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Can we encourage askers to provide the source or quote of their things?
This is the classic "easy" case for voting to close as unclear.
You read a question about Eladrin in D&D5e and thought "I wonder if it's the DMG eladrin or the MToF one--it matters.&...
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Can we do a mass update on old wizards links?
Five years later, and even the archive.wizards.com links are down. I've searched high and low for the content, but it's nowhere to be found (at least not in official places). This mostly affects ...
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How do you link to a post and highlight a portion of its text?
This is a feature specific to the Chrome browser, not this website. You'll see the link from that comment leads to a URL like this: ...
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What is the policy on linking to non-official sites?
You may link to non-official sites. It's fine. We have for a long time facilitated links to d20srd, d20pfsrd, Fate SRD, dandwiki and so on, where none of those are official. There's no problem here.
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Can we encourage askers to provide the source or quote of their things?
Source Requirements are more of an edge-case
If we require/recommend that questions regarding specific rules be accompanied by either tags or citations for the books that the focus of the question ...
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Angry DM/GM site change - link updates?
You can find all links on the site currently pointing to angrydm.com (the old website now used by a malicious domain squatter) by typing ...
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Why is "http://dnd.arkalseif.info" blacklisted?
Arkalseif seems to be a repository of D&D data not belonging to the SRD, i.e. they don't have the licence needed to publish those information on their site.
StackExchange does not support piracy (...
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Broken Chat Links
Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person actively talking in the room. A room is considered worth retaining if it has more than 15 messages by at least 2 users. (/faq#...
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What is the clearest way to format links to D&D Beyond alongside quoted rules?
What I do
Let's say I want to quote the Actions in Combat section of the PHB, I will do this:
As we can see from the "Actions in Combat" section (PHB, page 182):
Quote goes here
Why I do ...
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How to deal with a broken link?
There are a few options:
Find a working current version of the linked page
Find an archived version of the originally linked page (e.g. on the Wayback Machine)
If you can't fix the link yourself, or ...
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How should we handle questions about site legality?
We can deal with the questions as they warrant, when they are asked.
To any question that's asked there are multiple facets and layers. One of the most important are why the question is asked. And ...
Someone_EvilMod
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How should we handle potentially untrustworthy sources?
Answers: Downvotes and constructive comments
Sources are the responsibility of the cite-writer, not the responsibility of policy.
The way to handle this then is business as usual: downvote answers ...
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Can we encourage askers to provide the source or quote of their things?
Orthogonal to the good point about voting as “unclear”, the community is always encouraged to improve questions and answers when it’s useful. It’s just not required. Permitted and recognised as good, ...
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Why is "http://dnd.arkalseif.info" blacklisted?
That domain is one of several that have been blacklisted for the reasons given in Zachiel's post: it's a piracy site and we don't want links to those on RPG.SE for reasons of ethics and link rot.
The ...
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How should this question about content in a site that includes piracy be handled?
Copy pasta: Creative Commons License allows for redistribution of content.
In this case, the content could be copied wholesale as it's CC-BY-SA. That wouldn't direct traffic to the pirate site, and ...
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Is there a quick way to link to the help center?
The comment formatting section of the editing help pages lists all the available shortcut links you can use in comments, including [help] for the help center. As of ...
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How to link to an Unearthed Arcana?
I would link to both the website and the pdf (and say which link is which)
This helps with a few things, such as the possibility of a browser/computer/location blocking one link and not the other. And ...
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Pathfinder sources: aonprd vs d20pfsrd
If an answer is wrong, downvote it. If you have constructive advice for improving it, such as a link to correct information showing how it is wrong, comment with that. If the question lacks a correct ...
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What is the clearest way to format links to D&D Beyond alongside quoted rules?
Options 1-3 miss the point.
Each of those options fails to direct a reader how to find the rule quoted apart from following your link. If I've got the PHB in front of me, there's nothing in those &...
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The visited link color on our mainsite theme is missing because --theme-primary-color-300/800 are not set
This has been fixed and is now live across the network. Yesterday we rolled out a behind-the-scenes update to unify how many components across the network are themed. It looks like a slight typo made ...
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How to link to an Unearthed Arcana?
Just link to the PDF. A website link provides no additional context, clarity, details, and won't remove the need to download the PDF (if prompted) if users choose to do so.
As was briefly discussed in ...
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Are [homebrew-review] posts allowed to link to off-site sources?
The key thing for any links in any SE content is that the question or answer must still be sensible and useful even if the link goes dead. So if you are asking about the thing in the link, then that’s ...
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Pathfinder sources: aonprd vs d20pfsrd
Use what you prefer in your own answers.
Otherwise mind your own business - there is no reason for people to be trying to force each other to use reference sources they prefer. RPG.SE will accept any ...
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Are [homebrew-review] posts allowed to link to off-site sources?
You can as a citation, but the relevant content must be included in the post
Those sites may drop the content and we've got a link rot issue. It also presents a bar of entry to answer the question ...
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How should this question about content in a site that includes piracy be handled?
Link to a recreation on a site that doesn't violate.
I have reproduced the entire subclass word-for-word on D&D Beyond.
As D&D Beyond does not violate any OGL licenses like the source site ...
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Ongoing issues with Pinnacle Entertainment Group's forums
The forum situation has now (sort of) been resolved. Unfortunately, it is in a way that irreparably breaks all old links to content. What they've done is archived the old forum, so its accessible, but ...
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How should we handle questions about site legality?
Such questions are, strictly speaking, XY problems
The question of a site’s “legality,” strictly speaking, is
unanswerable: It only becomes known after a court ruling. And strictly, that ruling only ...
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Could we have a shortcut "magic link" to the "Good Subjective, Bad Subjective" blog post?
Based on our current roadmap, this isn't work that we will take on, as it doesn't coincide with functional areas that we plan to improve in the near future.
DesStaff
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Is there a quick way to link to the help center?
Nevermind, I just figured it out. It's [help], which is converted into the text "help center".
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How should this question about content in a site that includes piracy be handled?
I think we should allow the link to the homebrew specifically, but not the link to the site's homepage currently in the question because it's not necessary. We should also quote or describe some of ...
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