Questions tagged [overview-questions]
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Guidance to ask "an overview of the main Christian arguments about X" question which not necessarily align to a denomination / tradition
I think this overview question asking "What is an overview of the main arguments that angels do or do not already exist at Genesis 1:1" is fine although it is not explicitly asking an ...
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Can we work on overview questions together? Expressions of interest open now
The idea of Overview Questions on site idea sounds really good: get an overview of all the major Christian denominations on one particular question, in one place, each view explaining its perspective ...
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Proper way of adding to overview answers
What should I do in list/overview question like this one: What is an overview of Christian viewpoints on the eternal destiny of individuals who die never hearing the Gospel?
when I think a smaller ...
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Asking a truth question without specifying a denomination [duplicate]
Bad: Is Michael the Archangel also Jesus?
There are at least two answers to this question. Which one is right? We don't know. We can't handle the Truth.
Good: Do Jehovah's Witnesses believe ...
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How is one expected to know all the positions in a overview question on this site?
One can't possibly know all the possible positions of a given topic.
I am expanding the question a bit in an attempt to have a greater
understanding of what the idea exchange expects.
Help me ...
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What are the minimum number of perspectives needed to answer overview questions?
If someone answers an "Overview Question" how many perspectives do they need to include for their answer to not be considered "Not an answer"?
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Are chrestomathy style requests acceptable?
I was thinking about a class of real questions that are really answerable here, in the overview style and that's something like what is asked for on http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code. This ...
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Instead of asking overview questions, could we ask for lists of questions?
For the reasons listed here, overview questions need to be highly focused. In particular, they need to be more focused than if you asking about a single denomination.
For example, take the question "...
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Would this be considered an example of an overview question?
I was watching this question today to see how it would be treated. I was not confident, however, in attempting to answer it.
I think it would be a fairly easy question to answer, at least from my ...
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Method for collaboratively answering overview questions
A lot of the moderation choices for this site have been inherited from StackOverflow, but given the differences between programming and theology, much of the moderation has already been honed to make ...
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Is this question off topic now that I have edited it?
Is there consensus between Christian commentators about where Jesus stood when Satan tempted him to prove he was God's son by leaping from the temple?
The question above was put on hold pretty ...
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Can part of a question be answered for overview questions?
If a question is asking for a survey of beliefs, should one representative response be allowed to exist as an answer, with the hope that other belief representation will also exist as separate answers?...
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I'm not clear exactly how "overview" questions work
I edited @LCIII's question to try and get it taken off hold. The response to my accepted edit was that the question was much better, but was still too broad.
I was specifically trying to follow ...
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Are "overview" questions okay? [duplicate]
Are overview questions off topic as not a good fit for StackOverflow / StackExchange?
Dialog here
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How should I ask overview questions: on one matter from all of the Christian spectrum?
It has been several times quite a problem for me here. I would have one particular matter (a doctrine or a verse from the Bible) that I would want to know how it is viewed upon in different sectors of ...
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