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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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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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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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Are duplicate questions hidden now?
It seems to me that questions closed as duplicate are hidden now. They are visible only to the post author and users with the close/reopen votes privilege.
That means that these questions will not be ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Duplicates must have at least one upvoted answer
So, how come I can duplicate this with this?
Just curious really, is it because the same person asked the question?
Anyone know why?
FYI I can't just do it to any question
So it is something ...
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I think my question got mistakenly marked as a duplicate, help?
In order to help explain the difference between Ubuntu, its flavors, unofficial remixes, and unofficial derivatives, I created a self answered question called "Ubuntu, Ubuntu Flavors, Ubuntu ...
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How to handle bad title of original question?
I wanted to install Netbeans 8.1 and I searched the internet and everybody was talking about 8.0. So I though to ask: How to install netbeans v8.1 in Ubuntu 14.04?
I was lucky and the user who had ...
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Has there been a change in policy relating to Duplicate Closures?
I just happened to read the instructions for Duplicate Closure today. It says:
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, ...
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Answer aglomerate, group of possible solutions for a frequent question
Is there a better way to answer the "upgraded and my 'random graphics maker string here' driver stopped working" (or any other derivatives of hardware category as long as its frequent)?
I have seen ...
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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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I suspect that some person acts as "Community" user
It is supposed that "Community" is an automated service.
But a couple of times it made some human decisions.
Like this question.
I voted to close as duplicate. But as soon as the issue was fixed, "...
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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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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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question about "download[ing] packages for offline installation" incorrectly closed as duplicate
This question has been closed as a duplicate of this question. But I do not believe they are really asking the same thing. I think that the recent question is asked in a way that is unfortunately not ...
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Possibly similar question (or even accounts)?
Either it's a coincidence or intentional, I saw two similar questions of LibreOffice right now:
Convert .ods document to .docx document
Converting .ods to .docx file
Apparently, both OPs have also ...
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Why am I not mentioned in the “marked as duplicate” label? [duplicate]
Yesterday I flagged number of loopback addresses as a duplicate of How to add a loopback interface?, and as far as I can tell from the automatic comment I was the first and only one to do so. Now that ...
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cannot find duplicate article
I am trying to mark this article: Evince 3.10 on Ubuntu 12.04
as a duplicate of this article: How can I install the latest version of Evince?
but I cannot find it in the list of duplicates.
does ...
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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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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 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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What's this question duped to?
This question is closed as a duplicate, but as a duplicate of what?
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Is there a way to remove a "wrong" duplicate flag from a question? [duplicate]
Recently I have found a question which I believe is wrongly marked as a duplicate of another one.
The other question looks very similar and partially addresses the issues raised by the current ...
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Duplicate Questions Still Show Up?
I've read the answer listed here, but I still have a few questions. When a question is marked duplicate, it is marked with [Duplicate], but what does that do? (For reference check this question.) The ...
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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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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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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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Reopen request for my question
Someone closed my question as a duplicate of another question, but mine is more specific. I cannot understand the reasons behind this.
Which are the proprietary and paid games for linux do you know - ...
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Can I remove my own question with answers, as duplicate
I asked this question by searching the site and started a bounty to get the attention of the members. Later I found this which is exactly similer as my question and the answer worked for me. Can I ...
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Why do I see wrong suggestion for possible answer above my question?
Up above my question I see the heading that "this question may already have an answer."
the link provided in this heading does not give answer to my question. More interestingly, I mention that link ...
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Why the Related Question queue have questions that are duplicates?
On the Related bar while I'm looking Questions or creating one, appear related questions that are duplicated.
EXAMPLE:
In this question you will see at the end of the list a related question called ...
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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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What to do with the many duplicate/similar "No WiFi after upgrade" questions?
I've seen several of these lately, and one of the latest one had the side-bar filled with them, none of them with marked answers, as you can see here:
Here are the links:
https://askubuntu.com/...
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About retracted flags and the comment persisting
Case in point: How do I convert my usb installation from legacy boot to uefi?
By mistake I flagged as duplicate but later on noticed it was about Elementary OS. Retracted but the comment persists?
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Should one close questions as duplicates of closed questions?
I have seen many questions in the past which are off-topic, and the community recognizes them as such, and it closes them as duplicates of the question when it was first asked and closed as off-topic. ...
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Are you tested with Duplicates in the review queues?
In the review queues I have never once been tested with a question that has been flagged as duplicate. Does SE not test you on those? And if so, why not? Or have I just not had any?
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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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Could somebody remove the "duplicate" mark that was wrongly applied to my question?
My question is clearly not a duplicate of this other one, because the solutions are completely different. Could somebody remove the [duplicate] mark?
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Add a link to duplicate when a question is marked as a duplicate [duplicate]
This same question has been asked, left unanswered, and marked as too localized. See (question is duplicate of what, precisely? [closed])
I don't see how the original question or this one is too ...
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Guidance does not exist here [duplicate]
So I have a problem with my VirtualBox Windows 7 64 guest.
It seems that it does not recognize the GPU.
While researching the problem I cam across this post .... Enable CUDA GPU working under VM ... ...
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Why can't a question be marked a duplicate of a question on another stackexchang site?
I came across the following question: Merging 2 files based on single column. Even though two answers have been posted already I answered a very similar question already on another stackexchange site:...
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