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General title, body suggests jurisdiction, tag requires jurisdiction, terms imply jurisdicti...

The title doesn't mention jurisdiction; the body gives a scenario of the US military and Vietnam but doesn't explicitly limit answers to that; the OP only tagged it military but later someone else tagged … I reviewed the 13 mentions of 'jurisdiction' + 'title' on Law.Meta but there isn't much clarity: Policy/consensus on how to indicate country/jurisdiction (in text, title or tags)? …
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Policy/consensus on how to indicate country/jurisdiction (in text, title or tags)?

One of my edits adding jurisdiction information to a question's text was rejected. … , Should the jurisdictional state be part of the title? ) but the answers do not indicate any clear consensus to me. …
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Should the jurisdictional state be part of the title?

California or Texas, it's been suggested that state should be part of the title. … Doesn't this show prejudice in what the title should be in regards to US federal vs. state laws, vs. the rest of the world? …
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Answering in regard to a different jurisdiction than specified in the question

The title, however is general and does not specify a jurisdiction. … at the title I thought of the issue as it would occur in the US legal system. …
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Should the newly created [trump] tag be deleted or be merged with the [president] tag?

question created the trump tag which, in line with the consensus of opinion with this Meta question, I have exchanged for president which has the tag info: For questions regarding heads of state with the title … Should be used with a jurisdiction tag to indicate which country the question is about. Should trump be deleted or merged as a synonym of president? …
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How would it be relevant to write questions in English in that case?

This would mean most of the question including the title would not be written in English. Answering or even understanding them will require one to know the language in which the laws are written. … And for example questions, I have no ideas of such questions which doesn't concern my jurisdiction. …
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Should questions be allowed to be asked in first person?

Iñaki Viggers: Legal advice that is not given "as a business" and where its author does not falsely purport to be licensed to practice law in the jurisdiction at issue is not illegal. … LSE already has a feature that applies to the title, which won't let you post if the question is "too subjective", should this feature be applied to the body of the question? …
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What if I want to see answers for other jurisdictions on someone else's question?

The benefit of asking jurisdiction based variants as separate questions is that the best answers for that specific variation of the question can rise to the top. … Including the jurisdiction in the title can help to keep the titles from appearing to be duplicates. …
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Should the jurisdictional state be part of the title?

I'm a big proponent that a question (thus, the title) should be self contained and we should not rely on tags to establish context. … So generally speaking, if the jurisdiction can fit naturally and it makes the question more clear, I say use it. …
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Was this answer somewhat disingenuous in one or two ways? Or did it genuinely address the qu...

To me this feels disingenuous in two ways: It does not attempt to ask the question as asked (in the title and repeated again at the end for redundancy) Uses language that falsely suggests there's only …
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General title, body suggests jurisdiction, tag requires jurisdiction, terms imply jurisdicti...

In this case, I see no evidence that the author had in mind some other jurisdiction. It is also a bad idea to put too much stock in the title. … The body of the question should state the question, and the title is just an attention-getting summary. …
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Should we merge the us-president and potus tags?

I suggest that both potus and us-president tags are merged with the extant president tag accompanied by the relevant jurisdiction tag president has, at the time of writing, 110 questions, been active for … over 6 years, and has the following user guidance: For questions regarding heads of state with the title "President." …
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Policy/consensus on how to indicate country/jurisdiction (in text, title or tags)?

It seems to me that the ideal question would specify jurisdiction both in the question itself, and in a tag. … Moreover, when it is specified only in the question, it seems helpful to add it to the body of the question, and when it is only in the question (body or title) it seems helpful to add the appropriate …
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Policy/consensus on how to indicate country/jurisdiction (in text, title or tags)?

That's not to say that it can't be mentioned in the title or text, but when it isn't part of the natural flow of the question, or critical to the question, we have tended to remove it to the tags. … It would even be fine to not specify a jurisdiction at all. Sometimes the asker will clarify that they're most interested in jurisdiction X but would be interested in answers for any jurisdiction. …
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Is Law SE primarily for arguing what the present, written Law says or what a perfect Judge w...

they are familiar with), or if they do receive one, edit the jurisdiction into the tags, question and/or title. … In any case this title presents a false dichotomy. …
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