# Do proof verification questions fit the website- evade duplicate tag - sometimes answer for them is just 'yes'

What to do when a question just wants a yes/no answer.

In the case of this question of mine, the answer was a 'yes' or a 'no - and here's why'. In the case of questions with the proof verification tag, I suspect this is standard. This means that if the proof is correct we get just a 'yes', which is the case in that linked question. Now I had read on this meta somewhere that the correct action to remove this from the 'unanswered' list is to merely throw a community answer onto it. This is what I had done, but it was deleted.

1) Should proof verification questions be formulated in some different way, i.e. "Is this proof correct, is there a better proof?". One problem I see with this is that it opens up duplicate tagging immediately, when the primary question is, "is my proof correct?".

b. Is it acceptable to post 'yes' as an answer, and should this be a community answer?

iii - Do proof verification questions not really fit the purpose of the site in the first place? It seems that they are a way to avoid duplicates and they do primarily cater to the user at hand. I can see them promoting interesting answers in the case they are wrong, but if a user is asking for a proof verification, they most likely do have a valid proof, or alternatively, they are either being lazy and not rigorously checking their own proof or they lack confidence in their proof, which they should be able to mitigate by thinking about it more and combing over it.

• Advanced apologies for the tags if they are bad. – Galois in the Field Sep 27 '15 at 10:11
• Having trouble fitting the title and/or fixing the first line. – Galois in the Field Sep 27 '15 at 10:16
• If you have a look at related questions shown in sidebar on the right and if you browse other questions tagged (solution-verification), you will probably find out that many of the points asked in your post have been previously discussed on meta. – Martin Sleziak Sep 27 '15 at 10:31
• Sometimes I wish authors would simply put answers to every one of the problems for the benefit of self-learners because I worry sometimes if I broke $1000 + 1$ rules just by the act of posting on here :) – user273143 Sep 28 '15 at 17:38