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Where to ask questions, that are related to 2 Different sub-Sites? [duplicate]

I have a question about how to mount best a DSLR camera to an aeroplane. But now I'm wondering, where I would have to ask it? The camera does also have to be controlled from inside the plane. In the ...
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How is a feature request a duplicate of a support question? [duplicate]

I asked Could we allow users to challenge moderators' decisions? but it was marked as a duplicate. But I believe it isn't a duplicate because the questions linked to are asking how to use a ...
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Original question being marked as duplicate of a question that should be duplicate [duplicate]

So here is a question that was asked on SO on Jan 2 '11 at 16:32 Can we instantiate an abstract class? and the other question that was asked on SO on Dec 2 '12 at 16:01 Interview : Can we ...
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Feast on this batch of duplicates

As part of my ongoing preaching T4 as a replacement for generics I went through the linked questions and noticed there were plenty of them that were once closevoted but the votes dissapeared (due to a ...
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What to do with a question which is a "duplicate" of 2 different questions?

This question seems to have several possible answers. One (for now) exists as an answer to this question; OP indicated that the answer is not good enough (might be good for future viewers though, so ...
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How is my question a duplicate? [closed]

I recently asked this question and it was marked as a duplicate of this question. If you look at my question description, it states that I have been trying to install the application and was facing ...
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Is it correct to mark these two questions as a duplicate?

The first one is about "encouraging" people to leave comments on downvotes and is marked as status-completed. The second one is about "mandatory" comments on downvotes and is speaking of a feature ...
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Duplicate questions both deleted within a minute of closing the newer one--mistake or deliberate?

A new user reposted a question after a couple of hours. He responded to the "possible duplicate of..." comment left by the first close vote with a comment saying sir i haven't got any answers for this ...
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Why is the following question closed as duplicate?

I am specifically talking about this question. It's about parsing a string the GMT timezone in it. Initially it was asked as how to parse a time string with any time zone. There was another question ...
Matthijs Wessels's user avatar
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Should we reopen a question if it is closed with a wrong reason?

The question in question: Triple Less Than Sign in Bash It is closed as "Questions asking for code must demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem being solved. Include attempted ...
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I find this questions similar, but could not say they are duplicates [closed]

I just looked over one of my old questions and came across this: Python: Why operator "is" and "==" are sometimes interchangeable for strings? Now looking more in-depth over the ...
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question incorrectly marked as duplicate

This question was actually asking why correctly generated random numbers exhibited repeated sequences of values in the low bits. It was tagged as a duplicate of another question asking why the author ...
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Reasons behind deleting this question [closed]

With all due respect to @Gordon as a moderator I would like to hear specific legitimate reasons behind deletion of this ordinary enough question https://stackoverflow.com/q/18426674/1920232. I can ...
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What further steps can I take to distinguish a question incorrectly closed as duplicate? [duplicate]

The perfect question for my problem is erroneously closed as a duplicate. The one answer doesn't work; in fact, it's an answer to the (allegedly) duplicated question. Maybe that (and the fact that the ...
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3 votes
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Request to switch which question is a duplicate of the other [closed]

The two questions are: Change the URI (URL) for a remote Git repository How can I change the remote/target repository URL on Windows? The first is currently closed as a duplicate of the second one, ...
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