Questions tagged [duplicates]
Any two or more questions which cover the same topics and/details and can be answered by one of the existing questions.
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Should closed/locked questions with no answers be hidden?
Alot of times I'll see questions, often linked to by other duplicate questions (that are usually not actually duplicates, but that's a different issue) that are closed or locked after being marked as ...
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Do we need to "advertise" that some questions exist?
I just found this SEDE query:
Posts that are the target of most duplicate closures
1041 - My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?
571 - Installing Ubuntu Alongside ...
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Does time get considered in deciding Duplicate Questions?
A while back HWE for 14.04 was released and people had a bit of trouble upgrading to the new update. Which is fine and all. However, I came on site today to see this question flagged as dup to this ...
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Merging difficulty
MY question is how difficult is it to merge questions? Over my time here I've requested merging on a number of questions.
I recently ran across this question which I flagged as duplicate after ...
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Duplicate question note
As regular way I used to, I got interested in a question then I looked for duplicates. 2 other similar questions without answers. I've an answer so to post it, I had checked reputations, last login, ...
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Top answers are still sub-optimal on questions about MTP devices
I already noticed that Luis alone marked the following question as a duplicate some time ago: My MTP capable device is not detected? What can I do about that?
Here is my observation on the topic:
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Is this question correctly marked as a duplicate?
Removing the splash screen on shutdown an startup. I want to be able to see the processes
As I understand it's about disabling splash screen while second one is about booting in text mode, which are ...
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Question "Does HUION K58 work with Ubuntu?" incorrectly marked as duplicate
The question Does HUION K58 work with Ubuntu? was marked as a duplicate of What hardware does Ubuntu Touch support? which is incorrect.
The original question is not asking about Ubuntu Touch, and the ...
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Duplicates Policy Incentivizes Clutter Rather Than Canonical
Disadvantages of Current Duplicates Policy
Stated briefly, the current policy encourages proliferation over pruning.
The disadvantages of the current duplicates policy stem from the fact that it is ...
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How does duplicate work?
I asked a question a while back on askubuntu: Removed several programs using "sudo apt-get purge wine\*"
Which was recently marked as a duplicate of this question: Deleted most of the ...
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Almost duplicate - should I ask a new question?
The question Can not enable 3D acceleration on Ubuntu 14.04 inside VirtualBox describes exactly my problem at hand, except that it is for VB running under OSX 10.9.3 host for the OP and Win7 host for ...
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Let's stop using "How do I resolve unmet dependencies?" for dpkg questions (and probably for most apt questions)
The most used close target for apt/dpkg questions is this. However, that does not help if the problem is not with apt but with the underlying dpkg.
I very often find things like these when I check ...
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Search function and duplicate questions by new users
It's simple to notice that so many question asked by new users shall be answer by a simple search query. I'm asking if shall be possible put a simple banner saying:
"wait, before ask, why don't ...
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Possible wrongly closed question: "No space left on device" when installing packages, yet I have space left
I would like to point out that this question "No space left on device" when installing packages, yet I have space left should not be a duplicate of this other How do I resolve unmet ...
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Why are we marking these UEFI questions as duplicates of the wrong question?
I see many, many questions written by users having trouble installing Ubuntu in a dual-boot configuration on their UEFI-enabled PC, that are being marked as duplicates of Installing Ubuntu Alongside a ...
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Are these duplicates?
I am really not happy with the way questions are marked as duplicate lately.
A few recent examples:
This question could probably be closed for several reasons, but
not for being a duplicate of the ...
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Can questions be considered duplicates if no answer is applicable to both?
I asked a question about verifying integrity of sources. It got closed as duplicate as duplicate of a similar but different question.
The other question was not about how to verify the integrity, but ...
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Wubi, Windows 8 and 'wubildr.mbr' questions
I just saw this question and gave it my best shot:
How to remove Windows bootoption that results in 'wubildr.mbr'/0xc000007b error message?
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User has a system with pre-installed ...
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What to do with boatload of screen-resolution related questions?
I was browsing Ask Ubuntu for a bit and I found that there are a lot of screen-resolution related questions who are badly asked/answered or not answered at all.
A lot of the questions are very ...
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How to deal with higher quality duplicate questions?
Occasionally on a stack exchange, one will have a very precise question cited as a duplicate to a very broad question, or one will have a very clear and straight to the point question cited as a ...
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What happens when I upvote a duplicate of comment?
In many situations I have found questions that are duplicate of other questions. The first thing is to flag them as duplicates.
In some situations, I find a 'duplicate of' comment already from ...
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How to know if my question is a dupe if the OP used a different title?
This question is dupe to this question. (I was the first user to flag my question as dupe.) Mods decided to mark it a dupe to another question, that's none of my business. Basically reading this ...
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Can anyone explain me how is this a duplicate?
Ubuntu Touchscreen on Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro
Does anyone have any experience with Ubuntu running on the Yoga 2 Pro in terms of the functionality of the touchscreen?
I really, really, don't see how this ...
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Incorrect duplicate: missing clock
The question My clock has disappeared is incorrectly marked as a duplicate of Ubuntu 12.04 gnome issue, no clock is shown, strange starter icon cannot be removed. Could someone who has the necessary ...
