Timeline for Could we add another reason for closing that's more appropriate for "check this (dis)proof of RH"-type questions?
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| May 9, 2022 at 23:30 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | Partly to get my own thoughts straightened out on this broader question, I've opened up a broader meta question. | |
| May 7, 2022 at 14:00 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | @DavidRoberts Agreed -- it's really only "site-specific" in the technical sense that we have the control to directly delete it if we like (and replace it with something similar but new if we like.) | |
| May 7, 2022 at 13:58 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | @GerryMyerson I'm willing to contemplate the idea of deleting a close reason, and then creating a new, similar but better close reason to replace it. | |
| May 7, 2022 at 2:42 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | I find the reason "This question does not appear to be about research mathematics within the scope defined in the help center." to be not so much site-specific, as an instance of "This question does not appear to be about [site topic] within the scope defined in the help center.". I agree that editing the reason to not just use such boilerplate language would be a good move, if only to specify that a very narrow class of research-level questions are off-topic, namely checking claimed proofs of famous conjectures | |
| May 7, 2022 at 2:26 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | You write that it is not possible for the moderators to edit the description in an existing close reason, but then you suggest it's worth keeping the second site-specific close reason in some form. How can we keep it in any form other than its current form, if it can't be edited? | |
| May 6, 2022 at 18:37 | comment | added | Gro-Tsen | I feel that the two most common reasons for which I vote to close a question are ① “this is homework” (in which case I click the “not research level math” because homework, from people who didn't even bother to try, isn't appropriate for MSE either; but anyway, “not research level math” is clear enough, so I'm happy with it), and ② some variation around “this is not a place to get your proof of <famous conjecture> checked” (in which case I also click “not research level”, but for reasons explained in the present question, I'm not super happy with it). | |
| May 6, 2022 at 18:18 | history | edited | Tim CampionMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6, 2022 at 18:06 | history | answered | Tim CampionMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |