Questions tagged [migration]
The process of migrating off-topic questions from one Stack Exchange site to another.
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Why is there still a Bad Trend of Migrating Mathematics Questions in Statistics to Cross Validated
There exists already substantial amount of posts discussing this serious issue in Meta, see for example Hasty migration of mathematical statistics questions to stats.SE . I would like to address the ...
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Should I / How can I move a bountied question to math overflow?
I posted this question a week ago and have since bountied it. I still haven't figured out the answer to the problem. I'm starting to think that it might be a research level question and would be more ...
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I asked A question On MSE, Which I now think can receive more attention from MathOverflow
I recently asked a question On MSE, which was answered by one user, after I used bounty for first time. Later I re-bountied it for more clarification. Still I think it lacks more details, And can ...
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Is there a way to undo a migration?
"This question Estimating the most abundant isotopomer of an isotopic distribution was migrated to Cross Validated because it can be answered by people interested in statistics, machine learning, ...
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Suggestion: Add https://hsm.stackexchange.com/ as a migration option [duplicate]
Occasionally we get questions that are focused on the history of mathematics, for which there is the lovely https://hsm.stackexchange.com/ . Can we get that added to the "belongs on another ...
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Why can't Math StackExchange questions be flagged as belonging in a site other than math meta, stats, or physics? [duplicate]
I have noticed a few questions that don't belong on math StackExchange, math meta, stats StackExchange, or physics StackExchange. I cannot flag them as belonging in another site, so I just post a ...
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Should this question (that I wrote) be migrated to History of Mathematics SE?
I wrote this question ( In its earliest usage, did the notation "5 x 3" mean "five groups of three" or "five, placed into each of three groups"? ) without realizing that ...
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Would this question be more suitable for Math Overflow?
I asked the following question, but I didn't get any answer, even after adding a bounty: Finite-sample confidence interval for the sample mean of N iid Beta-Binomial random variables Do you think I ...
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Include History of Science and Mathematics in the list of sites to migrate to
Edit: this question is not a duplicate of the one that has been mentioned in the comments, as I am here suggesting a built-in feature to allow HSM as a potential site to migrate to within the reasons-...
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Wrongly migrated from Physics SE?
The question What are the implications of deterministic chaos: useful or detrimental? has just been migrated from Physics SE. Since it's mostly about modeling, about the consequences in the physical ...
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Migrating a question to Meta doesn't decrease reputation
Recently, a question about the irrationality of $\pi + \mathrm e$ got migrated from Main to Meta. While on Main, that question had obtained a total of 5 - 1 = 4 votes, for a total of 50 - 2 = 48 ...
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Why was this question "returned" to another SE site?
This is a question about this post. The post was originally from the Mathematica SE site and was migrated to MSE (math SE) because the underlying question is one of mathematics rather than one of ...
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2 votes
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Tagging migrated questions
One thing I've noticed is that questions like these end up creating an untagged tag whenever a migration takes place. Is this intended behavior? If not, what is the appropriate method of handling ...
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Why can't I select any other SE website when flagging a question? [duplicate]
I flagged this question recently. I wanted to select "this question belongs on another stack exchange network" but only three other SE sites came up (as shown below) when it asked which site ...
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Would it be possible to include the scicomp.SE site in the list of related SE sites?
I came across a post that is in my opinion more about scientific computing, than mathematics. Therefore I wanted to flag the question accordingly, but I couldn't find the scicomp.SE site among the ...
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