Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
For questions about the process of identifying and closing questions that are duplicates of another question.
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Why was this question closed as duplicate
Clean Code comments vs class documentation was closed as a duplicate of "Comments are a code smell"
There are a couple of reasons I'm finding this difficult to understand.
First, they ...
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Update required for the close questions help page?
Referring to: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions
Specifically for duplicates it states:
When should I vote to close a question?
Questions should be ...
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Reopen good, but duplicate, question
This post was closed as a duplicate, which perhaps it is, but the original question contains a single answer that doesn't really add much to the question. The recent, duplicate question has many more ...
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A question was closed as duplicate even though the supposed duplicate was younger
I answered a question some years ago that was widely accepted to be the canonical answer to the very common question-- I think I had over a 200 upvotes and the answer alone added 2000 rep to my ...
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