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    See: Which SE sites accept "identification" questions?
    – rene Mod
    Commented May 3 at 10:31
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    I am curious: What is wrong with this question?
    – CDR
    Commented May 3 at 14:59
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    @CDR. I'm not a downvoter, so this is just my impression. The title poses a question that sort of implies SE sites can be divided into two kinds -- ones that allow identification questions and those that don't. I participate actively in half a dozen sites and browse frequently another half dozen. I'm not familiar with any sites that disallow identification questions per se. So the Question here could be improved by citing an example of such a site. Instead the body of the Meta Question dwells on a specific query (mannequin types) that isn't about SE policies or software.
    – hardmath
    Commented May 3 at 17:47
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    It seems as though you're expecting to find a Stack Exchange site that is specifically for trying to identify objects, regardless of category. That's how I understood it, and why I downvoted: because it strikes me as entirely unreasonable to expect such a Stack Exchange site to exist; it defies a basic understanding of how the network works or why we have the kind of categorization we do.
    – Karl Knechtel
    Commented May 3 at 23:09
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    @hardmath Amusingly, I've encountered numerous people who believe (or gaslightingly claim to believe) that disallowing identification questions is the norm on almost all SE sites, and that Science Fiction & Fantasy is a weird outlier for allowing them. That was the motivation behind me creating the post that rene linked, to prove once-and-for-all that most sites allow identification questions.
    – Rand al'Thor
    Commented May 5 at 13:07