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3:23 AM

I'm going to cry

Biblical Hermeneutic's tagging system is... quite interesting

I realized that other SEs may or may not care about their tags very much

in The Library, 27 mins ago, by curiousdannii

@PrinceNorthLæraðr I'd summarise it as: 1) tag the book of the Bible 2) tag a translation if that's relevant, or greek/hebrew 3) tag an approach to interpretation (source/textual-criticism/historical/etc) 4) add anything else you think is relevant and that might help you find other related questions

I'm not trying to shade anyone or anything, but "add anything else you think is relevant and that might help you find other related questions?"

Majority of their tags are blank and I have zero clues on what to write for the excerpts

cries

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Knight

6:09 AM

Recommend me some poems by W.B. Yeats in which he mentions Maud Gonne quite clearly. I would prefer some long poem by him (long in comparison with his other short poems like "Do not love for too long", and long as "A prayer for my daughter")

@EddieKal ^^^

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Q: What is the message of Macbeth in terms of masculinity?

7:15 AM

In class we talked about the inverse of gender roles in Macbeth. The only way for Lady Macbeth to gain power is through Macbeth using her rhetoric. But what about Macbeth? Do you think that the tragedy of Macbeth is the consequence of Macbeth is being too sensitive to masculinity? What does Mascu...

macbeth

7:49 AM

@PrinceNorthLæraðr Puzzling is another site that's not very strict on tagging. Even basic things like removing riddle from things that aren't riddles at all (in the PSE sense of "riddle", not where every puzzle is a riddle) seems to be basically a one-man job of me keeping an eye on things.

8:49 AM

@PrinceNorthLæraðr Don't cry, Prince of Trees. Take pride in the work you've done here.

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Q: Poem about a joker with disorganized attire

11:01 AM

I remember from my childhood a English poem about a joker with disorganized attire. He has worn a cooking pan as hat, (probably) socks as gloves and he's travelling in a train and leaves his station behind. I guess, This poem must be at least 15-20 (or more) years old. Please tell me name of the ...

story-identification poetry

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1:49 PM

@Randal'Thor Yeah, but at BHSE, there's like zero organization there. I don't even think it's worth my time to tag stuff there, but we'll see

I thought that BHSE was a beta site until I saw that it was literally 9 years old

2:18 PM

@PrinceNorthLæraðr It is a beta site, isn't it?

@Randal'Thor No, it's not

I only literally found out after I couldn't find the Area 52 page

(It acts like a Beta site IMO though)

Biblical Hermeneutics – hermeneutics.stackexchange.com

Oh, it just graduated in the recent "graduate all the old sites" thing.

Doesn't have a design or (yet) elected moderators, so it still looks like a beta site.

Launched Q&A site for professors, theologians, and those interested in exegetical analysis of biblical texts.

I see

How does one get a site design?

Wait for the SE design team to get around to it.

Wait years and years, in some cases.

Back when there were fewer sites, everything used to happen together: graduation, site design, first election, higher privilege levels.

I think Puzzling was the last site to get a full site design.

Ooooh

@Randal'Thor Wait no, I think it was Code Golf

Because I remember when Code Golf graduated

2:24 PM

Then after they kind of undesigned all the sites (or made the designs more vanilla and less unique), they gave new "designs" to a few others like PPCG and A&M.

@PrinceNorthLæraðr ^ it graduated years before getting the (semi)design

@Randal'Thor Oh I see

Why do you say semi?

Graduated in 2016, design in 2019.

@PrinceNorthLæraðr Semi because different sites used to have full designs with a lot more customised stuff; now it's not much more than a logo and a different colour scheme.

@Randal'Thor Oh, I see

Ah, looking at other sites, I see what you mean

Merlin -they-them-

Does StackExchange have a site where I could ask about how to clean an old book of a little mold and stains?
This seems the closest even though I know it's not the right spot

Q: At what temperature can I safely iron the fabric bookmarks in the volumes of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade?

Yup!

Tsundoku wrote a question on how to properly iron a book mark thingy

(let me find it)

I recently acquired a volume from the famous Bibliothèque de la Pléiade from an antiquarian bookseller. These volumes always have two fabric bookmarks and as you can see from the image below, the bookmarks in this volume are creased. I would like to iron the bookmarks but I have no idea what typ...

physical-books

@Merlin-they-them- You can ask it here

2:44 PM

@Tsundoku Are you planning to follow the Dutch Language proposal on Area 52?

area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/124544/…

@PrinceNorthLæraðr I am following it. It's at least the fourth Dutch language proposal I have followed. All the previous ones have failed.

@Tsundoku Oh, I didn't know :P

Why?

Not enough questions, not enough followers, not enough questions with 10+ votes, etc.

Should I follow it even though I have zero background in Dutch?

So there was one that started in December 2015, one in December 2016, on in early in early 2018, one in 2019, so this is the fifth Dutch language proposal I am aware of. They may have been other ones before 2015, though.

@PrinceNorthLæraðr That's entirely up to you. But artificially inflating a proposal like that won't guarantee that it won't fall flat in a later phase...

2:48 PM

Yeah...

The person who started the proposal is relatively new to SE and is not actively promoting or guiding it. That's not a good sign.

Well, it helps if the originator of the proposal has a clear vision of what the site should be like (especially its scope) and actively contributes to the questions being asked about it. But in this case, it's not even "leading from behind", it's just not caring about the proposal once it's out there.

Merlin -they-them-

@PrinceNorthLæraðr thanks! I've just asked about it here. Please let me know if there's any edits I should make to improve the question and make it more appropriate to this StackExchange site.
https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/16036/how-can-i-clean-a-book-and-remove-mold-stains

@Merlin-they-them- No problem! The question looks solid, IMO... though that mold stain also looks pretty solid :P

Merlin -they-them-

2:57 PM

Yeah that's kind of what I feared. If I can clean it, I'd like to. But if not, I'd at least like to prevent the mold (if it is mold) from spreading.

I have zero clue on how to clean books, but I think it's a good question for other people to reference in the future

Q: How can I clean a book and remove mold / stains?

3:11 PM

I have a book from 1989 that I inherited recently. The cover and some of the pages have these dark stains and/or mold. It does not seem to have a bad odor (as far as I can tell). Is it possible to clean this book to remove the stains/mold? If so, how can I clean this as DIY at home? How can I pr...

physical-books

@Merlin-they-them- Whether it's worth paying a professional for cleaning the book depends on the book's value. Is the book worth more than, say, one working hour?

Q: Meaning of "Chaos" spoken by Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)?

3:37 PM

In Shakespeare's King Henry 6 part 3, we are truly introduced to that devilishly delightful Richard for the first time by means of his first and longest soliloquy wherein he introduces to the audience what he wants, why he wants it, and how he plans to get it (it being the English Crown of course...

meaning william-shakespeare henry-vi-part-iii

Eddie Kal

4:08 PM

@Knight Off the top of my head I can't think of any long poems. The most well-known reference to Gonne, as you probably know, is found in Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. But it is pretty short and I have mostly read short Yeats poems.

Napoleon Wilson

4:46 PM

@Tsundoku That seems to depend on what a working hour is.

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Knight

5:57 PM

@EddieKal Okay. Did Yeats get Nobel for a one single work (like Rabindranath Tagore) or for overall works (like TS Eliot)?

Q: Story about two men walking through the forest

6:11 PM

This is a story (fable) that I remember reading or hearing when I was young (UK, probably between 2000-2010). It felt more like a fable than a story written then. The part I remember is of two men who were going for a long journey. This journey would take them through a large forest and based on ...

story-identification

6:35 PM

@Knight 'The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."' (Nobelprize.org)

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