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Custom off-topic close reason: Travel
Each Stack Echange site can have three custom Off-Topic reasons to help closing questions. I propose one of this should be the following (based on @GaLa's comment):
This question appears to be off-...
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Community promotion banners?
Are there any community promotion banners we can use now to promote Expatriates on the other sites?
For example, there's a deprecated community ad on Travel.SE, which still shows the Area51 logo with ...
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Should the community allow questions that have clear political bias?
Referring this question, I have the following thought.
TL;DR: Willingness to obtain Russian citizenship may be considered as a way of assisting Russian terrorism. Should the community support such ...
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Should we allow questions written in multiple languages
There was already a meta-discussion about languages previously, but we didn't have a candidate before.
Now we have.
So: should we allow questions in English, that also contain the translation to the ...
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Lack of questions surrounding ordinary life?
According to the Help Center,
If your question is about:
Complications in every day life due to living in a foreign country as a non-citizen
Questions about long term (1 year+) work and residence ...
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When will this site be closed?
With about a question a day, half of them off topic, doesn't seem like the site is viable. When the decision is going to be made?
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Why is my question still consdered off topic?
In other words: Can one truly expect to build a community by shutting questions that are relevant to members of the community?
I'm familiar with moderation and the need to keep users on-topic.
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Vox Populi badge - why so few have it?
We have 700+ users. Sure many of them are once-off or casual, but only 9 of them have the Vox Populi badge.
The benefit of getting this badge is you're providing encouragement to other users. If you ...
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Vote early and vote often
This is copied from Scott Morrison's post on meta.latexSE:
I'm a moderator from MathOverflow, and this "question" is actually
unsolicited advice, based on our experience from the initial launch ...
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Once again, are questions about living in country X on-topic?
According to the rules in the help center , the question Period of notice to quit job in Germany is off topic as being an expat is not relevant in this case. The community voted not to close it , but ...
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Should we carry Tags in Titles?
I'd like to know what the community thinks on this topic for this very site.
Should the tags (e.g., country-specific ones) exist within question titles, or they have to be avoided for sake of clarity?...
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Tag Alias: naturalization -> citizenship
Since naturalization is an act of obtaining a citizenship naturalization should be a synonym for citizenship
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Tag merge: 'employment' and 'foreign-employment'
I think in the scope of this SE site they mean almost the same, and there isn't any good reason to separate them.
Current questions:
employment (3 questions)
foreign-employment (4 questions)
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Relocation vs travel?
Pretty obviously relocation from one country to another at some point requires physical travel.
Which aspects related to relocation should be considered off-topic here, as they should rather be ...
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Tag wikis for country and citizenship tags
It would be nice to have some consistent style for the tag wikis. For example comparing the wiki excerpts
us-citizens
For questions pertaining to citizens of the United States of America.
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What does the XX-citizens tag mean? [duplicate]
For many countries we have both XX and XX-citizens tags (e.g., usa and us-citizens), but I am not sure what the difference is. It seems to me that the idea is if you are an expat, or planning on being ...
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Will existing expat related questions from Travel.SE get migrated?
There are some topics that were not closed on Travel.SE, but clearly belong here. For example questions related to H-1B visas, J-1 visas etc.
Are there any plans to migrate these topics or individual ...
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Please give a warm welcome to your new moderation team!
The response to my call for moderators was overwhelmingly good. Everyone seems to share a common goal and vision for the site, and I think I'm not alone in wishing that this resource existed years ago ...
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There is a popular tag called 'accomodation'. Can we rename it?
There is a popular tag called 'accomodation'. Can we rename it? I don't think I have enough permission to do it.
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Please review suggested edits!
The Suggested Edits queue is full for at least the second time in 24 hours. We need people to review edits! Until some edits are reviewed, no new edits can be suggested:
I will gladly begin ...
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Scope overlap and cross-posting
Re: When does travel become residency? —
We talked about minimizing the overlap between traveling and expatriating, but the differing opinions on how to do so seemed to widen it (by the fact that ...
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Why are questions about insurance OT?
Why are questions about insurance off topic and being closed as primarily opinion based ?
I think insurance is one of the most important things an expat would be concerned about and other expats would ...
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Are questions about getting phone/Internet service on topic? If yes, how?
I'm seriously considering moving to a remote location on the Canary Islands (a Spanish territory) that does not have landline service. (Nor electricity, for that matter.)
One thing I will need, for ...
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Are 'flag planting' questions on topic?
