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Standard Community Responses to Poor Questions and Answers
Personal advice sought
Similar to the standard comment given by MedicalSciences.SE I comment with
Welcome to Psychology.SE! I am sorry, but for a number of reasons outlined in this meta post we can n …
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What made the question on Sellae off-topic
As pointed out in Wikipedia,
the sella turcica (Latin for Turkish seat) is a saddle-shaped depression in the body of the sphenoid bone of the human skull
Also in Wikipedia
The dorsum sellae is part …
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Proposal to delete post and closing questions asking whether social groups are mentally ill
From a standpoint of someone in the field of psychotherapy, I feel that it is difficult to determine whether these posts should be deleted or not. To a degree, one part of me agrees with @RobinKramer …
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Standard Community Responses to Poor Questions and Answers
I tend to use something like the following, especially with newcomers' questions, when a question is unclear possibly due to lack of information on what they are researching
Hi [@Username] and wel …
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What anthropology questions should be routed towards History.SE?
General Anthopological questions would be off-topic and should be migrated to History.SE, however, if the question is in the realms of Psychological Anthropology then it is on-topic for this site.
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Referencing formats (APA, Harvard, MLA etc.)
For the reason mentioned that formats such as MLA, Chicago, Vancouver and IEEE are very different, I think that as long as the reference contains the Author (or movie director) and the year of publica …
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Is Psychology Today a credible source?
Looking at the answers from @JeromyAnglim and @Fizz, their answers give a general feel that it is acceptable to reference Psychology Today within questions, but what about answers?
For questions
To su …
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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!
A full post is also posted in https://meta.stackexchange.com about this listing us with many others who are to lose their beta status. I have also asked at https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/331817 whe …
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Citation or Link needs to be mandatory in questions
Jeromy Anglim’s answer to prior research in questions says:
I agree that good scientific questions will typically show prior research. However, I don't think that prior research per se should be a …
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Very low quality accepted answers
How do we deal with very low quality answers such as https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/20032 when it seems you cannot flag the answer as low quality. I assume I can't flag it because the answer …
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Definition of Pseudoscience within Psychology & Neuroscience SE site
I have been giving this some thought since the discussion of Freud and pseudoscience came up and I have come to the conclusion myself that maybe a different approach needs to be made to what we are currently … If you stop discussion of Freud, what happens to Carl Rogers et al.?
Carl Rogers and many others could be considered pseudoscientific and therefore off-topic on this site. …
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What constitutes an opinion-based question?
For this question I am going to refer to Why are trans-women more common than trans-men?
I said it before in a comment on the question that this question should be closed for being opinion-based, and …
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It is no longer possible to intuitively close some broad questions
Please correct me if I am wrong, but it is my understanding that the community decided a long while ago (example) that if the question is looking for an answer which is so long it could fill an entire …
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What is holding this Jungian question on collective (un)consciousness closed?
A Collective Unconscious That's Alive? was rightly closed to start with for lack of motivation (unreferenced claims).
I started the new member off with some citations and asked them to add to them. No …
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What made the question on Sellae off-topic
Dorsum sellae, tuberculum sellae and sella turcica which of the 3 is referred to by the adjective sellar? was closed as off-topic as it had nothing to do with Neuroscience or Psychology.
@BryanKrause …