Timeline for Are "has this been studied before" questions on topic?
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| Jan 21 at 18:03 | comment | added | Neal | I think it's also important to show it's a good-faith question. "has anyone thought about X" is a far cry from "I'm curious about X. I looked on mathscinet under ... and asked A and B but...". | |
| Jan 17 at 10:00 | comment | added | JP McCarthy | @PeterLeFanuLumsdaine thank you for the interjection, but I think the half-sentence in question is a kind way of saying that there is no much going on with the $X$ given in the question. | |
| Jan 15 at 17:36 | vote | accept | JP McCarthy | ||
| Jan 14 at 15:38 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | Agreed with most of this as an excellent general answer. However, could you give at least a little explanation of the last half-sentence “I am not fully convinced about the example described above by the OP.” ? It seems a little frustrating for OP to leave them with “these are fine in general, but not yours” without further explanation. (Personally I find OP’s example fine, assuming that if actually asking it, OP would include some background on their own knowledge and literature searching so far.) | |
| Jan 12 at 19:23 | history | answered | Neil Strickland | CC BY-SA 4.0 |