Timeline for Are country-specific questions too localized?
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| Jun 17, 2012 at 4:03 | comment | added | wfaulk | IMO, "too localized" refers to issues that cannot ever reasonably be useful to a significant number of people. "Too localized" to the question-asker, not "too localized" to a specific geographic region. | |
| Jun 17, 2012 at 2:48 | comment | added | Wesley | @JohnGardeniers and Kyle, It seems that questions closed for the sole reason of being local to one country have been in error all along. I cite both Joel's meta post here as well as an old podcast where this topic came up. We have been known to be wrong for long periods of time. Witness our early tolerance of shopping questions and rather chatty, opinionated CWs for a good year or more of ServerFault's beginning. | |
| Jun 16, 2012 at 22:07 | comment | added | Kyle Brandt | The important thing to remember is that these are guidelines anyways. So there is no exact square footage where all questions must be closed. Good judgment should work most of the time, if it is borderline, then judge the general quality of the content. In other words if something might seem narrow but is on topic and good quality then it probably doesn't need to be closed. | |
| Jun 16, 2012 at 18:50 | comment | added | Rob Moir | I don't think I've done that myself @JohnGardeniers but I might close a question with that as a factor - for example, part of the reason why 'can you help me with my licence question' type questions are targets for 'too local' is because they vary from country to country AND business sector to business sector AND type of licence purchased AND when they purchased it... | |
| Jun 16, 2012 at 11:15 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | If this is correct then why have we already closed so many questions as too local simply because they applied to only one country? | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 4:09 | history | answered | Wesley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |