All Questions
Tagged with duplicate-questions vote-to-delete
15
questions
20
votes
0
answers
200
views
Strange deletion warning trying to clean up old questions (that aren't mine)
Occasionally I encounter old questions that got popular, but which are actually pretty bad. One common case is that the question Needs More Focus due to really being two questions in one, each of ...
- 61k
54
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Regex question getting closed as a dupe with a too broad target, and now receiving delete votes
Disclaimer: I have a stake in this question, as I'm the owner of the accepted answer.
I'm disappointed with the process that's happening on this question about a regex-related error message in ...
- 72.1k
207
votes
11
answers
4k
views
Can we slow down on the deletes on Meta, folks?
I had the privilege of reading this meta post just now (screenshot in case it's deleted again).
It was created 36 minutes ago.
It was closed 20 minutes ago.
It was deleted 1 minute ago.
Meta is the ...
- 57.7k
168
votes
6
answers
7k
views
What should we do when one person tries to delete every duplicate?
There's a subject I'm pretty good with. I like to share my knowledge with others through answers. Unfortunately, there's another user active in the tag who makes participation extremely frustrating. ...
- 7
-5
votes
3
answers
517
views
Should a question marked as duplicate be deleted?
I will start this question with the following valuable guideline at How should duplicate questions be handled?
Should duplicates be deleted?
In general, no: most duplicates stay around. Having ...
- 75.2k
20
votes
0
answers
106
views
Possible contradiction in whether to delete a question (with answers) closed as a duplicate
Today, I asked a question ... after doing a search that yielded no relevant questions ... that was flagged as duplicate. It was very helpful to go to the duplicate post, but I ran into contradicting ...
2
votes
0
answers
69
views
Mechanism to delete old duplicates? Flags? [duplicate]
Is there an aim to remove identical old questions? (aka delete)
Is there any appropriate action? Flagging?
I keep finding old identical questions which are already be linked, end up looking at both, ...
- 5,147
8
votes
0
answers
567
views
Vote to delete good questions with wrong reasons [closed]
I recently came to this question:
What does the regular expression /_/g mean?
and saw it is closed as a being a duplicate for this one:
How to match multiple occurrences of string within a string ...
- 48.2k
10
votes
1
answer
180
views
What parameters do we want when deleting duplicate questions?
Looking in the delete queue - there's always many duplicates. Now some truly bring no value to the site. They have no or one poor answer (if judging answers by votes) and they won't be missed being ...
user3956566
5
votes
0
answers
80
views
'View duplicate questions' button shows more than just duplicates
When voting to delete a question that has linked duplicates, a dialogue appears:
The 'View duplicate questions' button points to the 'Linked Questions' page, which contains more than just ...
- 24.1k
3
votes
1
answer
227
views
When should I (we?) Vote to delete a dupe-closed question?
This is regarding casting delete votes on dupe-closed question.
I had read this in meta SE.
I also had read that in MSE.
Still, I fail to understand why three other users promptly VTD for this ...
- 134k
26
votes
0
answers
197
views
Circular duplicates should not prevent vote to delete
Some !!FUN!! happened with a couple of questions, QA had 3 close votes as duplicated against QB, and QB was hammered as duplicated of QA (that's another bug). When both questions were finally closed, ...
- 4,479
33
votes
1
answer
685
views
Delete a question that was used as a duplicate target
So this question pops up in the reopen queue:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2322297/sql-language-tutorial
The question is highly off-topic, and the OP admits to it. Deletion seems to be the ...
MachavityMod
- 31.3k
4
votes
0
answers
86
views
What should I do if I can't vote to delete because the question has duplicates, but they are off-topic?
This question has already accumulated 8 delete votes, which seems to be fair enough.
But when I tried to cast a delete vote to actually delete it, I couldn't, because the question is the duplicate ...
- 59k
20
votes
2
answers
848
views
Should 'number of lines from Xcode project' really be deleted? Should it be merged instead?
There are six delete votes on Number of lines from XCode project, and I can't figure out why.
It's been rightly marked as a duplicate of How to find out how many lines of code there are in an Xcode ...
UndoMod
- 25.6k