Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
For the process of identifying and closing questions that are duplicates of another question.
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Questions self-closed as duplicates by their authors (auto-closed by Community) show an incorrectly worded notice; rephrase it to refer to author
When a question is closed as a duplicate, other users viewing the question will see a notice like below:
Some community members have associated this post with a similar question.
or, if it was ...
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Repeatedly shown possible duplicate checkboxes on my question after dismissing it
My question currently has some duplicate votes, but I can't seem to get the message to go away and stay that way:
A community member has suggested a similar question that may solve your problem.
Does ...
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Do not automatically redirect anonymous user from unanswered duplicate question to corresponding answered version
Duplicate questions that use different words to describe the same problem are important for people to find the content via search engines. But I doubt that search engines add redirecting pages to ...
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API to programmatically close questions as duplicate with duplicate list
If you follow and/or curate a tag long enough, you'll probably notice that there's some questions that just get asked over and over. Usually these are confusing aspects of some commonly used feature ...
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Delete the "Close" feature (Especially for duplicates)
Today when I was asking a question on Stack Overflow, after I posted the question, I went to the restroom. After I came back, guess what? My post was closed, because it was a duplicate.
At first, I ...
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Are there any tricks to "bypass" duplicated question checking when asking on Stack OverFlow? [duplicate]
I've just started learning IT and ask questions on SO a lot.
But I'm so tired of my questions being closed all the time due to duplicated reasons. They pointed me to some other question that was said ...
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Unable to edit duplicate lists from the first questions review queue, after closing a duplicate question
As a gold tag badge holder, I have the ability to unilaterally close questions (with those tags) as duplicates and, by extension, I also have the ability to edit the duplicate links on those questions....
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A duplicated question with bad writing and bad tagging but better answers [duplicate]
The first question was asked, with all possible tags, but received no long answers.
A few months later, the second question was asked without address the first one. The second was poorly worded with ...
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How did these duplicate questions occur? [duplicate]
A user managed to post two copies of the question at the same time.
Hi, I'm getting this error MySQLdb._exceptions.ProgrammingError: not enough arguments for format string
Hi, I'm getting this ...
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Reverse lookup duplicate questions? [duplicate]
Is there a way to search for questions which have been marked as a duplicate of another specific question?
I've been aware of a particular technical problem for some time. I know for sure that other ...
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Add keyboard shortcut for editing the list of duplicates
Users with a gold badge in a tag are able to edit the list of duplicates for a question. There are no keyboard shortcuts defined for this. For example, a rather routine task is to close a question ...
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Posting Q & A, then closing the Q as duplicate?
I posted a question and answered it myself. I then self-closed this question as a dupe. Is this an accepted practice?
I wanted the next person who steps on this rake to be able to quickly find the ...
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Wrong instructions in email about duplicate question
I just got another email because one of my questions was closed as a duplicate. The mail (screenshot) suggests me to
Select the suggestions that answer your question. Your question will be associated ...
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What to do with these accidental duplicate posts of feature-requests and bug reports, where the original hadn't been recently or at all addressed?
Based on some of my recent feature-requests and bug reports being closed as duplicates, helpful discussions with the community and reading through Why can a feature request or bug report without an ...
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Message shown to OP when their question is closed as a duplicate [duplicate]
Group keys into same object was closed as a duplicate. A few minutes later the OP opened an identical question Put the objects together given key with same value
I closed that as a duplicate of the ...
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