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Actions taken by staff, and the reasoning behind them.

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Topic	Participants	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Announcements category Meta › Announcements guidelines trust levels moderation Pinned Wiki Staff announcements, policy changes, and scheduled maintenance. Read-only except for questions. This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with…	+3	7	8.7k	4h
Mobile reading experience on long topics Meta › Site feedback site feedback moderation guidelines Mobile reading experience on long topics Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Process question, and I have read the guidelines before asking. I understand the…		2	14k	4h
Trust level 3 requirements: a clarification — does this still hold? Meta › Announcements trust levels moderation site feedback guidelines Solved Asking directly, because I could not find a straight answer: Trust level 3 requirements: a clarification — does this still hold? Two things I would like separated before anyone answers on Trust level 3…	+77	90	57k	9h
Revisiting: Mobile reading experience on long topics Meta › Site feedback moderation guidelines site feedback Solved Posting this under the heading it deserves: Revisiting: Mobile reading experience on long topics Everything below is what sits behind that. Bringing the figures rather than the impression, since a process…	+10	15	34k	10h
A revision dispute resolved on the topic rather than in the history Meta › Wiki maintenance wiki post maintainership moderation citation check A revision dispute resolved on the topic rather than in the history Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Proposing that revision dispute resolved deserves a…	+10	15	40k	16h
Coming back to: When a red flag was a misunderstanding, and the retraction Sourcing › Red flags mislabelling moderation documentation quality When a red flag was a misunderstanding, and the retraction I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below. Red flag — I have the observation and I do not trust my…	+6	10	257	21h
Distinguishing a red flag from an inconvenience — a second dataset Sourcing › Red flags moderation documentation quality disputed On the subject in the title: Distinguishing a red flag from an inconvenience — a second dataset Working notes rather than a conclusion. Posting a small dataset on Distinguishing a red flag. It is mine, it is…	+8	12	9.6k	1d
Batch numbers that do not match the vial label Sourcing › Red flags mislabelling disputed moderation underdosing Solved Batch numbers that do not match the vial label — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Structured question about turnaround and what it signals. I have started recording how long…	+43	48	8.9k	2d
Why the timeline is on the right and not the left — what changed since Meta › Site feedback site feedback moderation guidelines Solved Why the timeline is on the right and not the left — what changed since I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below. What changes if the standard account of…	+77	81	4k	2d
Search filters: what is missing Meta › Site feedback site feedback moderation guidelines Search filters: what is missing — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Search filters — I have the observation and I do not trust my interpretation of it, so I am posting the…	+72	84	15k	3d
Pages past their review date, listed — does this still hold? Meta › Wiki maintenance review date moderation maintainership wiki post Asking directly, because I could not find a straight answer: Pages past their review date, listed — does this still hold? I have spent a fortnight trying to pin Pages past down and I want to set out where I…	+49	56	39k	11d
Follow-up: Search filters: what is missing Meta › Site feedback guidelines site feedback moderation On the subject in the title: Search filters: what is missing Working notes rather than a conclusion. A follow-up question about Search filters that I did not know to ask the first time. The earlier thread…	+119	141	1.6k	29d
Batch numbers that do not match the vial label — what changed since Sourcing › Red flags underdosing documentation quality disputed moderation Solved On the subject in the title: Batch numbers that do not match the vial label — what changed since Working notes rather than a conclusion. What changes if the standard account of Batch numbers is wrong? I ask…	+39	43	14k	1mo
A certificate whose chromatogram axes do not match its stated method — one year on Sourcing › Red flags mislabelling moderation documentation quality Solved A certificate whose chromatogram axes do not match its stated method — one year on Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Posting a small dataset on certificate…	+103	111	8.1k	2mo
Moderation log format change Meta › Announcements trust levels guidelines site feedback moderation Posting this under the heading it deserves: Moderation log format change Everything below is what sits behind that. Moderation log format change keeps being re-asked here and I think that is because the…	+53	57	4.8k	2mo
