Questions tagged [migration]
Questions about the migration of posts to another Stack Exchange site
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How do we improve those banners you see when a question is closed?
For example, this question was closed (and rightly so) for asking for software recommendations.
Couple of problems:
The fact that the question was closed makes little sense, because why ask OP to ask ...
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Why are there only few choices for flagging inappriopriate site of the network?
Only these 5 are available. I feel like some common options are missing, such as https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com, which gets confused a lot because there are a lot of older recommendation ...
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Should this question about Google Chrome be migrated to Super User from Stack Overflow?
It is suggested in a comment in a question on Stack Overflow that the question Prevent Google Chrome unloading or discarding tabs? should be migrated to superuser.
I am not sure if that's correct, ...
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Add the URL to a site recommendation question from Meta SE about Wordpress to [wordpress] tag excerpt
Tl;Dr: Is it OK to add the url to Where should I ask WordPress questions? (Question from Meta SE) to the wordpress tag excerpt?
The reason is that while some questions about Worpress might be on topic ...
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Do not migrate low-quality questions
I recently noticed a trend where low-quality off-topic questions are migrated away to a more appropriate site. These low-quality questions will then usually be closed on the destination site, causing ...
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Please revert migration
Regarding my question:
How to download all videos with yt-dlp from a youtube channel after the redesign?
To summarize, I think it was a erroneous migration. I flagged it to try to get it back and it ...
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How to know where my question belongs to
Is there some decision diagram, how to determine where my question belongs to?
Often it's hard to decide if my question is for Superuser × Stack Overflow, Superuser × Android Enthusiast × Ask ...
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Superuser vs Unix/Linux vs Ubuntu - revisited
10 years ago at the time of writing, this question was asked:
Superuser vs Unix/Linux vs Ubuntu
regarding the distinction and overlap of scope between the three StackExchange website.
The accepted ...
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Should we have programming added to no-no's in the Tour?
I've just realized that the SuperUser Tour doesn't list programming in the Don't ask about... list. I think we should consider adding it.
We have four migration targets for closed questions:
Stack ...
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Migrating high-quality, off-topic questions to another site in the Stack Exchange network
I recently edited this question, and then flagged it to request migration to Electronics Stack Exchange. My flag was declined by a Super User moderator for the following inexplicable reason:
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How to answer a question that was migrated away, then closed and migrated back?
In this question: my php script does not work, the answer was migrated away correctly to Stack Overflow.
Stack Overflow closed the question being unclear as I was adding my answer and that action ...
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Can the "migrated from StackOverflow" notice expire, please?
There are questions that were migrated from other sites, e.g. Stack Overflow.
These questions have a migration notice, e.g. Remove audio from video file with FFmpeg
(Sorry, I didn't know where to ...
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Please be mindful of non-programming and development question migrations
Stack Overflow is a site for programming and development questions. This question was recently migrated to Stack Overflow even though it has nothing to do with programming and development: Create ...
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Are questions about adblocking on-topic?
Our help says that questions about "websites or web services like Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress" are off topic. What about web browser add-ons, specifically configuring adblockers?
We've had ...
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This migration to Stack Overflow was erroneous
The question
Automatically add comma to end of JavaScript objects in VSCode
(see Revision History here)
was erroneously migrated to Stack Overflow.
This is clearly a software use question –
about ...
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