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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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What should be edited out of the questions/anwers/posts in general?

It also helps for the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so people can find the questions that might have already answer easier (NathanOsman asked a duplicate question on SO, which he may have found earlier …
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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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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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New battle plan for the questions that require god-like powers to figure out user problem: C...

If you're looking at the First post review queue and you are almost sure that there should be another question with the same content, look for it and flag it as duplicate. …
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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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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 …
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Should we edit offensive content that is only meant to vandalize the site?

Ok, let me clarify some substantive that I'm going to use: Content: it may refer to comments, body or title of a certain post. Offensive: anything that I wouldn't show to my Boss, family or for what …
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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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The quality of the duplicates is so bad that I want to cry

But while reviewing the stuff linked to the question I noticed that most of those questions don't have the enough elements to qualify as exact duplicate of the question they were linked to. … that we select a proper duplicate target. …
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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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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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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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