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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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Is it okay to both answer and mark a question as duplicate?

Provided a question is a clear duplicate to an existing question. What is ok vote to close as duplicate. This will immediately direct the OP to the solutions posted there. add an own answer to the pr …
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How can I find out if my question has been asked before?

When I ask a question I do get a list of related questions that helps a lot to find out if my question has been asked before. However I sometimes find an additional question that covers exactly the s …
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Can I get banned for deleting my question?

There is no ban for deleting a single post. In fact deleting your own question or answers when you realize they may not be helpful is encouraged. This will help to keep the site clear. There is also …
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Do we need a canonical partition recovery question? How shall we make it?

Good you brought this topic to attention. It is true, we do not have a good canonical question/answer for data recovery but quite a lot of questions on that. So yes, we do need a canonical answer here …
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