Questions tagged [closing-questions]
For questions about the closing of questions: whether, when, why, and how questions should be closed.
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Why was this question reopened when it is clearly asking to identify more than one work?
This question: What are these classic 80's action movies? was closed as "Needs more focus" and then subsequently reopened.
This was surprising to me. It's demonstrably asking to identify ...
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Is it okay to post obituary posts on meta for those who never were on a Sci-Fi or Fantasy work?
As you may know, obituary posts aren't allowed on Movies and TV Meta SE, and here, the scope is about Sci-Fi & Fantasy works.
So is it allowed to post obituaries for well-known filmmakers, actors/...
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What part of the "Ruby Rhod appearing on the menu screen of The Fifth Element" question needs more focus?
This is regarding the question: What is the significance of Ruby Rhod appearing on the menu screen of "The Fifth Element" video game?
It was closed as "needs more focus" and left ...
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How should we handle [story-identification] questions that are word-for-word duplicates (or slightly reworded versions) of a prior question?
There are these two story-identification questions that seem to be asking to identify the same thing:
Anime with boy who can grow crystals on his body, posted in July 2021 and currently unanswered
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Future Works policy on The Rings of Power, a TV show that has not yet finished its first season
Currently, we have two questions asking about a comparison of the TV show, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, to its source material:
How close is Amazon's 'The Rings of Power' to ...
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Why is this question too broad?
In this comment, it is proposed that that because "this is technically three different questions" the question should be closed.
It seems to me that the question is about the interpretation ...
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removal of down votes from reopened questions?
In this question there was some ill informed views that cast it in bad light, namely suggesting the basic question was wrong and I should perhaps review the film and, also, that it was a possible ...
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Review links for fourth custom close reason
A proposed wording for our "out of scope" close reason is being constructed at this other meta question but it needs some links to be considered ready to go. I've simply linked to the help ...
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How do we deal with a situation where a Story-ID question is a duplicate of more than one work?
I just posted a second answer to my game identification question: Searching for video game like Xevious but with more interesting bosses —the reason being that I discovered that I had combined ...
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Should questions closed for lacking details be voted for re-opening even if the original issue hasn't been addressed?
The two questions that inspired this post (primarily this one here, but also this one) are both story-id questions, and although that's a type of question that does get closed for being unclear, my ...
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Why was "Why do vampires hiss?" considered to not be focused enough?
The question Why do vampires hiss? asks:
Is there any thought process for [hissing], or any evidence for the choice, or did Bram Stoker just decide that?
It's tagged as history-of and trope, and ...
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Wording for fourth (custom) close reason - "Not about science fiction or fantasy"
Now that we have consensus on adding a fourth custom-close reason (and confirmation from Community Manager @Catija that she's happy to do so), we now need to agree on the wording.
The original ...
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Can we please have our close reason ("This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy") back?
Getting a new custom close for our Future Works policy has resulted in one of our existing close reasons being removed.
"This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy ...
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New custom close reason: Future Works
Last year (2020) saw some changes to the question closure system across the SE network. These included changing the text saying "off-topic" in custom close reasons to "a community-...
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Should the correctness/quality of the accepted answer be a factor in choosing which of two duplicate questions to close?
Let's say there are two duplicate questions. Each are equally broad, and each have a decent number of good answers. (Meta consensus here says to keep the broader question, and failing that, the one ...
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