Questions tagged [policy]
This tag covers questions related to the policies of the Stack Exchange site.
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Asking a question about a (partly) AI-generated PGFPlots graphic
I find myself in an unexpected situation. I've been working with an AI provider (who shall remain nameless) to use the pgfplots package to provide a graph with separate, but synchronized, axis (one on ...
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Should AI answers be banned?
As samcarter told me, Stack Exchange failed to make a network-wide ban for AI posts and leaves it to every site to decide themselves.
Some sites have already decided to ban them, see Is there a list ...
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Questions which are bug reports, revisited
Some time ago, I asked how we should handle bug reports: Questions which are bug reports. The top answer at the time split questions into two
Those which are asked where is seems clear that the ...
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Job advertising?
Is there an appropriate spot on here to advertise a latex-related job/commission? Alternatively, would it be appropriate to privately message some users and invite them to apply for a job/commission? ...
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Best information to include when a MWE isn't 'possible'
Just want to preface this by saying I understand and agree with the importance of including a MWE, but I am curious about the best information to supplement a question with when a MWE would only ...
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A comment sort of answered my question, how do I marked it answered
So I made this question earlier
pdflatex stuck compiling, gives no error
and a commenter pointed me towards what could be wrong, I changed my document accordingly and now everything works. I want to ...
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Is there a standing policy on what to do with 'How do I cite...' questions?
Examples:
Referencing a database
How to cite a hardware catalog in bibtex
Cite software/libraries using bibtex
I can't quite articulate my exact thoughts on this, but I'm stuck with the quandary:
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What is the guideline about using code backticks?
I noticed that using inline code tags (`code`) is commonly use for names of packages or software (among other uses).
But we could consider a name of a software (for example) is not code... Certain ...
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Closing questions of new (inactive) users?
I started to notice a lot of new users post their first question and, then, disappear. They don't close their topics (by accepting an answer).
It is created lots of unanswered questions (although ...
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What to do with opinion based questions which are accepted by the community?
There are some highly opinion-based questions in the system which are accepted by the community (has positive votes), but won't have any real answers. I see a contradiction among disciples.
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Policy: Including external images from copyrighted (sometimes unknown to us) documents
To make it for record/reference, It's somewhat related to unlicensed fonts
In the following Q the OP linked a pdf document(All rights reserved by Author, but freely available via university handle) ...
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Position with regard to unlicensed fonts
There was a question about how to integrate a specific font into a document. The fonts were commercial fonts and though the person did not state explicitly that they had downloaded unlicensed versions ...
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Why are questions on package bugs/issues too localized?
On a couple of occasions I have come across unwanted or surprising behavior with some widely used LaTeX packages that I have posted questions about on TeX.sX. One was about biblatex (Entry options in ...
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When should we discipline ourselves?
When should we discipline ourselves? (Also, I thought there was a way for the actual badge to show up, or am I thinking of tags?)
My answer to a question is ugly and buggy, but apparently worked for ...
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Difference between "close" and "flag"
On questions, I have the possibility to vote for "close" (as duplicate, say), or to "flag" (as duplicate). Does is it make a difference?
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