Linked Questions
53 questions linked to/from Sandbox for drafts of long, complex posts
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Sandbox for long or complicated edits. [duplicate]
This sandbox is intended for a collective collaboration to edit posts which would require a lot of effort and a lot of time, in particular, $\LaTeX$ifying images. It serves to localize to one thread ...
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How to avoid draft formatting issues that are only solvable with a save of the question (before the question is finished for publication) [duplicate]
The solution for Firefox now is to install the SiteMacro Extension for (Ubuntu) Firefox, and to have the macro map to the edit button. Each time now that the site reloads, it automatically goes into ...
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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes (volume 07/2018 - 12/2020) [duplicate]
The purpose of this thread is to help focus the attention of the community on posts that may require reopen and undeletion votes. A request should be posted as an answer below (one request per answer)....
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Found the answer while elaborating the question. Is that usual?
It's the 5th time this happens to me. Tried to solve some simple problem for about 20 minutes (four of them were just help-asking on passages of proofs) and decide to ask for some help/hint on ...
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Where is the fine line between using and misusing?
Disclaimer: I am fully aware that we have a no-names policy on the meta. However due to recent events I am sorry to be the one to break it on such a delicate topic. Willie tried to do it without ...
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Can I post a 'homework' question without any MathJax/Latex.
Beginner here to mathstackexchange. I have a 'homework' question from a university course that I'm getting quite stuck on. Important Note: This is homework from a past course I've already completed ...
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Is it bad to edit your own answer several times?
I often need to edit my answers several times to fix errors or maybe to answer more directly the questions asked.
But each time I edit my answer, the post will get a bit higher in the top questions ...
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Is answering own question okay?
As the following link shows, I thought "publishing" a mathematical idea in a form of Q&A is being encouraged in this site.
Since Stack Overflow launched, we've been trying to explain that it's ...
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Would it be OK to ask people not to vote up my partial answer to a really good question?
Sometimes I see a highly voted excellent question on the Unanswered list and have some useful things to say that fall short of fully answering the question. But if I leave an answer with my partial ...
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Catalog of limits
WARNING: This post contains hundreds of mathematical formulas. Do not open it on devices, where rendering of MathJax is slow!
For more comprehensive catalog see https://mathindex.wordpress.com (it ...
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Cleaning up an old post of mine -- a moral dilemma
I am aware that math.se and other se sites are intended so that people who google questions can find answers to them on this site so they don't have to actually ask the question themselves. Thus, I ...
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Downvoting for a perfectly legitimate question just because one thinks the OP is misbehaving in other threads
One member wrote this is a very proper reason to downvote.
He even implied that it is a very proper reason for voting to close.
And he actually did vote to close, for example, as shown in this thread(
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How to make or suggest good edits
What should I do when editing a post, or suggesting an edit?
Math SE is a collaborative platform where almost anyone can contribute. One way in which you can improve the site is by editing posts (...
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Is too much self editing frowned upon?
I have found myself re-editing quite a bit until I feel a question is right, either I got things wrong (oops) or just get in a perfectionist mode, and have wondered what happens whenever I press the <...
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About a possible change of instructions to ask a question, for beginners.
It's a well known problem that a new user often doesn't ask a question properly, e.g. asks a PSQ.
Perhaps the user can be suggested to check just this
table, (to begin with), instead of the current 2 ...
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