Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
For the process of identifying and closing questions that are duplicates of another question.
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When choosing to leave closed for the duplicate reason in the reopen review queue, allow specifying another duplicate target
Sometimes, I encounter questions in the reopen queue which are closed as duplicates, but for which I disagree with the current duplicate target(s) and think a different one is better applicable/has a ...
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Why wasn't this No Longer Needed flag automatically marked as helpful when the comment was deleted?
There's something strange going on with a comment under this question:
How do you find how many questions have been asked on a given site?
Timeline (September 17th, 2021, UTC):
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A user answering duplicate questions and dupe-hammering them afterwards [duplicate]
For a long time now a six-figure user has been consistently answering questions from a certain tag and dupe-hammering quite a few of them right afterwards. I didn't think much of it until recently:
I ...
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Misclick with duplicate flag, now unable to delete automatic comment as I never had the rep to comment in the first place -- is this intended? [duplicate]
On this question, I accidentally marked it as a duplicate of the wrong link. I retracted the flag, no harm done. But my comment remains and I cannot delete it, and I figure this is because I don't ...
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The Help Center implies that it's OK to answer duplicate questions if there aren't many duplicates; is this correct?
The Help Center article on how to write a good answer contains the following section:
Not all questions can or should be answered here. Save yourself some
frustration and avoid trying to answer ...
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Allow to automatically add the duplicate-suggestion comment, even when out of close votes
This is almost a duplicate of Allow to flag a question for closure without casting a vote if I'm out of close votes in the sense that if that is implemented, then of course it would be best to ...
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Clicking on vote count in the Linked Questions list does not give a “noredirect” link
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According to this meta answer, linked questions in the sidebar should have noredirect=1 passed. This was done due to an annoying redirect (explained better in the question than I ever ...
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Add a toast notification when an anonymous user follows a link to an unanswered duplicate
For many years now, anonymous users who access a link to a question with no answers that's closed as a duplicate have been redirected to the duplicate target (so long as there's only one target). ...
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What happens with "Does this answer your question?" - Yes [duplicate]
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When one/more users suggest another post answers your question (and there is a banner at the top of the page asking if question title answers your question? Yes/No), what physically happens ...
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Attribute automatic duplicate comments to the Community user
I just read the update to Workflow changes for review queues. There the following is stated:
Reviewers are encouraged to leave comments for the post-author, but now they can also choose from a few ...
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Why does this particular reopen review task incorrectly show with the old wording of the duplicate close reason?
Prior to February 2013, the duplicate close reason notice used to have the following wording:
This question covers exactly the same content as earlier questions on this topic; its answers may be ...
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MathJax sometimes doesn't work in older-style duplicate links
Take a look at Showing $f'(x) = f(x)$ implies an exponential function:
The Mathjax fails in duplicate links on duplicate questions closed prior to February 2013 that include HTML escaped characters. ...
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How to get "duplicates list edited" history from the public data dump or SEDE?
I want to search questions whose duplicates list has been edited. Take this question as an example:
The timeline shows that the type of "duplicates list edited" is history, but the list ...
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Math Processing Error
Today while voting to close this post as duplicate, the earlier posts were shown with
[Math Processing Error] in red.
I tried in both Windows PC(Chrome) and in Android phone in Full-site mode, both ...
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My question did not get an appropriate answer [duplicate]
Regarding I subscribed to Stack Overflow feeds to my email but haven't received any till today:
I asked a question and I got some comments. I was not able to get an appropriate answer and I have ...
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