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Why was this ID question about a YouTube video deleted by a moderator?
This ID question, "Movie where a man in a suit and tie disarms three men accosting a waitress," asking about the source of a clip the user had found on YouTube, was posted a few hours ago. ...
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Old western movie when a man was hanged [migrated]
During the 1980s, as a child, I remember seeing a Western movie, possibly made in the 1960s or 1970s. I just remember the start of the movie, when a man was hanged in (I think a public) outdoor ...
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Is "lacks research effort" or "obvious answer" a valid reason to close this Wheel of Fortune question?
Someone recently asked a question about whether anyone tried to solve the puzzle and got it wrong in Wheel of Fortune (archive.org copy of the comments). The question received at least 4 close votes. ...
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How should we handle the title of the "early credits roll" question?
I've recently edited the title of "Early credits roll before the end of the film" to "What was the first film to feature an "early credits roll"?" in the belief that it ...
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What happened to the question on sailors and the Nazi bomber?
I can't see "Only after the Ju 88 shows up, why do Norwegian sailors start readying and loading their anti-aircraft gun?"—it got deleted? It asked why sailors didn't set up gunsights on ...
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Can we have identification questions for objects?
On Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange, users are allowed to ask questions to identify objects (like the type of gun a specific character holds in their hands, the vehicle being used in a ...
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Is it on-topic to ask to identify a model who hasn't been a part of the movie industry, but her picture is used on a movie poster?
The only thing related to movies is that the model's picture is on a film poster, but she is neither an actress of the film nor of any other movies.
So, is it on-topic to ask to identify a model whose ...
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Creating a WarGames tag synonym
I'd like to suggest a synonym for the war-games tag (my first!).
Ordinarily I would make this change myself, however, I receive an error that says the tag must already exist in the system in order to ...
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Why are ID questions with upvoted but not accepted answers not counted as "unanswered"?
I am not sure if this is the right place to raise such a question/suggestion but I thought it might be helpful for those of us who enjoy helping with ID questions.
I have noticed that ID questions ...
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What's the point of voting in ID answers?
I've been browsing identification questions and something stood out to me: voting on the answers is pointless.
On other questions, you would vote on an answer that best answers the question, which ...
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What is the 'dialog' tag for?
There is a user who is currently (apparently) systematically adding the dialog tag to all questions that contain or ask about dialog in a scene in a movie. They are commenting on their edits
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Are ID questions being systematically downvoted? 98% downvote rate suggests voting abuse
I've been noticing a troubling pattern for about a year now: practically every identification question, around 98% of them, regardless of quality or details provided, gets downvoted shortly after ...
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Topic Challenge: Gene Hackman and his career
February saw the death of renowned actor Gene Hackman. By popular demand to honor him and remember his career, we will hold a 4 week topic challenge from
Monday 2025-04-14 00:00 UTC to
Monday 2025-05-...
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Rename Hamlet, Point Break, and Total Recall tags to disambiguate them from other films with the same title
According to our community consensus in the meta discussion post "Rules for multiple media using the same name":
if there are two films (or TV shows) with the same title, they should both (...
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Rename tags to disambiguate Daredevil shows: [daredevil] → [daredevil-2003], [daredevil-tv] → [daredevil-2015]
According to the top-voted answer (community consensus) in the meta discussion post "Rules for multiple media using the same name":
if there are two films (or TV shows) with the same title, ...