I can understand that sometimes questions are closed as being too opinionated, too broad, or unclear, but my question was closed as being off-topic. I have read the [On-Topic Help Center](https://codereview.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic) page for Code Review, but more detail would be useful.

I see there are a number of sub-reasons for being off-topic:

- [**broken code**](http://meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/a/3650)
- [**code not yet written**](http://meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/a/3651)
- [**the question does not include the code to be reviewed**](http://meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/a/3653)
- [**the code is not real code (it is example, pseudo, or hypothetical code)**](http://meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/a/3652)
- [**the code is not owned or maintained by me (it is someone else's code)**](http://meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/a/3654)

When questions are closed with these reasons, what does it mean, and what can I do?

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