Timeline for Full question statements in the title
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| Jan 23, 2017 at 11:34 | comment | added | quid | @MartinSleziak right, as many it is to be assumed I did not read until the end. :-) I do not disagree that it is well-written. But I still think it could make sense to have these two pieces of information closer together. But maybe this is a discussion for elsewhere. | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 11:11 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | One of the links I've added (the one which is tagged faq) contains: "Your question should be clear without the title ... make sure that the question body does not rely on specific information in the title." So it is there. (I am not sure, perhaps it might be more prominently visible. However, to me the faq entry seems to be quite well written.) | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 11:04 | comment | added | quid | @MartinSleziak yes, that's what I likely had in min. MO earlier had a similar recommendation, which may in turn have been similar to one on SO. On MO at some point it became "Make your title your question (But don't forget to restate it in the body!)" Maybe we could do this here too. | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 7:02 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Re: If I recall correctly, there is even a recommendation somewhere "Make your question your title." Probably this is mentioned in some other places too, but one of the most visible is probably the part about titles in both copies of "How to ask a good question?" Here is the older one and the more recent. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 11:00 | comment | added | quid | That's a good point and I sometimes brought it up myself in favor of not using too much MJ in titles. Yet, by now, the HNQ is 'smart' regarding MJ and filters against MJ on non-MJ sites, that is, your particular example is not an example anymore. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 7:05 | comment | added | celtschk | Another thing to think about is that the title may also appear outside of math.SE (e.g. on the hot network questions), on sites that don't have MathJax enabled. Any non-basic uses of MathJax in the title will result in the title being hard to read on those sites. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 0:31 | vote | accept | Emre | ||
| Jan 16, 2017 at 12:14 | history | answered | quid | CC BY-SA 3.0 |