Unanswered Questions
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Please avoid lengthening existing duplicate chains
A recent example:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/433029/finding-my-ip-without-using-google
is tagged as a duplicate of
Command to know my external IP address?
which is itself a duplicate of How can ...
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Let's stop using "How do I resolve unmet dependencies?" for dpkg questions (and probably for most apt questions)
The most used close target for apt/dpkg questions is this. However, that does not help if the problem is not with apt but with the underlying dpkg.
I very often find things like these when I check ...
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Official Ubuntu derivatives link at FAQ is broken
The link pointing to Ubuntu about derivatives page is broken.
Located at https://askubuntu.com/faq page
Paragraph:
We welcome questions about:
Using and administering Ubuntu, including official ...
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Need a canonical answer for repository versions
We need a canonical answer for "Why do the repositories not have the latest versions of software".
Anyone who can write one (if one does not already exist) will be rewarded with a +100 Rep bonus ...
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Can the [charset] and [character-set] tags be made synonyms?
The charset tag and the character-set refer to the same thing. One is simply the abbreviation. I don't see any reason for them to be seperate. Can they be made synonyms, please?
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Remove the impossibility to mark a bountied question as a dupe?
At the occasion of this question, but there are many, many more examples where I notice a question which is bountied, but still a straightforward dupe. We then have to wait seven days to actually mark ...
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How should I use the tags in Meta.AU?
I've found recently that people that ask questions in meta do not correctly tag their questions, and when the community reacts unexpectedly or their issues don't rise awareness to the developer team, ...
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Mention official Ubuntu flavors in the off-topic close reason
Currently, one of the off-topic close reason's text is the following:
This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on ...
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Should these VMware questions be re-closed as duplicates?
This is a follow-up to Kulfy's question Can these VMWares be un-merged?
The requested unmerge was done, and questions closed against the former merge target were reopened. Attempts were made to close ...
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It asks something different, and it needs a different answer, so can we reopen it?
Edit: question reopened. Thanks :)
Can you have too much swap? is closed as a duplicate of I have 16GB RAM. Do I need 32GB swap?
But the first question is asking what problems might arise from ...
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Can [spam] handle [spam-handling]?
Here on meta, we have separate spam and spam-handling tags. They are not even synonyms. A few questions are even tagged with both of them.
Since only seven questions in total are currently tagged ...
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Is it a duplicate when the answer is given as background in another question?
After asking Question X (listing commands a package provides), the OP explicitly states he's not looking for ~X (the opposite of Question X), and by way of background provides what the answer for ~X ...
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Wubi, Windows 8 and 'wubildr.mbr' questions
I just saw this question and gave it my best shot:
How to remove Windows bootoption that results in 'wubildr.mbr'/0xc000007b error message?
Summary
User has a system with pre-installed ...
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Why was my question closed? Please reopen
I posted this question How to map several folders to different drive?
It got closed as a duplicate of Move home folder to second drive, but the duplicate is certainly not the same. The dup is about ...
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