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Bugs, friction, and the parts of the site that do not work the way you expected. This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its author and…

Posting this under the heading it deserves: Request: show the solution author in the topic list Everything below is what sits behind that. Process question, and I have read the guidelines before asking. I…

Aggregated purity results across four services, with caveats — a second dataset — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Posting a small dataset on Aggregated purity results…

On the subject in the title: Tag proliferation and whether we should prune Working notes rather than a conclusion. I have spent a fortnight trying to pin tag proliferation down and I want to set out where I…

A friction point in the promotion workflow — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Asking about friction point directly, because I have read four threads on it and each answered…

The storage lookup and where its data comes from — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Working notes on storage lookup rather than a conclusion. I would rather post the…

Revisiting: What to include when your question involves arithmetic — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Counting it rather than describing it, because the count is the part…

The question in the title: The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? I will give what I have already checked below so nobody repeats it. A follow-up question about topic list that I did not know to ask…

Request declined, with reasoning — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. I would like to know what people here actually do about request declined, as distinct from what is…

On the subject in the title: Whether an aggregate is worth publishing at all: a disputed topic Working notes rather than a conclusion. An honest uncertainty about whether an aggregate rather than a disguised…

On the subject in the title: A friction point in the promotion workflow — the long version Working notes rather than a conclusion. A narrow question about friction point, deliberately narrow, because the…

Request: tag synonyms surfaced in search Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Tag synonyms surfaced in search — I have the observation and I do not trust my…

Posting this under the heading it deserves: Validating a calculator against hand arithmetic — what changed since Everything below is what sits behind that. What changes if the standard account of Validating a…

Scheduled maintenance and what will be unavailable Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Collecting what is known about scheduled maintenance in one place, because…

Posting this under the heading it deserves: Sample size in a voluntary survey: the selection problem Everything below is what sits behind that. Sample size: setting out the arithmetic in full, because I have…

Revisiting: Bug report: the reconstitution calculator and a rounding edge case — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Posting the calculation with the inputs, so that somebody…

On the subject in the title: Contributing data without breaching anyone's privacy — what changed since Working notes rather than a conclusion. What changes if the standard account of Contributing data without…

Feature request: should a dose-equivalence tool exist at all? — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. Reading back through what has been written here about…

The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. A narrow question about topic list, deliberately narrow, because the…

New subcategory: rationale and scope — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Proposing that New subcategory deserves a maintained page rather than a recurring topic, and drafting…

Revisiting: Moderation log format change Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Moderation log format change keeps being re-asked here and I think that is because…

Request: a diff view for wiki revisions — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. I would like to know what people here actually do about diff view for wiki revisions, as distinct…

The question in the title: Why "any advice?" is the least effective ending for a post I will give what I have already checked below so nobody repeats it. Counting it rather than describing it, because the…

Revisiting: Five questions in one post gets you one answer — how to split them Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Working notes on Five questions rather than a…

Revisiting: A staff appointment, and what the role involves — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Reading back through what has been written here about staff appointment, three…

Request: show the solution author in the topic list Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Bringing the figures rather than the impression, since a process question…

The mass-error checker and its intended scope Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Proposing that mass-error checker deserves a maintained page rather than a…