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Thread poster: Mary Worby
Mary Worby
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United Kingdom
Local time: 14:59
German to English
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Sep 14, 2001

The lack of context for term questions is an ongoing problem for answerers. In some cases, no context is provided at all. Hence my suggestion:



How about including a little more information in the question form? At the moment, it just says \'the more context, the better\', or something along those lines.



The text could be expanded to ask askers to include:

a) type of document

b) sentence in which term occurs

c) target audienc... See more
The lack of context for term questions is an ongoing problem for answerers. In some cases, no context is provided at all. Hence my suggestion:



How about including a little more information in the question form? At the moment, it just says \'the more context, the better\', or something along those lines.



The text could be expanded to ask askers to include:

a) type of document

b) sentence in which term occurs

c) target audience

etc.



People are more likely to include this information if it is specifically mentioned on the question form. Alternatively, this information could be entered in separate fields (although this could be somewhat superfluous for easy questions).



Just an idea, FWIW



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Roland Grefer
Roland Grefer
Local time: 09:59
German to English
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Sep 14, 2001

You\'re right. An easy way to support/enforce such an effort would be to provide separate fields for each on the form.
 
DR. RICHARD BAVRY (X)
DR. RICHARD BAVRY (X)
Spanish to English
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Sep 17, 2001

An excellent idea, Mary! No doubt it would save us all from the delicate \"balancing act\" so well portrayed in your current icon!



Regards,



Rich
 


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