Linked Questions
20 questions linked to/from A policy on plagiarism
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Is it acceptable to post puzzles from one's own book?
Last year I published a book of puzzles. I co-own the copyright of the book. Many of the puzzles are adapted from other sources (including some chestnuts) and some are original.
I'd enjoy posting ...
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Can one ask just for the purpose of asking?
In Mathematics Stack Exchange (where I came from originally) one is told to ask a question if it needs to be answered and if they do not know how to do it and if they have already tried. It seems ...
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Gathering chestnuts
On of the first things that was brought up on meta was whether simply asking a puzzle as a question was part of the scope of the site. The consensus seems to be a resounding "yes". However, ...
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Why was this well-received question deleted by a moderator?
With reference to the question:
Which playing card replaces the question mark?
I don't understand what criteria was used to delete this question. The question received 8 upvotes and got 3 answers. ...
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Audience-specific texts for our "Needs Attribution" custom close reason
Last year (2020) saw some changes to the question closure system across the SE network. One of the changes was to introduce audience-specific texts for custom close reasons, so that the OP, close ...
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How do we want to use our meta FAQ?
As far as I know, this isn't something that's ever really been talked about. We've got a potentially extremely useful resource on Puzzling Meta: the faq tag. But I'm not sure how we should use it. ...
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Is "I got this puzzle from a friend", "I just have the image", etc. sufficient attribution for a puzzle?
We have an attribution policy for non-original puzzles. Our site-specific custom close reason reads:
This looks like a puzzle you found elsewhere. For content you did not create yourself, proper ...
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What's the policy on puzzles *paraphrased* from other sites?
I've looked at Is it acceptable to copy and paste questions from other sites? and A policy on plagiarism, and I'm aware that puzzles which are directly copy-pasted from other sites or sources without ...
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Is it acceptable to post a puzzle from another source and edit in attribution only once it's solved?
Let's imagine the following rather common scenario:
I find, on another site (not PSE), a fun puzzle and its solution
the puzzle and solution are clearly linked, so there's no way to link to one but ...
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Definition of quality contents
I wrote a small puzzle, which was downvoted badly either because not many people understood it or it has severe content quality problem. I assumed the second and raised a flag to request the post ...
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How to proceed with "Airline tickets puzzle strategy"
Today I asked Airline tickets puzzle strategy, which has been closed now. The reasons I received were:
I was alleged to be cheating
In response to that I would like to cite where I took this question ...
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Disappearing reputation
Today morning I woke up to 30 reputation disappearing, I am not worried or motivated by reputation alone, however I can reason this missing to be some sort of disappearing questions and consequently ...
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Issues surrounding copyright material and puzzles from other sites
This question has a picture that is "© 2001 - 20th Century Fox - All Rights Reserved" according to IMDB, from where it appears to be sourced. The puzzle has been published on another site, although ...
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Do we need an "original" tag?
Many users, like me, are spending a lot of time and effort to create original and creative riddles. Whereas other puzzles seem to be either copied form somewhere else or look like old riddles passed ...
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State of meta.puzzling.SE rules
So, it was recently asked when a community consensus is reached. Additionally I have observed a lot of users having no overview at all of the current rules, so for the last few days I have been ...