@LoganM: This question started on-topic on Academia SE (“How do I find sources?”), but the only and accepted answer are pretty much to an off-topic question (“What is the source of this particular quote?”). Would this be on-topic here (after appropriate trimming to focus on the latter question)?
Wow, a superping. That's some thing you don't see that often. :-)
@Wrzlprmft When I had a question about possible migration to hsm, I also tried another room - where mods of this site seem to be more active. But without any luck.
I see that the History of Science and Mathematics mods visit this room relatively often. I have recently asked in the hsm chatroom about a question from another site whether it would be a good candidate for migration - maybe some of the mods would be willing to comment on that.
@Wrzlprmft Yes, the question asking for the source of that quote would likely be fine. The broader question of how to find sources for old works is too broad though (in my opinion); that is a large part of the work when it comes to history of science.
@MartinSleziak Sorry about that. I don't check chat that often. I'm not a fan of etymology/terminology questions personally, but other questions of this type have been well-received by the community, so at the very least it is not obviously off-topic.
I'll just mention that I asked on History of Science and Mathematics what they think about migration of this post to that site. Here is the response from one of the mods of that site. (Of course, to get the question actually migrated there, you'll need help from the MathOverflow mods.) — Martin Sleziak9 secs ago
In general, I think it is fine to migrate questions here that are plausibly on-topic first, and we can decide what to do with them from there. Of course there is no harm in asking in individual cases, but it tends to be more efficient if that is the exception rather than the rule.
Well, from what I recall, it's not optimal if a migration is rejected.
The migration stub then stays on the original site and it cannot be deleted for some period (30 days?). But this is probably less an issue with MathOverflow, since posts aren't deleted there so often anyway, even if they are closed.
