Are you able to ask or answer single or multiple questions in one question on this website or make one inquiry per question and if you're able to give multiple answers how can you?

Answer 1

This very inquiry might be an example of "a bit too much in one question" on WikiAnswers. Sure, you can try to ask multiple questions within one post. That was done here. But unless the question is "thought through" a bit, it can end up difficult to answer because it isn't as clear as it could be. And sometimes by trying to jam all that stuff into a single question, it never gets fully and clearly asked. That makes it really hard to answer the question. How much hair pulling has been done by how many contributors who read a question and find that it is "incomplete" because the author of the query couldn't get it all to fit in? There are folks here who want to help answer the question, but their hands are tied. Questions that have significant chunks of the inquirey left off for lack of space to fit it all in are flat out impossible to answer. If a question is "too big" to be asked in the format of the forum, split off some of the information so someone can give you the scoop and you can get what you need, and then ask another question to get the rest. With a bit of thought, "big" questions can be divided a bit to make the posting of two clearly-worded questions easy and still get you what you need by way of an answer. Certainly the question can be edited by someone here on the boards. But if you're asking it, why not take a moment to make sure it asks clearly and succinctly what youwant to know? The quality of your answer may very well depend on how you ask your question. This very question here was edited. Does it still ask what the ornginal author wanted to know? Perhaps, and perhaps not. Answering multiple questions included in one post is something that can be done, but there are limits. We're doing that now, aren't we? So how many answers can you supply to one question? That depends on the question and the answer. "What are the melting points of all the elements in order from lowest to highest?" Piece of cake. There is a chart. "How many sons and how many daughters did each of the Presidents of the United States have?" Don't look for an answer to that one soon. (In part because of Thomas Jefferson.) A well-asked question is the most immune to being edited by someone else who comes to the boards. When asking a question, why not tie the hands of anyone who may be considering answering it by making it "bulletproof" as regards it being as black and white as possible? That will minimize the chance the question itself will be edited. All things being equal, the person who has the most control over the answer to a question is arguably the person who asks that question. A considered and clearly worded inquiry will almost always get the best results.