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As a moderator on another site, I can tell you how we handle this: We do delete the answer if it does not fit the question, and gently remind the user to pay attention to what he's answering. If we al …

See also the old Cooking discussion on enforcing standard units (despite the accepted answer, almost nobody bothers with edits - maybe C to F are a bit more common, because there are more Americans around …

Health is an important part of human culture, and there are many approaches to how to handle it, and different people have a different vision of what kind of health content, and discussion of health topics …

Because you're asking for guidelines, I'll try to write one which is easily applied to any question: Imagine a continuum from "Answer requires a human judgement based on the person's values and p …

I just wrote an answer to the question What are the natural and healthy ways to increase blood sugar?. I am not a health care professional, and most of my knowledge on the matter comes from popular sc …

No, it is not. It has never been considered a reliable source in other quality-concerned communities, and universities frequently ban it as a source even for undergraduate papers. Wikipedia is the r …

I saw Weird blue thing on my finger? today, and it struck me as a prime example of a personal medical question - not only that, but even asking for diagnosis, one of the hardest thing in medicine. I …

My experience as a moderator on Cooking has shown me that simpler closing rules are better for the community, even if simplification means that one or two not-that-bad questions have to be closed. The …

The baby and the bathwater As with any closure discussion, it is important to find out if the newly recognized category of closed questions also covers legitimate questions. …

Today, we got a question which received a downvote and a close vote: Do dosage directions refer to the amount of medical product or to the amount of active ingredient of it? I must admit that I had …

Answers without references are a problem separate from misunderstood references, and should be addressed in a separate discussion. … But of course, it is as open to discussion as any other Meta question - don't think that my style means I'm trying to impose a directive on everybody. …

Whatever rules we use, we should somehow make sure that they don't prevent us for having quality discussion on very simple cause-and-effect cases in nutrition. …

I frankly dislike this kind of question. The problem is that not only is the answer frequently not known, but worse, people love to make up pet theories about the reasons and post them as if they were …

But we humans can, and should, hold back discussion of certain topics under certain circumstances, out of consideration for others for example. … So the question is, is this discussion appropriate for a Stack Exchange site? …

I get what you say. But this is not the way SE sites do it. A bit of history "Off topic" used to be just that, off topic, and was presumed to cover anything out of the scope described on the Help p …