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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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Proposal: change duplicate message

I don't agree with this; or, more precisely, I don't think that this is relevant, since how confidently one states that a question is a duplicate doesn't obstruct OP's right to prove the opposite at a …
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How to deal with users that won't mark duplicate but instead copy-paste their answers agan a...

Personally I don't upvote answers to questions which are clearly duplicates ("clearly" = I can find an almost exact duplicate in the first three pages using the search function or in the first page using …
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Why can't a question be marked a duplicate of a question on another stackexchang site?

On the intra-network duplicates proposal: while it's undeniable that some topics overlap (and that sometimes there are exact duplicates between the sites), no user from each community should be obligated … Intra-network duplicates have been proposed many times, expecially on Meta.SE, and never went through; IMO, they just make no sense, each community has its own value of Q/As and closing as duplicate across …
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Should a question be closed as duplicate of another when it is asking for the same goal but ...

Sometimes questions are closed as duplicates of other questions because of the underlying XY problem, which usually works well both for the OP and for the other users of the question. …
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