Questions tagged [citations]
For questions primarily about citations in answers, and general policies and guidance regarding such citations.
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Clarification for community bot's request for additional supporting information
I've been a long time lurker in this stackexchange, having spent most of my time at math.stackexchange.com. I know each separate site can have its own community standards, so I was hoping to get ...
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Checking in: do we need any updates to our Citation Expectations Q&A?
This meta is a check-in on: What are the citation expectations of answers on RPG Stack Exchange?
I created this meta a few years ago so people could point to it while leaving a comment addressing an ...
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What is the clearest way to format links to D&D Beyond alongside quoted rules?
In the 5e part of this site there's a heavy emphasis on rules quotes. What is the clearest way to quote rules?
Option 1 (link then quote)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/races#...
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GIFs, pictures and Copyright
Recently we had a question that uses a gif to describe what happens when a caster acts.
The gif was made from an excerpt from Dragonball, and I don't see how it is fair use. In fact, none of the fair ...
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How are you meant to provide personal experience on mostly mathematical questions?
In What can I do to make a Kobold encounter interesting? there was a question of how to make an encounter more challenging.
I noted the example of Tucker's kobolds, where you lead the people to ...
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Uncomfortable about inconsistent application of criteria for valid answers
This is a common problem (it seems) across social related SE (gaming, workplace, interpersonal etc).
The criteria for an answer require either an objective citation, or that the answer is based on a ...
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Making Citations Accessible
Years ago I had to fight to preserve citation styles - especially fighting inline citation. Because I honestly believe Inline citation is ugly and throws off my reading experience.
Now, Citations in ...
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Can we quote parts of novels in our questions and answers?
I recently answered this RPG.SE question: Who is pictured on the cover of Dragonlance Adventures? I quoted some parts of the novel as support for my answer.
I was wondering if we are allowed to quote ...
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Does a high score on an answer excuse the requirement to back up the answer?
Existing Guidance
Reviewing guidance on meta and our post notice on main, it seems we put forward as a matter of substantive policy that answers must be backed up and supported, either objectively ...
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Are interviews reliable sources for supporting an answer?
The current site policy is to not consider tweets from Jeremy Crawford (or other game designers) as main support for answers to D&D 5e questions, following the Official Ruling section in the Sage ...
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Should we refrain from posting answers which rely on unreleased content?
Today is the day of the Tasha's Cauldron of Everything release. Answers quoting its content starting showing up yesterday. Since it is here now, obviously this question does not apply to Tasha's ...
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Is Lords of Waterdeep applicable to determining what is possible in the world of 5e (or 4e) on Rpg.se?
Noting that Lords of Waterdeep (LOW) comes with a "Rulebook" that is labeled not merely "Lords of Waterdeep / Rulebook" but rather says "Lords of Waterdeep / Dungeons & ...
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Should I accept an opinion-based answer if an objective one doesn't appear to be forthcoming?
I asked this question about the limitations of the Pathfinder spell stone shape, which are not well-defined in the game system. I was looking for either an explicit rule that I missed, an evidence-...
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Pathfinder sources: aonprd vs d20pfsrd
We have already had a similar discussion years ago, when the official SRD was Paizo's own PRD.
Now things have changed. Archives of Nethys (henceforth AON) is a community-mantained, errata-including ...
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How does the post notice for unsupported answers get put on?
There is a post notice for answers in need of support, but I'm unclear as to how that post notice is placed.
If we see something that needs support, what is the process for noting that? Obviously a ...
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Are the citation requirements for objective questions not applicable to systems like World of Darkness/Mage the Ascension?
I recently saw a question tagged about World of Darkness/Mage the Ascension and commented on answer that they didn't provide any citational support from the rules.
They did add some in, but then I ...
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What is the best practice for editing in references?
Lately I have been making small edits to posts to include quotes, references to the books, and links to online resources when a question does not include them. Some good examples of this are these two ...
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Confusion regarding the "Good Subjective" post notice and the policy on backing up answers
This is a question for moderators as I'm not sure how else to ask this.
There have been the following posts recently: "Please give your feedback on a new “Subjective Citation Needed” post notice
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Do we need to do anything about old, upvoted, accepted answers that are not up to scratch with our standards today?
I stumbled upon this question today, which has this answer. It's upvoted (currently sitting at +18/-2) and accepted, but is very short and has a standard banner message across it that I've seen ...
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How do we appropriately back up a subjective answer? [duplicate]
If anyone has other approaches to subjective support, please provide an answer on the duplicate questions linked above.
