Questions tagged [closed-questions]
For talking about questions which have been closed.
193 questions
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How to improve this closed question so it is recovered?
How to edit this question, so it is reopened: I already tried: added references, more background information, responded to comments, adjusted the question accordingly to clarify it, added a ...
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Change the canned text for closed questions
I am looking at a closed question here on Meta, and the precomposed text says "This post was edited and submitted for review 2 days ago and failed to reopen the post:". Let us look closely ...
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Why was this particular topology question closed? [duplicate]
Two weeks ago I asked this question about general topology. The question was well received (got a score up to 5) with interesting comments in return and also a very interesting answer. And then ...
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The close-question brigade continues out of control
Things are truly out of control here. This question was a good and serious question in differential topology, and the OP provided some reasoning and background. Moreover, I answered the question with ...
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Why does this question have close votes within minutes?
Solve $\int_a^\infty \Phi(x+z) f(x) dx $ (standard normal) To anyone with experience with probability and normal random variables the question is well defined. Why does it receive multiple close votes ...
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Confused as to why my question on vector rotations in $\mathbb{C}^3$ has been closed [duplicate]
I posted this question yesterday, asking how I can find a rotation matrix between two vectors in $\mathbb{C}^3$. I thought it seemed to be a reasonable question; however, it has been closed with a net ...
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How is this not a single question?
My question has been closed because it is allegedly not a single question. But the question in fact consists of one sentence, how it is not "single"?
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What does 'additional context' mean?
The question here was closed as requiring additional context, but I'm not sure what that context could be; it contains the problem source, a description of progress on a solution, and an attempted ...
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What should one do if a question keeps getting rejected to reopen without any explanation?
Today, I saw a question in the "Reopen Votes" queue asked by a user. The question had been closed due to a lack of detail. As I don't know much about number theory, I couldn't really ...
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Closure of question while asking for clarification
My question was just closed, being alive for around one hour. During this time I have first received a downvote, a close vote and a comment asking for a specific clarification. I have added requested ...
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My question has been closed and it said off-topic but I don't understand why [duplicate]
So I have been learning permutations and combinations and I mostly have tried it on my own and when I could no longer come to a solution only then did I take help from here. My question was closed and ...
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Why has my question on real Banach division algebras been closed?
My question on real Banach division algs has been closed with the reason given that it lacks detail. This is just nonsense as the question has all the details needed to answer it fully. And in fact I ...
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How to update this recently closed question so it focuses on one problem only?
Recently this question was closed. It was said that this question needs to be more focused, and that "update the question so it focuses on one problem only". I was wondering if some ...
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When is it right to close a question for lack of clarity?
In the spirit of "full disclosure" or something, I perhaps should start by saying that I generally find that questions (on math.stackexchange at least) are closed for unfair or inaccurate ...
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Question open for almost 12 years suddenly closed because of "no context". [duplicate]
Recently, I came across of a closed formula for the weight coefficients of the binary Hamming codes. I loosely remembered that I had answered some question on into this direction many years ago. ...
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