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Who's responsible for the comments like "This question is similar to … If you believe it’s different, please edit the question …"? [duplicate]
Under one of my questions, I saw the following comment from the user "user405662": "This question is similar to … If you believe it’s different, please edit the question …". That ...
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Request to reopen a closed-as-duplicate question: Can you write "... me's" (the possessive)?
Note: The question has now been reopened. I have added further examples of the group genitive to my answer to the question. This should help to distinguish it further from the hyphenated compound ...
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What should be done with the questions that ask about the reason behind adjective order?
There are a bunch of questions that ask about adjective order, and most of them are closed as dupes of the original What is the rule for adjective order? asked 12+ years ago.
There are three questions ...
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"Why don't we close these duplicates?" vs "Why do we not close these duplicates?" vs "Why do not we close these questions as duplicates?"
I found a bunch of questions about these grammatical formulations:
"Why don't we close these duplicates?" (Negated question using a contraction)
"Why do we not close these duplicates?&...
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Can we get this unlinked?
Word that describes a stand in or a frontman? was referred to another question, Word for Powerless Position?, which apparently did not answer the question, as the questioner selected my response as ...
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What makes a question about historical usage of a word off-topic?
The question about the historical usage of men to refer to human beings generally was closed as off-topic. It seems to fall under usage and perhaps even etymology, two of the listed acceptable topics....
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Linked question is absent in "This question already has answers here" banner [duplicate]
I came across this question:
Should personal pronouns always be placed at the end of a list?
This question was closed eight years ago as duplicate of some other question. That question is not visible. ...
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Is this word order question a duplicate of this AAVE question? If so, how?
The question Why you're laughing vs Why are you laughing? asks (paraphrasing):
Is the word order "Why you're laughing?" acceptable in colloquial spoken English?
The question African American ...
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Why do we allow a question to be marked duplicate when the "duplicate question" is much wider in scope than the original?
So I'm researching the difference between "prefer to do" and "prefer doing", and came across this question which asked about the difference in meaning between those two specific forms. It was locked ...
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How to change a closure from "proofreading" to "duplicate"?
Ed Chu's question Is “I was having a walk” correct? has been closed (with just one vote plus mod) for supposed "proofreading". I think the proofreading flag was inappropriate here, as the question is ...
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Why are all the can/may questions marked as duplicates of the question about the weird sentence “Can/may/will you help me with this?”
I'm familiar with the idea of choosing one question as an (informal) "canonical" target for duplicates, but I was surprised to find that for questions about the difference between "can" vs. "may", the ...
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Should "What's the difference between tense A and tense B?" questions be marked as a duplicate of something generic?
It seems as if I see a question like this at least once a day.
What's the difference between "X is" and "X will"?
Should I use "X is" or "X was"?
Between "X was" and "X had been," which is ...
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Not all "whom" questions are interchangeable duplicates
I can understand the impulse to vote to close any new question about the use of whom as a duplicate, since most of them are. However, I don't think that any two questions about whom are necessarily ...
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When considered writing an answer to a question, do I have a responsibility to search for duplicates before answering?
Recently a question came up as to whether it's our responsibility to look for previously answered questions on our sister site, English Language Learners. The consensus was no. But someone commented ...
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Not even close to a duplicate
I see here question about duplicates that it is OK to post here when one's question is falsely marked duplicate.
This is the case with my question “I was late, and so I got fired.” Can we use two ...
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Question marked duplicate when it isn't (in my opinion)
I asked this question with very specific examples of people describing what they like using redundant adjectives (specifically things like "I like well-written books" or "I like tasty food"). I'm ...
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Is the question asking about the "AmEng meaning" of two phrasal verbs a duplicate?
The question: Is there a difference in meaning between "fill {something} in" and “fill {something} out” in American English?
was closed as a duplicate of "Fill out a form" or &...
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Can moderators change a close reason from 'Please show your research...' to 'Duplicate of...'?
Last week, I asked this question: Can moderators redirect links from badly chosen duplicates to actual duplicates?
The answer (from moderator MetaEd) was
Moderators have the ability to edit the ...
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Can moderators redirect links from badly chosen duplicates to actual duplicates?
The question Subject-verb agreement when using singular they? recently popped up in the Reopen Votes queue because the poster returned and edited it in hopes of getting it reopened. It had been closed ...
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How to Mark a Question as a Duplicate of Multiple Questions
This evening I came across this question.
In the comments, sumelic has indicated three potentially related questions. They are obviously better equipped than I to handle any duplicate closing in this ...
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Difference between Flags "A Duplicate" and "Should be Closed... Duplicate of"
For awhile I've been confused by the two flagging options for duplicates. What is the difference between selecting
a duplicate...
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should be closed...
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duplicate of...
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What's the word for someone who doesn't appreciate what he has and wants more? - Not a duplicate
What's the word for someone who doesn't appreciate what he has and wants more?
What's the word for someone who is ungrateful/ not appreciative of the things he has but wants more lavish things? ...
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How does the Community user close a question as duplicate?
I did search but couldn't find an answer... so hope this isn't an exact duplicate... as that would be rather embarrassing.
I saw a question closed today by two users, and Community ♦.
At what ...
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Flagging a Question as a Duplicate of an ELL Question
I came across this question today and was going to flag it, but I wasn't sure what flag category to use. It is fairly basic, so it likely belongs on ELL.
However, in the comments, a user mentions a ...
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Undercutting the old duplicity
Recent, well-formulated questions may be closed as duplicates of older, more poorly formulated questions. The answers given for the latter may pose as answers for the former. However, a well-...
