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Questions about finding duplicates, handling duplicate content, voting to close, et cetera
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See possible duplicates in question
My guess is that this will not be implemented as the percentage of users that checks this is rather small.
As my interest lies in this and writing user scripts I decided to write one to simplify it no …
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What is the correct procedure to mark as a possible duplicate?
Posting the link in our Vote To Close chat room can also help to get attention from users/moderators.
If you like hunting for duplicated questions, a script I wrote in the past could be useful...
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Different versions of an OS = different quesitons?
In the context of versions, the tags should reflect the scope of the question and answers.
If the Q&A is specific to a version, it should be tagged to that specific version.
If the Q&A work for ever …
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A lot of backup questions, duplicate or improve title?
Look at Need a hassle-free backup solution for Windows — needs to be bootable.
Also, look at its related questions, some of them are closed because they are a duplicate.
Should this be considered a …
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'closed as exact duplicate' should show the EXACT duplicate
This is by design:
For the owner of the question, it might be a possible duplicate as it might not answer him.
The people close it because they think it is an exact duplicate.
However, I agree tha …
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A lot of "no such partition" questions, how do we clean them up?
See this Google Search for "no such partition" on Super User: 2700 (224 according to the last page).
Without tag pages: 556 (206 according to the last page)
Without tag pages and close votes: 551 (2 …
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Questions closed as duplicates of questions that are different
People make mistakes.
In the former, it immediately strikes the moderator's attention that this has been asked earlier. This probably caused the moderator to defer from reading the question further a …