Questions tagged [exact-duplicates]
This tag is referring to the process of identifying and closing questions that are (abstract) duplicates of another question.
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When can duplicate targets be younger? [duplicate]
Following a dispute with a user, as a moderator, I was faced with the (apparent) lack of consensus on when duplicate targets ought to be older than the proposed duplicate. I couldn't find any explicit ...
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Why are there two "close as a duplicate" options in the flagging pop-up?
With the recent rework of the "Flag" menu, it now offers two ways to flag a duplicate: by directly selecting the option "closed as a duplicate question", and by selecting the the ...
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Why don't append a reason why the question is closed as a duplicate?
Recently my question (link) got closed by someone who marked it as a duplicate of his own question asking a reference request. I supposed the answer of my question was on the article. So I looked ...
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How to deal with partial duplicates?
If someone asks two closely related questions A and B about a topic (where it's understandable that they didn't post two separate questions*), and question A is a duplicate of an older question A', ...
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When should an integral be considered a duplicate?
When solving an integral (if possible), the solution generally entails applying a substitution, transformation, or "trick" that reduces/simplifies the original integral into known results. ...
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Should a "broader" question be closed as a duplicate when a "narrower" question answers it?
Suppose we have an existing, answered, question $Q_1$: How to prove that object $X$ has property $P$? Later, someone asks a new question $Q_2$: Do objects with property $P$ exist? Should question $...
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Surrendering to the duplicate flood
You may have noticed that I have been quite active recently flagging duplicates, but also asking users to respect the site guideline to not post answers to duplicate questions. I am not sure if I can ...
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Is it possible to ask a question in an answer to a question already on the site
I found a question where the user is studying on the same book I'm using, and has asked a question about something on this book, but he asked only "half a question" about it. I'm interested ...
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Knowledge base proposal for MSE
TL;DR Is there a canonical blogging or knowledge base service attached to MSE? Also, can we use this service (if it exists) as a source for marking duplicates? If not, can we build one? In principle, ...
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Duplicate - older post doesn’t have an answer [duplicate]
I reviewed a post written 8 yrs and 8 months ago. The post seemed familiar to me, and that was because I’ve seen the same question before. I searched it and marked it as a duplicate, but now I ...
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Recommendation when a duplicate cannot be found
We have the policy that duplicate questions should not recieve answers and instead should be closed as duplicates. Now what shall I do in the following situation: A question is asked, for which I ...
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I finished writing a question, and then realized it is a duplicate. Should I post?
I finished writing a question, and then realized it is a duplicate. Should I post? I swear this happens all the time to me. Reason not to post: it is a duplicate, and will waste peoples' time with ...
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"Close as duplicate" boilerplate text changed
When the first vote to close-as-duplicate is cast, the Math SE software also posts a comment that says This question is similar to: …. If you believe it’s different, please edit the question, make it ...
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Auto-detecting the duplicate posts
After and during writing the question on MSE, some similar posts are suggested by the site. However, there are still many duplicate questions posted every day. I think it would be a good idea to ...
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Why I seemingly cannot find my question when searching but then later when I get flagged for duplicate question I find the similar question
I try to avoid creating duplicates but I always fail. Consider my recent question. I was searching the finite subgroup criterion. So I typed into the search function "Finite subgroup criterion&...
