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Are resource requests on-topic?
Should questions asking for resources be on-topic? I imagine questions of the form, "Resources for learning language X" or "Grammar reference for language X" or "Free online English-Language X dictionaries" and the like.
If they are to be on-topic, how should they be organised? One extreme would be separate resource requests for each language and resource type. The other would be to have one "question" for all resource requests, each answer would list resources for only one language, listing resources for all resource types.
(the idea of a "community-wiki" might be relevant)
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Yes, I think that they should be on-topic.
However, resource requests should be precise to avoid convoluted answers. So questions could be "What good free English-language dictionaries are there?", "Where can I find good grammar references for Spanish?", "What free websites are there to learn Chinese?" or "Are there translators for translating Swedish to Afrikaans?".
Language-learning is a really big topic and there are so many websites, translators, references and dictionaries available that putting everything in one question / answer for one language might lead to users who suddenly are perplexed as to where to start.
A community wiki might be indeed useful for this case as provided answers might change frequently. It might also be worthwhile to think about a learning category where article post types (as displayed on Judaism, Writing, Cooking and other sites) are used so that everything gets a little bit more "wiki-like".
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