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List of question and answer websites was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 15 November 2011 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Comparison of Q&A sites. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

usstation fake or real ????

http://www.usstation.co/#!more-cars/albumphotos5=2 this one link is real or not anyone telling me about that link with thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.53.162.99 (talk) 18:23, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Page move by Unforgettableid

Hi . How is this not a list? From MOS:LIST: "List articles are encyclopedia pages consisting of a lead section followed by a list (which may or may not be divided by headings). The items on these lists include links to articles in a particular subject area, and may include additional information about the listed items." --> Seems like a list to me! Cheers, Nikthestunned 11:37, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Dear @Nikthestunned:

You are right. It probably is a list. My mistake. Still, I believe it was reasonable for me to move the article from List of question-and-answer websites to Comparison of Q&A sites.

1. Convention is to name these types of lists with a page title starting with "Comparison of". Look, for example, inside Category:Online services comparisons. Almost all of the lists in that category are titled using "Comparison of", not "List of".
2. Google Web Search implies that the exact phrase "Q&A" is used more than the exact phrase "question-and-answer" online. See WP:NCA.
3. Google Web Search implies that the exact phrase "Q&A site" is used more than the exact phrase "Q&A website" online. I don't know of any policy which governs here, but I like the briefer term "Q&A site" better. Unnecessary wordiness is bad; see Strunk & White's The Elements of Style and Orwell's "Politics and the English Language".

Cheers, —Unforgettableid (talk) 00:29, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks @Unforgettableid: sorry, I wasn't clear with the above - I agree with the move in general, just feel this is still a list! There's no comparison or contrasting of the entries on this article; the details provided in the list are true for all of them. I guess you could argue that point re: the 'Registration required' column, but if you look at most of those other comparisons, it's showing a lot of features that each entry doesn't have compared with the others, if you see what I mean. There's none of that here really. You OK with a move to List of Q&A sites? Cheers, Nikthestunned 08:34, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Dear @Nikthestunned: No. Some Q&A sites only allow questions in one field (such as science); others allow all questions. Some only allow questions in English; some also allow questions in other languages. Some claim copyright on all user contributions; some don't. Some (Quora) require registration even just to browse; some don't. "Comparison" is the best term to describe our page. —Unforgettableid (talk) 15:38, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 9 June 2015

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Comparison of Q&A sites → List of Q&A sites – This article is a list and is not a comparison akin to all other comparison pages, per above discussion. Nikthestunned 12:06, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

• Support as per nom's rationale. Khestwol (talk) 08:44, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support -M.Altenmann >t 02:06, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

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