Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
Questions flagged as duplicate, and what are, or are not, good reasons to do so.
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Why was this question closed as a duplicate? [duplicate]
My question asks about how to comment a line within a multi-line code segment:
How to comment out one line of a multiline statement
It was closed for another question that asks about how to do a line ...
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My question got posted twice - bug? [duplicate]
I posted a question on SO, and somehow two posts were created.
The question ids are consecutive, 77669138 and 77669139.
Within the HTML of both pages is the same dateCreated value 2023-12-15 22:38:03Z ...
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Rule proposal: Duplicate closure to roll-up questions is no longer allowed
There is a long-festering problem in some tags where some questions are closed by dupehammers, using a single roll-up question as the duplicate target. A "roll-up" question is defined here ...
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Do duplicates of "sin/cos/tan expect radians instead of degrees" needs to match the language?
For example, currently Why Sin(30) = -0.9880316240928618 in java, a Java question, in which the root cause of the question is about using degrees instead of radians in the sin() function, but now it ...
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Canonical for Java EE vs Jakarta EE
Java EE was donated to the Eclipse Foundation which had to rename it to Jakarta EE.
In the process, they had to change the dependency coordinates of the specifications and change the root package name....
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Can we reopen this JavaScript-specific question about floating point precision that's currently closed as duplicate?
I came across this question: How to deal with floating point number precision in JavaScript? which is flagged as a duplicate of Is floating point math broken?.
The problem is that the first question ...
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Questions and Articles are occasionally duplicated into two identical posts created in the same instant
I've noticed a number of incidences where a user posts the same question twice. However, these posts are created within the same second so this isn't a situation where a user keeps posting the same ...
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New questions have been overzealously marked as duplicates for YEARS [closed]
Ok guys, it's a meme at this point. New person asks question, and within 10 minutes it gets marked as a duplicate by some high-reputation user. And y'know what? A lot of times, perhaps the ...
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Is there any way I can try to save my Java question about getting a static nested class by name?
(Full disclosure: This issue has already been discussed in chat and then it was suggested I post about this on MSO.)
I asked Fastest way to get a static nested class by name using reflection in Java? (...
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Why is my question still being closed after I've explained why it is not a duplicate?
I had this question (Sprite jumping around in a undesirable way when handling collision while flipping the sprite) which was marked as a duplicate of three questions and was closed.
I edited the ...
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Will my question be closed as a duplicate if there is a similar question asked on other Stack Exchange sites? [duplicate]
Suppose I ask a question on SO or Meta SO. The question isn’t a duplicate of any question on SO or Meta SO. However, if my question is similar to a question asked on another site on the Stack Exchange ...
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Why is the duplicate close banner strange on this question? [duplicate]
This question looks like this right now:
Notably, the place where the duplicate questions are usually listed is empty (leading to a rather awkward "This question already has answers here:" ...
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What should I do when I encounter a user who reasks an identical question when their question is closed? [duplicate]
A user asked a question Weird behaviour from European Central Bank API and it was closed as not appropriate for the site (missing debug details). That user then immediately asked the same question ...
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What should I do when the duplicate target depends on additional context?
I found this question and (as I said in my comment) it could be either a duplicate of this (if the Socket in the question is a reference type) or this (if the Socket in the question is a value type).
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Are multiple close reasons provided if a question was single-handedly closed?
I came across the following post and revisions:
command won't add roles to the user
https://stackoverflow.com/posts/77107942/revisions
It was closed by two users, one with the ability to single-...
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