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I’ve been checking out the Answer Questions tool and I guess I just want confirmation about something. A lot of questions posed tend to be irrelevant to the article, but a good number of these end up answered. Using the article I was looking at earlier, How to Tell a Turtle’s Age , of the first 10 answered questions only three of them are actually about a turtles age. So, how irrelevant does a question have to be for me to mark it as Unhelpful? I’m not asking for the already answered questions to be removed if people have already put work into answering them, but I should stick to only answering questions that are relevant to the article and removing questions that are off topic, right?

idk this feels obvious but the amount of random questions that get answered on a lot of articles is throwing me off i guess

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I would say you can use your judgment. In general, if it feels off-topic, then you can mark it that way.

Of course, if you think it’s a bit of a side-topic but likely helpful for readers of that article, it probably won’t hurt if you answer it:slight_smile:

There’s not really a totally right or wrong way to do it, whatever seems ok to you is perfectly fine!

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You give a good question. The benchmark i would use as being off topic would be (for the example posed above) if the topic was about turtles, if the questions referenced turtles, you should be okay. If it references any other animal, thats off topic.

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Thank you both for the quick response! That was the logic I was sort of going by, but the wiki article about Q&A’s was a little vague so I appreciate the clarification:grin:

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