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'Duped' again...is that a "real word"?
My question, titled what does the phrase "a real word" mean?, from Sept 2015 has been closed as a duplicate of What are the criteria to adopt new words into English?, from Feb 2011.
Aside from the ...
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Let's change the canonical question about forming possessives for words which end in 'z' [Completed]
I voted to close the question https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/362525/when-a-name-ends-in-z as a duplicate of Possessive form for a surname ending with "z" (Q1).
Unfortunately, ...
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We should have a better dupe target for questions about pronoun order
We receive a large number of questions about the proper use of pronouns, which in turn means that many of these questions are closed as duplicates.
These aren't all duplicates of one another, though: ...
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Reasons for dupe-close on question with the tag question-tag?
Can someone tell me why this question on question-tags was closed as a duplicate of this other one?
As far as I can tell, the new question (though not particularly well-written by the standards of ...
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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - English
Stack Exchange recently started a collaboration project with the University of Melbourne, in an attempt to improve the automatic detection of duplicate questions.
More information on the project and ...
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What should be done with "Another" vs "other"?
So I noticed that there is a bit of an editing dispute between Rathony and CuriousDanii regarding the question "Another" vs "other" regarding which version of the question should ...
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Duplicate Question Confusion [duplicate]
I recently posted this question and it received very good answers. One user suggested a dupe for this question, and I agree with the designation. However, I much prefer the answers on this question ...
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Is this actually a duplicate?
Is this question Why are ships always female? really a duplicate of the Pronoun question: referring to inanimate objects as 'he' or 'she' second?
While there are some general remarks ...
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The answer to this question is great! But the question is closed and a bit hard to find
"Put me in touch with whomever created it"?
I think F.E.'s answer here is very good and complete--the best overview on the case of fused relative pronouns that I've seen on this site.
But ...
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Should "Why can we use inadequate but not 'inspecific'?" be reopened?
I've been considering asking this question here on Meta-English Language & Usage for the past few days pursuant to help-center guidelines and after just having asked several users about it, have ...
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Should the question about "I am [who/whom] G-d made me" be reopened?
This question ("I am [who/whom] G-d made me") was marked as a duplicate of these questions ("What’s the rule for using “who” and “whom” correctly?", "When to use what or who"), but I don't think ...
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Are all questions about the reason a word is spelled/pronounced the way it is duplicates of one another?
As a hypothetical example, should we close Why are "put" and "but" different in their pronunciation? as a duplicate of Why is "chore" pronounced differently from the &...
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Review the duplicate linkage between the 'token list' question and the 'user account' question
The following questions are duplicates:
should a list of tokens be called a "token list" or a "tokens list"
"User accounts" or "users account"
The accepted ...
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Why must we assume that earlier answers are better, especially when they are not even related?
This concerns a specific example of a more general procedural issue that bothers me.
A recent question is headed Idioms for a 'obvious' or 'needs no explanation'. Its well-stated core is a matter of ...
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Related questions that I think were incorrectly merged
Word meaning coincidence of reference to the unusual
Phenomenon of learning a new word that you've never seen before, and then seeing it being used (currently merged with the above)
A single word ...
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How to respond to duplicate suggestion when I feel no edit is needed?
I have a question that is suggested as a duplicate and says I should edit the question to make it non-duplicative. If I feel it is not a dup, but I feel the question already, as written, is not a dup,...
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Should a moderator merge the questions about the pronunciation of the name "Sean"?
Why do we pronounce Dean as /diːn/ but Sean as /ʃɒn/?
Why is Sean pronounced Shawn?
I think I was the first one to vote for closing the first as a duplicate of the second, and now I feel stupid for ...
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What if the dupe is on another site?
We have a sister site, ELL, as far as I understand. (So, to some extent, do other sites, such as Theoretical Computer Science (Computational Science) or MathOverflow (Mathematics).
I wonder whether ...
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Why is my question about the stress of "uroboros" a duplicate of the one about the stress of "stigmata"?
Sorry to make a post about "why my question was closed," but I'm having a hard time understanding it.
The question about "uroboros" asks about two things: descriptive information about the history ...
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Three duplicates that I think should be merged (pronunciation of "coN-" words)
I don't see any value in keeping the following three questions distinct. However, there are some valuable answers to each of them (but not too many answers). So, I think all of the answers should be ...
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How does one deal with the problem of the phantom upvoter?
I've just 'cancelled' (downvoted as a counter-measure) an upvote for what is essentially an old chestnut {Gender-neutral pronoun other than singular they} (ie I'm not aware of the previous question or ...
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Can we switch to a better canonical question about using pronouns in compound possessives?
We get a lot of questions about coordinating pronouns with nouns for joint possession, along the lines of "my wife's and my dinner," most recently: "you," "your" or "yours&...
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Please change the canonical 'ordinal question' to one which is more informative
Preface
We get many questions along the lines of "how do I frame a question in order to elicit an ordinal number as a response?".
And, inevitably, they are all closed as duplicates of:
What ...
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Is it a bad thing to have your question marked as a duplicate?
This morning I had my question closed and, upon browsing through the answers to the proposed duplicate, I did find half of an answer to my question.
This leads me to wonder about some things:
Is it ...
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Lots of questions on the plurality of collective nouns, sets, and organizations
I came to EL&U today wondering about the correct way to use plural verbs in regard to nouns that imply plurality (such as "group"). While I did find answers, I found many questions that were ...
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