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Should we migrate our conlang questions?
I'm going to say no for three reasons:
Questions that are on-topic here shouldn't be migrated away without the asker's consent. People chose to ask them here and they're within our scope; why should ...
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Migrated question to Writers SE
What happened
Thank for bringing this up. I agree that the question should have stayed on Worldbuilding; what happened behind the scenes was a complicated series of events and some miscommunication.
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HDE 226868Mod
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Which question migration paths do we want?
Physics
We get lots of questions that are about real-world physics. While the answers may be used in building a world, the person most able to answer such a question isn't a worldbuilding expert, but ...
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Which question migration paths do we want?
If we are to establish the migration path based on our current numbers, we can use this to have an idea. Although, it seems like many more questions could/should get migrated away.
Statistics for ...
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Which question migration paths do we want?
Physics
Lots of questions are pure physics questions and don't involve worldbuilding even if the situation is hypothetical.
Astronomy
Just today, that started this discussion. People designing ...
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Which question migration paths do we want?
Daring proposal: no migration paths (other than meta). Here's why:
We have a lot of questions that are on-topic here, but collect migration votes to sites where they are also on-topic. That's not ...
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Should the Writing stackexchange be added to the list of sites for migration?
Considering how annoying it is for us when whatever question not fitting another SE community gets dumped on Worldbuilding, personally I would not like returning the annoyance.
I would rather leave ...
L.DutchMod
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Which question migration paths do we want?
Astronomy
Questions about real world astronomy are better off asked to astronomy experts. This site is intended to cater to the hypothetical, so if a question seeks purely science-backed answers ...
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What happened here and why is the question/some answers partly open?
According to the question timeline:
The question was asked on Physics on 2015-05-24.
On Physics, it was answered by Jimmy360, docscience, anna v, WhatRoughBeast, Loren Pechtel, Thorsten S., Cedric H.,...
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Guidelines for migration from Science Fiction & Fantasy
Towards an Answer
I think this is a good idea!
If you think a query needs to be migrated to Worldbuilding, check out What the Worldbuilding Forum is All About as this lays out, in proper manifesto ...
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Guidelines for migration from Science Fiction & Fantasy
Adding to what @elemtilas said...
We regularly suffer from people who are suffering from writer's block. They're here, not for help to build their worlds per se, but to get a bunch of spaghetti ...
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Can only migrate question on main site to Meta
That's not due to your reputation; it's because we haven't defined any other migration paths.
When we graduated last November we gained access to custom migration paths, and there was some discussion ...
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"Close >> migrate to another SE" : please add Physics SE and Biology SE as options
I'm just adding some data, so people have an idea of the actual migration activity that's happened on Worldbuilding throughout its history. Here are some stats on how many questions we've migrated to ...
HDE 226868Mod
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Why can I only vote to migrate from Worldbuilding to Worldbuilding Meta?
What you are describing is not a bug, as was suggested by your initial tagging of the question. That is why I re-tagged your question from bug to discussion.
Generally speaking, specific migration ...
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Should the Writing stackexchange be added to the list of sites for migration?
No
Migration has a high bar to clear:
The question to be migrated has to be off-topic for this site.
The question to be migrated has to be on-topic on the target site.
The question to be migrated ...
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Why are people downvoting questions that needs to be migrated?
If a question is asked well -- shows research or analysis, is well-asked, etc -- and is arguably in our space, I generally won't downvote it even if I vote to close it. Especially on a beta site ...
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Can only migrate question on main site to Meta
Most of the migrations are rejected or get closed very quickly. The consensus was that it was not worth it to have migration paths. Also, many of these questions show little effort and don't meet the ...
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"Close >> migrate to another SE" : please add Physics SE and Biology SE as options
I quite like having the moderator "filter" on migrations for two reasons.
We don't want a reputation for sending off-topic rubbish to other sites and people who know about our site don't necessarily ...
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Why was this question migrated?
Per our Help Center, "the goal of the site is to help you build your world, not to tell your story." Worldbuilding (on-topic) is about the rules and systems of a "world" (no matter its size, ...
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Why was this question migrated?
As it can be seen from the comments above, OP requested the post to be moved. It could have been closed on WB and reposted on writing (plot development is also not WB), but the result would have been ...
L.DutchMod
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Migrated question to Writers SE
Sometimes questions don't belong anywhere within the stack exchange system. That question may be one of them. We'd be annoyed if the question was dumped on us from another site.
We should try to ...
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Can only migrate question on main site to Meta
I'm not sure I totally agree with the idea that we should have no migration paths; I've seen several questions which I feel would be much better suited to Physics or Astronomy.
This subject feeds in ...
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Which question migration paths do we want?
Space Exploration
There have been several times where I was about to ask SE and then realized it would be better on WB, and vice-versa.
Questions about space elevators, interplanetary exploration / ...
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