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What happens when a question in the Close Votes review queue is self-deleted (and undeleted)?

I had flagged this now-deleted question on Stack Apps because it appeared to be a duplicate of this question by the same author. The author has now removed their own 'duplicate' question, but my flag ...
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How can I change which question the current question is a duplicate of? [duplicate]

I would imagine this is a fairly common situation, but I haven't found it discussed: I vote to close a question as a duplicate of a specific other question. The asker edits the question so that it's ...
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Incorrect user is shown at closed question [duplicate]

There was a duplicate question asked earlier today, so I thought of closing the question, but in the close popup already two other users voted to close as unclear. Still I went ahead and closed it as ...
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View older questions in the close votes queue?

Is it possible to show questions from year 2009, for example? Most of the questions I see in the close queue are new. It make sense to close the newest questions that are wrong. But sometimes it's ...
MikroDel's user avatar
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Is there a way to see the reviews of a particular question?

I voted to close a question I thought was too localized, and four days later I see that my close vote has apparently been aged away. The question only has <100 views right now, so based on what ...
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STOP! Look and Listen [duplicate]

Whenever I review Close Votes, I sometimes stumble upon something that I don't think should be closed, but just to make sure I haven't missed something, I press the "Close" button to see how many ...
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Why has Pro Webmasters been removed from off-topic close options? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Update Migration Path List for Non-Moderators If I vote to close a question as off-topic, Pro Webmasters used to be in the list of sites to migrate the question to, but it's ...
DisgruntledGoat's user avatar
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After voting to close, delete and reopen, I can't cast a close vote

When the OP posted this question, the contents looked like "AAAA AAAA AAAAAAAAA". Obviously, no-one was going to understand this, so we downvoted and voted to close. After closure, I immediately voted ...
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When writing an answer, can we be notified if people are voting to close/flagging the question? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Add an alert when answering a question that has at least a close vote as duplicate I was writing a detailed answer to a question. Before I could post it (when it was just ...
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Review close votes that I have cast [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Add a “voted to close” activity event somewhere on the user profile page Dizzy with the newly granted power of close voting, I have found myself increasingly ...
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Why has the list of close voters been removed? [closed]

A recent update to SE has removed the list of close voters on closed questions. Because of this, it can no longer be determined who closed it without stepping into /revisions. The information even ...
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Since I have enough reputation to cast close votes, shouldn't I be able to close my own questions without waiting for other people to vote?

Example question MySQL: Get the difference between timestamps Another user found a duplicate and did not vote to close, I voted to close... but it is not yet closed. Maybe when closing your own ...
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Voting to close as duplicate on Area 51

Why can't you select which proposal on Area 51 would be a duplicate of the one you're voting to close? I imagine in the future there could be a follower, questions, etc. migration between them. ...
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