Yes, we should allow identification questions
identification questions are notoriously difficult to answer via a simple google search.
Many other Stack Exchange sites allow these kinds of questions.
Points in support of this stance:
- Not knowing the name of a thing is a practical, answerable question based on a problem someone actually faces. The best way to handle these questions might be to add as much of a description of the thing as possible when asking or answering such that the question is returned when searching with a description of the device in the future. Any long-term users could flag new questions asking about the same device as duplicates. We could then try to use the description in the new question to supplement the existing description, again to try to get the question to come up when a user searches for the description.
