Questions tagged [deleted-answers]
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A brief answer or a comment? Or why deleted?
My recent answer to this old question was deleted, the question was closed later. The OP wrote: I want to find the potential in the half space including the cylinder. I answered that the potential ...
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Disappearing answer
Earlier today, I posted an answer to this question (then on PSE), which, in case it's relevant, quickly received (I think) 5 upvotes. I then got a message that my answer had been migrated to ...
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Should I delete and repost my question if the only answer to my question was deleted?
So I had asked this Question a few days ago and I had received an answer which I had a few doubts in. I tried to clarify my doubts by posting them in the comments section but the answer is no longer ...
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Getting Copy of Deleted Answer
There was an answer on this question that I thought was really helpful. In fact, I really need the references provided in that answer, but I don't have enough rep to view deleted answers. Would ...
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What can you do when you know your answer is wrong, but has the "right" comments below it?
I recently asked this question on Physics SE. Thinking about it for a while, I thought I had come up with an answer and thus answered my own question. But Triatticus pointed out how my solution is ...
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Why has my answer to whether the fine structure constant been deleted?
My answer to this question on whether the fine structure constant can be calculated has been deleted by a moderator on the basis that the linked article is to a "non-mainstream publication." ...
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Why was this answer deleted?
My answer to a question was deleted under homework policy. The question didn't seem like homework. It was a genuine doubt why the user was getting a wildly different answer than the solution.
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How can I find my deleted question & answers?
There's a question I asked several years ago (about quantum mechanics and nonlinearity) which have been deleted. How can I find them?
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Silently deleting answers by a new user is not welcoming
This comment-like answer was posted by a rep-1 user with no (AFAICT) other posts, and then silently deleted within 15 minutes, leaving the poster wondering why. The user then posted a copy of the ...
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A question (quoted below) was asked which I answered, and my answer was deleted. I would like to ask the logical reason for the deletion
The question: https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/657234 (now deleted and visible only to users with 10k+ rep; screenshot) This seems to me to clearly be a question seeking a "Yes" or &...
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1 answer
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Answer deleted when posted to duplicate question
I came across the question Why does the melting point of water decreases with increase in pressure? and answered it. I found a day later that an earlier, almost identical question had been asked by ...
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Conditions for on-site preservation of an answer
I answered a question made by someone who has not been seen on the site since April 29, 2016. It's my impression that "accepted" answers (answers accepted by the participant who had ...
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What are the views of PSE community members on moderator deletion of upvoted answers?
I would like to hear the views of PSE community members on the deletion of my two upvoted answers to this question. I am especially interested in the views of ordinary (non-moderator) members of the ...
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Should we not let an answer/question be deleted?
Since the content on PSE is licensed under CC BY-SA $4.0$, I suppose the content that is once posted on PSE becomes part the free culture (correct me if I am wrong), and thus, even if the author ...
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Question and answer deleted: not in P.SE's interest in my opinion
Very recently a question and answer of mine was deleted [closed, Edit.] here: Cooling of a Uniform Sphere with Convective heat loss at the boundary The question and answer had been deleted by ...
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