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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What are common canonical questions for our site?
So according to the Gospel of Spolsky 13:4, a core mission of Stack Exchange communities is to stop re-answering the same questions, and instead build a library of canonical answers. When general ...
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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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How do I quickly find the duplicate questions I'm searching for when flagging/closing?
I don't like the search box when I'm flagging for a duplicate, because I don't know the exact names of the big questions. Even if I use very relevant keywords, the question that I want to pick is ...
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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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Where is the link to the original question when a question is closed as a duplicate?
I've looked for how to remove the unity dock from my new installation and have found two answers that were closed as exact duplicates of previous questions.
What previous questions?
Please update ...
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Please read -and think- before you mark as a dupe
I believe in the voting system, but not as a result of this:
A while ago, this question was asked. In short, in a multi- monitor setup, OP wants to have new windows appear on the screen he is ...
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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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Is it okay to both answer and mark a question as duplicate?
When I find that a question is duplicate, I just caste a vote to close it.
But sometimes I've got another answer to that question, in that case first I vote to close then I post my answer on the ...
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Finding questions that other questions have been closed as a dupe of
Is there a way to find questions with a high closed as dupe points here count?
If there were, I think it would be a great way to get a list of questions for people with close-votes without as much ...
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Duplicate circle?
I was just casting a duplicate close vote on this question when I got this notice:
What does it mean and how should I proceed?
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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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Me-too post? Or partial answer?
Where do we draw the line between "I'm having the same problem, too" posts and partial answers?
This answer and its comments are what have motivated me to ask this. But I'm hoping for a ...
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Messages to close voters in questions: are they OK?
It is occasional practice of some users to place message along the lines
CLOSE VOTERS: please don't close this as duplicate because it is not because A,B,C.
My question is this: Are we OK with ...
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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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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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Are there certain circumstances where one should close an old question as the duplicate of a new one?
Are there certain circumstances where one should close an old question as the duplicate of a new one (for instance if the new one is better and actually has answers)? And if not, then why does the ...
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When we see a potential duplicate, how should we handle it when we don't have proper privileges?
When we spot a duplicate question, what is the best way to handle it?
Of course if we have a huge reputation, we can just do it, but when we don't have enough reputation we should have ways to notify ...
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Where do I find the links for duplicate questions?
In general, where are links to duplicate questions located when a post is tagged as a duplicate?
This link is just an example of one of the many times I've been unable to find the duplicate: Where ...
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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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Don't be too eager to answer a question you know the answer of
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This question is not a personal complaint towards anyone. That's the reason I'd rather not give examples and I don't think I need to. The question is a call to be a bit more aware of what we ...
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Let's consolidate "black screen on boot" questions
We have 858 questions about this, it's probably time to consolidate this into one good CW and start duping things instead of having it all over the site, so we made this:
My computer boots to 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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Please don't be too eager to delete duplicates
On the occasion of this question, about losing rep over deletion of this one
Rubbish does not belong on the site. After a question has been marked as unclear, off-topic or too broad, one might ...
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Should a question be flagged as duplicate even if the question (older) pointed to as the duplicate has no answers?
I have encountered this predicament when reviewing posted questions and answers on AU.
Should I flag a question as a duplicate even if the older question pointed to as the duplicate has no answers ...
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Why is it allowed for an older question to be marked as a duplicate of a newer question?
This is my question, asked way back in 2010 with a lot of upvotes and many useful answers. In late July of this year it was marked as a duplicate of this question, filed in 2013.
Why was this done? ...
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Do we need a canonical partition recovery question? How shall we make it?
We have many questions about how to recover a whole partition. Typically it's an NTFS partition, destroyed by telling Ubiquity to install Ubuntu using the entire disk instead of alongside other ...
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How Do I Get My Question Unmarked As Duplicate?
I tend to use Stack Overflow rather than Ask Ubuntu so although my post count is low here I do have a good appreciation of the Stack Exchange sites and asking "good" questions.
My question How Do I ...
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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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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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Dupe but no dupe
Marking/closing questions as a duplicate is a delicate subject, and there is a thin line between whether a post is a duplicate or not.
This one however hurts my eyes. While OP clearly mentions he ...
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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 handle chains of "duplicate of..."?
Sometimes one post (P1) is commented "possible duplicate of P2". P2 itself is commented "possible duplicate of P3".
Example:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/246610/how-to-increase-battery-duration-...
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Failed first post audit by flagging as a duplicate. Is it correct?
While reviewing the first posts queue, I failed the following audit: https://askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/799873
After I looked at the question, I just thought: “That must have been answered ...
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How can a new user escalate an old unanswered question?
This question comes via an anonymous submission to Ask Slashdot: The problem with "Ask Ubuntu"
Say a new user has a problem, searches Ask Ubuntu and the UNIX site for a solution, and comes across an ...
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My question is marked as duplicate, what does this mean?
A user marked one of my questions as duplicate, I don't really understand if I have to do something about that or what ???
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Duplicate questions
If I want to ask a question that has already been asked,but I can't understand its solution.Should I comment there for more explanation or ask mine by adding duplicate by myself.
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Some merge candidates for Windows 7 and Ubuntu dual-booting questions
This looked a bit unwieldy for flagging, so I'm posting this here instead. I've looked through several of the dual-boot questions, trying to find ones that looked like duplicates. I have found ...
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Should a question be closed as duplicate of another when it is asking for the same goal but via a different route?
I recently closed a question as a duplicate of another, however I am starting to think that I may have made a mistake here along with the other close voters...
So just to make it easier, let's refer ...
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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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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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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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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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Can older questions be closed as duplicates of newer questions in special circumstances on meta?
Here on meta, sometimes issues arise, and then arise again later as circumstances change. Is it appropriate, in such a situation, to close older questions about a topic as duplicates of a newer ...
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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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Different types of Duplicate question?
I have recently noticed two types of questions marked as duplicate, the both have [Duplicate] in the title, and they both have something like this at the bottom:
However the first one has this at the ...
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Closed as exact duplicate -> where is the solution?
Mu question Can I do an install onto a 4GB usb stick which is smaller than the recommended installation size? was closed as exact duplicate with a url to possible duplicate answer.
Currently I have ...
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