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How to mark a question as duplicate
how to make or mark a question duplicate of other question ??? I came across many of such question can anybody tell me how to mark question a duplicate (does it require rep??)...
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There is no keyboard shortcut for Unity Dash Previews, yet the question is being marked as a duplicate of the keyboard shortcuts thread
Two existing questions [1, 2] have asked after a keyboard shortcut for accessing the Unity Dash Preview feature, which is currently only accessible with a right-click, and were marked as duplicates of ...
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How could you mark this question as duplicate
This question, is duplicate to this question, at least you say so, I didn't read any of them.
Anyway the point is that this question does not have any accepted answer. The other day, I tried to flag ...
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Which questions should be duplicated and which not? [duplicate]
There has been some discussion over the issue of questions being flagged as duplicate. There was a issue been brought up.
Question should not be flagged duplicate if answers can't be merged.
As an ...
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How to find duplicates of my own or arbitrary question
How to know which questions are duplicate of my question. Is there any way to find which questions are marked as a duplicate of mine?
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What defines a duplicate, a question or its description?
There have been countless questions on this subject, but the closest one I found was about (something like) what defines a duplicate, the question or the answer? This one is slightly different.
I ran ...
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Closed, Duplicate or On-Hold questions are tagged with much ease on Askubuntu.com!
Since most Linux distros, including Ubuntu and all its derivatives are considered to be open-source software platforms for anyone who's interested, I find it an abusive and counterproductive practice ...
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I've found a duplicate user; what should I do?
I just stumbled upon this question:
I can't install Ubuntu 13.04 on a new computer
And in the sidebar for this question I found this Related question:
I can't install Ubuntu 13.04 on a new ...
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Should we downvote duplicate questions?
I have been around for a few months now. What I notice is that the same questions keep on being asked over and over again. For instance about what ubuntu version to use, problems to install, questions ...
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Can I get banned for deleting my question?
I want to delete a question I asked but I don't know exact consequence. I'm going to try to delete a question I asked that was a duplicate (but it's not closed, it's just marked as duplicate). I don't ...
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How to mark question as duplicate? What happens when I click on flag?
I was hesitant to rampantly flag a question (which I considered a duplicate), because I feared this would automatically disrepute the question and/or - even worse - the question-asker. So,
How to ...
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Linking Encouragement
This isn't really a question, but I'm not exactly sure where to put it. I would like to request stack exchange linking rewards.
Everyday many of the same questions are asked. Users that are ...
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How to handle duplicate answers that add nothing?
I'm not talking about exact copying, failure to give credit, or one person passing off another person's answer as their own.
Rather, I'd like to know what the best practice is when one user answers a ...
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What can we do about high traffic duplicates?
Upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 to 11.04 is a duplicate question, merged with the more general How to Upgrade from a very old release to the latest.
The problem? How to Upgrade has about nine thousand views. ...
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How can I find out if my question has been asked before?
When I ask a question I do get a list of related questions that helps a lot to find out if my question has been asked before.
However I sometimes find an additional question that covers exactly the ...
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what's up with duplicate answers?
Have a look at, for instance, this question. Someone asked for a text equivalent to wireshark, and I answered "tshark". Then some time later, someone else comes along and posts a second answer ...
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Don't start to vote for closing as duplicate for questions whose answers can't be merged
I've seen this more than once. A question with a very weird dependency issue, got an answer to it's specific problem, and later on (sometimes months), someone votes to close it against the super ...
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Better handling of marking duplicate questions?
While I realize that dealing with duplicate questions is probably a tedious, time-consuming overhead issue for Moderators, I'm wondering if there can't be a better way of handling them rather than the ...
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Is it a duplicate when the answer is given as background in another question?
After asking Question X (listing commands a package provides), the OP explicitly states he's not looking for ~X (the opposite of Question X), and by way of background provides what the answer for ~X ...
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Reopen 388541 that asks the why's not the how's
This question of mine was closed on the basis that I'm asking the same question... I'm not. I specifically ask the "Why apt-get install update fails" (which normally people try to update their systems)...
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What do we in cases where users answer questions that have been marked as duplicates?
I have just marked a question as a duplicate and after sometime I have found other users answering it with the same answers like in the linked duplicate question.
How can I handle such cases?
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The current mess of the apt/dpkg tag
Apparently while I was not seeing, the apt/dpkg tag became a mess. There are a bunch of posts that are duplicated one of the other, a long list of concatenated duplicates of duplicates, duplicates ...
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Windows 8 and Ubuntu Dual-boot: Many duplicates
It seems to me that Ask Ubuntu is flooded with questions about Windows 8 and Ubuntu dual-booting systems. Should we be concerned about SE quality and over-asked questions? Here are two examples, (...
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Should duplicates be merged into the newer or older question?
My first thought would be the newer question is merged into the older one, which has had more time to gather bookmarks and search engine rankings, and it is the second question that is at fault.
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Why is this marked a duplicate?
This question was marked a duplicate: Tried to install wireless driver and now terminal and update manager no longer work either
However, the link given, Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers contains ...
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Start closing "I can't see partitions while installing" questions
I have seen a lot (really tons of them) questions regarding "I can't see [Windows] partitions while installing Ubuntu".
A common property between all of them is that almost none of them has close ...
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