Questions tagged [migration]
For posts concerning migration to and from Arqade. For questions about the migration system itself, please see Meta StackExchange instead.
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Instead of closing this question, how about migrating it to GameDev?
This question was closed four years ago.
Why do console games require a button press before showing the main menu?
But this has existed for eleven years now:
https://gamedev.stackexchange.com
So ...
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Other Stack Exchange sites are missing from the migration options [duplicate]
I was trying to flag a question as off-topic but relevant to be migrated to another StackExchange site (in this case SuperUser). However, the "Migrate to another Stack Exchange" page only lists this ...
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Can we get a migration path to SuperUser?
I don't know if this is just observation bias, but it seems like we've had a number of questions recently that should be migrated to SuperUser. This migration path, by far, would be the most common ...
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Should we have a migration path to Software Recs for game recommendation questions?
Currently our stance on game recommendation questions are that they are closed, per this meta article.
However, I've found that Software Recs SE does have the tag game that allows people to post game ...
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Should we redirect Game Identifications to other SE (or even non-SE) sites? [duplicate]
From time to time we do get a few Game Identification questions, that are off-topic since they lack images. However, is it acceptable if we redirect users towards other domains where they can get ...
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Let us be able to close with the reasoning being that it belongs on GameDev.SE
It seems that a lot of the times, questions about game development are posted on Arqade and sometimes questions pertaining to gaming are posted on GameDev. With that being said, why can we not close ...
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Guidelines for migration from Science Fiction & Fantasy
I'm putting together an effort on Science Fiction & Fantasy to give users guidance for when they should migrate1 a question from SFF to a different site on the network.
Arqade has a decent amount ...
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What happened to the option to move questions to a different Stack in vote to close?
There used to be an option for vote to close that would allow us to migrate questions to other Stack sites. I'm currently referencing this question How do you disable keyboard inputs?.
It would be ...
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Please do not recommend moving an on topic SFF video game identification question to Arqade!
Story identification questions are perfectly on topic on SFF and in fact we are one of the main sites that have made them work. Video games are also on topic for us and we even have a specific video ...
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Why can't I close a question for migration?
I've just tried to close this question for obvious reasons. At first (since this is clearly destined for the English Stack Exchange) I tried to use Close -> Off-topic -> Migration to close the ...
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Request to move this question to SuperUser | There's a question that's not about gaming. But instead the usage of such software (the Steam platform)
Question in question: Steam opening in another Windows User account
Request: Can it be moved to SuperUser?
Although this question is about the gaming platform Steam, solutions to her problem isn't ...
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Can I have a question migrated to Super User?
I would like to have a question migrated from this site to Super User as I feel that it is a highly technical question and I might be able to get an answer there (I haven't been able to get an answer ...
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Don't redirect unacceptable questions to other sites
We had a new user ask a question(10K only) that was most decidedly off-topic for us. Due to it being about Game Development, some users took it upon themselves to redirect them to GameDev.SE. So the ...
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Why was this question closed (and also why not migrated)?
Why do console games require a button press before showing the main menu?
Seems like a perfectly fine question, but it may be a bit development-themed, so if it is considered really off-topic, it ...
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How exactly does migration work?
I'm still a little confused on how the whole process works. What and how determines whether or not a question gets migrated, and where it goes?
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How do we want other sites to handle migrations to Arqade?
A game recommendation question was recently migrated from RPG.SE to Arqade, which was promptly closed and deleted since game-rec is off-topic. We've had situations like this before and the end result ...
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Off topic close dialog options
Following the New Question Migration Paths blog post, you (mods and those with close right) should ask for links to the sites you'd like questions to be migrated to.
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What should we do with questions that could also be answered well by other sites?
This question is the one that I had in mind. It seems to me that it's similar to this question, basically a version of "Something bad happened to my X system ... what happened/how can I fix it?"
Both ...
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Add "Game Development" to off-topic selection list when flagging a post
I've noticed a few different questions recently that were better asked on the Game Development Stack Exchange site. Considering how closely the two sites are related, I would assume that such ...
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Super User doesn't want "shopping recommendations" either.
This question recently got migrated to Super User.
Please don't do that, shopping recommendation are as much OT there as here.
Please just close them here.
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ZergOverflow seems down
Is the site gone down for good? How was their content licensed?
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