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KLindqvistTL4 Moderator7 Dec 2024#1

Community wiki post. Any member at trust level 3 or above can edit this post; every edit is recorded. Last edited by hana.sato on 27 Jan 2025.

1 Feb 2025 — KLindqvist: Removed a claim that the cited source did not support.
8 May 2025 — mira.patel: Replaced an unsourced figure with the published one and cited it.
27 Jan 2025 — hana.sato: Added the worked example and a unit label to the table header.

Editors: KLindqvist, mira.patel, hana.sato

Staff post. Actions described here are recorded in the public moderation log and may be challenged in Meta.

Request a new maintained page, or flag one that has drifted out of date.

This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its author and a note. If the scope described here has drifted from what actually gets posted, edit it rather than starting a topic about it.

What belongs here

Questions specific to wiki requests, with the units and the context stated.
Reports and datasets, with the collection method stated.
Disagreement about the substance, conducted in public.

What belongs elsewhere

Anything urgent belongs in Safety, immediately, and not here.
Anything about how this site works belongs in Meta.
Requests for a maintained page belong in Wiki requests.

Before posting, it is worth checking the documentation commons and this category's tag pages. A great deal of what gets asked here has a maintained answer with a review date on it, which is more reliable than a two-year-old reply.

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owen.bradyTL4 Moderator11 Dec 2024#2

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Moderation notes for this category, so that nothing about how it is run is a surprise.

Topics get moved into and out of here regularly. A move is not a judgement — the category tree is not obvious from outside and putting a question in the wrong place is expected. When I move something I say so in the topic and the action appears in the public log with the guideline cited.

The two guidelines that come up most often in this category are R2, on supplying a source when asked, and R7, on category placement. Neither is used punitively.

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l.oseiTL219 Dec 2024#5

Correction requests: if you spot an error in a maintained page, note it here with the specific correction. The maintainer will review and update if justified.

The rule of thumb is fine; the edge cases are where it earns its keep.

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a.asanteTL221 Dec 2024 · edited#6

Answering the question post #2 raises rather than the one it answers.

The most useful requests here identify a specific confusion that keeps recurring rather than a subject that seems important.

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p.marchettiTL225 Dec 2024#8

Requests for a document covering something the evidence does not support get declined, and the decline usually points at what could be written instead.

I would treat the number as indicative rather than as a measurement.

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