) questions about Judaism—okay here?
[Similar to, but not quite a duplicate of What are some mistakes non-Jewish people should avoid asking questions on this site?]
A non-Jew I know is working on a project for a company that sells a ...
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In what respects are Hebrew language questions in scope?
When are questions about the Hebrew language in scope, and when aren't they?
Do they have to be about Biblical or
Rabbinic Hebrew in particular?
Do they have to be related to a holy
text or a Jewish ...
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Would this be an appropriate site for people to ask technical Gemara questions?
For example, lets say a group of people are learning Baba Basra. If they have a question on Tosafos, would it be appropriate to ask here? I assume its not a general enough question to be worth posting ...
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The line between History vs Judaism
Inspired by this question, but I am attempting to ask a more largely applicable point.
Questions which are about Jewish History are considered off topic. Now the Jewish History examples given there ...
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Is fact-checking Judaism on-topic?
Suppose a Jewish text says something. Suppose this something relates to some factual reality. Suppose I wonder whether the something is actually true. Would it be on topic to ask about it on Mi Yodeya?...
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Tweaking Mi Yodeya's scope to build a broader community
I was reading this post about one person's issues with Stack Overflow, and something it said struck me (as I noticed the same thing, but didn't attempt to articulate it):
The "flavour" of ...
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Are questions about Jewish culture (NOT religion-centric) in scope?
This came up in a completely unrelated SE chat, with someone claiming that (unlike Christianity.SE being "about Christian doctrine and practice") Judaism.SE is "about Jewish culture".
My impression (...
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Questions about the meaning, source of Yiddish names
A user has recently asked two questions (1, 2) about Yiddish names that have been closed as off-topic, with the specific close reason "Questions about the Hebrew language or about history or news of ...
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Are any questions out of bounds?
Are there any questions that are out of bounds because of Tzeni'uth or just an "ick" factor that might elicit inappropriate responses (of the anti-religious sort)?
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What should our scope text be?
(This is a spin-off of this question which was probably too broad.)
The beginning of our FAQ currently reads (bolding mine):
What kind of questions can I ask here?
Jewish Life and Learning - Stack ...
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Include Biblical Hebrew
The Hebrew proposal failed, but has been restarted. However, I don't see why it will do much better. Meanwhile, I hold my self back from asking Hebrew-related questions, out of fear of political down-...
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Should Q&A rules be lifted when a question implies that the asker is facing high Halachic or health stakes?
Sometimes we get questions that either indicate or suggest that the author is seeking advice regarding a matter of high Halachic or medical states, for example:
Determining whether a particular ...
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Contributors with a lack of knowledge
I have had a great experience on Mi Yodeya in general, but I have noticed that certain aspects of the site/community can be discouraging to contributors with a lack of Jewish knowledge. For example:
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Using Christian interpretations in answers
This question as inspired by the comments to my answer here. (See also my answer here.)
Is is proper, in the context of this site, to use Christian or other non-Jewish sources (for example, secular ...
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Hiding Dangerous Information
Although obviously regardless of Mi Yodeya policy, each user needs to apply his / her own discretion, what is the policy regarding posting information, in a question or answer, that if publicized ...
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Should we have a close reason for immodest posts?
The current FAQ includes the line:
Please respect that in the Jewish tradition certain questions, especially certain questions relating to sexuality, are discussed only in private. Such questions ...
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Is Hellenistic Judaism on-topic?
Consensus on meta seems to be that Karaite Judaism, questions asked from a Karaite perspective, and other non-Orthodox branches of Judaism are on-topic.
Is Hellenistic Judaism also on-topic?
Is such ...
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Are questions about Samaritanism on-topic?
Are questions about Samaritanism, especially questions about Samaritan teachings or practices that differ from Rabbinic Judaism, on-topic?
I was thinking about asking a question about why the ...
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Does Purim-Torah need to be otherwise on topic?
Nothing in the Purim Torah guidelines mentions that they need to be otherwise on topic. This could either be because it is obvious that it needs to be on topic, or because it doesn't actually need to ...
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MY's stance on questions concerning apocryphal texts?
What's Mi Yodeya's stance on questions concerning Jewish apocryphal texts? There's one that was asked earlier, and I saw that it was flagged by a number of people as "comparative religion", ...
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Change "Jewish life and learning" to "Judaism" in the list of on-topic reasons
The Help Center now says:If you have a question about...Jewish law or practice (what to do or why)Jewish philosophya Jewish text (explaining a passage)history of Jewish law or of Jewish lifelanguage ...
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Are "what if I ..." questions off-topic?
One of our off-topic closure reasons is a psak-oriented question. Questions in which a person clearly provides his or her personal situation, followed by a question, are clearly in this category.
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What is Mi Yodeya's position on cross-posting?
Some sites on the SE network don't like cross-posting at all, while others think that it can be okay, in certain situations.
What does the Mi Yodeya community think about cross-posting, where the ...
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Can any question be made on-topic by adding "according to Judaism"? [duplicate]
Suppose a question is off-topic because it is not about Judaism; can it simply be made on topic by adding in a Jewish motivation, or by adding the words "according to Judaism"?
Consider this recent ...
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Can we ask questions about Jewish music here?
Is there space here for questions about Jewish Music?
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Should this question remain open?
SE Challenge: Halachot in which rulings range from permissible to Torah violation? is an old question with a bunch of up-votes. It's a list/survey/riddle question and would probably be closed if it ...
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Questions about Hebrew names
Are questions of the form "What is the origin of name X" considered on-topic, since many of those names originated from Tanach and Shas?
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Questions about Songs
Are questions asking for a source to an artist's songs permitted on this site? For instance(this is an easy example), Where are the words to Yaakov Shwekey's song "Vehi Sheomdah" from? If they are ...
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Should we populate Shut on this site?
(Almost) by definition, questions found in Shut are the ultimate "on-scope" questions.
Should we populate questions with Shut (like start with Be'er Moshe [Igros Moshe forbade translations of his ...
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