Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
Questions flagged as duplicate, and what are, or are not, good reasons to do so.
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Criteria for determining duplicate questions
There is a question with the same title but I'm sure my question is different.
If a question is not answered, will another newly asked question be considered the duplicate question?
If a question is ...
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Converting duplicate/off-topic votes after question publication from Staging Ground
As you can see in the history below, while reviewing a question from Staging Ground, I chose to "Vote as duplicate". Later on, someone else approved that question. Now it's posted and it's ...
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The text box of the duplicate search dialog in Staging Ground is unreachable on mobile
On my iPhone 12 Mini running Firefox, I am unable to vote to close as duplicate.
On the initial Staging Ground review screen, when I click open an SG question, "Vote to close as duplicate" ...
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Please autofocus the input field when opening duplicate closure dialog in SG
In Staging Ground, when I select "Vote as duplicate" and then click "Submit", the duplicate closure dialog opens, but the input field isn't focused and focus stays on the "...
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A couple of questions regarding "Question closed as a duplicate"
I've asked this question in 2019: Assert request hasn't happened and then provided the answer by myself, thus answering my question.
Today I've found in my mailbox a couple of confusing emails ...
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What if my question with many details is a duplicate of an existing much simpler question? [duplicate]
I have a fairly technical question (regarding whether a particular C++
program is valid according to the standard). I have done quite a bit of
research to try to answer it on my own, and while that ...
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My question was closed as a duplicate of my other question with a lot of shared text
I had a question about a specific code that contained two sub questions. It was suggested to me in the comments that it would be neater if there was a separate post (question) for each question. I did ...
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Adding additional targets on a duplicate is impossible on iPhone [duplicate]
The dialog box for adding more URLs to the list of originals on a duplicate Question is much too wide on an iPhone. It is physically impossible to complete that dialog box.
Pasting the URL of an ...
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What to do if I find a question for my problem, but I have different thing to say? Why is editing the old question bad? [duplicate]
The questions What should I do if there is a question already made for my problem but has never been answered? (duplicate) and What can you do when the question you want to ask is a duplicate? don't ...
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What can we do when a close-reason requires an explanation?
Suppose you have this question:
Which is better: X or Y?
or
What is the best way to do Z?
You could close it using the "opinion-based" close-reason. However, this is not very helpful for ...
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Can I reopen (nominate) a closed duplicate questions it has more into it than the linked question? [duplicate]
Can I nominate a question for reopen if previously it has been closed as a duplicate if the question has more into it than the linked duplicate question? I would call it composite question.
What do I ...
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Do we have a canonical for parsing indented code with ast.parse?
While doing a cleanup of some other IndentationError questions, I closed a bunch of questions - including IndentationError during `ast.parse` and `ast.walk` of a function which is a method inside ...
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Stop closing duplicate pages; instead withhold rep on signposts
The Pain Points:
For askers who treat SO as a help desk, a dupe closure is a point of frustration because they want to receive answers specifically tailored to their question.
For answerers who ...
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How are duplicate chains resolved? [duplicate]
The question What is the difference between normal rvalue reference and template rvalue reference? is closed as a duplicate, but the linked duplicate (What is the rationale behind forwarding ...
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Duplicate question with downvotes
I have recently asked a question that was marked duplicate and received two downvotes. There aren't any answers to my question, only a comment with a
link to another post that answered my question.
I ...
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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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