Changing site policy needs a lot more consensus. People are going to have to use this new close reason to close stuff, instead of the old and familiar > homewrok questionasodfaieruh
Meta is an odd beast. Admittedly, I still don't understand parts of it. Typically, requests the community can respond to get the required attention. They get decided upon, and acted upon. Requests related to tags, chat events, policy deciding and so on.
I don't exactly know or ever wondered how ...
@MelanieShebel, thanks for the edit of my answer. One question; Is US english the "official" language for this site? I ask because my quoted text from Wikipedia used the British spelling "vapour", which you corrected to "vapor". It would be nice to know because I do a lot of edits, and I don't change British spelling to US. It actually seems particularly odd that we should do that for quoted text. Anyway, thx again and I eagerly await your input!
@M.A.R. , thx, that's what I thought. I think that maybe the editor has their spell-check set to US English, so British spellings come up as misspellings. I know a lot of the different spellings, but there was one word, can't remember it now, I had been correcting until I realized it was coming up a lot. I found out it was just a British spelling and my ignorance thereof!
The only mention of this that turned up in a quick search was a passing mention three years ago. I've just encountered a pending edit on this question where the editor tidied up the question with MathJax and such, but also proposed to change favored to favoured.
My habit when I make edits is t...
<nod>, I would also assume it was accidental. Melanie's been around the site long enough that I figure she's aware of the 'leave it alone' policy on that
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's homework-like and an AMIRITE question, meaning it's too localized to be helpful to future visitors, and it can't have an exemplary answer considering the OP is both asking and answering in the question. — M.A.R.4 hours ago
@airhuff I didn't notice that it was british spelling, I usually go into a question because of some other mispelling but when I see a british spelling, I let my spell check change that too. Sorry for the confusion. Brit spelling is fine
@MelanieShebel No problem. I had 2 grammatical errors that you fixed for me outside of the spelling stuff, so much thanks ;) I honestly did not know for sure if there was a policy, though I suspected it was just your spell checker. Thx again for fixing and clarifying!
@Feeds Awesome idea, I think I'll download a new ICP-MS!
In introductory chemistry books, courses, ...
Many "definitions" contain words like: typically, most, often, likely, generally.
I read since questions on this site mentioning different definitions of same concept in different books.
I just read about a concept where the explanation contained s...
I deliberately avoided examples, because in my experience that makes people occupied wit the example and then I never get an answer. — foobarJul 5 '14 at 12:12
you take an underweight baby and ask it to live without both eyes, and ears.....similar thing.(sorry for being that harsh, i guess the question demanded it) i got nothing against you, mate — Supernova5 hours ago