Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
Questions flagged as duplicate, and what are, or are not, good reasons to do so.
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Asking a duplicate question for a different version of a tool
I came across this question, which was asked presumably in the context of Python 2 (judging from the date).
I noticed that one of the answers with no votes (at the time of writing) proposes a ...
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Should I ask questions that have been answered on other Q&A sites?
I was recently searching for a question that I found an answer to on a Google groups site. If I had not found the answer on that site, I probably would have asked the question on SO. Which has got ...
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Marking question as duplicate of duplicate
While in the Low-Quality and Close queues, I often come across questions marked as duplicates by a previous user. However, the proposed original is often itself marked as a duplicate of another ...
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Are my "close" votes being neglected? [duplicate]
I have flagged many questions as "Duplicate" in jquery-mobile, but none of them is closed, my votes stand alone.
Some of them are recent (1 week) and others are old. I am afraid that they don't ...
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A duplicate of a duplicate of a duplicate?
See this question on Stack Overflow:
What is the difference between != and =! in Java?
It is a duplicate of:
What's this =! operator?
which is a duplicate of:
What does the "=!" ...
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How frequently are duplicates merged?
Some of us believe that the addition of many exact duplicate questions by new users is lowering the quality of SO. It has been said that the answer to this problem is for high-rep users to merge those ...
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Appeal to re-open a question on Stack Overflow
A question which I answered got marked as a duplicate, but the answers of the proposed duplicate question are not applicable to it. Since I don't have the required reputation on Stack Overflow to cast ...
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Should we discourage marking C and C++ questions as duplicates of each other and potential merges?
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In general I think it does not make sense to make C and C++ questions as duplicates of each other and obviously potentially merge them. I see this happening often enough that I thought it made ...
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What if a great reference question is on another site?
The mod_rewrite tag is one of the most affected by a maddening constant stream of quasi-duplicates.
They always look like this (Translated:)
I have a URL /mypage/index.php?page=1&place=New+York
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