Timeline for Should questions ever be marked a duplicate of another duplicate?
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| Nov 23, 2017 at 18:30 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @MikePierce Probably if you want to know more details about migration, that would be better for a separate question (or perhaps chat). I do not have much time at the moment and I am not sure I would be able to address all what you mention in the limited space in the comments. (But maybe somebody else notices your comments and will try to say more.) | |
| Nov 23, 2017 at 18:05 | comment | added | Mike Pierce | This could require heavy editing though. Is there some "limitation" (official or otherwise) on the extent to which users' questions and answers should be edited for something like this? (Apologies if this stream of questions have gotten off-topic) | |
| Nov 23, 2017 at 18:03 | comment | added | Mike Pierce | I don't agree that it would be contraproductive to have duplicate answers on a merged question, or even that a difference in notation/formulation should be a barrier to merging two questions. Some substantial editing may need to be done to the questions and answers though to make a cohesive post. Like, for the example you give of the two summation questions, why not word the merged question something like "How do you evaluate $\sum_{k=1}^\infty x^k$, ... in particular, what if $x=1/2$?" Then some of the merged answers would respond to the specific question, and others to the general question. | |
| Nov 23, 2017 at 17:38 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | However, merging two question is not always an option, even if they are duplicates. For example, if notation or formulation is different enough, answers from one question would not work on the other one. Or if merging would lead to duplication of answers, then it would be contraproductive. | |
| Nov 23, 2017 at 17:38 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @MikePierce Such thing is done quite often and it is called merging. (If you want to see some specific examples, you can find a few in this chatroom. Here is one random example.) At least if this is what you meant by consolidating. | |
| Nov 23, 2017 at 17:32 | comment | added | Mike Pierce | It looks like some of my concern, and some of the disagreement among users stems from there being several useful versions of the same question floating around. Do you know if there's ever been a discussion on either Math.Meta or Meta.SE about consolidating duplicate questions into a single parent question? | |
| Nov 23, 2017 at 16:18 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 32 characters in body |
| Nov 23, 2017 at 15:27 | history | answered | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |