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This was too long to be a comment. The guidelines are the descriptions of the close reasons. Whatever the community closes basically constitutes the ground truth of what we deem on-topic and what not …

Who defined what is "most common"? For that you'd have to run surveys with a representative sample of people in a representative sample of countries and then ask them how they would pronounce the four …

I think "off-topic" wasn't the right reason for closing it. But in essence, your question just can't be answered in its current form. Let me explain why I think so. Why the question doesn't make se …

Can I edit other questions because of this? First things first: Can I add more points to the question? So the duplicity can be reduced and all the readers can answer a single question perfectly. …

Are questions related to specific natural languages too localized? No. As long as you're trying to solve an actual problem and the question you ask might be helpful for others in the future, it i …

I voted for the same reason as Daniel. We traditionally classify PCs and Macs as computers, and we generally have no problem with home networking equipment. I wasn't aware of the community decision h …

Yes, these should be closed as primarily opinion based, because they're subjective and there's no real problem to be solved. A couple of reasons: It's easy enough to take a look at what both tools …

Please take a look at our FAQ: You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push …

I've reopened the question, it's on topic here, as are all Raspberry Pi questions. We have a site dedicated to RasPi as well: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/

Hardware shopping questions are discouraged for multiple reasons: they seek subjective recommendations they become outdated fast they are only useful to one person at the time of asking With a giv …

I don't see a problem with this post, so I've reopened it. It's specific enough, describes the problem in great detail, and also includes what you've already tried to solve it (and why that didn't w …

I think this is a borderline case. I probably wouldn't have voted to close. It apparently doesn't violate any rule, as far as I can see. But, in some way the question is very broad (you could talk f …

Thanks for pointing out the other questions. They've been closed accordingly. If you look at the other examples you linked to, you'll find that the most answers just consist of links to resources. Th …

Since the pre-release / beta software option wasn't used a lot, we activated two new reasons to replace the previously combined software / hardware recommendation option: Questions seeking for hardw …

It's been a couple of days since we're using the new off-topic close reasons, including: Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they tend …