Timeline for We do need to start to firm up the idea of what is on topic or not
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 21, 2013 at 16:31 | history | edited | Monica Cellio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 21, 2013 at 15:14 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @Chad meta.pets.stackexchange.com/q/598/31 | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 15:08 | comment | added | user9 | You want to ask and ill do an answer? | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 15:08 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Oh wait, that wasn't a legal-specific question. Let me amend that: let's ask a new question about legal advice, along the lines of the medical question. | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 15:06 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @Chad, I think you're right that legal could follow a path similar to medical -- we don't do personal, specific counseling, but general questions seem like they could fit. My intent with this answer was to compile what seemed to already have consensus; I'd like to encourage you to post an answer on the linked question so we can see if consensus has changed. (I suspect that the current state was influenced by other sites with legal-question problems, including TWP.) | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 14:43 | comment | added | JoshDM | "What are the rules governing x?" vs "Is x illegal"? We have had the question about the legalities of tail docking. | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 14:37 | comment | added | user9 | I hate to use the phrase "asking for legal advice" because my experience at the workplace says that any thing even slightly legal gets slammed with that even though most of them are asking about facts in the law rather than application of the law questions. | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 14:32 | comment | added | user9 | Why are legal questions off topic? I understand not allowing questions that ask does X law apply to my problem being off topic. But general legal questions should be answerable. Especially questions on importing and exporting pets, the use of medications, and any other that do not have hyper local answers. Do I need a licence is hyper local because it is going to vary by county and city sometimes in the US, and I suspect other places. But In the US where should I go to find out about licencing requirements? should be on topic. | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 14:00 | history | edited | Monica Cellio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 21, 2013 at 13:59 | comment | added | Beofett | I agree about the legal questions being on the fence. This question, for example, strikes me as perfectly appropriate, yet it is clearly "can I keep pet X in jurisdiction Y". | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 13:58 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Josh, good point. I drew that from the linked question, but maybe a licensing example would be better. @toxotes I meant veterinary (see the examples in the linked question), but I hadn't considered zoonotic; I would imagine that there could be on-topic questions about humans catching diseases from animals, though I think we can wait until we get some examples to refine that. My goal with this answer was just to catalogue what we already seem to agree on; it's not a complete list of what should be on- or off-topic. | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 13:05 | comment | added | toxotes | By medical, do you mean veterinary or zoonotic (i.e. diseases pet owners can catch from animals)? Or both? | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 3:47 | history | answered | Monica Cellio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |