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Do we need a [philosophy] tag?
There's currently a philosophy tag, which came to my attention because it was used to tag one obviously off-topic question.
The other question it currently tags is also off-topic in my opinion, though ...
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What are we waiting on to create individual movie tags for the Matrix movies?
All the latest questions about The Matrix aren't about The Matrix, or even about The Matrix Reloaded or The Matrix Revolutions. They're all about The Matrix Resurrections.
Isn't the purpose of tags to ...
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How to close a chat room opened by mistake in the Physics site in order to open one here?
I wanted to keep discussing with the person who answered one of my questions.
I looked at the way to open a chat room, but though I was indeed at the bottom of a SciFi page, the chat room opened as &...
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RIP Harris Yulin
Harris Yulin, who had a very long career in stage, television, and film, died June 10 at the age of 87. While never an A-list star, he had many memorable roles, including playing the judge in ...
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RIP Peter David, 1956-2025
Peter David (Wikipedia) passed away May 24, 2025. The author of dozens of movie and TV show novelizations and tie-ins (including more than 40 Star Trek novels), I remember him best for 1987's Knight ...
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Prentis Hancock, RIP (SPACE:1999, Doctor Who, others)
Scottish character actor Prentis Hancock passed away on May 30th. Though he was perhaps best known in the genre for his role as Paul Morrow on the 70’s sci-fi series SPACE:1999, Hancock appeared in ...
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Quoting automatically generated plot summaries from other sites
In my answer to this story-id question I quote a plot summary from Project Gutenberg. From my recollection of the story the summary is pretty accurate, however, Project Gutenberg plot summaries are &...
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How do I phrase this question about why Gandalf didn't change bodies at the end of the Third Age such that it is not opinion-based?
In my question, Why didn't Gandalf change bodies at the end of the Third Age?, galacticninja commented: "To me, and at least four other users, it seems like you're asking for opinions". I'm ...
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How fast should we be about VTC for off-topicness?
This is not the first time I've thought about this, but this question reminded me.
It's closed as off-topic because it doesn't seem to have scifi or fantasy elements (something I agree with). However, ...
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Rename [secret-wars] → [secret-wars-2015] and [secret-wars-1985] → [secret-wars-1984]
The tag wiki for secret-wars states that it's for the 2015 Secret Wars comic storyline. To avoid any mix-ups with the original 1984 Secret Wars, it would be clearer to rename this tag to secret-wars-...
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Is it okay to post questions like "Is it okay if I create these characters (or verse)?" on this site? [closed]
I'm currently in the process of planning and creating my novel, characters, and verse. The genre is a mix of SF and fantasy.
Is it okay to post questions like "Is it okay if I create these ...
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Order of the answers in the List of bounties with no deadlines
In the List of bounties with no deadlines, what is the logic of the order in which the answers (that is, the offers of bounties) are presented? It is neither chronological, nor by the amount of the ...
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My accepted answer is wrong. What to do?
I answered a story-id question three years ago and my answer was accepted. Upon subsequent re-reading of the three novels involved, I now know that that answer is incorrect. I identified the series ...
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Can we get a Close reason to move to Literature?
This question, YA fiction book, HELP, if cleaned up, sounds like it could fit on Literature's Identification Request tag.
Could we make that an official option? Not like it'll take up much space since ...
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On the destruction of [art]
We have an art tag with 74 questions.
23 of those questions are also tagged story-identification, including both seeking to identify stories involving art and seeking to identify actual pieces of art....
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