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CW answer for an old question with several upvoted answers: would it make sense?

Because of a Late Answers review task, I found myself re-reading the answers to this old question: How do you differentiate between walnuts and pecans in Spanish?, and I was surprised to find that ...
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What's a kosher way of switching to the community wiki approach?

Let's say there's a question that gets several answers, but I think the question lends itself to being community wiki. Do I have to post at Meta, or is there some more direct way of switching the ...
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Shall we start making our own collection of false cognates, and if so, where?

I was just editing a bilingual answer and had to take out "censorship" and use "censure" instead. ("Censure" is "criticism" but "censorship" refers to the suppression or prohibition of part of a book,...
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¡Ayuda a completar las respuestas que varían según la región!

En el sitio primamos las preguntas específicas para evitar caer en una serie de respuestas igualmente válidas del tipo "en mi zona lo llamamos X". Sin embargo, la riqueza del español, sus dialectos y ...
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¿Cuál es el buen uso de las preguntas "autorrespondidas"?

En los distintos Stacks uno puede responderse sus propias preguntas. Puede suceder que yo haga una pregunta y al cabo del tiempo me la responda a mí mismo (bien porque no había respuestas o porque ...
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Juntemos en respuestas wiki las respuestas cortas específicas de regiones / Let's use community wiki to summarize set of short region specific answers

El idioma español tiene casi 500 millones de hablantes nativos, más de 20 millones de estudiantes y es oficial en 21 países (fuente: Wikipedia sobre idioma español). Este gran dominio lingüístico ...
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Making minor spelling, grammar, or punctuation edits

When editing posts on StackOverflow, the following message appears: We welcome all constructive edits, but please make them substantial. Avoid trivial, tiny one-letter edits unless absolutely ...
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