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Are resource requests on-topic?

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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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Suggestion (based on a comment discussion on another answer): create a category called "resources" or "wiki" or something similar. In this category, use the article type (not Q&A). Create one article per language for useful resources for that language. Treat these as community-maintained articles, to be edited by anybody who can add to them.

In setting it up (and, in particular, in naming it), decide what other types of community-maintained articles might be useful. For example, are there language-agnostic topics in linguistics that it would make sense to have on-site articles about? Are there topics about a language that you might cover in articles that aren't resource lists? You probably want to keep resource lists focused on resource lists, not more-expansive topics, but there's no reason you couldn't have several articles about the same language. The category can use the same tag set as the Q&A category, which means searching on a tag returns results from both categories.

You could have a post, in the category or on meta, where people can make requests for topics to be covered in this new category.

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user53100‭ wrote about 4 years ago

Referring to your last paragraph, another alternative could be simply editing in a new section with the type of request, with its emptiness signalling the need for resources. Or, as I commented to the other answer, it could be managed with comments to the posts where outdated comments would be cleaned up.

user53100‭ wrote about 4 years ago

I guess we can go ahead with creating the category?

Monica Cellio‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@user53100 oh that's a good approach too; create the stub as the request. I'll create the category and then the community can experiment with this.