It is clear that we require answers to be backed up here- whether they are ...
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A Modest Proposal for answers that aren't backed up
This has happened many times, but I'm going to focus on the most recent question where answers have flooded in that aren't backed up but are highly upvoted.
If we do, in fact, want people to support ...
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How should we handle adding citations to older questions and answers?
While I understand we've had guidelines on Meta to discuss how a user should handle their own citations, I think we should visit how and when we should edit Questions and Answers regarding citations.
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How do we back up affirmative answers to "Am I understanding this correctly"-style questions?
A new user left this answer to the Can Heighten Spell benefit a [Reserve] feat?:
Legal and working as intended.
I found this question (and answer) when looking through the review queue, and there ...
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When do homebrew suggestions need to be playtested by an answerer?
It is unclear to me when someone needs to provide playtesting for homebrew suggestions and when they don't.
As an example, in this answer, MattDM provides a really good answer for the first half, ...
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What is the policy about link targeting locked content? [duplicate]
This question references https://www.dndbeyond.com/, which is an official WoTC website. The problem we face with this content is that it is not accessible without a twitch account (afaik).
This ...
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How should we handle answers that use Jeremy Crawford's now unofficial tweets?
The 2019 sage advice compendium has released, and it includes a change to what is considered "official rulings."
Previously, Jeremy Crawford had the capacity to make official rulings over twitter. ...
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What are the citation expectations of answers on RPG Stack Exchange?
As a Stack Exchange site, answers on RPG.SE are expected to be cited and backed up, but what the expectations are exactly can be hard to find.
What are the citation expectations of answers on here?
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How should we handle potentially untrustworthy sources?
Based off of this meta question, I think we should address how to handle source citations that are known to be incorrect.
If Roll20 (or other 3rd party sources) are known to have errors, should we ...
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Can we encourage askers to provide the source or quote of their things?
Recently, this question about Eladrin's Fey Step brought some confusion because Eladrin is "talked about" in DMG as an Example Subrace (for creating new subraces) while the actual, playable/official ...
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Is it fine to cite the SRD in answers even if WotC does not consider it an official rules source?
Based on a discussion on an answer.
Jeremy Crawford has said:
The sword of sharpness deals an extra 14 slashing damage when you roll a 20 on its attack roll. The SRD incorrectly says otherwise. ...
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Are rules questions that require a developer (official OR non-official) response ONLY valid for our stack?
Is a firbolg's Hidden Step intended to deactivate due to spells such as Booming Blade? has a specific stipulation from the asker that the accepted answer must have a supporting tweet from a ...
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Stance on using D&D Beyond for references?
With the release of dndbeyond, and seeing it used a few times around the site, I wanted to ask if we have (or should have) a policy regarding using direct links to a paywall shielded website, instead ...
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When answering a product/content identification, please explain *why* you think you've found the right thing
This was prompted by Mid-to-late 1970's Space Based RPG: what was it?, a question I've put on hold briefly so we can assess clean-up. The question needs some refinement (and this question will be ...
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How should I cite the SRD?
For this answer, as well as a few others, I've used quotes from the SRD as a source. How should I cite those properly, to help back up my claims, and prove that I'm not pulling quotes from my bum?
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Why is one +21 question On Hold when a similar question is ok with +53 votes?
For what reasoning was this question (What to do about a player who takes risks and dies (without consequence)?) with 21 upvotes and no downvotes On Hold as opinion based and most of the (IMO more ...
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At what point is an official D&D source unacceptable?
So the general consensus of some of the highest rated users here is that the official Wizards of the Coast FAQ is to be ignored when answering questions: What is wrong with the D&D 3.5 FAQ?.
This ...
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Feature Request: Citing Tweets
I'd like to paste in a Twitter URL and get a nicely formatted quote with a link back to the original, the Twitter user, date, etc. Lately—primarily due to the convenience of reaching D&D 5e ...
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Please consider using book references that will be understood internationally
This originally was an off-topic comment elsewhere. I think it's important enough to warrant it's own post.
As this is an international site, our language is English. However, many people play games ...
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Pathfinder sources: prd vs d20pfsrd
For answers to Pathfinder questions is either a more preferred source for citations and references?
Is either of them treated with more authority by members of this stack exchange site?
Links the ...
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Does this answer to a question about a Vampire Discipline that lets them disbelieve in things have too much quoted text?
In the answer to this question Where can I find this Discipline that allows a Vampire to disbelieve in sunlight, stakes, etc. so strongly that it can ignore them?, there is a large block of source ...
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