I know its possible to move a person's question from worldbuilding stackexchange to meta worldbuilding stackexchange but I was trying to figure out how to migrate a question to another site on stackexchange such as philosophy stackexchange. When I was about to vote to migrate a question I noticed it seemed the only site I could vote to have it migrated to was meta worldbuilding stackexchange. Is it possible to have a question on worldbuilding stackexchange migrated to another site on stackexchange entirely such as as I said philosophy stackexchange?
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If the option is not proposed to you in the closing reasons, you will need a moderator to do it. You just need to flag it (in need of a moderator intervention) with a short explanation.
I think that graduated sites can migrate their questions without mod intervention but we are not quite there yet.
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First, this applies only to questions that are off-topic on Worldbuilding. If a question is on-topic here, even if it would be better somewhere else, don't migrate (or request migration) -- the person asked it here and we'll keep it.
For questions that are off-topic here but on-topic somewhere else, you can use a custom flag to suggest the migration (as Vincent said). You should also vote to close as off-topic.
Note that Stack Exchange generally discourages migrating answered questions, especially if there's an accepted answer.
When suggesting migration it's helpful to also leave a comment on the question about it. That way others have a chance to either support the suggestion or point out why it might not be a good idea. Moderators can then make use of that feedback instead of having to look up the candidate site's on-topic list and make a judgement about whether this fits. The more help you give us, the easier it is for us to make the decision to migrate (or not).
answered Mar 4, 2016 at 21:11