Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
For the process of identifying and closing questions that are duplicates of another question.
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Deleted duplicates should show the duplicate target(s)
Some questions on Stack Exchange sites get deleted, but they are still linked from various other places on the internet. I will use this deleted question from Mathematics Stack Exchange as an example....
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Please streamline VTC-as dupe in the review queue
I am trying to be a good sport and work on the close queue. Some days I use up all my votes, most days I don't. I hate to be a whiner, but there is a ton of clicking to agree with a possible dupe:
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Detect and block question copied exactly from existing questions
Just now I saw this question and this question two questions which are deleted afterwards, which appears to be copied exactly from another existing question, and surprisingly some "users" also ...
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Vanishing close-votes when the original version of a duplicate is deleted?
I voted to close this question as a duplicate of this earlier question (now deleted, after being closed as off-topic and voted down to -6), so did one other user. The author of both questions deleted ...
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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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Auto generated close as dupe comment appears only after a full reload
When casting a close vote (non binding) or raising a flag to mark a question as duplicate of other question, the auto generated comment "Does this answer your question? [duplicate target link]&...
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Disable the automatic redirect to duplicates when the referrer is an SE site
For a while now anonymous users are automatically redirected to the linked duplicate if they visit a question that was closed as a duplicate and that had no answers. There is one case where this ...
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If question A is closed as a dupe of question B, it should bump B to the front page
Since questions that are closed as duplicates may have answers, I think it would be great if:
the target (non closed) question gained a link to the dupe (ideally in a "duplicates" section with an ...
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"Marked as duplicate" text doesn't make sense for questions that have no answer
The new "marked as duplicate" text says:
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
In some ...
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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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Access to save lists in the close as duplicate modal
Now that we have the option to create multiple save lists, can we have the option to show the content of said lists in the "Close as duplicate" modal dialog?
I have a couple of questions ...
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Can we update the duplicate post finder to include other users?
This question originated from this MSO post where there is a discussion on an exact duplicate question by another user.
The case itself is curious enough, and Bhargav Rao asked a good question in a ...
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Voting to close as duplicate no longer up-votes the auto-generated comment
Until fairly recently, if I voted to close a question as a duplicate, the system would automatically up-vote the existing "possible duplicate of Foo" comment (if there was one).
This no longer seems ...
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"Possible duplicate" notice not removed after reopening question
I just reopened this question, which had been closed as a duplicate of another.
I navigated away and went to visit the page later, it turns out, the Possible Duplicate banner wasn't removed ...
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Two kinds of Duplicate closing are too confusing - suggestion for a possible fix
Question closed as duplicate before Changes to "close as duplicate" (part deux):
Question closed as duplicate after Changes to "close as duplicate" (part deux):
This is ...
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