Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
For the process of identifying and closing questions that are duplicates of another question.
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What can I do if I want to ask a more specific version of an earlier question on a Stack Exchange site?
To provide context, on the Law Stack Exchange, I'd like to be more specific than the question here:
Are cheater plugs illegal in the USA?
I'd like to know specifically if it's illegal to use currently-...
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Duplicate question target doesn't have an upvoted or accepted answer, but the success notification still pops up when trying to associate
After Changes to "close as duplicate" it looks like you can't suggest a duplicate target, if that question doesn't have upvoted or accepted answer.
Well I had question that looked like a ...
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Blue close vote count wraps to two lines [duplicate]
I've got this issue on ruSO, but it probably happens on all SE sites. When closing a question as a duplicate, the number of votes already given for the same question wraps to two lines. As far as I ...
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Mark as duplicate for an identical question that was answered outside Stack Overflow?
Sometimes the exact same question is asked verbatim in two different places, for example:
On Stack Overflow and in MATLAB Central.
The author has accepted the answer to the latter case, and I wanted ...
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Dissonance between allowing signposts and forbidding crossposts
I want to call out the dissonance between Stack Exchange favoring redundant content within one community and forbidding redundant content between multiple communities.
How can we say that duplicate ...
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Ebooks or Graphic Design Stack Exchange for a question about using InDesign to create ebooks?
I have a question about exporting eBooks from InDesign: How to tell InDesign to skip color in css export for the ePub export
I asked it on Graphic Design Stack Exchange. But I do not know if that was ...
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Is it reasonable for dupes to appear before the non-dupe in search results? [duplicate]
If you search Stack Overflow for [c++] static block, you get this (as of 2021-11-08):
Q: What is static block in c or c++? [duplicate]
Q: Static blocks in C++ [duplicate]
Q: What's the C++ idiom ...
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Was this question auto-deleted (roomba'ed) while being a duplicate? [duplicate]
I thought duplicates with no answers aren't deleted, but if negative score they're deleted. This was confirmed by this example:
But the FAQ led me here which says otherwise, namely it checks:
not ...
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Does linking a similar question when asking a question make it less likely to get marked as a duplicate?
Let's say I want to ask a question, and I see a similar question and some answers to it but I don't feel that any of the answer tells me what I want to know. Would linking the similar question, in my ...
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Please allow close voting when viewing a suggested duplicate in the Close votes Review Queue
I would love to see an improved workflow for when I review a duplicate question.
My current workflow looks like this:
Read the question that is nominated for closure
Read the suggested duplicate ...
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What can I do if I disagree on the reason a question was closed, and believe it should have instead been closed as a duplicate? [duplicate]
What can I do if a question was closed for reason A but I believe that it should have been closed for reason B? Is the only option to vote to reopen it and then vote to close it again with reason B?
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Accidentally asked a question from my company account, deleted it and trying to post it from my personal account but says it's a duplicate [duplicate]
I have been trying to post my question with my personal account rather than the company's Stack Overflow Teams account after deleting it, but it says this question is a duplicate of a deleted one. ...
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'Duplicate accepted' banner suggests there are multiple originals
When you 'accept' a duplicate target for your question, the question will be closed and a banner will be shown:
Great! We'll associate your post with these questions so future visitors can easily ...
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Is there a userscript which keeps track of the questions that I use as dup-targets?
I'm just wondering if someone has a userscript that keeps track of the links that one uses when closing questions as duplicate. The main purpose is to avoid having to manually create (and maintain) ...
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Please tweak the behavior of the dupe "does this answer your question?" message so it does not suck
I have no problem with my question being closed as a dupe; hey, I got an answer! Yet, the way the "Does this answer your question" message works is not great at all. Let me explain.
I post ...
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