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I am looking for a good reference (if there is any) for the theory of orbifold curves from the perspective of stacks. By an orbifold curve I mean something like a $1$-dimensional irreducible Deligne-...

My advisor mentioned in passing that orbifolds are Deligne-Mumford stacks, and I'd like to know in which sense this is true. The only reference I can find is this article (https://arxiv.org/abs/0806....