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Questions about finding duplicates, handling duplicate content, voting to close, et cetera

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How can we take care of our old duplicates?

One option: Vote to close the original question instead. If its information is no longer current, and the newer question and answers to it have been posted anyway, make the newer question the "origina …
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Duplicate Question, where the answer is the same, but the question differs slightly

While I try to be impartial here, one of the answers to the "duplicate" is mine. So keep this in mind. This issue is not straightforward. The older topic requires matching based on name and file s …
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Similar Tor-related question for Linux and Mac OS X

Considering this isn't a widespread issue across many questions in the tor tag, and might well be system dependent (e.g. if one uses some GUI to control TOR) I'd say we just don't need to act here. B …
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Finding "Root" duplicates

Here's a query that finds all originals, unfortunately not recursively. Here's one that finds originals by popularity.
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Merge questions about Windows symlinks

This is a perfect candidate for a community-faq topic: Everything you need to know about NTFS hard links, symbolic links, and junction points. Either wait for the topic to be part of the canonical qu …
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