Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
Questions flagged as duplicate, and what are, or are not, good reasons to do so.
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Is there a canonical question to flag duplicates of "I installed my python package and I get PackageNotFoundError" due to env mismatch?
Fairly regularly, I come across a question where the gist is "I installed this python package with (some variant of) pip install, and yet I get ModuleNotFoundError when I try to import it".
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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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Delete question from list of duplicate questions [duplicate]
How can I copy the plot to a word document? is closed as a duplicate of a list of 3 questions.
One of those duplicate question is How can I keep the axis label within the perimeter of the graph?, ...
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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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Are these two questions about HTML <input> placeholder via CSS the same / duplicates?
I stumbled across these two questions today while looking at web search results looking for dup-targets for a related question (how to set HTML <input> placeholder text):
Placeholder text in an ...
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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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Close OP's self-duplicate questions in the Staging Ground as if they were on the main site
Sometimes someone asks a low-quality question (e.g.) on the main site and it gets downvoted and closed, and responds by trying to repost it and landing in the Staging Ground instead (e.g.). The ...
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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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Proposal: Close as duplicate functionality must require referencing an answer that is up to date
It used to be the case that duplicate links to answers that are actually helpful and not something outdated, but increasingly, if you find another question referenced with a duplicate, the answer ...
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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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Is stating "pow(10,2)" a duplicate of "Is floating-point math broken?" correct or misleading?
I came across this question : Why pow(10,2)=99 & pow(10,3)=1000? which currently asks about why is pow worked as not expected.
While I agree the issue is closely related to floating point errors, ...
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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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Closing for duplicate an older and different question [closed]
A question of mine was closed as duplicate of another question:
My question: Advantages/disadvantages of using cookies to store a user id?
The other question: What is the difference between Sessions ...
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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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My question is a duplicate. Can I give the bounty to the person who has answered the duplicate question?
I had a sandwich problem: something's wrong with my database access library and causes problems in my application. So I've asked two questions: one on dba.stackexchange.com and one on StackOverflow....
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