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Does the view count for duplicate questions include redirected users?
The FAQ on duplicate questions says that if an unanswered question is marked as a duplicate and there is only one target, anonymous (ie: logged out) visitors to the question are automatically ...
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Duplication by an old post with obsolete tag
There's an old and currently obsolete tag mobile-web (if used for non-chat questions). It so happened that current site behavior (responsive design) works the same as for an old mobile site. Should we ...
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A duplicated question with bad writing and bad tagging but better answers [duplicate]
The first question was asked, with all possible tags, but received no long answers.
A few months later, the second question was asked without address the first one. The second was poorly worded with ...
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How can I suggest to change "X is a duplicate of Y" to "Y is a duplicate of X"?
Example situation:
How do I full-screen my CMD? is marked as a duplicate of Fullscreen Vista's Command Prompt, or Replacement. But:
the first is more general (Windows):
higher-voted
more marked ...
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Description of the "Flag as duplicate" doesn't match official staff reply
I know I'm not the only person noticing inconsistencies in the description since it started
Should we change the description of "Duplicate of"?
Duplicate explanation should encourage ...
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Visitor automagically transported to Original Question: Status by design or fluke? [duplicate]
If someone visits a question without an answer, that is closed as a duplicate, the person will automatically be sent to the original question. Consequently, it will be impossible to view the contents ...
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Should bug-report/feature-request *questions* that duplicate Grab-bag *answers* be closed as duplicates?
Meta Stack Exchange is seeing a fair few of these "Grab bag" questions that announce a biggish change to the sites and then encourage bug-reports and feature-requests to be posted as answers to that ...
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When are questions which build upon each other considered duplicates?
Each Stack Exchange site caters to a mix of experts and novices. This means that some (expert) questions presuppose knowledge which is being asked about in other (novice) questions. In other words, we ...
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Can and should a duplicate be migrated?
Suppose a question is declared a duplicate on one site.
Can it still be migrated to other sites? [since I did not get my answer from other questions, my question was a duplicate of].
Note: Also, the ...
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What do we do about duplicate questions that are not closed?
I have previously added similar answers to duplicate questions. I did this because duplicate questions seem to occur frequently and do not get closed even when I flag them as duplicates.
What are we ...
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Editing duplicate banner edited into the text of the question
> **Possible Duplicate:**
> [Possible to remove the link to duplicate question?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/50336/possible-to-remove-the-link-to-duplicate-question)
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What do I do when a user deliberately asks a duplicate that is not answered [duplicate]
I while ago, I saw 1 legitimate question, that did not have an answer yet, and another question (not by the same user), which looks something like:
I have the same problem as link.
followed by a ...
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Closing a question as a duplicate of an off-topic question
What should I do when an off-topic question is asked that is also a duplicate of another closed off-topic question?
Close the new question with the off topic reason?
Mark the new question as a ...
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What to do when "status-completed' answer does not work (anymore)?
The following thread:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51947/allow-users-to-opt-out-of-all-favorite-notifications
has an official answer (from Jeff Atwood♦) which says:
There is a checkbox to ...
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Clarify the duplicate error message in the review queue
It's a bit of an unusual situation I got myself into while reviewing the close queue. This doesn't seem like a bug - rather some sort of system to prevent marking 2 questions as duplicate of each ...
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