user810: What's our stance on asking questions of the form "I looked for an overview of X for a while on google, and couldn't find it, anyone else have any luck?" or "I saw this article once about X, but now I can't find it; does anyone remember it?" On SO this sort of question is frowned on, but it seems like it may be more allowable here. 
The main reason (that I can think of now) is that bio / medical information tends to be more scattered among (subscription) journals than e.g. physics or programming references. What do people think? 

user112: I think such questions are fine, and they are definitely better than questions that a simple Google/Wikipedia search would have solved. A question for an article pointer does have a definite answer, so it's not like an open discussion "what do you know about X?"

810: <p>What's our stance on asking questions of the form "I looked for an overview of X for a while on google, and couldn't find it, anyone else have any luck?" or "I saw this article once about X, but now I can't find it; does anyone remember it?" On SO this sort of question is frowned on, but it seems like it may be more allowable here. </p>

<p>The main reason (that I can think of now) is that bio / medical information tends to be more scattered among (subscription) journals than e.g. physics or programming references. What do people think? </p>
 112: <p>I think such questions are fine, and they are definitely better than questions that a simple Google/Wikipedia search would have solved. A question for an article pointer does have a definite answer, so it's not like an open discussion "what do you know about X?"</p>
