Questions tagged [question-closure]
Use this tag to dispute or discuss questions that have been closed.
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An English language learner better not ask in this site? [duplicate]
An English language learner better not ask in this site?
I asked this question and it had been closed as off-topic(it was reopened).
Some members seem to have an opinion that a learner better not ask ...
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How do you handle a poster who consistently asks the same type of off-topic question?
I know this is likely a duplicate of How should we handle users who generate consistently low-quality and off-topic questions? But, that seems like a discussion of a more egregious offender than the ...
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Bad questions can lead to good answers
Many people at ELU seem to view the relationship between seekers and givers of knowledge as being essentially transactional in nature: the job of the questioner is to state his or her question simply ...
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Who is voting to close all these questions?
I just went though the closure review queue, consisting of a couple dozen questions with close votes. At least 75 percent of these questions were not even remotely closeable according to the ...
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Why was my question about '(s)he' vs. 'he/she' closed as being opinion-based?
Could somebody please explain to me how is Between '(s)he' & 'he/she' -- which is recommended/ preferable? opinion-based.
The question explicitly contains
Are both "(s)he" and "...
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Should this question (which has been asked and answered elsewhere) be closed?
The EL&U question "Asking questions" has been asked and answered on ELL. It is very basic, so I don't think it belongs here, but it is not general reference.
Should we close it? If so, what is ...
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Data-driven approach to closure policy
I quite admired the very data-oriented answer to a recent meta question in the ongoing closure war, and now I feel encouraged to ask a data-directed meta question.
Is the probability of a question ...
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How long should a questionable question remain open?
A question asked one hour ago was recently closed, and my answer to it was deleted. Let's assume for the sake of argument that the question was truly inferior as it was asked, and my answer was ...
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