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Gayot Fow

12:50 AM

I need Joe, where is Joe when you need him?

phoog

4:28 AM

@GayotFow have you tried a coffee shop?

chx

7:38 AM

@Willeke the closest I ever got to being run over was when I was pushing my bike on a marked street crossing and a police car (not even using sirens) took a right turn at high speed, it was very close.

mts

9:41 AM

@hippietrail was hoping for you to answer that. +1 from me, just waiting a bit longer for more answer until I accept.

chx

10:19 AM

travel.stackexchange.com/questions/77796/… so why the unsourced answer is accepted while mine is sourced?

Ankur Banerjee

10:43 AM

Hey all I'm back!

Ankur, could you go ahead and delete the tag then? I presume this is "word of god" from the mods so there's no more need to discuss this matter. @hippietrail If the mods are inactive let's go ahead and do a manual cleanup — JonathanReez 15 hours ago

So about the above

Can someone help me with a community effort to delete the tag?

Gayot Fow

11:09 AM

@chx ungood, bizarre!

chx

Yesterday StackOverflow has proven again what an incredible learning resource it is

While I am generally not bad with sane programming languages, awk is bizarre and from time to time I need to ask SO to elevate my awk-fu and they always come through.

Ankur Banerjee

11:25 AM

@Fiksdal chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/44726/…

Fiksdal

@AnkurBanerjee Oh, yeah, they're copied there.

Ankur Banerjee

The wording is a bit weird yeah

Fiksdal

I'm just used to them being cleared from the question itself, also, as in "moved".

Ankur Banerjee

the automated message says "moved" when it should say copied

Fiksdal

Anyway, not saying they should be moved. I like it this way.

Exactly.

It gives people a hint that if they want to continue an extended discussion, they should do it in chat.

I mean, copying without clearing them does that, so it's still useful.

mts

12:20 PM

I've suggested a dupe to this question but apparently people have voted to leave open without leaving a comment? Could I get some more looks, either voting to close or giving some feedback as to why it merits to be a question in itself?

Ankur Banerjee

@mts When questions are reviewed in the queue for close / open via this link travel.stackexchange.com/review

It doesn't give the option to leave a comment directly through that process - it's meant for quick reviews

so yes it's possible that people clicked Leave Open without leaving a comment

mts

thanks but actually you can comment there (and I often do) before giving your vote. Alternatively users can always go back in their browser and such find the question again.

Of course nobody is obliged to, just in this case I feel like it is a dupe, otherwise I'd set up a more general canonical.

Ankur Banerjee

true, it's best form to comment - I'd recommend chat here actually, since otherwise the comments section just devolves into an extended chat

mts

cheers :)

That being said, what is good form about setting up canonicals? E.g. I would like to set up a "how can I find out whether I need a transit visa in south korea?" canonical like we have for the UK, since we get a lot of more specific questions that then turn out not exact duplicates... but is this OK?

Ankur Banerjee

12:37 PM

Generally we try to look at volumes, i.e., UK visas and Schengen we tend to get a LOT of very similar / dupe like questions. (There's a meta discussion going about forming a Community Wiki for them.)

For say South Korea, would be good to monitor if we're getting a high volume of similar queries.

Travel.SE / SE in general is a QA site first rather than a wiki

so it's often last resort to have Community Wikis

mts

12:58 PM

Thanks. I think the meta CW for Schengen was my suggestion, I am not aware of anything similar for UK yet, but I'm sure it could be very helpful.

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