Timeline for Introduce a "general reference" close reason
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| Apr 21, 2011 at 23:14 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | That's just another example. If the asker's problem is essentially that they didn't know the word, then their question is not a duplicate of someone else's who used completely different words. If that's all you'd have on your “index of closed questions”, then it would be made of questions that should not have been closed! | |
| Apr 21, 2011 at 23:10 | comment | added | mfg | @gil It wasn't about concatenation, but if the person doesn't yet know they're called string variables, but they're trying to combine words in Excel cells, they're bound to duplicate the other questions. That's what I'm hoping to head off. | |
| Apr 21, 2011 at 22:54 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | If the question was asked due to a lack of vocabulary, then “How do I put two strings together, end to end?” “Use the [concatenate function](link).” is a perfectly valid Q&A on SO. | |
| Apr 21, 2011 at 22:49 | comment | added | mfg | @Gil this is likely tangential and part of a separate issue, but I ran into an issue on how to ask a question. It was not due to lack of understanding how to ask a question on SE, rather a lack of the vocabulary to do so. Ie "concatenation"; someone may know the gist of what they're trying to do, and use every word in the definition, but if the closed attempts are all deleted the attempt to describe concatenation will continue to yield duplication. If the manual has a footnote with 2 or 3 bulleted, terse attempts there might be more search visibility. | |
| Apr 21, 2011 at 20:52 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | I don't see this as useful. Closed questions (apart from differently-worded duplicates) are on the path to deletion, so that they don't clutter the site. The tag wiki should directly reference the manual — if it referenced every RTFM question, you'd be including the whole manual in there. | |
| Apr 21, 2011 at 20:28 | history | answered | mfg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |