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Comments on What are the guidelines for porting one's answers from ElectricalEngineering.SE, if any?

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What are the guidelines for porting one's answers from ElectricalEngineering.SE, if any?

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I've noticed that in the edit account section there is a (inactive) link to one's content on a StackExchange site.

This made me wonder if it is appropriate to transfer some content from EE.SE manually.

I have quite a bunch of good answers there and I'd like to "migrate" them here, perhaps after a bit of editing, depending on the question to which I was answering (I'd probably need to make up a new question because some of my good answers were to somewhat incomplete or foggy questions).

Therefore I'm asking:

  1. Is it acceptable to "port" one's answers from EE.SE?

  2. Is there some guidelines to do that, especially regarding creating a matching question, either because the OP was not too good or to avoid "stealing" the work of the person who wrote it?

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Since my question didn't get an answer yet, I post this answer as a possible solution.

What I'll describe is not meant to be the right way to port an answer from SE network, but just a possible right way. So if you feel another approach could work as well, please add an answer here.


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Situation on SE network:

  • Sometimes good answers are attached to questions that aren't that good.

  • Almost always the author of the answer is not the author of the question.

Therefore migrating the original question as it is to match one's answer may pose several additional problems.

Solution

What I suggest as a possible strategy is to create a brand you question that can match one's answer. At the same time some editing of the answer may also be useful.

All this will improve the Q+A quality as it is posted on CoDidact.

There is a problem, though. Many questions, even if high quality, may not reflect what the answer owner may actually ask and could skew the perception of people looking at his/her Q&A records.

For example, it would seem odd that an EE with years of experience would ask why bypass capacitors are used on digital chips pins.

Therefore it is useful to add a disclaimer text at the beginning of the question. The text could go like this:

Question Migration Disclaimer. This question was purposefully made-up for migrating and matching my subsequent answer, which was originally posted on ElectricalEngineering StackExchange site. This question might be substantially different from the original question, whose author was not me. Any modification and/or addition was performed to improve the quality of the overall Q+A pair.

Then, in the answer, a similar disclaimer would be put:

Answer Migration Disclaimer. This answer was originally posted by me on ElectricalEngineering StackExchange site. This answer might be substantially different from the original answer. Any modification and/or addition was performed to improve the quality of the overall Q+A pair.

In this way we can signal the reader not only that this is not completely new material (he may have already found the older answer using Google), but that this was not plagiarized and that the enhancements where not made to hide such plagiarism.

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Olin Lathrop‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Please don't include the disclaimers that you show. It's your personal content, so you can use it here too without it being plagiarism. As for stating that the answer is made up, that just adds noise. Someone with that problem looking for the answer isn't going to care. Everyone can see that the questioner and one of the answers is written by the same user. Even if they don't notice, no big deal. For example, see my self-answered questions at https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/276116.

Lorenzo Donati‭ wrote over 3 years ago

OK, no problem. I value your opinion. I have no strong feelings about those disclaimers, anyway.