Closing is an action that is often justified by a somewhat subjective perspective, active users will occasionally find themselves at odds with a consensus that the community forms. This is normal and healthy, if we don't examine our decisions from time to time we'll begin to rot.

That said, the close reasons should be clear enough that the need for additional examples or guidance should be rare. If they're not, then they need to be reexamined and adjusted to be less ambiguous. Too Localized is a perfect example where both the question and the reason for closing it were of debatable intent. We fixed that, at least we hope we did.

A rule that I try to follow is when in doubt, don't, and I try very hard to not spend too much time on decisions I know that I'm simply not going to reach completely confidently. However I will say this, if you feel that a question is right on the edge, then it should in theory be able to be made into a good question for the site with a little bit of editing. Something that can't be fixed even with a Herculean editing effort should lend a bit more to your confidence in putting it on hold or voting for deletion.

Otherwise, as slhck notes, just skip it. If you find yourself skipping a lot of others like it, raising a discussion on meta to determine what if anything should be done with that type of question is probably the most constructive thing you can do.

Beyond the guidance in the help center and meta FAQ tag collection, I don't think there's much else we could produce that would really help to teach this stuff. Sometimes, you just know it when you see it, and that's very difficult to articulate.

Closing is an action that is often justified by a somewhat subjective perspective, active users will occasionally find themselves at odds with a consensus that the community forms. This is normal and healthy, if we don't examine our decisions from time to time we'll begin to rot.

That said, the close reasons should be clear enough that the need for additional examples or guidance should be rare. If they're not, then they need to be reexamined and adjusted to be less ambiguous. Too Localized is a perfect example where both the question and the reason for closing it were of debatable intent. We fixed that, at least we hope we did.

A rule that I try to follow is when in doubt, don't, and I try very hard to not spend too much time on decisions I know that I'm simply not going to reach completely confidently. However I will say this, if you feel that a question is right on the edge, then it should in theory be able to be made into a good question for the site with a little bit of editing. Something that can't be fixed even with a Herculean editing effort should lend a bit more to your confidence in putting it on hold or voting for deletion.

Otherwise, as slhck notes, just skip it. If you find yourself skipping a lot of others like it, raising a discussion on meta to determine what if anything should be done with that type of question is probably the most constructive thing you can do.

Beyond the guidance in the help center and meta FAQ tag collection, I don't think there's much else we could produce that would really help to teach this stuff. Sometimes, you just know it when you see it, and that's very difficult to articulate.