Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
For the process of identifying and closing questions that are duplicates of another question.
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Someone flagged my question as already answered, but it's not
I asked a question regarding a very specific feature of a program and whether or not it works with a larger program. Within hours someone had marked it with "This question may already have an answer ...
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How does duplicate closing work? When is a question a duplicate, and how should duplicate questions be handled?
Questions can be closed as duplicates.
When are two questions considered duplicates?
Which question is the duplicate?
It's a duplicate. What do I do?
Should I edit the question?
Should I answer it?
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Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions [duplicate]
At present if you see a question that may be a duplicate and has an easy answer you can post the answers or post a link to the duplicate question. (Or the few hi-rep users can vote to close it as ...
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Should I vote to close a duplicate question, even though it's much newer, and has more up to date answers?
I have seen this many times, a question is being asked because a previous, duplicate question was asked and answered a few years ago and has no longer relevant answers.
The recommendation is to edit ...
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Changes to "close as duplicate" (part deux)
I feel like we got off on the wrong foot. Due to me being an idiot miscommunication, a partial change snuck out early, and even though we announced it we didn't really explain why we made the change. ...
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Do not delete good duplicates!
This question (currently deleted (visible only to 10kers)) is a great example of a duplicate question that should not be deleted. [Note: this question was later merged into this one, which resulted in ...
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What to do with cross-site duplicates?
What's the right course of action for cross-site duplicates?
There are two flavors:
A question is posted which belongs on another site and ends up already having been asked there. I can't find an ...
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Reward finding duplicate questions - +10, +2, -5
Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions deals with various ways of rewarding the finding of duplicates, a tough and increasingly necessary janitorial task.
Here's a concrete suggestion:
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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 the user experience when an anonymous user arrives at a ...
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New UI encourages askers to confirm or dispute duplicate votes
As of the 9th of March, the banner shown to askers whose questions have attracted at least one duplicate close vote has a couple of new options:
If the author clicks the first button, they're shown a ...
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Capitalize "possible" in the automatically inserted comments when you vote to close as a dupe
The comment reads:
possible duplicate of [link]
The missing capitalization bothers me a lot; it should be Possible.
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Can we clarify to the OP that their question is not yet closed and the duplicates are only suggestions?
I keep seeing custom flags in the queue from question askers who are incredibly irritated because there is a big, prominent box at the top of their question. It's just a list of other questions which ...
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Don't delete comments with link to duplicate if they are modified
A user just posted his question a second time here on meta after the first was closed as a duplicate. I wrote a comment on the second post, explaining that the answer to his question is in the linked ...
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Are duplicates creating broken windows?
I think the Eternal September is dooming Stack Overflow to have the same questions asked over and over again, and the people who don't want questions closed are winning.
Why don't people want ...
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Duplicate question etiquette: to delete or not to delete? [duplicate]
Let's say I'm a good Stack Overflow citizen: I have a question, I search on SO and on google to see if someone's asked the same thing, and I can't find anything that shows up, so I go ahead and post a ...
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