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Issues of what is allowable or desirable in question titles.

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In the question If $a=\sqrt{4+\sqrt{5+a}}~;~b=\sqrt{4-\sqrt{5+b}}~;~c=\sqrt{4+\sqrt{5-c}}~;~d=\sqrt{4-\sqrt{5-d}}$. Then $abcd$? the title is formatted like this: ...
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It happens regularly that the OP wants to prove something which is not true. And in these situations, it might happen a wrong statement ends up in the title. Typical example: Is the composition of ...
Martin Brandenburg's user avatar
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When someone posts a question with a really generic title like "Help with algebra problem" I usually check the post to find a better, much more specific title (something like "Property ...
Martin Brandenburg's user avatar
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1 answer
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This question appears on my page like this : I thought the problem was because the length of the equations under the \sqrt, I got sick of it so decided to edited to ...
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When I edit a question, a preview of the edited content is shown, which makes it easy to know if I'm doing this right. But: when editing the title of a question (e.g. replacing "Z" by "$...
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I recently posted a question with the title "Weird geometry problem with very elegant result". While this title is truthful (I explain the weirdness in the body of the question, and the ...
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1 answer
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From previous discussions, I've come to understand that questions with MathJax in the title cannot become hot network questions, and that editing a title to include MathJax should boot the question ...
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Here is a screenshot from my activity page: running Google Chrome Version 99.0.4844.51 (Official Build) (64-bit) However the browser or the version doesn't seem to matter, tested same thing on ...
Anindya Prithvi's user avatar
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I am unable to write a proper title for my question. It is too long and I'm unable to define “non-piecewise” in my title: Is there a non-piecewise average extending the average from Hausdorff Measure/...
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I am finishing my undergraduate thesis, now my advisor has asked me to think of a name, but since in my work I use a mathematical tool to deal with two somewhat distant elements, I cannot think of a ...
Luis Alexandher's user avatar
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1 answer
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With the recent update, MathJax on some titles on the homepage span several lines like this: or this: This makes things a bit tricky to read. Does this happen to anyone else?
Jose Avilez's user avatar
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When I'm trying to write a question I certainly make a lot of effort to be as clear as possible. Certainly the hurry does not provide good advice and, several times in my specific case, I spend little ...
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I have noticed, several times already, that some titles containing MathJax are rendered incorrectly in review queues, i.e. across multiple rows. I can't remember for sure, but I expect this to also ...
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Recently, I've found out that questions with $ \TeX $ markup in their title are excluded from the Hot Network Questions. This made me think about my editing habits. One of my favorite topics is ...
Mohsen Shahriari's user avatar
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Looking at this question should the word "codomain" be changed to "range" in the title to make this post more easily find-able by those with same question? I.e. do kids these days ...
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