Add specific close reason and explicit point in the help pages for learning material requests

Question

Prelude:

How do we feel about requests for learning materials?

I'm tagging this as feature-request and discussion since there was already previous discussion about the topic, but recent events may need further discussion.

The proposal is composed of two changes:

1. Explicitly add in the help center, on/off topic help pages and tour that we don't like learning material requests.
2. Add an off-topic reason that specifically address this issue (exact wording could be found in SU/Programers and other SE sites, so we could just copy them).

Do you see the worth in this change? It's necessary? Do you have another idea?

Answer 1

Why should we have a specific close reason for this?

Ok, that's the suggestion on Meta Stack Exchange. But I disagree, because this is not a site-specific policy, it's a general thing everywhere on Stack Exchange that tutorial requests don't work.

While none of the built-in close reasons are a perfect fit, I go with “too broad” or “primarily opinion-based” with an explanatory comment.

There is already a help center page: “What types of questions should I avoid asking?”

avoid asking subjective questions where …

• every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite ______?”

(…)

Constructive subjective questions:

• inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”
• tend to have long, not short, answers

(…)

Answer 2

This sentence has now been added to the on-topic help page. I don't think a specific close reason is needed, too broad should serve fine.

Please note that requests for learning materials (tutorials, how-tos etc.) are off topic. The only exception is questions about where to find official documentation (e.g. POSIX specifications).