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It seems like you've asked a valid, on-topic question, including info on what you've tried and what you are trying to do. Overall I think the question is fine. You could break the first paragraph up …
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Asking which laptops have a particular keyboard design: on or off-topic?

In my opinion it would be off-topic for exactly the reason you stated. This is basically a request for links to models of other laptops with the same keyboard. That's not knowledge. That's shopping.
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Where I can ask about "Where (on which site) I can watch specific TV-Show?"

You can not ask such a question anywhere on the StackExchange Q&A network. If you really have to ask it somewhere on SE, ask it in a chatroom. It's off-topic everywhere because it's about locating sp …
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Is popularity a criterion on which to decide whether or not to keep a question open?

In general, the Stack Exchange communities (including SU) try to avoid making sweeping generalizations about topicality or acceptable questions. The rule goes something like: in general popularity sh …
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How do you regard a question about creating sock-puppets on WWW sites?

It's off-topic. It's an interesting question, but it's off-topic, and too broad. I wrote up an answer here that's mostly a justification of why it's too broad, but I was hoping to post an answer to …
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Is there something wrong with my question regarding Outlook?

Your biggest problem seems to be that you aren't waiting long enough. You only asked the question yesterday. One downvote doesn't mean your question is terrible, just that one person didn't like it. …
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Why was “What programming languages can I assume on a random Linux server by default?” closed?

The sheer quality of the question, comments and (your) answer make me want to ask for it to be reopened. If I had to guess, I'd suspect it got closed because it's impossible to state with much certa …
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How can I request a question be reopened if I have less than 3k reputation?

In general, if there's something special you want done that you don't have permission to do through the queues, you can flag the question and explain to a diamond moderator your reasoning for the flag …
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Question closed and Edit suggestion rejected

Your edit certainly makes the question clearer and more answerable, but it's not certain that the OP intended to mean what you wrote. You're assuming they're entering a list of items sequentially by …
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