Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
For the process of identifying and closing questions that are duplicates of another question.
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Why was the network-wide close-as-duplicate comment change not announced here?
Since yesterday the automatic comment posted when closing or flagging a post as a duplicate was changed from
Does this answer your question? [question title]
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This question is similar to: [...
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Move suggested actions in the duplicate autocomment to the close banner
As so eloquently put by Shadow Wizard:
There is already the "official" close banner appearing (for the OP only) on top of the question when there are pending close votes/flags - the ...
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Post duplicate autocomments as the Community user
We have stopped showing to users who voted to close a question*, and yet for duplicates, we still advertise it with a (now brand new and even longer!) autocomment. We should start attributing these ...
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Use a different template for duplicate automatic comments for reposted questions by the same user
It happens every now and then that a user reposts their question - maybe they don't know how to edit, maybe the question was closed and they wanted to dodge the review queue, or maybe they didn't get ...
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Is a new comment format for duplicate votes being tested?
I just cast a couple of duplicate votes on Ask Ubuntu and got this exceedingly verbose comment posted on my behalf:
This question is similar to: ... If you believe it’s different, please edit the ...
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Unable to edit the duplicate list
I have the javascript dupe hammer on SO. I closed Uploading image file to php server as a duplicate earlier today, and I was just trying to edit the duplicate list to add a more appropriate question.
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Should we do anything to promote useful answers on duplicate questions?
I previously asked this on Space Exploration Meta as Should we do anything for answers on duplicate questions?. The basic train of thought is as follows:
A question was closed as a duplicate. During ...
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Flag as duplicate from another Stack Exchange site? [duplicate]
I recently noticed a question that was asked by the same user, the exact same content, at the same time (within minutes) across two Stack Exchange sites - Stack Overflow and Geographic Information ...
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Is it possible to make my list of saved questions accessible during "duplicate close" dialogue? [duplicate]
It would be great to have access to ones saved questions in the "duplicate close" flow. Most of my saves are duplicate targets for questions that keep on getting asked somewhat frequently (I ...
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Update/recreate question with unhelpful answers [duplicate]
I asked a question a couple of months ago:
How to mitigate risk of having cash with you when abroad?
The answers were unhelpful ...as I added on a comment:
"be street-smart" and similar ...
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Possible bug with question deletion
I just tried casting a delete vote on a question. I was given an error because the question was a target of a duplicate closure. In addition, the question closed as a duplicate was later merged with ...
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Implement {duplicate}, {closed} etc. tags as UI elements, rather than appending text [duplicate]
At this point, I am very much used to closed/duplicate questions being marked with [closed] or [duplicate] text in their title:
But what exactly is stopping us from implementing it as an actual ...
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What's the longest question duplicate chain on SE?
I wonder what the longest question duplicate chain is on SE. For example, Matching files with various extensions using for loop is closed a duplicate of Brace expansion with variable?, which is closed ...
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Use AI like ChatGPT to find duplicate questions
I know ChatGPT is banned on Stack Exchange. But could an AI tool be used in automation? I mean most of the time I try to find if my question is a duplicate or not before asking the question, and I see ...
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When trying to specify a question on another site as a duplicate target, the error message displays incorrectly on sites with ampersands in their name
When flagging/VTCing a question as a dupe, and the link pasted into the box is from a different site, the error message looks like this:
But on the 17 sites with ampersands in their titles (as well ...
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