Citation sweep results: how many references did not say what was claimed Meta › Wiki maintenance moderation maintainership citation check wiki post On the subject in the title: Citation sweep results: how many references did not say what was claimed Working notes rather than a conclusion. What changes if the standard account of citation sweep results is…	+92	101	2.9k	2mo
Revisiting: Patterns that reliably precede a problem, documented Sourcing › Red flags underdosing moderation mislabelling documentation quality Posting this under the heading it deserves: Revisiting: Patterns that reliably precede a problem, documented Everything below is what sits behind that. Patterns, from the point of view of someone who has read…	+16	20	36k	2mo
Second pass at: Identical chromatograms across two different lots Sourcing › Red flags disputed mislabelling moderation Posting this under the heading it deserves: Second pass at: Identical chromatograms across two different lots Everything below is what sits behind that. Something about Identical chromatograms does not…	+81	93	13k	4mo
Second pass at: The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? Meta › Site feedback site feedback moderation guidelines Solved Second pass at: The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below. Posting a small dataset on topic list. It is mine, it is…	+101	108	8.4k	4mo
A staff appointment, and what the role involves Meta › Announcements trust levels site feedback moderation Closed On the subject in the title: A staff appointment, and what the role involves Working notes rather than a conclusion. Asking about staff appointment on behalf of the question I keep seeing asked badly,…		2	1.8k	4mo
Revisiting: Maintainer handover: how it works Meta › Wiki maintenance maintainership review date wiki post moderation Solved Revisiting: Maintainer handover: how it works Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Maintainer handover keeps being re-asked here and I think that is because the…	+53	57	664	4mo
Guidelines revision: what changed and why — one year on Meta › Announcements trust levels moderation site feedback guidelines Pinned On the subject in the title: Guidelines revision: what changed and why — one year on Working notes rather than a conclusion. A methods question rather than a substantive one, about Guidelines revision.…	+73	81	3.9k	4mo
Tag proliferation and whether we should prune — what changed since Meta › Site feedback site feedback guidelines moderation Tag proliferation and whether we should prune — what changed since — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. What changes if the standard account of Tag proliferation is wrong? I…	+5	9	709	5mo
Distinguishing a red flag from an inconvenience Sourcing › Red flags mislabelling documentation quality moderation underdosing Solved Distinguishing a red flag from an inconvenience — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Something about distinguishing a red flag does not reconcile and I would like a second…		2	38k	6mo
Follow-up: A supplier that answers analytical questions with restated claims Sourcing › Red flags documentation quality disputed mislabelling moderation A supplier that answers analytical questions with restated claims — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. A follow-up question about supplier that I did not know to ask the first…	+74	82	2.8k	6mo
Guidelines revision: what changed and why — does this still hold? Meta › Announcements trust levels site feedback guidelines moderation Guidelines revision: what changed and why — does this still hold? — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. I was wrong about Guidelines revision in a thread…		2	58k	7mo
Documentation that appears only after payment Sourcing › Red flags documentation quality moderation mislabelling disputed Solved Documentation that appears only after payment Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Proposing that documentation deserves a maintained page rather than a recurring…	+113	124	13k	7mo
Pricing far outside the range, in either direction Sourcing › Red flags disputed mislabelling underdosing moderation Solved Posting this under the heading it deserves: Pricing far outside the range, in either direction Everything below is what sits behind that. A question about pricing far outside the range that I think has a…	+3	7	27k	7mo
Trust level 3 requirements: a clarification Meta › Announcements guidelines site feedback moderation Trust level 3 requirements: a clarification — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Trust level 3 requirements, and specifically the version of it that the documentation does not…	+10	14	7k	9mo
New subcategory: rationale and scope Meta › Announcements trust levels site feedback moderation guidelines On the subject in the title: New subcategory: rationale and scope Working notes rather than a conclusion. Proposing that new subcategory deserves a maintained page rather than a recurring topic, and drafting…	+123	138	13k	9mo

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