How about sources, or GTFO?

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Short answers aren't a problem, but short speculative answers, based upon nothing but thin air, are.

Excuse me, wrong room.

The other short "Jedi are Christian"-answers have been deleted; shouldn't the last one ("JEsus' DIsciple") go as well?

I'm below 20k; I would've cast the vote myself if I weren't.

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You'll have to ask Wikis.

It's a drive-by (unregistered user) and unsourced.

@Gallifreyan "what good is [food]?" (possible tag clean-up).

@SQB Yeah, I wanted to merge that into [culture] initially.

I think I've got all the PotC questions tagged properly now.

Both flagged.

Or should I have checked the review queues for them?

Not an answer: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/160556/70236

Flagged as well. I went through the queue, which is a pain on mobile, then noticed that it doesn't really matter.

Crap answer: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/136063/70236

I'd vote to delete for being a joke answer if I weren't under 20k. But flagging to get a moderator seems a bit too much.

It's not exactly a joke answer since Dr. Manhattan has the capacity to do this; problem is - there's no indication he ever did (unless Rebirth decides to prove me wrong)

It does introduce a character from a different, unrelated franchise, doesn't it?

Not an answer but useful info - for some reason they posted it separately from their other answer: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/160559/70236

Last seen 1 hour ago. There is hope.

Weird that a user who's almost at 4k would let an answer like that stand.

story-identification seems to be their forte.

Even weirder: that second answer is really recent. I had missed that.

I'll just move them to the previously accepted answer.

@Gallifreyan do you agree?

@SQB I think we can leave it for a day at least, before the poster comes again and sees my comment.

Okay. I was already editing the main answer, TBH. It soes have some formatting issues.

I'll leave out the rest, then.

That user has a varying quality in their answers.

Some lack formatting, while others have both formatting and a link. They seem to know how to do it, but not feel like putting in the effort.

At least, that's how it appears to me.

Wow, that's web 1.0: tdl.com/~sjvan/biblio2.htm

@SQB Must be easy to crawl though, even with my Matlab skills.

Another candidate to get sorted is [translation], which is both used to ask about translations of certains works (do they exist, how was something translated), and to ask about translations of phrases in fictional languages.

@Adamant is right. Answers which are merely "bad" or wrong, but do make good-faith attempts to answer the question, shouldn't be deleted.

Please don't use this room as a way to garner enough votes to delete answers which shouldn't be deleted.

Here's one big advantage to having wrong answers downvoted but not deleted: they - and their wrongness - are visible to anyone viewing the page.

If an answer saying X (which is wrong) is right down at the bottom of the page with a negative score, then that tells anyone else viewing the question that X is wrong, which could be useful information.

This principle doesn't just hold on sites like SO or SU, but also on more recreational sites. For example, here's the lowest-voted post on Role-playing Games:

The fact that the answer is there, but has such a low score, is just as useful as having a highly-voted answer saying that [content of that answer] is wrong.

@Gallifreyan In case you didn't see my comment on Mith's meta post: I think you're confused about what that "require clarification" thing means. It's about clarification from the asker, not the answerer. That canned comment is supposed to be for answers which should really have been comments, e.g. which just critique the question rather than answering it. It's not for unclear answers.