A number of internationally-minded people follow 5 Flag Theory, whereby you diversify different aspects of your life (residency, banking, investments, etc.) across multiple countries to protect ...
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Self promotion on the site
Based on this answer, how should we deal with self-promotion on this site? The poster does clearly say his involvment, and it does answer the question, but in the answer apart from his company there ...
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Are military/missionary expat life-styles off topic?
I'm thinking that military and missionary lives, and perhaps a few other types of work abroad, are more strongly defined by the organization sponsoring the stay abroad than the specific surrounding ...
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What should our help center 'on topic' text be?
We're closing questions and pointing folks to the help center to see what kind of topics they can ask about, but that page is currently was profoundly unhelpful.
Here's my first stab at what should ...
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Sharing personal experience in self answered question form?
I have had to jump through quite a few bureaucratic hoops, most of which would have been difficult to impossible without help. Things such as:
Applying to a university.
Getting a permanent residence ...
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“Medicare” and other ambiguous tags
I know it is early, but most of the tag-related questions asked thus far are about naming conventions to resolve duplicates. I am asking about conventions to resolve ambiguity.
For example, “Medicare”...
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Dutch citizens and NL citizens? tag issue?
Currently we have nl-citizens and dutch-citizens. I assume these should be merged/made synonyms, no?
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Propagation text to be sent in expats' mailing list
Once the site gets into public beta, I would like to propagate it in the mailing list of Czech people in France. I can write down a nice smooth propagation text myself, but I'm not sure that it's ...
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Why is this question off topic
Why is this question off topic on an expat site : Does Australian Medicare cover me internationally? ?
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Who should the moderators be?
I'm asking another of the essential meta questions as a precursor to some great news, Expats is going to be advancing to the public beta stage at some point this week!1 You all have done a fantastic ...
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Tag merge - uk and united-kingdom
We appear to currently have two tags for the United Kingdom - uk and united-kingdom
Based on What version of country names should we use? and the Travel.SE model, I'd suggest we make uk the main one, ...
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Shopping Questions - Home comforts
What's our take on shopping questions? Specifically, ones around buying home comforts, such as foods from where you're from?
As an example, thinking of an Aussie expat living in London, who hankers ...
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What's the "elevator pitch" for our site?
This is one of the 7 essential meta questions that every new beta should ask, and a bit of a problem that I faced earlier. I was telling my wife what we're building here, and I found it rather ...
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Other languages barriers
I have a strong feeling that keeping the site English only is going to radiccclay hinder traffic hits from searches.
Not only that, some answer, like this.
Is it true that having speed camera ...
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Does a voting fraud detection script run during the private beta?
The site is in private beta and there are only few active users so it's likely to upvote many posts of one user. Does a script run to detect serial up/downvoting during the private beta?
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Questions about illegal immigrants/immigration
How will we deal with questions regarding illegal immigration/immigrants?
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Should question on relocating between states in a big country such as the US, Brazil, India, etc be allowed?
If we consider issues EU citizens have in other EU country, expat issues, wouldn't it be logical to allow questions concerning interstate migration in the US, Brazil, India, or any other big country ...
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Any questions on taxes?
I've already asked a question about taxes in Australia (as I'm an expat there) and there are several others. However, there's been some dissent about whether or not these are expat questions or not.
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Question about tax deduction in a specific country are off topic? [duplicate]
This is the incriminated question.
One user correctly says that the question is really specific and that it's not so sure that can be considered about expatriates.
https://expatriates.stackexchange....
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Overlap with Personal Finance & Money
I've seen lot of comments and close votes on question regarding anything financial as off-topic here and belonging on Personal Finance & Money. Since lot of such a question will inevitably appear, ...
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Possible issue with Rep Calculations
I just now looked at one of the questions posted on the site and the answer I have provided which peeked my curiousity:
Holidays in US for close relative's funeral in EU?
The answer has 3 ...
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Are all students considered expats?
What kind of criteria will we use to determine if an abroad student-related question belongs to Expats.SE or Travel.SE?
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Should forum style questions be allowed?
Much to my surprise a very chatty question on cultural differences got reopened. It is an interesting topic, but not a great topic on a QA platform. You could split this question up in a virtually ...
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Asking general questions
I was thinking about asking some general questions, and potentially also flag them to be CW. Do you think they would be okay to post on the site, or they'd still be off-topic:
I'm thinking about ...
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Shouldn't we just merge the chat box of travel.se and expat.se?
There is a poll going on for a name for the chatbox. Wouldn't merging both chatbox, make sense since both audience share relocating?
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