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For discussions and questions on the appropriateness (for the main site) of a question or a certain type of question.

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How to formulate a question for a Mathoverflow forum?

That is off-topic, as is asking for correctness of claimed proofs about any famous conjecture, especially if, as I guess, it's a simple proof and the link is at viXra or ResearchGate or Google Drive/D …
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Asking for consensus on mathematical conventions/definitions

I don't feel like the answers given there are representative of expert opinion. This may be the case in your experience, but there are professional mathematicians, academics, lecturers etc who are o …
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Posting a technical/narrow open question on mathoverflow?

There are clearly cases when the tag open-problem has been used a perfectly acceptable way, for instance asking questions about open problems as a class of problems, or in meta-discussion about a spec …
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Questions on Coq

Now I'm awake again, I can raise this here in meta, as per quid's request. I commented on the question How do I verify the Coq proof of Feit-Thompson? I like this question, and would defend it ag …
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