Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
Questions flagged as duplicate, and what are, or are not, good reasons to do so.
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How these 2 questions can be classed as "Duplicates"
I asked a question earlier on SO
Windows 11 - PowerShell command Get-ADGroupMember throws error
And it has been closed because it was deemed a duplicate of this question:
Import-Module : The specified ...
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Find a close review with multiple duplicates suggested
On RuSO, while reviewing close votes, I noticed that when there are multiple suggested duplicates, the tabs for these questions are all named the same: Duplicate A, Duplicate A and so on. This is not ...
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Are any of these 4 questions about repr and __repr__ in Python duplicates?
It seems these question are really closely related.
Purpose of __repr__ method?
Understanding repr( ) function in Python
What is the difference between __str__ and __repr__?
__repr__ vs repr
Can ...
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What's the best way to call attention to a bug that's been unaddressed for a while?
I ran into a visual bug on the hot meta posts UI and came here to post about it:
The similar questions wizard did its job of letting me know that this has been posted about before, at least three ...
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Why is this question about entering a password with asterisks a duplicate of entering a fully hidden password?
I believe the question How do I convert a password into asterisks while it is being entered? was incorrectly closed as a duplicate of Getting a hidden password input
The later question is about how to ...
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Why did duplicate votes and dupe-hammer not work on this question?
This question DateTime Format gives me a different time was voted on four times as a duplicate. Three of those votes had the c# gold badge. The tags on the question were not edited.
Why did it take ...
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Is a question a duplicate if the original hasn't had the right tag for 6 years?
How to detect if the OS is in dark mode via the browser was asked in 2018, originally with both the 'CSS' and 'JavaScript' tags. The JavaScript tag was removed in 2019. All the top answers are for CSS....
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How can a question be a duplicate of nothing? [duplicate]
I have found a question that is closed as duplicate but there is no link to the question it is a duplicate of.
When to use phantom references in Java?
I speculate there was dupe-target that has been ...
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Published question almost identical to the one not yet approved in staging ground [duplicate]
This question was placed in the Staging Ground, and while waiting for approval due to "Major changes" requests, another one, fundamentally identical, was instead posted by the same user and ...
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Should the opposite of these two duplicate questions be marked as the duplicate?
Inserting multiple rows in a single SQL query? is marked as a duplicate of Insert multiple rows WITHOUT repeating the "INSERT INTO ..." part of the statement? despite the former being older, ...
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"Possible duplicate" comment is not deleted after dup-hammering a question in staging ground
I closed the question in Staging Ground as a duplicate. Because I have a gold badge, the question has been closed immediately and has obtained the banner
This question already has an answer here:
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Why was my question about how regex lookarounds work considered a duplicate of a question about a problem solved with them?
Looking for community feedback on why my question today was closed as a dupe: Why does regex lookahead and lookbehind behave the same with anchor ^
In fact, I did find the answer I was looking for ...
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Are these 3 related questions duplicates? If not, where should I (not) answer?
I was about to answer Is there a way to highlight certain class usage as a warning? but before doing so, I wanted to make sure it had no duplicates.
After searching, I found these 2 pretty related ...
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How should I handle repeat questions in the Staging Ground?
On the main site, when someone repeatedly posts the same question, the new attempt can be closed as a duplicate of the old attempt, even if the first question was closed for a different reason and ...
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Users answer low-quality questions and deny OP deletion because they gain(ed) reputation
After reading relevant Help Center articles (mainly on duplicates), I'm still at loss, and I would very much like some input from more experienced users and moderators.
Assume a question is asked. It ...
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Are these questions duplicates of each other?
I just failed an audit for the following question: Use polars when-then-otherwise on multiple output columns at once. The correct response was "Looks OK," but I flagged as a duplicate ...
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Is it constructive to ask for research effort when flagging as a dupe?
I've been finding myself closing a lot of beginner-style questions as duplicates lately. For many of them, my dupe-finding process is just two steps:
Paste the title into Google.
Click the first ...
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Can the new duplicate comment make "edit" a magic link
Recently the comment posted, when a question is voted/flagged as duplicate of another was changed (I can't find an announcement post for this, as I'd likely post this as an answer there if I could ...
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Should this question about detecting touch devices be flagged as duplicate?
I found Detecting touch devices and detecting 'can hover' with JavaScript in 2020 which is basically the same as What's the best way to detect a 'touch screen' device using JavaScript?. The asker ...
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Converting duplicate/off-topic votes after question publication from Staging Ground
As you can see in the history below, while reviewing a question from Staging Ground, I chose to "Vote as duplicate". Later on, someone else approved that question. Now it's posted and it's ...
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Please autofocus the input field when opening duplicate closure dialog in SG
In Staging Ground, when I select "Vote as duplicate" and then click "Submit", the duplicate closure dialog opens, but the input field isn't focused and focus stays on the "...
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What if my question with many details is a duplicate of an existing much simpler question? [duplicate]
I have a fairly technical question (regarding whether a particular C++
program is valid according to the standard). I have done quite a bit of
research to try to answer it on my own, and while that ...
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Adding additional targets on a duplicate is impossible on iPhone [duplicate]
The dialog box for adding more URLs to the list of originals on a duplicate Question is much too wide on an iPhone. It is physically impossible to complete that dialog box.
Pasting the URL of an ...
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What can we do when a close-reason requires an explanation?
Suppose you have this question:
Which is better: X or Y?
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What is the best way to do Z?
You could close it using the "opinion-based" close-reason. However, this is not very helpful for ...
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Do we have a canonical for parsing indented code with ast.parse?
While doing a cleanup of some other IndentationError questions, I closed a bunch of questions - including IndentationError during `ast.parse` and `ast.walk` of a function which is a method inside ...
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