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Please, don't use the edit button in the close queue to correct typos or improve the formatt...
If anyone needs examples:
https://askubuntu.com/review/close/210585 Duplicate, now it can't be reviewed since it's out of the queue, voters should go to the question and close it. … The edit just fixed formatting, it's still a duplicate.
https://askubuntu.com/review/close/210495 Duplicate. The edit only fixed typos.
https://askubuntu.com/review/close/210502 Unclear. …
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Can we close as bug all the "appstreamcli" related questions?
A bug in the appstream package was released on stable couple of hours ago. The issue was reported on 2016-05-09 on Launchpad and the fix released 5 hours ago (2016-05-20 04:35:54 AST). Now it can be s …
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How to solve the long trail of apt dependencies questions?
As someone may notice my previous meta question asking to stopping to use the How do I resolve unmet dependencies after adding a PPA? question as duplicated target. I wrote some basic guidance about i …
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Let's stop using "How do I resolve unmet dependencies?" for dpkg questions (and probably for...
I've written extensive guides about what information a question should have to provide the relevant answer/duplicate for most of the common problems of apt and dpkg. Here and elsewhere. …
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Do we need a "Will Ubuntu work for X model PC?" question?
or can we just duplicate them to more general answer?
I know newbies will be always newbies, and there isn't enough users to deal with them (the eternal September rings a bell for anyone? Usenet?). …
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Can anyone explain me how is this a duplicate?
I really, really, don't see how this can be a duplicate, so I ask them here how can a totally opinion based question "what is your experience using X?" … This is not a duplicate! …
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Why I do not get notified about duplication notice comments?
My question here was voted to close as duplicated of another question, but I(tm) never got notified by the drop-down inbox, nor the SE inbox. Is this expected? Because if it's like this, most of our a …
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Enable the easy review close queue filtering interface
We are almost reaching the 1k items in the close queue (we are second, only behind Stack Overflow), so I think we should make any attempt to make folks review stuff and for that reason I ask to enable …
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Lets remove the tools, crash, freeze, timeout and troubleshooting tags the right way™
Please, don't duplicate these, they could be very loose duplicate but a bad duplicated still.
990 965 total questions with any of the tags (here becomes tricky since there's also good questions around …
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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 gener …
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Do we need thousand of "dumb questions"? or can we just duplicate them to more general answer?
This is something which have me concerned sometime now. I've seen a bunch of "Will Ubuntu work in X?" things that most of the time will end in "why you don't try?" kind of answers, and generate severa …
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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 to look out in the Reopen queue?
Well, since now the High traffic questions are automagially falling in the Reopen queue, what are the things to look out?
I'm aware that duplicates that has an awful amount of traffic can be merged ( …
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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 tha …
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Where are the canonical questions for creating a Ubuntu Live USB?
Apparently we can never find the duplicate question and now we have about 40 questions (maybe I am exaggerating...) about creating Live USB in Windows, Mac OS and Linux... could someone hunt them down …