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5:16 AM

Q: Revamping the closure reasons in 2022

Prompted by Gro-Tsen's recent meta question, it appears that now may be a good time to rethink our site-specific close reasons here on MathOverflow. Background: If you have sufficient rep, you can click the "close" button on a question, and you get a popup which looks like this: These are some ...

@TimCampion There is a minor typo - a missing space here: "suggested by Matt F.in this meta discussion".

Maybe I am overly cautions, but I thought that if somebody visits meta, they might be more interested in the post if they see there your avatar rather than mine. (And in the active tab, the most recent editor is shown.)

That's why mentioned it here - rather than just editing it myself.

Tim Campion

5:38 AM

gotcha, thanks, just fixed it!

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Martin Sleziak

7:45 AM

A: I have a question which is a near fit for MathOverflow. What are some other resources I might consult?

Reference tools. Wikipedia PlanetMath Encyclopedia of Mathematics nlab arXiv Zentralblatt

I made some edits to this CW answer: wikipedia $\to$ Wikipedia, Planet Math $\to$ PlanetMath, arxiv $\to$ arXiv

Should it perhaps be nLab rather than nlab?

I am aware that some people say that this is grammatically incorrect. (That would include problems with MathOverflow having capital O in the middle of the word.)

Sep 6, 2019 at 21:30, by Federico Poloni

Since we are at it, the only one of your changes that I don't approve of is altering the capitalization of Mathoverflow

Sep 6, 2019 at 21:31, by Federico Poloni

I'm not going to make another edit just for that, but I prefer sticking to the standard English capitalization rules. I think spelling "Mathoverflow" is perfectly legitimate and shouldn't be changed (like colour/color shouldn't be changed gratuitously).

Sep 6, 2019 at 22:15, by Martin Sleziak

The Wikipedia article on MathOverflow uses the same spelling. That article survived AfD nomination not too long ago - so it seems that MO is notable, at least by Wikipedia's standards.

Sep 6, 2019 at 22:25, by Federico Poloni

I disagree on your idea that someone can decide the capitalization of their own name. See for instance the take of this of this Washington Post copy editor: http://www.theslot.com/webnames.html

Sep 6, 2019 at 22:26, by Federico Poloni

I'm going to stick with my capitalization, which I consider correct. I think it is a matter of writing style (like many commas, or color/colour), and it should not be changed.

A: I have a question which is a near fit for MathOverflow. What are some other resources I might consult?

Other mathematical communities: Here are some mathematical communities on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/abstractalgebra/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AppliedMath/ https://old.reddit.com/r/askmath/ https://old.reddit.com/r/mathematics/ https://old.reddit.com/r/math/ https://old.reddit.com/r/maths...

Concerning the first answer, what exactly is the difference between old.reddit.com/r/askmath and reddit.com/r/askmath ? Is this a way how one can get different user interface (if that's the correct word) for reddit?

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